I Finally picked up Anchor Bay's Divamax Edition of Creep Show 2 the other day. It's one of my favorite guilty pleasure flicks from the 80s. Featuring a collection of three tales of the macabre, Creep Show 2 was written by George Romero working from both published and unpublished Stephen King stories.
The first tale, "Old Chief Wood'nhead," stars George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour and a guy who had a marginal role in Fight Club. This tale of revenge is slow paced but has an excellent pay off. And like all three of the tales it has phenomenal make up effects.
The second tale (and my personal favorite), "The Raft," is about a group of teens who run into some strange occurrences while having one last fling at the local lake before the swimming season ends. It features great generic 80s rock music, drug use, nudity and some great gore (all things that almost appealed more to yours truly when he was 13 then they do today).
The final tale, "The Hitchhiker," features Lois Chiles and Tom Wright. It's the most comedic of the three and mostly one note after it gets going. But it does have a high gore level and the climax is pretty exciting.
Watching Creep Show 2 again made me wonder about a couple of things. Why are there no horror anthologies being produced today? And what ever happened to the actress who played Laverne in "The Raft?" Most of her co-stars from Creep Show 2 had either established themselves or were on their way to having marginal careers in Hollywood when that movie was produced. Yet Jeremy Green has only one other movie to her credit (and like Creep Show 2 it was released in 1987): Hotshot which featured the Hulk Hogan of soccer.
Did she have such bad experiences on these two movies that she decided to give up acting? Maybe she felt that she had done it all in those two films and wanted to go out on top? Or perhaps she found something else that she liked doing better? What ever the reason, the movie going public was robbed of a major talent. The answer isn't on the internet, and since I give up on things fairly easy it is going to have remain one of the many unsolved mysteries that is sure to haunt me for the rest of my days.
Thanks for the memories, Jeremy, where ever you are.
2 comments:
I feel the same way about Kristie Ducati. She was a stellar performer in Bikini Car Wash Company and the not quite as good sequel Bikini Car Wash Company 2. I don't think she had any other movies to her credit. We were robbed.
jeremy green - was that the dark-haired one? Very lovely
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