Director: Various
First aired: 2023
Contains spoilers
The fourth season of Creepshow hits UK Blu-ray and it is a season that has one definite vampire episode and one certainly vampiric episode and I will bring you separate reviews of those episodes in future postings. This, however, is a look at the season Blu-ray in terms of both the set and the season content in total.
The season has six episodes, two segments per episode. The vampiric segment is Grieving Process and is paired with The Hat in episode two. In truth it is a fair episode but The Hat is more inventive. The vampire episode is called Meet the Belaskos and is a better segment, though it is not anything new for the genre, and is superior to it’s episode mate Cheat Code (the pair making up episode 4), which left me a tad cold despite its interesting premise.
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| Ruth Codd |
One really interesting segment was George Romero in 3D as it was a nice tribute to the great director and I thought the segment Twenty Minutes with Cassandra was really interesting and featured Ruth Codd who has been working in a couple of Mike Flanagan series and impresses (in fact, in this, she plays opposite Samantha Sloyan (Midnight Mass) who also works often with Flanagan and the segment was written by Jamie Flanagan). However, whilst still really worthwhile and better than many TV releases, the season struck me as less impressive than previous seasons. Unfortunately, this was mirrored with the Blu-ray.
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| from Meet the Belaskos |
Of course, the transfer was excellent and I would certainly recommend it to fans. As I said on the Season 3 review, “it is the episodes that are the main course” but each season's physical release seems to have become poorer and poorer in terms of extras. In the case of Season 4, well there aren’t any extras… at all… It isn’t to say you should avoid this, but the distributors could have added some level of extras to this. I do hope, episode content-wise that, if we get a season 5, this proves to be a breath and we will build the next season back up to the inventiveness and engagement of previous seasons. Nevertheless 6.5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon US
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon UK
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