“In the end, Warners decided to make Salem’s Lot for TV and not theatrical. Romero agreed, and the two bonded after discovering each was a fan of the other’s work. executives saw the film and enjoyed it, they approached Romero and asked if he’d be interested in meeting with Stephen King, who had just sold film rights to his novel Salem’s Lot to the studio. Romero was screening his vampire film Martin at film festivals. The road to Creepshow began rather unceremoniously in the late 1970s, when George A. To celebrate the streaming revival of Creepshow, here are 10 facts about how the original film was made, from Romero’s inspired direction of King in one of the film’s segments to Leslie Nielsen’s fart machine. Romero, with the creature effects of a third legend-the-making, Tom Savini, thrown in for good measure.Ĭreepshow’s five horror story segments and animated sequences made it an instant cult classic among genre fans, inspiring a comic book adaptation, a 1987 movie sequel, and now, a new series on Shudder. The result was Creepshow, a film that combined the playful horror fiction of Stephen King with the visual style of George A. In the early 1980s, two luminaries of the horror genre got together to make a movie inspired by the gross-out horror comics they’d loved as kids.
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