Anthology Syndrome: Our Review of ‘Creepshow: Season 1’ on Blu-Ray!!!

Posted in TV, TV On DVD by - July 15, 2020
Anthology Syndrome: Our Review of ‘Creepshow: Season 1’ on Blu-Ray!!!

Sometimes going back to a popular well can have mixed results…

Now on DVD and Blu-Ray, Season One of the new relaunch of Creepshow (A Shudder Original) is basically like any anthology, there’s some good, some mediocre and some bad.

It’s the most fun you’ll ever have being scared!!!  From show runner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) comes a new anthology horror series inspired by George A Romero’s iconic 1982 classic film.  It’s a comic book come to life in twelve chilling tales told across six episodes featuring stories by Joe Hill, Joe R Lansdale, Josh Malerman and more.  Haunted dollhouses, werewolves, mischievous creatures, villainous trick or treaters and the undead are just a few things that you’ll experience here, never quite knowing what will rear its head on the very next page.

Ultimately, Creepshow Season 1 is for the hard core horror fan.  While it really plays into some classic tropes from the genre as a whole it never quite feels as vital as the film did; playing basically as disjointed vignettes then something more focused on a whole.

Yeah, it all looks great from beginning to end and does more than enough to delight devotees of the genre with some strong outings from the likes of Roxanne Benjamin and Tom Savini being inspired by stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill but it all lacked a certain cohesiveness.  It needed a through line for the season to make it feel a little more special.

There’s no denying it’s a solid concept, especially as show runner Greg Nicotero and his team have been renewed for a second season but it would have really benefited from having a single director rather than a cavalcade of voices to tell these stories.  And while the loaded ensemble that includes some fairly familiar faces like Tobin Bell, Adrienne Barbeau, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Davidson, Tricia Helfer and others all do a fine enough job, there really isn’t a soul that stands out in any of this.

Picture and sound is very solid and the special feature include Cast & Crew Interviews, Behind the Scenes Footage, Audio Commentaries, Photo Galleries a Comic Art Booklet and more…

Ultimately the thing about Creepshow: Season 1 is that’s it suffers from what every kind of anthology film suffers from.  You have to find what you like and take the good, while discarding the rest and here with Creepshow that ratio ends up being about 50/50.

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