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“Creepshow:” Cinema finds gross new heights By Brett Bigham Of The Print “Creepshow,”' the newest Stephen King-George A. Romero horror undertak ing hit Portland screens last weekend. The old 1950’s EC Comics like “Tales From the Crypt” were the background for the new movie. The movie is broken into five different stories, each one starting as an illustrated page from a “Creepshow” comic and fading into the real film. Some of the most horrifying se quences you can imagine have been pack ed into this movie. Rotting corpses, being burried alive, drowning and huge cockroaches are only some of the nightmares instilled in this two hour film. Although the film is predictable and almost as simple as reading a comic book, it is still a good, scary movie. Fritz Weaver, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook and E. G. Marshall headline the list of stars that are involved in the feature. Barbeau and Holbrook probably give the best performances as a Walter Mitty type husband-wife relationship with Holbrook spending his time graphically im agining his wife’s death. Carrie Nye also carries her role well and the final look she gives the camera is probably one of the most well done looks of terror ever put on film. Stephen King even makes his acting debut in this film. He plays an overacted Photos courtesy of Warner Bros., Inc. but good “Gomer Pyle” type Oakie named Jordy Verrill. The film quality in the opening scene makes it look like a definite B movie but this is only a short sequence and following that scene it goes uphill. The special effects of the film are ab solutely A-l and the ending story with the cockroaches is probably the grossest thing ever put on screen. “Creepshow” is a collaboration of two of the world’s biggest horror makers. King’s books like “Carrie,” “The Stand,” “Salem’s Lot” and “The Shining” have all been top sellers and all of these have been or are in the process of being made into movies. Romero is most well known for his horror classics, “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead.” The show is well done and flows within itself and it keeps up a front of class in at least 80 percent of the show. Unfor tunately the other twenty percent could easily turn a weak stomach. The cockroaches are by far the worst things in the movie, but other scenes do have large amounts of violence. This show is a definite must for horror movie addicts, but it’s not a family movie. The show has no sex but language, violence and the general theme of the movie is enough to give it an R rating. It is currently playing at The Broadway, Valley, Village, Clackamas Cinema and the Foster Drive In. Blue Pacific A new kind of record store Comment by F. T. Morris For The Print With record prices skyrocketing, people are becoming wary of buying new albums. Who wants to spend eight or nine bucks of their hard -earned money on something that could turn out to be a dud? Well, don’t despair, there is hope! The answer to the crisis is Blue Pacific Records, located at 108 Molalla Avenue in Oregon City (in the little block of shops next the Eastham School playground). Blue Pacific is a new-and- used record store specializing in good condition and low prices. That sounds a bit like a paid advertisement I realize, but nothing could be further from the truth; I simply love this store and feel compelled to give it my heartiest recom mendation. One can walk into Blue Pacific with little money and come out with more than one album and change in the pocket. My first trip there when the store opened in July proved very fruit ful. I bought used copies of the Stones’ “Tattoo You,” Art Garfunkel’s “Scissors Cut,” The Waitresses’ “Wasn’t Tomor row Wonderful?” and two James Taylor albums. My bill: about ten dollars (which is around two bucks per record— you don’t need math to tell you that that’s a darn good deal). Each album was in remarkably good condition and none skipped or stuck. From that mo ment on, I was a full-fledged Blue Pacific junkie. In researching this review, I stop ped by to check-out record prices. A quick persual of the stock-on-hand of fered some surprising bargains. Pete Townsend’s “All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes” was selling, still in Wednesday, November 17, 1982 the plastic seal, for only $4.99, as were Robert Plant’s “Pictures at Eleven” and Pink Floyd’s greatest hits LP “A Collec tion of Great Dance Tunes.” Pat Benatar’s “Precious Time” (still sealed) was $3.99 and an orginal John Lennon “Imagine” (on the Apple label; not on the reissued Columbia label) was only $5.00. Y qu can’t find those prices anywhere else, to my knowledge. At the recent Everybody’s “Everything’s-On-Sale Sale,” the newer, more popular albums were still over five dollars. The owner of Blue Pacific, Tim Monroe, believes in selling high quality music at low prices, and that philosophy makes sense (for obvious monetary reasons). Monroe is quite knowledgeable when it comes to music and is always ready for a friendly, in teresting conversation. He will play any album in the store for you—provided it isn’t sealed—and offers a money-back guarantee on all records except those in the one dollar bin (and there are quite a few good choices within). Monroe will also order any new record for you and keep an eye out for those older, harder- to-find LPs. I really urge you to visit this store. Music is always playing and there are more records than you can count. One wall is devoted to rock, which is Monroe’s biggest seller, but you can also find jazz, classical, comedy, coun- try/western and soundtracks (imports and rarities, too) . Though you shouldn’t wait until Christmas Eve,: Blue Pacific is having a party all during that day. Drop in for drinks (alcoholic and non-) and browsing—or just pop in and say hello. A trip to Oregon City’s greatest musical outlet is a treat you need to give yourself. A music buff will really believe that Heaven has come down to Earth. P.E. SKIING REGISTER NOW! ♦♦♦ Ski For Fun and P.E. Credit Winter Term ♦♦♦ Downhill Lessons ❖ Cross-Country Lessons - Including Telemark Turns and Downhill Technique ♦♦♦ All Ability Levels - Beginner to Expert ♦♦♦ Discounted Lessons, Lifts and Rentals ♦♦♦ Transportation Available INFORMATION SHEETS AVAILABLE AT P.E. OFFICE Come Ski With Us! Snow Phone - 224-9221 ___________ -____________ / Page 9
