Creepshow is a name that, for many, will evoke a little tingle at the base of the back. A little spook of terror; a slight shiver combined with a half smile, the memory of a storytelling monster a little too obsessed with the morbid, the macabre and black humor. Because Creepshow is one of the best horror comedy anthologies ever, and now it’s back, albeit in an unexpected way.
For those who do not know Creepshow, it is a 1982 film that paid homage to the 50s comic books of EC Comics as Tales from the Crypt or The Vault of Horror, written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. With an epilogue and prologue acting as the nexus of the five stories told throughout the film, the whole is a wonderful horror comedy that seeks to create horror stories that feel like the comic book stories they seek to pay homage to. Something that is helped along by the presence of Tom Savini doing practical effects for the film.
Being a critical and public success, it will have two sequels, the second of relative success, and a television series in 2019, which premiered its fourth season just a week ago. Something that makes it one of the longest running humorous horror franchises in the US, and probably, the most beloved of those still active today.
This comes as a coalition that last October 19, during the Indie Horror Game Showcase, a game based on Creepshow was announced. Without a release date, with a brief 2024 and promising that it will be multiplatform, we only know that it will be an anthology of horror games born from the collaboration between Shudder, current owners of the franchise, and DreadXP, creators of excellent horror anthologies such as Dread X Collection. That and that its creative director will be Brian Clarke, creator of the quite terrifying The Mortuary Assistant.
To know more about this anthology we will still have to wait until next year. But being DreadXP, who have published under their wing some of the best humorous horror games of the last few years, the franchise is in good hands.
