
Overview:
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.Status: | Released (1982-11-10) |
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Awards: | 2 nominations total |
BoxOffice: | $21,028,755 |
Screen: | Stephen King |
Productions: | Laurel Entertainment, United Film Distribution Company (UFDC) |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |

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Casts
- 11066: Hal Holbrook - Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
- 11782: Adrienne Barbeau - Wilma Northrup (segment "The Crate")
- 6839: Fritz Weaver - Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
- 7633: Leslie Nielsen - Richard Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
- 175087: Carrie Nye - Sylvia Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
- 5249: E.G. Marshall - Upson Pratt (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
- 22137: Viveca Lindfors - Aunt Bedelia (segment "Father's Day")
Crews
- 14999: George A. Romero - Director - Directing
- 3027: Stephen King - Screenplay - Writing
- 11161: Tom Savini - Makeup Effects - Crew
- 69888: Salah M. Hassanein - Executive Producer - Production
- 15000: Richard P. Rubinstein - Producer - Production
- 1477210: Bonnie Priore - Makeup Artist - Costume & Make-Up
- 75240: Gary Alexander - Sound Re-Recording Mixer - Sound
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I know I'll probably get a lot of flak for suggesting this, but I strongly feel that this anthology piece director Romero did, largely helped by Stephen King, is Romero's finest outing outside of his seven zombie films (of which so far I've seen five). One of the best by one director ....
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I was so terrified of this movie as a kid. Now that im older its not so scary at all. Still a good movie even tho its old and poorly made.
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