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I’m a goner, ain’t I, Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day? I’ve got that stuff from the meteor on me and I’m gone, ain’t I?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
I would have loved to have a picture of Stephen King from Maximum Overdrive, his first and last foray into directing and a movie I think is kinda dumb, but in all the right ways. I’m a huge fan of that flick and a huge King fan in general, so it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t include the maestro in my October horror run of BtSPotD.
Thankfully I do have a nice picture of King and George Romero hanging out on the set of CREEPSHOW, which King wrote and starred in as the country bumpkin Jordy Verrill.
Last Halloween I was Jordy Verrill, albeit the fat version, with moss covering my face, overalls and a plaid shirt, so you can tell I’m a pretty big fan of Creepshow. Hell, I even love Creepshow 2. The Raft is probably my favorite segment of any of the Creepshow films.
But The Lonely Death of Jordy Verrill is pretty close. What good horror geek hasn’t exclaimed “Meteor shit!” when they get their hands dirty?
I’m a sucker for anthology horror and any throwback to the great EC comics days done by modern masters is always smiled upon.
Here’s the pic, click for a bigger image!
Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic will involve one of the above two men. See ya’ then!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
- Army of Darkness
- Frankenstein
- Seed of Chucky
- Psycho
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Readers Talkback
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He looks like a horror writer should look.
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Jordy Verill for Halloween!
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He needs to change the whole way!
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Oct. 15, 2010, 6:50 p.m. CST
"Well I'll be dipped in shit if that ain't a meteorite!"
by MelvintheMopBoy
Great movie.
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RAR! RAR!
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PETER JACKSON WILL BE DIRECTING!?!? thank GOD!
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Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
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I love that line! Still use it on a semi-regular basis
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So much fun. Now if only Stephen King would get behind some kinda EC comics style anthology show, like a Tales From the Crypt reboot, now that would be cool.<P>
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So why do I always watch it when it's on? It's a beautiful suck.
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but was not a fan of the movie. I know that's nerd sacrilege or whatever but i'm on the better side of 30 and like my horror movies to be scary. Still a cool shot.
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I got the chance to meet King. He signed my Shining book. I asked him what he thought of the Shining movie. He winced and said he was a bit disappointed.
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don't put your fingers in your mouth after burning them with meteor slime
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The Hitchiker bit alone is amazing.
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that SUCKED!
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For awhile there, I thought they were going to do a series of King analogies. It never came to pass but as much as I like everyone, I would kill everyone one of you to see a movie that included "The Jaunt" & "Survivor Type".
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1957 Pymouth cameo, ftw.
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But you guys knew what I meant anyway.
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Local; very small affair held in a hotel "ballroom". Found the Creepshow graphic novel signed by King and the dude wanted $11 bucks for it. I was hemming & hawing {that was a case a beer & a pack of smokes at the time! Canadian, of course} but it was the only thing I bought. I wasn't a comic nerd - or that much of a geek at the time - but I was already a Stephen King fan. My first fandom. You always remember your first.
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Great story.
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...I also wondered why, when Tales from the Crypt was hot, someone didn't jump on the bandwagon and do one based on Eerie or Creepy. I loved those. And has anyone seen Creepshow 3? They have it at the library but I wasn't sure if it would be worth picking up.
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I use to be a HUGE Stephen King fan growing up...Man! I loved reading his earlier works like..Salems Lot, Pet Cemetary, Christine, IT, Skeleton Crew, The Stand, Fire Starter...hell, even Cujo was pretty good for novel about an insanely rabid killer St. Bernard!! I even enjoyed watching the first "Creepshow" Movie as a kid in High School (Took a high school sweetie whom I had a major crush on and she was a huge horror fan too ;) ) Then..something seemed to happen to Mr. Stephen King...he was either taken over by a Pod people impersonator or maybe he was replaced by a "Fringe" Universe/Alternative King...all the moves that were made from his Novels and Short stories...Children of The Corn, Christine, Firestarter, IT, Pet Cemetary..yeah, even the Stanley Kubrick version of The Shinning and Maximum Overdrive...were all pieces of shit! It's like King became so full of himself and thinking he was the Ultimate voice of a generation of Horror Writers that he whored his works out just to get them onscreen and basically was like..Fuck YOU fans of my work! Of course ther have been rare exceptions to the rule when it comes to Kings stuff being translated to the screen..both Big and Small..Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption are excellent films to this day...The Stand mini-series was passable and as was the more true to the original version of The Shinning TV Miniseries remake. I don't care for his little camero appearences in his movies based on his books...it isn't cool or humorous the way Stan Lee's apprearences in Spiderman and The Hulk were...in fact...I cringed when I saw him on Sons of Anarchy as "Mr. Bachman" (Yeah, real "cute"/real "funny"...not!!) Lemme ask you all a rehtorical question here...could YOU sit through such Stephen King made for TV crap as IT, Tommyknockers and Rose Madder? Yeah, neither could I! And his more recent works like The Cell and Under The Dome? Garbage and should be used as kindling to light a fire with only! Mr. King needs to retire and stop embarassing himself by writing any more garbage with which to subject on his fans and former fans.
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As far as The Raft goes, it is one of the most disturbing and effective pieces of storytelling ever brought to screen. The end where the guy is like "I beat you, I beat you!" and the thing just fucking reigns up and....reminds me of The Blob remake. One of the best remakes ever. After, The Thing and The Fly of course.
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I saw it in the theater originally and I made a Nathan Grantham figure out of Mulder from McFarland Toys. Creepshow 2 on the other hand fucking sucks.
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don't remember "The Jaunt". Is tha the one where they're jumping off the barn loft? "Survivor Type" I do remember. Guy deserted on beach, pumping himself full of heroin in order to stay alive while he eats his limbs. Ahhhh Skeleton Crew. Also like the one where the guy drinks skunked beer and turns into a gelatinous mess and the one where the astronaut grows eyes all over his body. It's been a while. Might have to dig it out of the archives. It is Halloween after all and we're all entitled to one good scare. Right?
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Seriously? King for the most part has NOTHING to do with the movies based on his books. <p> I hate when people say, and I'm not saying you, "I like Stephen King's movies." He made Maximum Overdrive, The Shining tv movie, Storm of the Century, Sleepwalkers, and maybe some others but to judge him from the movies made of his work is very irresponsible. <p> The guy's a writer. He writes. Books.
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Who is actually Scott Storch in disguise..
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with his wife being the second ugliest
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I can hold my breath a long, long time!
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/wrap-hobbit-greenlight.html
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i think it was with Ed Harris as a leader of a bike gang and the movie was like Death Race 2000 but with bikes.forgettable shit.
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was a sci-fi piece. People travelled to Mars[?] but they had to be anesthetized first or else it wouldn't work. I loved how the inventor "jaunted" his finger across the barn by mistake and finally figured out that the mice had to be asleep before they came out normal on the other end. The whole story about the inventor was very introspective. He unfortunatly passes along that introspectiveness to his son, who holds his breath during his "gassing". Time travel? "It's longer than you think, Dad, " he croaked. "It's longer than you think."
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that picture looks like they could be starring in that movie.
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Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, I get them mixed up all the time. <p> They should publish Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares and Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual as an omnibus. Did I miss anything? Any other short story collections? Not novella collections like Different Seasons but short story collections.
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I don't think King has gotten worse at story telling. I realize that statement kinda null & voids my opinion but fuck it. Every King story I read still has his "voice" for me. It still has his own cadence. King books are special to me because I "hear" them different inner voice than any other author I read. <p> True fact for me: The first novel I ever read was "The Shining". I was 11. The first line: "Officious little prick." I didn't know what "officious" even meant but it was like a sledgehammer to me. <p> Now King might be getting old and he may have had a life-changing near death experience that for some reason people think he should stop revisiting but he can still pull out a story altering *sentence* that will make a mediocre read memorable for me.
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"The Long Walk" is another fucking story I can't believe no one has put on screen yet. The ultimate reality show.
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Granted he had it weeks ago but oh well..you can read about BNAT here.. Or movie news at www.youhavebeenchopped.wordpress.com
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*Another* fucking one. Dreamcatchers with Morgan fucking Freedmon gets made but no one options Desperation and is serious about it. <p> I actually hope that "The Walking Dead" is so densely kick ass that we can get some horror series back on the air that's not called "Tales From The Darkside".
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@iamchoppah <p> [That was a freebie, Chippy. Quit spamming TB's like a cheap link.]
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Was also a Romero film, wasn't it? Based on King's book. Never saw the flick but the book was pretty solid. Also, my Facebook has the Hobbit news and AICN doesn't?! HitFix posted it almost an hour ago!
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They are famished here and the manna is dropping from the CHOP heavens in the right place. Choppah isn't afraid of hurting feelings of Oscar winning friends.
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really freaked me out as a kid. Just the thought of having to blow your own head off cuz you're tired of plants growing out of every pore..
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Not my fav. Some ok 'The Birds' flattery. Book-wise, I liked how they carried Sheriff Paghorn [?] over to 'Needful Things'. <p> I also liked 'Needful Things', book & movie. Max Von Sydow, Ed Harris, Amanda Plummer...all good.
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It's not rebellious, cool or professional. I didn't make up this rule; the internet gods did. <p> I beseech you not to anger them.
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That's Knightriders. King didn't do that one, but Romero sure did.
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Oct. 15, 2010, 9:53 p.m. CST
BEDELIA! It's Father's Day! Where's my cake? You promised me my
by Tigger Tales
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one of the best short stories of all time, definitely. sadly, most of the films made from his stuff suck hard. DESPERATION - starts out great and just fucking dies. one of the worst...hell, i can't even talk about it. QUINT - brilliant costume idea - how many times did you have to explain it?
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Oct. 15, 2010, 10:33 p.m. CST
Best Creepshow segment was Something To Tide You Over
by Nasty In The Pasty
I CAN HOLD MY BREATH...FOR A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME!!!!!!!
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What a classic film with such a wonderful cast! It's such a shame that Leslie Nielsen became a joke after this film, because his portrayal of the villain was great.
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Oct. 15, 2010, 10:42 p.m. CST
"Feel how hard your heart is beating, Harry? How FAST?"
by Nasty In The Pasty
"Now, that's gonna make it harder for you to hold your BREATH, isn't it? The water's so COLD...so SALTY...you're down there, holding your breath, just waiting for that wave that's covering you to go out so you can snatch a quick breath--" [sharp inhale] "--before the next wave rolls in."
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"You hear me, Richard? You HEAR me, Richard?! I'M GONNA G--" [the water covers his head]<BR><BR>"Gotta hold your breath there, Harry...gotta hold your BREATH."
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was Ted Danson's hair piece. *giggle*
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He's just trying to make a name for himself, just like any other anonymous poster on AICN. I called him out for spamming; not his gimmick. <p> I like gimmicks, in general. Fancies up the place, like garland :)
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Fuckers look alike.
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While King may not play a part in many of the film adaptations (writing, directing, etc.), these are still films based on his stories. For that alone he deserves a lot of credit. And while yes, there has been some shitty ones, I think people tend to overlook how many great ones there are; The Shining, Carrie, Misery, Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile...some great movies there. Then you have a lot of other decent ones like The Mist (I'd say better then devcent), Dead Zone, Christine, Pet Sematary, The Stand (TV), Thinner. The anthologies are a good watch too (Creepshow, Cat's Eye). And I guess you could include Running Man, but then again it bears very little resemblance to the novel. Anyway, I can't think of many authors who have that many OK to Great films based off their work.
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...is the bomb in Creepshow 2, yo.
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It's in Skeleton Crew. It's about a successful writer who believes a "Fornit" lives in his typewriter. His madness "infects" his editor as he indulges the writer at the request of the writers wife. I prefer King's short stories rather than his novels. <p> <p> I also like The Mist, Jerusalem's Lot, and One For The Road maybe? City guy stumbles in to a bar around Salem's Lot, during a blizzard, his wife and kid are stuck with their car. So the Old man bar owner and the old man patron go to help them, ready to fight vampires.
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Especially after 'Salem's Lot. It was a cool coda.
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i checked in the imdb thats the movie.BUT although King didnt have any kind of creative involvement in the movie,he did have a cameo in it,again as a goofy redneck.thats why i was remembering that they somehow had worked again together in that film.anyway.
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Did Stephen King used to have Down Syndrome?
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I kid. <P> Sort of ;-)
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Seemed to wordy, rambling, self-indulgent for my liking... comes off as a pretentious blow-hard. <P> Now KOONTZ on the other hand...
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Love this film. Quint, the short story 'The Raft' is fantastic. I never saw Creepshow 2, but I'll check it out now.
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Upson Pratt (THE Upson Pratt) always kills me. For my tastes Lonesome Death is the weakest of the stories...too much mugging. Have to agree with above poster about Trick 'r Treat, finally a good companion piece to Creepshow. "Are we together on this?"
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Gave me nightmares. Still think about how fucked up it was.
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He wrote a great story called The Long Walk (think that was the title) Always thought it would make a fantastic little indie film.
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At least in that picture
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I think most of us are not here to "make a name for ourselves". I would gather that most, me included, are here to talk movies and not become some kind of talkback celebrity. I have to believe that because if I believed people's lives were so empty they come here to find attention and an identity any faith I had in humanity, which is low at the moment, would fucking implode.
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Why did they name the movie that? It has absolutely ZERO, fuck all nothing to do with King's story. Not one fucking word...except the title.
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Koontz? I'll admit, Phantoms is a great book(I like to call it the best Stephen King book not written by Stephen King). But the other's I've read(Midnight, Demon Seed, I forget the others) not so good. Although Night Chills was decent as was Intensity. I guess he is ok afterall. I guess it's just Midnight. Koontz really didn't seem to know what kind of book he wanted it to be.
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Road Work.
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anyone know if this film directed by Romero & Dario Argento is worth checking out?
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a film by those 2 is a must for me. Just wanted to know if it's a classic must-see for my Halloween horror marathon. thanx
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"This hair's gonna get me paid and laid"
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And have had the chance to hang out with him, just a bit, on a few ocasions. He is a madman, and plays a mean R&R guitar. A genuinely decent human being who once autographed a copy of "Eye of the Dragon" to my newborn daughter (name excised here) "To X...welcome to life, sweetheart. Steven King." He is a national treasure, and probably the great storyteller of the 20th Century.
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I hope Stephen King didn't really spell his own name wrong. Are you sure it was him? jk.
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Go out and fuck somebody. But wear a damn rubber, everybody's got the damn herpes these days." Every so often I get the urge to watch Creepshow 3. Is there ANYthing in it worth a look?
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Just another vote for it - really fun anthology horror flick (in the vein of Creepshow, Twilight Zone) with a nice overarching storyline (featuring the little creepy fellow on the cover art). I picked it up for $7 on BD after we saw it the first time last year - going into our Halloween movie rotation :)
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My first thought on that day was "They must have read Rage" and was not surprised to learn years later of his reaction.
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It's named JPG but it's clearly a big ol' BMP image.
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Adrienne Barbeau is my Favorite part of the Movie...
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Many thanks, yours is the first even remotely positive take I've heard or read. I just might give it a go. Appreciate the info.
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Maybe love is too strong a word, but I def loved it as a kid.
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Yeah, it's nitpicking, but someone who claims to be a huge fan should know that.
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