“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.
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