b_kite Review of Creepshow 3

Creepshow 3 (2006 Video)

More crap from the group who brought you "Day of the Dead 2: Contagium".

[1/10 · 7 July 2018]

I actually remember when this thing came out and how excited I was and how it got some attention from the horror community. Then sadly I rented it (yes kids from a video store) and remember being super disappointed. I decided to return to it again recently to see if this thing had maybe managed to age well. And my answer is no it was crap in 2006 and its crap now. There's no style, no real EC comics homages, and no involvement from Romero or King. Instead this was brought to us by the team of Ana Clavell and James Dudelson, who for some reason managed to get there hands on the rights to this and Romero's "Day of the Dead" they also made "Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)" a movie which I haven't seen but have heard is absolute garbage. After an opening which includes some of the most piss poor animation available we then get into five tales. "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife", and "Haunted Dog". The only two decent ones are "The Radio" which stars AJ Bowen, its way to long and eventually over stays its welcome, and the other being "Call Girl" which blows its load to early and ruins what could have been a decent tale, but, still has some nice creature effects. The rest are just goofy wastes of time. Something this film actually manages to do and I've heard people give it credit for this is how the stories manage to intertwine with each other, this was unique for the time, but, new and better horror anthologies like "Southbound" have managed to do it way way better, here it never really helps the plots of the tales. Both Clavell and Dudelson have talked about a potential fourth film since this movies release. Let's all hope the zombie apocalypse happens before that.