Creepshow

First season was generally ok. Had some interesting stories, actors, effects and whole nine yards but season two kinda sucks.

I don't think there is something specifically bad about season two. It's just that the novelty worn off pretty quick and although it's only 3 episodes in season two, there's just no that factor X. So I'm pretty sure I'm tunning out before season ends.

It's not the first time this happens with series, the first episode looks amazing, and right from the second one, the whole thing changes, the production is cheaper, the whole product is different.. With this show in particular, I didn't mind so much because the episodes are unitary (actually, two stories by episode) I could enjoy the first one as a little movie and ignore the rest, as there's no story ark between them.

Still, after seeing how good the first episode was, excellent production, cool actors, lots of Easter eggs, simple but interesting stories, beautiful cinematography and great (surprisingly good!!) CGI, watching the rest was an absolute disappointment, in every aspect I named before.

It's a watchable show, I did watch the whole season, but some were quite bad and boring.

I can only recommend the first episode, and just imagine the series was all like this but just dream about it, skip the rest to avoid disappointment.

What is going on here? The writing and the production values are terrible in season two, though it's still pulling the star power of season one. I hope they just put the terrible episodes early in the season.

Supposedly this show had a budget of 2 million dollars per episode - supposedly. I'm presuming most of that money went to the 15 or 16 producers listed because it surely is not on the screen.

To call the first two episodes tedious is paying them a compliment. In the first one alone literally nothing happens until the last couple of minutes and even then the mood is destroyed by an anti-climax which makes no sense whatsoever. The director makes the typical amateur mistake of never allowing the camera to move - EVER - which adds to the staged phoniness of the piece. Combine that with the obvious lack of money to spend (for example, a massive hurricane which consists of a couple of shots of flashing clouds and a couple of actors hit with a fan - no rain whatsoever anywhere, mind you . .) and you've got a millennial version of the low-rent Tales from the Darkside, which it clearly aspires to be.

The highly publicized "Creep" puppet looks like a fire-sale Spirit Halloween leftover, with cross-eyed mechanics and a barely mobile "ack-ack" mouth as its sole range of movement. According to fan sites, a ton of money was spent on this prop, which could easily have been surpassed by a cheap sock puppet . . the Crypt Keeper has nothing to worry about, (and still, an even WORSE version of the character was computer-generated for the title sequence for some strange reason in a wonderful example of throwing good money after bad.)

Neither story made any sense at all and both had ridiculous endings to tie them up, as though the production said "screw it, we're out of money, just tear the last few pages out." For Stephen King to be associated with this in any way is a travesty.

Still, I'm sure old fanboys will gush over this as it's clearly a love-letter to the 1980s when floppy rubber monsters were considered the height of technology. The fact that the makeup department got credited FOUR TIMES during the course of the end credits is a sure indication that's all they cared about.

Watch the original movie instead and pretend this monstrosity doesn't exist . . it'll only make you weep.

The original Creepshow is one of my all-time favourite horror flicks, but after the disappointment of the Twilight Zone reboot, I was a little nervous about this one. Thankfully this one gets the anthology format right. For starters, the episodes are short and sweet. They're well-written/acted/directed, with plenty of atmosphere and a terrific sense of fun and the macabre. For fans of the first two Creepshow films, and Stephen King in general, there are easter eggs galore! I enjoyed the hell out of the first two stories (especially the doll house ep) and can't wait to see what the rest of the season has in store.