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A little boy's
comic book comes to life, revealing
five tales of revenge and fatal consequences:
a murdered patriarch returns from the grave to claim
his Father's Day cake; a dimwitted farmer is turned
into a plant by green slime from outer space; a
greedy man drowns his unfaithful wife and her lover;
a college professor discovers an ancient monster
living in the dorm; and an obnoxious billionaire is
terrorized by cockroaches.
Two masters of horror, George Romero and Stephen King
(who made his screenwriting debut with this one) smash
their brilliant minds together to make this campy,
colorful horror saga. The film is based and inspired
by 50s popular EC Comics and Romero inventory uses color,
light, sound and frames to make the movie look like a
tasty matinee cartoon.
Backing Romero's lively direction up is a cast full of
knowing veterans creating funny and amusing parodies
out of their corny characters. Leslie Nielsen, E.G.
Marshall, Hal Holbrook, favorite scream queen Adrienne
Barbeau and late, Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors are
all game and several stars of earlier Romero flicks
(Ed Harris, Gaylen Ross, John Amplas) have cameos.
Both Romero and his cast know they're doing a horror
film and nothing more. The film is never pretentious
or overly serious, it's more supposed to make an
entertaining comic book-like shocker. Too bad same
thing goes for Stephen King's script, which sadly is
the worst thing about the movie.
The tales are all pretty predictable, with obvious
plot twists and shocks that never quite kick off.
They're all ridiculously goofy and simple just like
a cartoon - maybe that's the point but it doesn't
really work.
Still, it's a joy to watch with Tom Savini's hilarious
but underused special effects as a tasty treat.
A maggot-eaten zombie, a severed head on a cake, green
slime, a blown-off head (covered in grass), a woman
shot in the head, a floor covered in blood, cockroaches
bursting out from a victim's chest, some corpses and
lots of off-screen deaths.
Campy 80s-like synth score.
Colorful, amusing, and awfully simple - just like a
comic book. 80s answer to Tales from the crypt, and one
of George Romero's most lighthearted productions.
Review By: Slicer-Dicer
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