good back-story, and good acting

Fresh and Exciting

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I actually remember when this thing came out and how excited I was and how it got some attention from the horror community. Then sadly I rented it (yes kids from a video store) and remember being super disappointed. I decided to return to it again recently to see if this thing had maybe managed to age well. And my answer is no it was crap in 2006 and its crap now. There's no style, no real EC comics homages, and no involvement from Romero or King. Instead this was brought to us by the team of Ana Clavell and James Dudelson, who for some reason managed to get there hands on the rights to this and Romero's "Day of the Dead" they also made "Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)" a movie which I haven't seen but have heard is absolute garbage. After an opening which includes some of the most piss poor animation available we then get into five tales. "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife", and "Haunted Dog". The only two decent ones are "The Radio" which stars AJ Bowen, its way to long and eventually over stays its welcome, and the other being "Call Girl" which blows its load to early and ruins what could have been a decent tale, but, still has some nice creature effects. The rest are just goofy wastes of time. Something this film actually manages to do and I've heard people give it credit for this is how the stories manage to intertwine with each other, this was unique for the time, but, new and better horror anthologies like "Southbound" have managed to do it way way better, here it never really helps the plots of the tales. Both Clavell and Dudelson have talked about a potential fourth film since this movies release. Let's all hope the zombie apocalypse happens before that.

Creepshow III is not as bad as its infamous reputation. Taking into account the creators behind this film are in fact those responsible for the abomination known as Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, their second attempt at a devote homage to Romero is in fact successful - - as a devote Creepshow/Romero fan; it really is not that bad of a film.The original Creepshow is fantastic as is Creepshow 2 and Tales from the Darkside is also another entertaining segmented hit from the same group of creators. I personally love these movies; they're parodies and spoofs of their inspiration source yet faithful homages at the same time so wonderfully portrayed it brings back childhood memories of being scared of nonsensical jibber jabber such as ghosts and zombies and monsters hiding under the bed. In the 80's and 90's Romero and King worked alongside on these films inspired by E.C comics, shorts by Stephen King - what have you. Let's look at Creepshow III in that way; after Romero and King's series of segment-based horror/comedy film they therefore set new grounds for new film makers to indulge and be inspired by and I think Creepshow III is exactly that - - taking into account its restrictions of pushing boundaries which I am sure the film makers would have intended to do but this is clearly an incredibly low budget film so there are bound to be set backs in script, acting, special effects … even though I don't think those particular structures in the film are that bad at all. AJ Bowen in "The Radio" is particularly good as is Camille Lacey in "Call Girl" as a serial killing prostitute. My main point is that there are movies out there that are far worse than this. I have intentionally seen a lot of horrible movies so I can appreciate a wider range of cinema, some movies I have seen have $0 budgets and are shot on a digital home videos; Ben & Arthur (2002) comes to mind, and then there is Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003) that is screened all the time at my local cult theatre so teenagers can get drunk/stoned and laugh at how appallingly awful everything about it truly is. Think Monster A Go-Go (1965) where the film ran out of funding, so the movie abruptly halts halfway and finalises the ending with stock footage. What about Santa With Muscles? Anything by Ulli Lommel is also worth burning and burying – my point being is that Creepshow III suffers a bad rap and I fail to see why, the first segment is probably the worst segment of all three Creepshow movies perhaps, but the film picks up with The Radio, Call Girl (which is reminiscent of the first Creepshow's "Father's Day" and "Something to Tide You Over" and the second movie's "The Hitchhiker) and even "The Professor's Wife" has a good sense of gory humour to it. After all this movie *is* intended to be a comedy/horror – it is probably more comedy based though with minor childlike horror elements. It reminds me of Goosebumps or Freaky Stories.So did I enjoy Creepshow III? Apart from the failure of a coherent "Alice in Wonderland" reference that is the first segment "Alice" (even though there is good humour behind it) the movie is actually quite funny particularly "The Radio" and "Call Girl" being my favourite segments. The movie is a good cousin to the original two films and as a devote Romero/King/Creepshow fan I say that in all confidence. If one had a broad and open mind toward low budget cinema then you would understand that the infamous bad reviews that Creepshow III receives are in fact inflated and exaggerated by the horror community that are forever expected every horror movie that is released to be the next Rosemarie's Baby or Halloween, people are always demanding too much of horror.The reason I love horror so much is its capability to be so diverse and so broad that one can manipulate fantasy, mystery, action, sci-fi into the mixing pot and whatever the outcome you can still optionally chose comedy as its strongest feature. So whether you think Creepshow III is good or bad, just take this film buff's advice; there is always *always* something far worse than whatever you have seen, so keep looking – when you find that ultimate bottom of the pit failure of celluloid it will help you appreciate movies like Creepshow III more.

When I bought this I had never seen this before and come to think of it I wish I hadn't. the movie is awful the only good bit is the 1st tail which is "Alice" which was quite good but then you think whats the point in watching the rest when your watching it.The directing is one of the worst I have ever seen EVER. the acting is awful, it sounds like their not even trying or the person who did the script just hates movies or was wrote by a 10 year old. The stories are awfully written it makes you feel the were written in 5mins.this should not be called a Creepshow film as i love Creepshow 1 and 2 and it has stained the Creepshow series. do yourself a favour and watch the first or second Don't watch this

I watch a lot of horror movies. I have seen a great many good, mediocre and bad ones. There are some bad ones that I actually quite like. But this was in a league of its own. The acting was so awful, it was like watching a bunch of porn actors who had decided to make a straight film. The writing was stunningly bad, like the script was put together by illiterate half wits raised by morons. The directing ... the camera work ... the effects .... all so bad, I had to get drunk to finish watching the movie. How did they even manage to get the money to make this? Why would anyone even WANT to make this? Why did I watch the whole thing? I don't know. Ugh.