Cool News
The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day can hold its breath for a long, long time!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
I’ve made no secret of my love of Stephen King, so today’s picture shouldn’t be a surprise. Stephen King plus drowned zombie from Creepshow equals total happiness. Sorry for the curtness of this piece (and the lateness), but South By and spotty wifi internet downtown is playing hell with my timeliness on this article.
Thanks to Barry Rubin for sending it along! Enjoy!
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic will be… something. I don’t know what it is yet…
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
Follow Me On Twitter
Readers Talkback
comments powered by Disqus-
+ Expand All
-
looks like it says "cruising with my gays" is that right?
-
This movie was great.
-
...but this flick has so much visual flair - fuckin' love it. And some great performances - EG Marshall, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen. And the Ed Harris dance. May it never die.
-
March 15, 2011, 4:12 a.m. CST
And that ISNT a drowned Zombie, its the corpse of Nathan Grantham from the first story.
by DiamondJoe
CHRIST Quint, sniff your coffee and work on your Zombie sense.
-
March 15, 2011, 4:13 a.m. CST
The Behind the Scenes Pic of the day wants its cake...
by Rob Sterling
-
Just started reading the series a couple weeks ago. I'm about halfway through THE DRAWING OF THE THREE and it's great so far. However, with five books left to go, I can't imagine the ending doesn't devolve into a convoluted mess. I guess my question is... is it worth it to finish the entire series?
-
..... it promises great things to come, but the story doesn't reach that height again. You may enjoy the series, but don't look for it to get any better.
-
a sort of off shoot of the Dark Tower series that serves as a sequel to The Talisman. I think that it is as strong as the best books of the Dark Tower series.
-
Actually, "Father's Day" was probs the lamest one. "Bugs" was great too.
-
Never saw the sequel but I'm assuming it wasn't too good. Always had a soft spot for Tales From The Darkside though - great story in that about a gargoyle (go with me on this - get the DVD). Another multi-story film that I loved - Cats Eye.
-
Since that pic has nothing to do with the drowned zombies from Creepshow.
-
Enjoy each book for what it is. Personally, I felt that Wizard and Glass was the best of the series, but I enjoyed all of them as part of the whole. In my opinion, yes, its worth your time.
-
Every segment works in Creepshow, even King's over the top acting worked for Jordy.Ed Harris "dance face" is so hilarious. Don't let go, don't let go, don't let go!
-
I bought the graphic novel as a kid. My neighbors bought their $800 VHS, and this was one of the first movies I saw on it. Every segment was great, and a great cast.
-
And on TVs bloopers it shows Leslie Nielsen in frustration shooting the pistol at a plane as they're trying to film the beach scene, but can't over the engine noise.
-
I remember, as a kid (around 9 years old or so), walking in on my parents watching Creepshow on HBO one night, and it was right when Danson and that woman (name eludes me at the moment) are coming after Leslie Nielsen...the sight of those two...I was convinced if I looked out the window I'd see those two walking down my street toward my house. Freaked me right out.
-
You people are worse than my kid who wants all McDonald's, all the time!! Maybe if you'd quit bitching, Quint would oblige you!
-
I was right!
-
If I spent that long in the hospital, that column would be the LAST thing on my mind after I got out. Leave it be, it'll be posted all in good time.
-
Just read "Full Dark, No Stars", "The Dead Zone" and "Cell" over the weekend actually. Never seen Creepshow. It any good?
-
Correct? Great picture. Creepshow is one of those movies I'll throw on before bed along with Fright Night and a host of Carpenter stuff to just drift off to. I'm also a constant reader as the name shows.
-
So much campy fun in this movie, it rightfully deserves it's place as a horror classic. Fun and scary (at least when I was 12). I worn this VHS tape into dust with the number of viewings when I was a kid. As mentioned above, wrong zombie mentioned. This was dear old daddy from Fathers Day. @ChickenStu - see the movie. You will not be disappointed! Old school 80's kind of fun!
-
I thoroughly love the series all the way through but I think there are a ton of moments of true greatness that come later, the show down at the convenience store immediately after having been ripped through dimensions, The last stand at the Dixie Pig, the whole of Wizard and Glass, Rhea, The Big Coffin Hunters, the gunless take down/rescue of Sheemie. But to each his own.
-
Creepshow is genius.
-
Is A Little Something to Tide Us Over!
-
March 15, 2011, 10:33 a.m. CST
The "Something To Tide You Over" segment is the best part of Creepshow
by Nasty In The Pasty
While the rest of the film is just silly and campy (in a fun way, though), that segment is legitimately frightening. Not the zombie stuff, but just the idea of someone so monstrously cruel that he'd bury his tropy wife and her boytoy lover in the sand up to their necks, then kick back witha drink and watch gleefully as they slowly drown, really fucked me up. Leslie Nielsen's performance is splendid (kind of a shame he almost never got to play a straight role again after Airplane!).
-
Totally agree. I saw it as a teenager and that part scared me. It's before I knew who Leslie Neilsen was. Too bad he didn't do less spoofy things after that. He would have killed it.
-
March 15, 2011, 11:08 a.m. CST
Re "...Tide...": the horror of drowning and the fucking crab...
by WriteForTheEdit
did make that segment the most skin-crawling... but EG Marshall Vs. The Cockroaches was pretty icky, too. God, what a movie... so much fun.
-
Gotta hold your breath.
-
and the last three are a fun little ride. I really enjoyed the Magnificent 7 one (Songs of Susannah?). I'd say yes, the series is worth reading. Quit asking, start reading...
-
JUST TELL IT TO CALL YOU BILLY!
-
March 15, 2011, 12:06 p.m. CST
Creepshow 2 wasn't bad, but nowhere as good as the first
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
I can't even remember all the segments of the second, but I remember each of the first with great clarity. More of the segments from Creepshow 2 came from King's short stories. The Raft came from one of his collections. There was the cigar store Indian segment with George Kennedy. For the life of me I can't remember the other segments. But, I did love the animation where the bullies got their due from the special order plants from the comic book.
-
As I remember, there were only three stories, too. Totally forgettable.
-
Creepshow is another one I saw in the theater. Classic. Creepshow 2 sucks ass.
-
I dig his style. I think his shirt says “Cruising With My Gals.” Or maybe “Gal!” since it looks like there is only one girl in the car and the last word appears to have four characters. I guess I would agree that Drawing of the Three is the best Dark Tower book, but I see no reason for anyone not to finish the series. All the books have cool stuff in them.
-
I loved the whole series. Just count yourself as lucky that you don't have to wait four or five years between books like the rest of us did growing up. That damn cliffhanger at the end of the Wastelands with Blaine the monorail... And keep in mind that other King books are also (sometimes tangentially) related to the DT series. The Stand is probably the most relevant, with The Talisman and Black House next most. But also Insomnia, It, Salem's Lot, the first third of Hearts in Atlantis... to get the whole, rich experience of King's multiverse, I'd read those too. Not to intimidate you or anything.
-
That's John Amplas, Romero's Martin himself in the costume as Nathan Grantham, the 'father' of father's day. Savini cast him because of his extraordinary thin frame, which best suited the decayed patriarch of the family.
-
Looks to me like that's what the shirt says...
-
--The "Thanks for the ride, lady!" line (from the segment which would predict the real-life events that were made into "Stuck" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758786/ --The part in "The Raft" where the college kid basically tries to rape the girl on the raft while she was sleeping, which was doubly disturbing considering that their other two companions had just been killed and eaten by the oil slick blob thing...
-
They were the only two left. They were scared, trying to stay warm, badda bing, badda boom.
-
"Thanks for the ride lady." King was the truck driver in that one.
-
Cruising With My Baby it is. I think.
-
March 15, 2011, 1:48 p.m. CST
It only shows just how little these AICN dips know.
by Professor_Monster
Some of these nimrods woke up in a nerd friendly world where liking Zombies was cool - so they jumped into the pool with no idea how to swim. Does that really look like Ted Danson with a bullet hole in his head to you, Quint?
-
March 15, 2011, 1:52 p.m. CST
Anthologies...Amicus had some good ones. I'll always
by openthepodbaydoorshal
remember the one (Dr Terror's House Of Horrors?) with Christopher Lee as an art critic haunted by the disembodied hand of an artist (Michael Gough) he ridiculed. They did a pretty good Tales From The Crypt also. The cast usually included Peter Cushing, and other Hammer regulars.
-
...loved those old british anthologies(the House That Dripped Blood was another one). I loved the one where the head of a sanitarium for the blind gets his commeupance. The narrow hallway with the razor blades gave me shivers.
-
March 15, 2011, 2:55 p.m. CST
"Feel how hard you heart is beating Harry, how fast?"
by SAILOR_RIPLEY
"Now that's going to make it harder for you to hold your breath." BTW Quint...Epic Fail. The first thing I thought when I saw the picture was that is was clearly the corpse from Father's Day. Creepshow is top notch however. And Dark tower series does go slightly downhill after Wizard and Glass, but still an incredible read.
-
Gals, cuz he's a pimp of sorts
-
Bedilia i want My Cake!!!
-
March 15, 2011, 3:15 p.m. CST
Stephen King proved that not ANYONE can play dumb redneck,
by openthepodbaydoorshal
and do it well. A bit of casting nepotism...King's son, Joe, now known as author Joe Hill, played Billy in the bookends of Creepshow. Whatever happened to the fim adaptation of Heart Shaped Box, Hill's debut novel? It was a pretty damn good read.
-
was Fran from the original Dawn of the Dead.
-
... along with Willy Wonka, these were the films I watched over and over and over... I still sit at the table and bang my hands up and down whenever my Wife is making dinner and chant: "It's Father's Day and I want, my, cake!." Okay, I've only done that a dozen times or so, but it never gets old. Worst story of the bunch though. I like them in this order: Something to tide you over The Crate The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill They're Creeping up on you Father's Day That bit where Leslie Nielson is watching the video feeds and holding a drink and laughing manically, and then stops laughing and goes all dark and serious... fucking awesome acting. I wish Leslie has played a serial killer in a David Lynch film or something.
-
Wizard and Glass is the best of them all, IMHO. The very end of the series didn't do it for me personally, but a lot of my friends loved it, so definitely seems like a personal-taste issue.
-
IMO, that's probably the worst King book I've read. Like fucking Mills & Boon. Load of shit. Wolves of the Calla was a bit boring aswell, that one started to feel like King was running out of ideas and getting lazy. Song of Suzannah and the Finale to the series bought it back to form though. Love the first three though, they are the shit. Especially "The Drawing Of The Three" which is easily in my top 5 of favourite ever King books.
-
. . . was the creature in the crate taking a bite out of that guy's face like an apple. Just warped me. And to whoever mentioned Bill Hader, I was thinking he could play King. If there was ever a reason for someone to play King in a movie, that is. Heh heh heh . . .
-
Saw the film on opening night in my local Bay Ridge, Brooklyn theatre. Loved it(and still do). The next morning, I headed off to the first class of a neighborhood acting workshop I had signed up for. The instructor? Becky from Creepshow herself, Gaylen Ross. That blew my 17 year old mind.
-
I remember that scene specifically *because* of how disturbing it was that he would be molesting her in her sleep. The girl was sleeping out of sheer exhaustion (they'd basically been up all night stuck on the raft), and the horny guy starts feeling her up; he stops when she wakes up, only to realize that the oil slick goo thing was all over the side of her face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YjyharfZ0
-
March 15, 2011, 8:14 p.m. CST
"'Scuse me, Mr. King, can I get your autograph?" "AIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
by MrMysteryGuest
-
For one thing, it's just too fucking long (two full hours?!), and it puts the worst segment first (aside from the "I want my cake!" bit, "Father's Day" is the most stereotypical and mundane of the batch, and the film didn't need TWO "revenge from the grave" stories in it). And "The Crate" runs too long. Eliminate the "Father's Day" segment and trim the remaining segments (not "Something To Tide You Over", though, that's paced just right. I always wish King had actually written that one as a short story) to around a 95-minute running time, and it'd be a lot better. I actually prefer Cat's Eye overall, as it's punchier and doesn't have one bad segment in it. Also, the recent Trick R Treat was a great horror anthology, and kept things short and sweet.
-
Where's my cake you dirty bitch!!!! It's Fathers Days. Ed Harris dancing to disco. That and Crispin Glovers Final Chapter dance, define the awesome camp of 80's horror. I want a replica of that ashtray. Still dont fully understand why I dont own a bust replica of Nate. I've seen quite a few good ones from recasts made off of the original.
-
Am I the only one who thinks DT3 is the best in the series? It's the only book in the series where you see so much of Roland' world, and it's all fucking creepy. At the very beginning you have the fight with giant mechanical bear whose living side is being eaten away by parasitic worms. The path of the beams are encountered for the first time. Next you have the mini-quest where Jake tells his parents to fuck off, and he goes on a quest to find a portal into Roland's world. The Rose is established as a crucial symbol (I believe the revised version of Gunslinger may mention the rose, but I read the original version first and DT3 is the first time it's mentioned). You have Jake traveling into the old haunted house, which is actually the Guardian of the Portal. It's like the fucking Marsten House comes to life. Great part. Jake and Roland are reunited, thus tying up a loose string from the first book. Oy. The buildup to Lud. The once fabulous, furturistic New York that turns out to be a run down, Somalia/Mad Max hellhole of constant urban warfare. Jake gets kidnapped, Roland goes after him and fucking kicks some ass. Gasher: "YOU!!!" Roland: "Me." *KABLAM* Eddie and Susannah prove themselves as gunslingers. Next you have Blaine the super computer and the ka-tet all find themselves in the hands of a psychopath. And Roland having balls so large he has to carry them in a fucking wheel barrow when he says, "Fuck you." Randall Fucking Flagg shows up. Holy shit, the greatest villain King has ever created comes strolling on into Lud. Fuck yeah, it's on.. it's on!!! The heart of the Dark Tower is in The Wastelands. No other book gives you so much of Roland's World, and no other book sets the stage for what's to come. This is where the Dark Tower peaked. Wizard and Glass was %80 back story that only serves as character development for Roland. Then you get 20% of actual plot continuation. Wolves of the Calla doesn't even feel like it belongs in the same story. Every book prior to this has shown Roland's world to be sick and dying. There were two human settlements prior to this: Tull, which was exterminated by Roland's badassity, and River Crossing (or whatever it's name was) which was full of geriatrics. Lud I suppose was a human settlement, but it was nerve-gassed. In the Calla, this place is full of people and they sing and dance about rice. Where the fuck did that come from?! Wolves show up with light sabers and fucking sneetches from Harry Potter? Are you fucking serious? Song of Susannah... Susannah's managed to fucking kidnap herself, and she's gone batshit crazy again. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, don't remember much about it, almost a worthless book that doesn't really stand on its own. Dark Tower 7. Oh fuck me. Mordred shows up, kills Randall Fucking Flagg in 5 minutes, eats some bad food, gets the shits, kills Oy, and dies. What. The. Fuck? King decides to piss on the reader's suspension of disbelief and tells his fucking story about how he got hit by a van. This is the third fucking book he's told the goddamned van story. Now the final book of what could have been the greatest series ever becomes a vessel for King to ridicule and destroy the man who hit him. Thanks asshole. You know the guy who hit you died on your birthday a year or two after the accident, right? Hmm, where was I? Oh yeah... the goddamned travesty of DT7. Let's see... more sneetches, they almost get killed by a bug disguised as a stand-up comedian, and finally we've reached the Tower! FUCK YEAH! Roland's going to kill the Crimson King, holy shit!!! Wait.... what's going on here? The Crimson King lost his keys and he's locked out on the balcony of the Dark Tower? He just happens to have a bag of Harry Potter Sneetches with him, and he's throwing them at Roland..... "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!" he screams. Oh wait, he gets killed by a retard basket case with a magic eraser. And what's at the top of the Tower?! "Thank you, Roland, but the Princess is in another Tower." King was either doped off his ass on pain meds when he finished books 5-7, or he hired a Ghost Writer (Robin Firth, I'm looking at you) to finish it. Thank you folks! Hope you've enjoyed reading the modern epic that failed from 1981 - 2005 or so. But, I'll always have books 1, 2, and 3.
-
. . . I mean nasty in the pasty. If you don't think Creepshow is the best, at least list a movie that's actually better . . .
-
March 16, 2011, 11:12 a.m. CST
It’s a close call between DT2 and DT3 for me spire_walk
by Frank Conniff
You make a good case for Wastelands. I also think most of your points about the later books are valid, but I wouldn’t judge them nearly as harshly based on those points. I enjoyed reading them all. And as for the ending, King did strongly recommend skipping the coda and leaving the interior of the dark tower a mystery.
-
version wasn't consensual. I never said it was. I said in the short story it was.
-
Believe it or not, the Coda is what bothered me the least. It's almost a poetic ending for Roland, being stuck in an infinite-looping hell. It was the Pollack-esque shitslinging that transpires in books 5-7 that ruins it for me.
-
Sorry about that. Still, that makes the decision to make it nonconsensual in the movie even more disturbing. Basically, the screenwriters said, "Hey, how about if we have her sleeping and the guy starts molesting her?"
-
I loved the first 5 books, but the last two ... not so much. Just read it and enjoy the ride because you'll love it at parts and hate it at others but it's defiantly a adventure worth reading. Wizard and Glass is the best book i have read, really nothing has come close to it. It's an amazing story with wicked characters that are just so alive still in my mind.
-
I think i remember watching this on TV one Halloween as a kid, and if any of you are from England it may have been on after Ghostwatch maybe on another channel. I remember the crate and Leslie Nielsen but thats about it :( Need to go and find a copy of it on DVD now.
-
In the short story "The Raft", I think from Skeleton Crew, it is consensual. In fact, it almost seems like the oil slick has the two characters hypnotized. They start getting it on and the creature uses this to its advantage. There is a hint of this in the movie, when the guy is looking at the creature and it's rotating slowly and the light is sparkling off of it. It's not explicit but it's implied that the same thing is happening: the oil slick has got this guy in its thrall, like some predators that hypnotize their prey with motion. That's why he starts in on the girl.
Top Talkbacks
- That rumor about Sony selling SPIDER-MAN? Don't you believe it for a second! -- 183 total posts 7 posts
- Next on the Reboot assemblyline? TIMECOP!! -- 48 total posts 4 posts
- What is PACIFIC RIM's "Drift Space"? Find out in this Featurette! -- 112 total posts 2 posts
- Has STAR WARS EPISODE VII Landed Its First Non-OT Cast Member? -- 507 total posts 2 posts
-
David Fury
Returns To 24!! -- 10 total posts 2 posts - The METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER Teaser! -- 68 total posts 2 posts
- Yo Listen Up Here's A Story About A Little Guy That Lives In A Blue World... -- 134 total posts 2 posts
- So where is FAST AND FURIOUS 7 going to take place!?! -- 50 total posts 1 post
- New MAN OF STEEL trailer makes me happy that Superman has severe red eye!!! -- 673 total posts 1 post
- We have some new details on the POLTERGEIST remake/reboot/sequel!! -- 151 total posts 1 post