Rank The Creepshow Segments

The Crate
The Raft
They're Creeping Up On You
Something To Tide You Over
Father's Day
Old Chief Woodenhead
The Hitchhiker
The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill


Likewise, the middle four of my list can exchange places within my mood but the top two and bottom two are always the same.

I have only seen Creepshow 2 so far (my friend decided to show me that one instead of the first for some reason, definetly planning on watching the first) and my ranking of those would be:

The Hitchhiker
Old Chief Woodenhead
The Raft


The Raft was definitely the weakest of the three imo. There was nothing really unique or interesting about it, aside from the design of the creature. I enjoyed the other two quite a bit though. Old Chief Woodenhead had the best storyline of the three, but The Hitchhiker is my top pick because of how hillarious it is.

This is a interesting topic. Oh well. From what I remember, I’ll go:

The Crate
The Raft
Something to Tide You Over
The Hitchhiker
Old Chief Woodenhead
They’re Creeping Up on You
The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verill
Father’s Day

Yeah I agree. It seems to be an initial turnoff for first-time viewers by having those two first segments. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think they're that bad, but they could've made them better to really get people sucked into the film.

For me, numerous elements elevate the original far and above the sequel.

I would say that in THE CRATE, THEY'RE CREEPING UP ON YOU and SOMETHING TO TIDE YOU OVER, the first movie has three stories that only one story from the sequel (THE RAFT) manages to rival.

I thought OLD CHIEF WOODENHEAD was adequate but got very little from THE HITCHHIKER and felt it became tedious (even for a short) long before it reached it's predictable conclusion. I suppose predictability is something we could apply to most of the stories over both movies but somehow THE HITCHHIKER seems telegraphed right from the word go.

I also think the wraparound story from the original is stronger in that it only surfaces at the beginning and the end of the film. Somehow, for me cutting back to the kid and the bullies in the sequel breaks the mood continuity of the stories which just reel freely from one to the next in Romero's film.

Given the material and subject matter, both films were always going to be light on story but the collection of wonderful talent amid the cast of the first movie effortlessly carry the film despite this, in a way the sequel can't match. Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, EG Marshall and Fritz Weaver are a fantastic line up of cult and seasoned performers not easily matched by any production..........never mind it's poorer sibling follow-up.

Then there's the wonderful animation by Bernie Wrightson in the original. The drop in quality in this area with CREEPSHOW 2 was quite jarring and actually makes me cringe. Had we not had the original movie, it might have scraped by as passable but in comparison, CREEPSHOW 2's animation looks cheap and terribly shoddy. Sadly they weren't shrewd enough to use it sparingly and we got a lot more of it than I felt was good for the movie.
I also thought having the Creep talking to us and appearing was a mistake that rather than embedding the comic book world the film tried to create, took me out of it. As fond as I am of Tom Savini, watching him prance around in a naff costume with crappy dialogue pales hugely alongside the wind flicking the gorgeous pages of the original comic book...........keeping us firmly locked within it's front and back covers and never breaking the mood.

Lastly and perhaps most glaringly, I find the music of the original movie one of it's biggest assets which towers over anything in the sequel. In turn, wonderfully gothic and eerily modern with it's tinkling piano keys and searing Prophet V synth cues, composer John Harrison here - for me - created one of the Horror genres most underrated and ingenious scores. With the movie being an anthology, Harrison actually gives us five mini-soundtacks which give each story it's own identity, cemented by a fabulous theme tune at the start and finish. I genuinely feel Harrison's score here is in the same calibre as Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, Goldsmith's THE OMEN or any of the genres iconic soundtacks - I truly rate it that highly.

With all this considered, I think CREEPSHOW 2 was on a hiding to nothing from the outset.

1.The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill
2.Old Chief Woodenhead
3.They're Creeping Up On You
4.The Raft
5.The Hitchhiker
6.Something To Tide You Over
7.The Crate
8.Father's Day
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9.Everything from Creepshow 3.

The Crate
Something To Tide You Over
The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill
Father's Day
Old Chief Woodenhead
The Raft
The Hitchhiker
They're Creeping Up On You

I've always liked the Jordy Verrill segment and never understood why so many do not. 

A horrific affliction; imagine the unsoothable itching! 😖
And the ending hints at an world ending fungi apocalypse as we see the spores and moldy moss expanding ever further out.

King is a horrible actor, but since Jordy was a goofy sumbitch anyway, it worked. He enjoyed the simple pleasures of life. Wrestling, hootch mixed with o.j. , a hot bath, and a big old farmhouse out in the country.

They should of left the bits with him seeing and talking to his dead dad on the cutting room floor, other than that it's quite enjoyable.