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...Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...Blob," as it has since been dubbed, was only the first in a series of MIT pranks, which added a comic sideshow to the traditional revelry of the Harvard Yale game...
...shame that Creepshow fails so miserably, even as crude entertainment, because the initial premise is a good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp comic book. The short vignette, already used to great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door...
...told you not to read this crap! Where did you get this shit?" an irate dad yells at his son cowering among toy monsters in the bedroom. The father snatches the latest issue of "Creepshow" from the boy's hands. The camera then focuses on the comic book as it lies in the front lawn garbage can, letting the wind-ruffled pages tell each story by segueing from animated stills to live film and back again. Other devices borrowed from comics are the occasional intrusion of storyboard frames, dialogue boxes, and in moments of horror, the heightening of unrealistic background...
...GOES WITHOUT saying that all of this is absurdly silly--most good horror is--but it is also completely manufactured. A decent horror movie or comic has to believe in the silly premise it is executing; it has to set up it's own peculiar sequence of cause and effect, even with the most rudimentary means ("So professor, tell us about this ancient curse, etc., etc.,") Creepshow doesn't even bother to do this...