Creepshow

Prologue[edit] Billy Hopkins, a young boy, gets disciplined by his abusive father, Stan, for reading Creepshow, a horror comic. Not wanting his son to be exposed to the comic's content, Stan throws it in the garbage while ranting on stories like people coming back from the dead and people turning into plants. As Billy sits upstairs, wishing that his father rots in Hell, he hears a sound at the window. The source of the noise turns out to be the Creep, the host of the comic book, who beckons him to come closer. The scene transitions to animation as the Creep removes the trash can's lids. Then the first story is shown. "Father's Day"[edit] Sylvia Grantham meets her nephew Richard and niece Cass, along with Cass's new husband Hank Blaine, at the Grantham estate for the family's annual dinner on the third Sunday in June. They proceed to tell Hank about the family matriarch Great Aunt Bedelia and of how it is an open secret in the family that she murdered her father: the miserly and domineering Nathan Grantham who had accumulated the family's fortune through bootlegging, fraud, extortion, and murder-for-hire. Many years earlier, Bedelia was rendered an unstable spinster, the result of a lifetime spent putting up with her father's incessant demands and emotional abuse, which got even worse after he suffered a stroke and she was made to nurse him full-time. The torture culminated with Nathan orchestrating a fatal "hunting accident" which took the life of his daughter's fiancé, Peter Yarbro, in order to keep her under his thumb. That Father's Day, Nathan starts making petulant demands for his Father's Day Cake while insulting Bedelia. Driven into a murderous rage, Bedelia bashes her overbearing father's head in with a marble ashtray (which is hidden throughout the other stories). In the present day, Bedelia arrives at Grantham Manor that evening. She stops by the family cemetery just outside the mansion to lay a flower at her father's grave. She drunkenly reminisces about the murder and reveals that Sylvia staged the killing as an accident in order to steal and distribute Nathan's fortune among the rest of the family. She accidentally spills her whiskey bottle in front of the headstone. Just then, Nathan emerges from the burial plot as a putrefied maggot-infested zombie, still demanding the Father's Day cake he never got. He avenges himself on Bedelia, strangling her. He proceeds to systematically wipe out the rest of his family: telekinetically crushing Hank to death with a gravestone, then twisting Sylvia's neck; he also kills the Granthams' cook, Mrs. Danvers, possibly to cover his tracks. As a gruesome final joke, Nathan surprises Cass and Richard by presenting them with his Father's Day cake: Sylvia's severed head, covered with frosting and lit candles. Interlude #1[edit] An advertisement of Bolt: the family newspaper that nobody knows about, where selling them can get you prizes like bows and arrows, pistols and rifles, surveillance equipment, cannons and tanks, and nuclear warheads. Then there are some Creepy Correspondences in which fans have their questions answered by the Creep. Returning to animation, the Creep turns the comic's page to the next story. "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"[edit] .mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}See also: Weeds Jordy Verrill, a comedic and dim-witted yokel who runs a gas station, watches as a meteorite crash lands on his farm. Observing the crash site, Jordy gets his fingers burned when he tries to touch the meteorite. In a fantasy sequence, Jordy imagines selling the meteorite to the local college's "Department of Meteors", hoping that the sale will provide enough money to pay off a $200 bank loan. Taking precautions, he douses the meteorite with a bucket of water, causing it to crack open and spill a glowing blue liquid. In another fantasy sequence, Jordy reimagines the "Department of Meteors" refusing to purchase the now broken meteorite. Resolving to try to glue the halves together in the morning, Jordy nonchalantly dumps the liquid from the meteor into the soil, but not before it makes contact with his skin. As time passes, Jordy finds his fingers being overcome by what appears to be grass. He attempts to call a doctor, but he reconsiders doing so when he imagines (in another fantasy sequence) that the doctor will chop the afflicted fingers off without anesthetic. Over time, the strange substance continues to grow all over Jordy's farm, everything Jordy has touched, and even on Jordy's body, which causes him to itch furiously. Jordy panics as he discovers the increasing growth, and tries to calm himself by pouring himself a bottle of vodka and mixing it with orange juice. Soon after, Jordy falls asleep in a dru…