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Creepshow (2019)
Good, just not "very good".
For those of you who were fans of the original film, and even it's inferior (but still awesome) 1987 sequel, you know the bar was set pretty high, and meeting that bar is probably not a reasonable expectation for show from the budding horror streaming service. Well, those fears would be mostly correct.
While this is a dramatic improvement over the unspeakably bad "Creepshow 3", that really isn't saying much. The production values here are automatically much better, although to call some of the bumper "animation" sequences bad would be an understatement. Why not just leave them out if they're that bad? You know the ones I'm talking about...I'm not talking about all of them. Some of the shockingly poor quality on those animations actually manage to conjure memories of the dreaded C3.
WIth that out of the way, the general quality of the episodes are pretty decent. They're about on par with the "Creepshow: Raw" episode that was circulating Youtube some years ago, and almost seems like it was a pilot for this series. None of them would rise to the level of even the worst Creepshow segment from the first two films, but all would obviously be better than anything from the C3. It seems like there are elements of understanding what made the first two films so good, but missing elements as well. They're a little uneven, but generally entertaining, with a few minor gems in there.
Worth watching for sure, but temper expectations.