Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

"Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow" is one informative and well done doc that showed behind the scenes footage never seen about how the film was made from the set locations, to monster makeup and behind the stage magic and tricks! Interviews are given with late great director George A. Romero, and memories are provided from Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, and Bingo O' Malley. George tells how E.C. comics influenced him and King to make the film, and each segment is broken down and looked at shown are outtakes and clips that are vintage. Plus the release of the film and how the studio had a hand making it a success with heavyweight actors is told. Tom Savini breaks down and gives thoughts on his monster and creature creations of the film. Overall a nice little gem to watch about the best horror anthology ever as being a "Creep" fan and film buff this is a must see!

This is a superb example of a making of documentary that takes time to touch upon every vignette in the film. Now, not everyone is interviewed (as the cast is just huge for the anthology) but the sampling is huge and a lot of group is covered especially choice decisions on the styles and look of the finished film. It's also quite entertaining and funny with a lot of the stories that happened during production (some even I had not heard of). I do think fans of the film will enjoy this film more so than general audiences who may have never seen the actual but that's actually a good thing here as it does a lot of great fan service.

Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow (2007)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

This 90-minute documentary takes a look at the making of George A. Romero's CREEPSHOW, the 1982 anthology film. Romero, Tom Savini, Richard P. Rubinstein, Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris and various other crew members are all interviewed about the ups and downs of making the picture. Romero starts off talking how Warner first saw MARTIN and asked him to meet Stephen King because they were interested in him doing SALEM'S LOT. Romero talks about how everything led to this movie and then we hear about the casting of the picture and then we get a story-to-story breakdown of the shooting of each film. There are some great stories told about the making of the picture and we also get some very good behind-the-scenes material as well as some outtakes. Most of this comes from 'Something to Tide You Over' and the King acted episode. Fans of the film are certainly going to enjoy all of these stories as you really get a great idea of what it was like filming it. We get stories from each film and there's also an entire sequence where Savini talks about his work on the picture. There's also some terrific stories about all the cockroaches that they brought in and how it all turned to a real nightmare. The documentary covers the making of the film as well as the release of it. The only negative thing is that they don't talk about the extra episode that was cut from the picture. Still, fans will certainly enjoy this thing.

This was a documentary that I heard about a while ago. I believe it was on the Blu-ray of Creepshow and those that watched it said it was well done. I decided to give this a go while at work in the office as I love source and learning a bit more about it was something that intrigued me.

So, I will echo what I've heard. This is well done. It was made back in 2007, which was crazy since I would have been in college at the time. This explores the beginnings of how Creepshow came to be, interviewing people behind the scenes and the talent that they got on screen. We get interviews with the likes of Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, John Harrison and the G. O. A. T himself, George A. Romero, R. I. P. Hearing the different things that they had to go through to get this made and doing it on a lower budget is amazing. It doesn't feel that way.

In true fashion of the movie itself, this documentary is told in sections. The first part is about, like I said, how they put this together and its inception. Then I believe from there they go into the talent they assembled, then to the locations and how they were selected. Tom Savini gets almost a section to himself as he goes over the effects and how they were done. This is a great documentary that is put together well and edited in footage from the movie. It is fun to see what the final product looked like and then see behind the scenes of setting it up.

I highly recommend this to fans of the original movie. There is so much information here that you get much more appreciation here. I'd even recommend seeing this to the non-diehard fans as well, especially if you are into the filmmaking process.

My Rating: 8 out of 10.