Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Shudder Day: Creepshow- 'Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue'

 Let's wrap up Season 3...in time to start Season 4.  

No rest for the wicked!

A Politician is running on the Platform of people getting affordable drugs, which includes getting them from Canada.

His big PR Event at the Border is derailed- in part- by the Agent (Michael Rooker) there.
A woman and her Daughter sure are acting strangely and get his attention.

While the Mother is away, something happens to the Daughter...
Without SPOILing it, a creature is now on the loose!

Who will survive?!?

In our next tale, we get a black-and-white adventure in a time of Zombies rising from you graves.

A small Town is dealing with a Mob that wants to kill a never-convicted, but always-guilty man.
The Sheriff is, of course, opposed.
Said man is found in a suspicious place with a dead, bitten victim near him.

He's taken in when something is found to agitate the Sheriff.
Will he face mob justice?
What does that entail?

Is the Title a SPOILER?

To find out, stream both Segments now.
Two really good Segments that at least sort of had a theme.  There's definitely less of a 'chosen at random' feel to these two being together.

'Traffic' does a good job of making Characters not into cliches and playing with conventions.  Rooker is great here.  His Character has more nuance than you might expect and feels 'lived in.'

The creature is a nice change of pace and one you don't see enough of.  There are good, logistical reasons, mind you.

'Sue' is a nice attempt at doing a Parallel Story to a Classic Film.  It does it without being cheap or feeling tacked on.  There's plenty of room for more adjacent stories that aren't just lazy (or in 3-D) Remakes.

The Plot is fairly simple, but it does the 'one bit of color in a B&W Film' trick to nice results.  It also tells a good Story in a condensed form which works.  This could work as a longer story, but is great here.

Both Segments are good.  Both of them are unique, without feeling randomly selected.  All in all a good Episode and it gets me a point on Low Budget Horror Movie Bingo.

Alright, now I'm ready for Season 4.  Show us what you have in store for us in October.

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