1987’s Creepshow 2 had half the budget of George Romero and Stephen King’s classic 1982 horror anthology, their loving tribute to the horror comic books of the early 1950s.
"The Raft" was a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the original story -- an occurrence far too rare in King adaptations. All it needed was a bigger budget, and it could have been as genuinely freaky as "The Blob" (1988).
And I had forgotten about "The Hitchhiker", but this review reminded me that it was a decent little morality tale. Once again, Romero's eye toward class conflict paid off.
(Incidentally, I believe the sentence in the second paragraph was meant to say, "George Romero, who directed the original film".)
Finally, it is CRAZY to see that the younger Whitemoon was played by freakin' Holt McCallany! Man did he grow up to be the perfect sort of old-school character actor. He was so great as Tench in "Mindhunter" -- it was like they went back to the 1970s to cast him.
I remember watching and enjoying this movie at the theater where I worked in my high school days. Despite the title and some of the names involved, it feels very, very different from its predecessor. Likely that was for budgetary reasons and that it was New World instead of WB. Anyway, although I liked it, I couldn't help but think that the oil slick, or whatever it was in "The Raft" looked like a plastic lawn bag floating in the lake until it started preying on the teens - however the wave at the end genuinely surprised me (I hadn't seen the trailer where it's featured).
"The Raft" was a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the original story -- an occurrence far too rare in King adaptations. All it needed was a bigger budget, and it could have been as genuinely freaky as "The Blob" (1988).
And I had forgotten about "The Hitchhiker", but this review reminded me that it was a decent little morality tale. Once again, Romero's eye toward class conflict paid off.
(Incidentally, I believe the sentence in the second paragraph was meant to say, "George Romero, who directed the original film".)
Finally, it is CRAZY to see that the younger Whitemoon was played by freakin' Holt McCallany! Man did he grow up to be the perfect sort of old-school character actor. He was so great as Tench in "Mindhunter" -- it was like they went back to the 1970s to cast him.
I watched a movie called The Search for One Eye Jimmy for my book and was amused that he has a sizable role in that as well.
At first I was thinking, "Wasn't that called The Goonies?" But whoops -- wrong One Eye.
I remember watching and enjoying this movie at the theater where I worked in my high school days. Despite the title and some of the names involved, it feels very, very different from its predecessor. Likely that was for budgetary reasons and that it was New World instead of WB. Anyway, although I liked it, I couldn't help but think that the oil slick, or whatever it was in "The Raft" looked like a plastic lawn bag floating in the lake until it started preying on the teens - however the wave at the end genuinely surprised me (I hadn't seen the trailer where it's featured).