Creepshow 3 | |
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Directed by | Ana Clavell James Dudelson |
Produced by | Ana Clavell James Dudelson Stanley E. Dudelson Robert F. Dudelson |
Written by | Ana Clavell (Alice) James Dudelson (The Professor's Wife) Scott Frazelle (Haunted Dog) Pablo C. Pappano (Call Girl) Alex Ugelow (The Radio) |
Starring | Roy Abramsohn Kris Allen Magi Avila A. J. Bowen Elwood Carlisle Ed Dyer Bunny Gibson Bo Kresic Camille Lacey Elina Madison Emmett McGuire Stephanie Pettee |
Music by | Chris Anderson |
Cinematography | James M. Legoy |
Edited by | Ana Clavell |
Production
company |
Taurus Entertainment Company
Creepy Film Productions |
Distributed by | Taurus Entertainment Company HBO Home Video |
Release date
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2006 |
Running time
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110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million (est) |
Creepshow 3 is a 2006 American horror film, and a sequel to Stephen King and George A. Romero's 1982 and 1987 horror anthology classics Creepshow and Creepshow 2. The film, like its predecessors, is a collection of tales of light-hearted horror: "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife" and "Haunted Dog", although there is no EC Comics angle this time around.
Unlike the first two Creepshow installments, in which the wraparound element linking the stories was a horror comic, Creepshow III takes an approach similar to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, in which characters from each story collide with each other during the film. There is also a hot dog stand as a common element in the movie. Brochures, ads and other things from the hot dog stand are peppered throughout.
Alice (Stephanie Pettee) is a stuck-up, snotty teenager who comes home to find her father meddling with some kind of universal remote. Whenever he presses one of the buttons on the device, the whole family except for Alice changes ethnicity (i.e., the "Color and Hue Settings" button makes her family turn African-American, and the "Subtitles" button makes her family turn Hispanic). During this, Alice gradually mutates into what is supposedly her "true form".
Just when Alice thinks everything is back to normal, her father presses another button, revealing Alice's true form. Her family is absolutely horrified at the sight of Alice. The story ends with Professor Dayton, the mad scientist from down the street, using another remote control to turn Alice into a white rabbit. Notable in this story is the link to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Victor, the vampire, makes an appearance in this story.