{"id":783,"date":"2014-01-07T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=783"},"modified":"2014-01-07T01:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T01:44:42","slug":"creepshow-code-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Creepshow \/ Code Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Creepshow<\/strong><\/span> (1982)<\/p>\n<p>My sister got this for me for Christmas.\u00a0 She&#8217;s actually got pretty good taste in films, but in reality it was fished out of my Amazon wishlist when I pointed out it was still on there.<\/p>\n<p>Creepshow is a small collection of horror shorts written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero, which should immediately suggest that it&#8217;s worth watching.\u00a0 There are 5 stories here, linked by the pages of a horror comic angrily thrown in the trash by a boys father.\u00a0 All are presented in a comic book style and don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously &#8211; the balance is just right.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few of these collections floating around in the 70s and 80s, for example <em>Tales From The Crypt<\/em> and <em>Cat&#8217;s Eye<\/em>, but for my money this is actually the best of the lot.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to say too much about the stories because honestly I don&#8217;t want to spoil it for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Code Red<\/span> <\/strong>(2013)<\/p>\n<p>Another month, another zombie film.\u00a0 This time it&#8217;s a gas bioweapon left over from World War II, which ends up infecting a city in Bulgaria which houses an old weapon stockpile..\u00a0 Obviously an American special forces agent is sent to investigate, world police and all that.<\/p>\n<p>Actually despite that pretty dismissive description, this one is decent and perfectly watchable.\u00a0 The plot isn&#8217;t too bad, the effects are good, the setting makes an interesting change and it doesn&#8217;t hang around long enough to outstay its welcome.\u00a0 If you really haven&#8217;t had your fill of zombies yet, you can do worse.<\/p>\n<p>The real shame about the movie is that it starts off showing the events of World War II, and that section of the film is a lot more promising, honestly one of the early scenes where you see a whole group of previously dead soldiers stumbling to life in the rubble is the best scene of the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creepshow (1982) My sister got this for me for Christmas.\u00a0 She&#8217;s actually got pretty good taste in films, but in reality it was fished out of my Amazon wishlist when I pointed out it was still on there. Creepshow is a small collection of horror shorts written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}