The acting here is surprisingly convincing and the tone is more poignant than eerie.

He starts acting abusive and wants Joe to be like a 'normal' child and get rid of his toys and costumes. Instantly, Kevin begins imposing his will onto Joe and his own wife. Not surprisingly, this does not please surly uncle, Kevin, ( Entourage's Kevin Dillon), who moves in with Joe's aunt once it is revealed that his mother is suffering from a terminal illness.

Where exactly he gets the dollars to create and maintain such a collection isn't quite explained, but that is not the point. Here, we are introduced to a young blonde boy named - surprise, surprise - Joe (Brock Duncan) who has an obsession with creating and painting horror film action figures, like the Creature form the Black Lagoon-type amphibian monster or a Mummy, and dressing up like a classic Bela Legosi-type vampire around the house - Fade to Black style. He's featured in the story at the beginning and the end that bookends the movie.This segues into basically a Greg Nicotero-directed homage to the wraparound story from the original Creepshow film (the child in which was played by Stephen King's son, Joe King, better known now publicly as Joe Hill). Even more interesting, however, is that King's son Joe-who would later become known as Joe Hill-is also in the original Creepshow.

In it, he plays a dimwitted hillbilly who touches a meteorite that lands on his property and becomes covered in alien plant growth until he blows his head off with a shotgun. Interestingly, King even acts in one installment, 'The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill', which was adapted from his short story, 'Weeds'. Creepshow was King's chance to have fun on screen, and he did.ĭirected by genre icon George Romero, the original Creepshow consisted of several stories, two of them adapted from King's writing and the others he wrote exclusively for the movie. Although two movies had been adapted from King's work before Creepshow was made-Brian DePalma's Carrie and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining-King had no part in the making of either movie. Creepshow was Stephen King's screenwriting debut and, in many ways, the beginning of his legacy on screen-his son, horror author Joe Hill, can continue this legacy.

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