invasion (56)was another las min cut. But close!
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the thing in the crate w/ Adrienne Barbeau as a shrill harpy. I love Creepshow.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
was really torn about which of the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to vote for. went with the first one.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I've got shit like a company of wolves and hour of the wolf on my ballot, but that last stretch of films was a little heavy on the arthouse approved list for me
lol i wonder if hour of the wolf will make it and how the grindhouse lot here will react!!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for both Body Snatchers -- '78 higher, on the subjective basis that it actually kept me awake for a few nights when I was 9, but the original is supremely creepy too. I think it's just one of the great horror concepts, it works on various socio/political allegorical levels, but also on this really fundamental psychological freak-out level of identity and alienation.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
was the raft in the same one with the meteorite moss?
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I went with both the 1956 and 1978 Body Snatchers, because they're quite different movies; which led to my Nosferatu conundrum mentioned above.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
nope that's creepshow 2 xp
not really a creepshow lover but it at least broke up the monotony of the criterion collection.
also <3 invasion of the body snatchers. I must've vaporlocked over choosing between the '56 and '78 version, neither on my ballot.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
this:
http://popsmut.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bodysnatchers.jpg
vs. this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RkGzuaWTW2s/TqqylWXoD-I/AAAAAAAAGWQ/TeQxn-e58CM/s1600/1bodysnatchers.jpg
at least the nicole kidman piece of shit doesn't look likely to make it!!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Creepshow is really fucking goofy but it is fun, breezy and full of great moments. I didn't vote for it but it's placement here is fine with me.
xp
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TgH2PohxwXw/S_MfuQy2UgI/AAAAAAAAAH4/qVFlQXTw7V0/s1600/153193_std.jpg
THANKS FOR THE RIDE LADY
^ the best Creepshow short by several miles, I'd say - but that one's in #2 & the other stories in that one are pretty dreadful, so I voted no creepshow, tho I'm happy to see it around nevertheless.
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'll take the '78 Body Snatchers every day of the week, pls!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
still gives me the shivers!
the first creepshow is the one with the thing in the crate right?
?!?! Uh, yeah!!! I love this movie more than life itself. Sorry, life.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
co-sign w/ everyone else who voted for both the 1956 and 1978 invasions ... quite different, both effective.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
vaporlocked
lol is this actually, like, a thing people say now
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
I voted Creepshow because it is a family favorite and also the soundtrack is really good.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
dunno, I've been saying it for decades xp
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:50 PM (1 minute ago)
well I am part of the grindhouse lot and I'll be pleased as punch
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Bodysnatchers is the first thing on my ballot to appear so far
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
love love love creepshow. was only #32 on my ballot, but of the movies to show up so far, it's probably the nearest and dearest to my heart. watched it so many times when i was a snotty teen. "bedelia! it's father's day! WHERE'S MY CAKE?"
would take the 78 body snatchers over the original, but didn't vote for either.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Man I remember my mom taking me to see Creepshow and having no idea what to expect. I had already read the comic adaptation so I was excited as hell. I thought by the time the cockroaches busted out of E.G. Marshall in the last segment that she was going to puke.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
2nd invasion also has Evil Spock, so that has to rate!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
'56 is better especially without the wraparound they imposed on it.
I think the first time I saw this the final scene was of the lead guy on the highway, freaking out, surrounded by trucks filled with pods...? this is the original ending, right?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
and the tide coming in. man i might need to go buy creepshow tonight. xposts
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
love invasion '56. never saw '78
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
<3 Leslie Nielsen. "I can hold my breath . . . for a LOOOOOONG time!"
Also, Gaylen Ross in the only other thing I've ever seen her in.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
xp WAHT?! AP you have to watch the '78 version like tonight.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
jjjusten, I think I saw creepshow 1 & 2 back-to-back in my basement with friends. Were you there for that?
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
CREEPSHOW TOO LOW! I love that movie at least as much as Thnig. It was my number five. In a way, it's kind of a love letter to and celebration of the horror genre.
That's cool. Have a feeling that many, many more points went to the latter.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
fyi I once wrote a song that included the following lines
never got along with my coacheslike upson pratt hates roaches
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
There's only 3 segments in Creepshow 2, so 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
General Service Announcement: AVOID CREEPSHOW 3 AT ALL COSTS.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
For real, even if it's only to sink into the soft, sedated 1970s only to be wrestled awake by killer houseplants.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, there was only one other segment ('Chief Woodenhead').
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, xposts...
i vaguely remember a 1980 SNL sketch w/ Strother Martin where they had Republican door-to-door volunteers handing out pods and turning ex-hippies into Reaganites.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
DID YOU KNOW (because I didn't for the longest time): the Tales From The Darkside series was initially supposed to be a Creepshow series but wasn't because of rights issues or what have you? So you can just pretend that Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is the real Creepshow 3
Also, they're apparently working on a new, legit Creepshow that is apparently (and fittingly, in the age of the confusingly-named sequel) going to just be called Creepshow.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Aside: I'm home sick and watching horror movies on Netflix all day and if I had seen Daughters of Darkness before sending in my ballot, I would have voted for it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Don Siegel's IotBS obscenely low; had it #5.
I've read about Creepshow, I've had cockroaches, and I ain't ever watchin' that shit.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, jesus:
Taurus Entertainment (rights holders of the original Creepshow) have licensed the rights to Jace Hall, of HDFILMS, a Burbank, California company, to produce Creepshow: RAW, a web series based upon the original film.
The pilot episode for Creepshow: RAW wrapped on July 30, 2008. The pilot was directed by Wilmer Valderrama and features Michael Madsen.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie has a cat forcing itself down someone's throat (sort of roaches-in-reverse) so, yeah, I'm cool with that being Creepshow 3.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
carl agatha please email me some horror movies on netflix streaming i should watch while sarah's out of town.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh ha i was thinking that the thanks for the ride thing was a framer ala ackroyd in the twilight zone. also i didnt even know there was a creepshow 3
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
'78 in my queue
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
n/a: okeydoke
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
A further sequel, Creepshow III, featuring no involvement from Stephen King, George A. Romero, or anyone else involved in the production of the first two films, was released direct-to-video in 2007 (though it was finished in 2006) to mostly negative reviews. This film, in a fashion similar to the original Creepshow, features five short darkly comedic horror stories.
Creepshow make-up artist and Creepshow 2 actor, Tom Savini, has said that he considers Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) the real Creepshow 3.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of horror antho stuff, anyone else have fond memories of Cat's Eye?
also preemptively if trick r' treat beats out creepshow i will bring the hate so goddamn hard on this thread
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
You should know, once in awhile, I read your posts in the voice of E.G. Marshall.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
I know some of you might take this as a weird recommendation but resist the urge. Do NOT see Creepshow 3. It will make you feel bad about yourself and the world in which you live.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
(My review of Creepshow III, fwiw.)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link