“Creepshow” is not scary and you can argue that it isn’t intended to be because it’s more of a horror comedy but it isn’t funny either. This is an anthology film and while I generally divide my reviews of these films for the different segments, I don’t feel I need to here as they all have the same director (George A. Romero “Night of the Living Dead”, “Monkey Shines”) and the same writer (Stephen King) and more importantly, they are all pretty much of the same quality.

“Creepshow” begins with a young boy that gets caught reading a horror comic by his father, the comic is tossed in the bin but a strange creature appears outside the window of the boy and what follows is five separate stories. One involves being buried up to your head on a beach as the tide is coming in and another involves cockroaches in an apartment but none of them deliver the goods.

There are plenty of famous faces in this film including Ed Harris (“The Abyss”), Stephen King, Leslie Nielsen (“Airplane!”), Ted Danson (“Saving Private Ryan”), E.G. Marshall (“Superman II”), Adrienne Barbeau (“The Cannonball Run”) and nobody gives a good performance in this terrible film. Nearly every character comes across as obnoxious. Some of the shorts contain creatures or the undead and they look acceptable but nothing special.

I liked the comic book style of the movie and I was reminded somewhat of “The Warriors” but the stories themselves are not very interesting and I do not know what was supposed to be funny in this film. So many of the scenes are just unpleasant and awkward rather than anything else and it’s a real shame. Stephen King’s novels have inspired films such as entertaining films such as “The Shining” but in this pairing with Romero, it’s all a mess. I really didn’t enjoy “Creepshow” and I’m not sure who would.