Creepshow - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Creepshow or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Creepshow

[cameron]

The "They're Creeping Up on You!" segment is featured in the Femme Fatales (2011) episode Femme Fatales: Bad Medicine (2011).

[kylie]

In Stephen King's original script for the film, the final story, "They're Creeping Up On You!", originally took place in a lush, carpeted penthouse apartment. However, because with roaches, this would have been unworkable, George A. Romero opted for an emptier, almost hospital room-like set for the story.

[melinda]

During Fan Expo Canada 2015, George A. Romero had said that the cockroaches were the most expensive part of the movie, stating that the cockroaches cost fifty cents a piece, and they used more then two hundred fifty thousand of them, a grand total of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars on roaches alone.

[stephanie]

A sign leading to "Castle Rock" (Stephen King's trademark fictitious town) appeared at the end of the segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", among other signs.

[lena]

One of at least four films shot during the late 1970s through to the late 1980s in which a character was buried in sand or ground, with only his or her head shown above ground level. It was Scott Glenn in The Challenge (1982), whose character Rick spends five days in it. The other actors and films were various extras in Caligula (1979), Ted Danson in this movie, and David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983).

[chris]

The "Father's Day" segment is featured in the Femme Fatales (2011) episode Femme Fatales: Family Business: Part 2 (2012).

[nicholas]

In "Something to Tide You Over", Richard Vickers refers to the beach location (which he owns) as "Comfort Point". It's unclear if this is an actual or fictitious location.

[cassandra]

An alternate ending (scripted but then rewritten) for "Something to Tide You Over" found two policemen dropping by to investigate Richard's panicky-but-true claims of Harry and Becky invading his beach-house. When the policemen (predictably) laugh at his story - thinking he's drunk - Richard attempts to prove this by showing them camera footage of both undead stalkers. Instead, the television plays his incriminating conversation with Harry before and during the latter's burial-by-the-sea.Richard protests that he's been set up, that this is the wrong tape. "Oh, it's the right tape all right, pal!" the police answer. "And speaking of rights...!"The film smash-cuts from there to Richard's murder trial; he is convicted and sentenced to death row. Another smash-cut finds Richard in the gas chamber, laughing hysterically even while his life is choked out of him: "I can hold my breath for a long, long time...!"

[tammy]

Two of the characters featured in the film, Tabitha and Richard (The new professors at the faculty reception at the beginning of the fourth segment, "The Crate"), were named after Tabitha King (Stephen King's wife) and Richard Bachman (his ghostwriting name), according to King.

[leo]

According to Tom Savini, when "Fluffy" breaks out of the crate, once it's dumped in the water, the remains of Billie (Adrienne Barbeau's character) were supposed to float out of the crate. However, this was deleted.

[kenzi]

In "Something to Tide You Over", Richard Vickers (Leslie Nielsen) has an aquarium in his home, where a lion fish is seen. Later, in The Naked Gun (1988), Frank Drebin kills Vincent Ludwig's (Ricardo Montalban) lion fish by accident.

[kristina]

Joe Hill: The son of Stephen King (and now a successful author in his own right), as the boy featured in the movie's beginning (avid reader and collector of "Creepshow" comic books).

[bernice]

The music playing on Upson Pratt's jukebox at the beginning of "They're Creeping Up on You!" is the same instrumental that plays over the ending credits of The Evil Dead (1981).

[francisco]

During a break in filming, Stephen King took his son to a McDonald's, and as a joke, Joe was made-up with bruises, cuts, and scabs. The girl at the drive-thru window called the police when she saw him.

[melinda]

Rice Krispies were used as maggots on the corpse's eyes in the first story, "Father's Day". In addition, real maggots were also utilized.

[liam]

Hal Holbrook and Adrienne Barbeau appeared in The Fog (1980), however they didn't share any scenes together.

[violet]

In "Father's Day", Aunt Bedelia's father came to life after she spilled whiskey on his grave. In Gaelic, the word for whiskey is translated as "water of life", and is possibly a nod to James Joyce and his book "Finnegan's Wake". In the book, a builder's laborer falls from a ladder and breaks his skull, but is revived when someone spills whiskey on his corpse at the wake. In turn, the story of Finnegan's Wake is based on an old Dublin street ballad.

[kylie]

Originally, in Stephen King's first draft one hundred forty-two-page screenplay for the film, the stories "The Crate" and "Something to Tide You Over" switched places. Making "The Crate" story number three, and "Tide" story number four. This was also how the Berni Wrightson Creepshow graphic novel adaptation turned out.

[charlie]

It was rumored that Max von Sydow was originally slated to play Upson Pratt in the final segment, "They're Creeping Up on You!". He went on to play Doctor Kynes in Dune (1984).