With the ’80s Creepshow horror anthology movie franchise being revived as a series by The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero – premiering Thursday, September 26 on Shudder – it’s the perfect time to revisit the two films in order to find out what made them such madcap macabre classics. (Read our review of Shudder’s Creepshow premiere here.)
Firstly, what was Creepshow? How did it differ from other ’80s-era scary story sagas like Tales From the Darkside and Tales From the Crypt? Well, to start with, all of these are based on the EC horror comics scene that rose up post-WW II and saw a huge boom in the ’50s and ’60s. Tales from the Crypt, complete with the CryptKeeper host character, was a comic book. An adaptation of Tales from the Crypt featuring a bunch of famous stars, directors, and producers became one of HBO’s first original scripted series in 1989.
Source: IGN.com Creepshow Flashback: The Best (and Worst) of the '80s Horror Movies