King turns up briefly as a truck driver in this segment, which seems to intend some element of social commentary since the driver is well-heeled and white and the undead hitchhiker (Tom Wright) is a black man. The slick actually belches as it swallows the last of its good-looking young snacks.įinally, Lois Chiles plays an adulterer who hits a hitchhiker with her Mercedes while hurrying home to her husband, only to discover that the hitchhiker will not die. The second story concerns four teen-agers who steal off for an afternoon swim at a pond that, unbeknownst to them, is the home of a man-eating oil slick. He winds up with a particularly apt souvenir of his adventures, and there are some nice special effects as the statue comes to life. A headdress-wearing, tomahawk-wielding silhouette is seen stalking the robbers individually. After some initial nastiness, as the hoodlums rob the store and harass and kill the elderly couple, the horrific effects begin.
The first is about a cigar-store Indian that comes to life to avenge the murders of a kindly storekeeper and his wife, played by George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour, at the hands of three hoodlums. And each could be fully explained in a one-sentence synopsis.
The episodes are marginally interesting, but each is a little too long. Romero, ''Creepshow 2,'' which opened Friday at the Embassy 1 and other theaters, has three suitably grisly ideas that are only glancingly developed. As directed by Michael Gornick, with a screenplay by George A. King almost always provides more follow-through than ''Creepshow 2,'' a three-section omnibus film based on his writing. THE ghoulish campfire-tale premises of Stephen King's stories are often a lot more memorable than their particulars, but Mr.
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