George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.

Tied together with some humdrum animated sequences, three vignettes on offer obviously were produced on the absolute cheap, and are deficient in imagination and scare quotient.

Just as you can't judge a '50s comic book by its lurid cover, so you can't judge a cheapo, three-part film by its sources.

One of the many repulsive things about "Creepshow 2" is the repetitive, simple-minded moralizing that blights all three paper-thin stories.