Director: Various
First Aired: 2021
Contains spoilers
Ahead of the airing of Creepshow Season 4 on Shudder, Creepshow Series 1, 2 & 3 are available on Blu-ray, DVD & digital in the UK and I have been lucky enough to get the three seasons on Blu-ray to review.
This season consisted of 6 episodes with 2 segments per episode, just like Season 1 did but, like the second season, boasted two vampire (or vampiric segments) and both were worth watching.
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| the plant/corpse drinks blood |
The episode 1 segment Mums was a vampiric plant (or plant/corpse hybrid) and was a solid little episode that stood the test of a rewatch. The story centres on an abusive father (Ethan Embry), a murdered mom (Erin Beute, Vampire Diaries) and the revenge she, and their son (Brayden Benson), manage to exact on dad for her murder.
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| the krasue |
At the other end of the season we get some political commentary and a krasue in episode 6’s Drug Traffic. For me, a highlight of the season in its own right, it was great to see Michael Rooker in Creepshow and very exciting to have the krasue (the creature type is not mentioned by name and so remember the krasue is the Thai name for a vampire type that appears across South-East Asia under a variety of names). This had a nice twist on the lore at the end.
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| Michael Rooker as Beau |
Other highlight segments, for me, included the other segment in episode 6 entitled A Dead Girl Named Sue, which takes part in the Night of the Living Dead universe as the zombie outbreak has just begun and episode 4’s Meter Reader, which was a demonic apocalypse episode, with a great atmosphere and a story that did borrow a theme from the vampire short the Family of the Vourdalak. Just to note the other segment in that episode, Stranger Sings, featured a siren.
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| mum's flowers |
The Blu-ray set has a Comic Con panel and some behind the Scenes footage but feels a little light on extras compared to the other 2 sets – then again it is a strong set of episodes. As the review is for the Blu-Ray set I am holding this to 8 out of 10 overall, slightly behind the season 2 set. However, the widescreen transfer looks very good and it is the episodes that are the main course.
The imdb page is here.
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon US (contents may vary to UK edition)
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon UK
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