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16 Section 3 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, November 11, 1982 Isntpo 'Creepshow': 1 plus 1 makes 5 bad horror stories Babies' is the funniest show I've ever seen!" Earl Wilson, Nw York Post "Mickey Rooney is hilarious! Ann Miller is stunning! I had a glorious time! Thank you." Walter Karr, New York Times NOW THRU DEC 12 Group Sales: (312) 791-6190 PHONE RESERVATIONS: (312) 791-6000 We Accept Visa, MasterCard a American Express TICKETS AT BOX OFFICE TICKETRON OUTLETS (Sears and Tribune Tower) Ticket Prices: $8 $22.50 ALL SALES FINAL! ARIE CROWN THEATRE McCormick Place On The Lake. Chicago, IL 60616 about cleanliness and works in a spotlessly clean Manhattan skyscraper office. During a power blackout, relatives of the cockroaches that Marshall has destroyed over the years return to his office and swarm all over him in scenes that will do for cockroaches what "Ben" and "Willard" did for rats. And we're talking about tots of cockroaches. Eeech! IF ANY Of these mini-dramas producer uses against a man he suspects of having an affair with his wife.

Now, if we saw the actual choking, this sadistic little stunt might nave been memorable, but no such luck thank goodness. The result is just a boring look at waves through a television monitor. "Creeping Up on E.G. Marshall earns his salary in this squirmy tale of a Howard Hughes-type wealthy recluse who is a nut sounds cute, don't be mislead. The presentational style of director Romero "Night of the Living Dead," "Dawn of the is all wrong.

The stories themselves do not have a '50s horror look; only the connecting passages done in cartoon style have flair. Director Romero may be one of those people who does better with a minuscule budget where improvisation creates real-life credibility. By Gene Siskel Movie critic TX REEPSHOW" JOINS two if masters of horror VV. filmmaker George Romero 2s? and novelist Stephen King aHd 'proves that two minds are not necessarily better than one. In fact, it is hard to believe that either man would have made such a bad film working without the other.

"Creepshow" is five thankfully short stories presented in the form of a child reading through a horror com)c book of the '50s, something nk0 "Tales From the Crypt" or "The Vault of Horror." What is absolutely staggering is just how awful each of these five stories are. Let's put it this way: The most enjoyable or, more precisely, the least objectionable is the saga of a millionaire businessman E.G. Marshall being overrun by f-v -rVV IS It A jj II "Creepshow" Tribune mini-review: Dull trash. Directed by Oorga A. Roman; original ecreenpley by Stephen King; photographed by Michael Gof eick; music by John Harrison; produced by Richard Pl Rubinstein; a Warnar Broa.

lateaee at tha Stats Uake and neighborhood thaatsra. Ratad R. THE CAST Hamy Northrup Hal Holbrook WUma Northrup Adrian na Barbaau dexter Stanlay Frlti Waavar Bichard Vickara Uelle Nlelaan fylvla Orantham Carrta Nya Upaon Pratt E.Q. Marshall iunt Badalla Vlvaca Llncrlora Jordy VarriH Staphan King i I (jockroaches. That ought to be fun to sjse in a downtown movie theater! BUT LET'S take each story apart in the order that it appears in the fjlm.

"Father's Day" A dead father's revenge against his family degenerates into the sight of a gross cprpse covered with yucky foliage walking across a living room floor. A cautionary tale that needlessly warns us it is not wise to a meteorite. That's correct, a meteorite. The title character, a foolish farmboy who eats the meteorite and turns green, is overplayed as a hick by author Stephen King. A stupid what's-in-the-box mystery, following a henpecked Jjusband's Hal Holbrook revenge against his loutish wife Adrienne Qarbeau.

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