![]() ![]() Then this past week Hal Holbrook passed away. (It being one of my top 5 Stephen King movie adaptations.) Happily, I recently found a copy at the local Goodwill and reading it (a couple of times) made me remember how much I love this movie. Sometime in the intervening years it disappeared – perhaps finally falling apart or maybe just lurking in a comic box in the basement, biding its time until it can lurch forth and… I dunno, give me a paper cut or something. I DID have the comic book adaptation of Creepshow, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. I loved those comics – the illustrated equivalent of a fire-side ghost story – and never realized that they were watered down by the Comics Code Authority until much later, when I finally got to see copies of Tales From the Crypt and Vault of Horror. ![]() Instead, I associated the movie with the more pallid horror comics that DC put out in the 70’s – The Witching Hour, House of Secrets and House of Mystery. I think they were out of print at the time, or only available via expensive hardcover reprints. When horror was fun AND creepy.īack when Creepshow was released I hadn’t actually seen any EC comics. It has a certain kind of ghoulish glee that I associate with a childhood love of monsters, horror movies and trick or treating. ![]() Creepshow was a staple of Halloween in my teens – one of those films that always got rented (if it was available, that is) around the 31st. ![]()
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