7.2 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Horror | 100% |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Fantasy | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Can it really be Creepshow if there's relatively little of The Creep? Creepshow: Season 2 offers another wild and woolly tour through various "tales of horror", with many providing depictions of comeuppance in what one character in one of the episodes refers to as "karma", much as with the first season. But the conceit that Creepshow: Season 1 utilized of having the Creep provide kind of snarky introductions as well as interstitial "bits" is all but missing in this second season, which seems like kind of an odd choice. He (it?) still is in the show, make no mistake about it, but it feels like he (it?) is a kind of repeated cameo instead of the quasi-host of the first season. Instead, many of the episodes begin with animated introductions which feature explanatory "panels" from the supposed comic book, which then morph into live action. Despite this apparent slight change in presentational aspects, the second season of Creepshow is arguably a bit more sharply written than the first, and it contains a number of fun episodes that typically feature the kind of, well, karmic twist that was frequently part and parcel of The Twilight Zone . That may be especially interesting in that Creepshow is at least somewhat more "monster of the week" centered, much more in the template fashioned by The Outer Limits rather than the iconic Rod Serling creation.
Creepshow: Season 2 is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of RLJ Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. As I mentioned in our Creepshow: Season 1 Blu-ray review, there isn't a ton of technical data available online about this series as usual suspect sites like the IMDb, but in the Night of the Living Late Show featurette (see below), it's mentioned in passing that the show (or at least that episode) utilizes Arri Alexas, and I'm assuming things were finished at a 2K DI. I found this second season to be generally more impressive looking than the first, with fine detail levels on both "real" items and even some of the animated interstitials to be really nicely precise looking. The palette, as mentioned above in the main body of the review, is really vividly suffused throughout virtually every episode, and gore elements like blood look spectacularly vibrant. There are black and white elements that crop up from time to time, all of which offer solid contrast, and the Night of the Living Late Show episode in particular offers a really interesting presentational approach that attempts to blend newly shot footage in with Horror Express, with a somewhat peach colored palette. The results I think are quite organic looking.
Creepshow: Season 2 features a nicely immersive DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that regularly engages the side and rear channels for both nicely designed effects as well as ambient environmental sounds and score. The glut of marauding creatures in several episodes provides nice moments of panning and discrete channelization for things like people getting vivisected and the like. Dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout. Optional English and Spanish subtitles are available.
Creepshow is just good, old fashioned fun, and there's almost a Biblical aspect to a variety of jerks getting what's coming to them, a plot device which is utilized repeatedly this season. The writing is typically excellent, and some of the "high concepts", like Night of the Living Late Show or Public Television of the Dead, are both wryly humorous and kind of snarkily intelligent. Speaking of snarky, Nicotero shares a little info about The Creep in his Zoom like interview, but I for one hope the character has more of a featured role in Season 3. Technical merits are solid, and the supplements very enjoyable (even if this season doesn't feature commentaries). Recommended.
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