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Creepshow (1982)
★ 6.9 · 1,140 ratings on TMDB
The Most Fun You'll Ever Have BEING SCARED!
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
DirectorGeorge A. Romero
The emergence reading
Creepshow keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E5 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, greed, revenge, mortality, horror.
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