The Reel Rejects - CREEPSHOW (1982) MOVIE REVIEW - COCKROACH SCENE TRULY MESSED US UP! -FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:00:26 Look at that. Roxy's almost dead. We just got done watching Creep Show from the 80s. If you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, please give us a five-star rating. If you're on the YouTube, like, comment, subscribe when you do. Ring the bell. Ring the bell.

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Starting point is 00:01:03 You can send us questions. Anything we're watching, get a full week in advance the schedule. And you also get 15% off our Regination Shop.com gear. Okay. You guys, we have a couple of questions about this movie. I really don't like cockroaches. I hate them. I'm going to go to Roxy first.

Starting point is 00:01:24 How are you feeling? Would you like to just like tell us about. Be as specific as possible, Roxy. Tell us about this. movie and how you feel. Let me pull up all the four, the five stories. One time, real rejects.

Starting point is 00:01:40 When we were in the other building, there was a cockroach. Really? And I was really scared. And then I sent Tara to go get it. And then Greg tried to. And then Tara had to go kill it. I did.

Starting point is 00:01:58 That's on our social media. And everybody knew from that day, on my fear for cockroaches and I just like really don't like it and before that one time when I had my ex-boyfriend and we were going to sleep at night and I was laying on his chest. This is my apartment and I opened my eyes and there was a cockroach walking on his chest towards my face. It's actually like I have like very few real fears in life.

Starting point is 00:02:30 And this is really. I was disgusting. And I, like, jumped up and he jumped up. The cockroach flew across the room. I made a stay up until 4.30 in the morning until we found it and killed it. I hate cockroach. Oh, my God. So this was, like, actually a very hard experience for me.

Starting point is 00:02:48 I thought this movie was okay. I like that final note of that'll teach you to throw away my comic books. But I actually think that, like, that, like, remember, I thought the movie was done. I think that was me, like, trying to protect myself because I knew it was coming. I was like really fucked up. I don't feel good after that. Yeah. And I don't know if I'm going to sleep well.

Starting point is 00:03:06 And like I'm not usually really fucked up by the horror movies. And I don't even know that this was a horror movie. I don't feel good at all. She's not well. She's unwell. I do not feel good. Andrew. Tara.

Starting point is 00:03:19 Out of Father's Day. The Lonesome Death of Jordie Varel, which is the farmer one. Stephen King. Something to tide you over is the man buries his wife and the lover in the sea. The crate is the crate one with the little Yeti thing. and then the last one, the old, they're creeping up on you, the cockroaches. Which one did you like the most?

Starting point is 00:03:38 I think I'm with you guys, something to tide you over. I've never seen Leslie Nielsen just not, because I'm used to him having that deadpan humor, like in the naked gun film, scary movie three and four and all that. So it was fascinating to have him

Starting point is 00:03:51 have that sadistic type of presence in the storyline as well. And I just felt like I still liked all the other storylines, albeit the other than, seeing the cockroaches, which was very visceral and disturbing in its own right. But watching him like be, you know, I actually was very scared and I thought he was menacing and he was really a threat, you know, just having that threat type of level of sadistic revenge,

Starting point is 00:04:17 you know, of having his wife cheating on him going after the man. I've just never seen Leslie Nielsen go to that place and just showed me just how, because I haven't watched many of his other movies, I'd make again the scary, scary movie film. So it just showed me how versatile. he can be but that storyline I was just really locked in on and it there wasn't a lot of humor in that one it was just really um straight forward yeah it was really straightforward and serious but that one really got intense for me as well and uh just seeing again the comeuppance for uh all these horrible

Starting point is 00:04:50 human beings i appreciated that but especially that one um but i would say that one is the one I was most invested and then just piggy which one did you like the least they're creeping up Yeah, just because of the cockroaches, I would say that one I liked the least, but I was really into all of them, honestly. And that guy was up to that point, I thought Wilma, Billy was the worst person out of all the individuals that we had met. Granted, I know she did not actually kill anyone. She was just the most annoying individual and she was just repulsive. But yeah, that last guy played by E.G. Marshall, he did an incredible job performance-wise, but the cockroach is. I totally no which one's your favorite one then rocks to get you out of the old

Starting point is 00:05:36 something to tie you over that was really really good I really like something to tide you over yeah I did I really liked that one and then I my second favorite one was the lonesome death of geordie verro I think with all the green stuff was good it was your favorite something to tide you over I love something to tide you over but I really did actually end up liking the crate a lot I liked how they utilized the practical effects of the of the Yeti where it's so big that they could only use the head and the body and the arms. Otherwise, it would probably just look too fake and we wouldn't have been able to fit it in the space that we wanted. And I liked how they cheated in the frame of him originally killing the guy and eating him up into the crate while the blood sinks onto his body.

Starting point is 00:06:23 I just thought they found really inventive ways. Obviously, we're in the 80s. It's this old school. even now today in 2026. I would prefer that way of filmmaking where we see a practical person being pulled into an empty crate. Someone is out there squishing blood on him. So it looks more believable than CGI.

Starting point is 00:06:42 So I really liked how they did that. And they did practical effects basically with everything. I mean, it was real roaches. I don't even want to talk. That's the worst part because... Terrible. And the size of some of them. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:06:57 And the only ones that might have been fake were some of them that were glued to his shirt. The rest of them, everything was so real. And I know for, I know for fact. I guess I don't know for fact, but I do not like that one at all. I actually don't like, you want to know also the other problem with it is like there wasn't a story to hold onto. We just know he was dick. The whole story was this man got cockroaches. Like it was like the crate where like the lore of the orangutan.

Starting point is 00:07:26 Like it was. Right. There were so many. And then when they came out, I can't know. Actually, I don't want to finish my sentence. It's gross. Well, I just like the, the theme of,

Starting point is 00:07:36 also we had a couple other storylines of just greed and not caring about other people, not being compassion. And then that would be your comeuppance is now the thing that he hated and feared the most. He's a roach. He is, yeah, basically. So I appreciated that they were really exploring that, that type of theme in that storyline.

Starting point is 00:07:52 I'm holding up the chair as terror. I know. Roxy reminds me of the, well, the one that I remember. remember I couldn't talk was last of us when you know he died. I couldn't say anything but there's another horror movie where I was like her where I was like catatonic where I was like I don't know I don't know

Starting point is 00:08:07 my thoughts are I'm disgusted. Oh the body horror one that we had to watch did I watch? Who did I watch that with? Oh God, some body horror was disgusting and I was like I don't even know what to say right now. Let's go to the two questions that we have

Starting point is 00:08:25 guys. Jaden Rhodes, thanks for chiming in. I love movies like this. I think if it's done right, you got a creative movie, something like the VHS movies have done so well. But which story was y'all's favorite? My personal favorite was there creeping up on you? What's wrong with you, Jane? And Jane, what's wrong with you? You think it's gross and nasty and I can't help but really enjoy you and he enjoys it. He enjoys it. I'm glad you love that one. I did not enjoy watching. Did you guys think it was good, but you didn't enjoy it? Or do you think it wasn't good and you didn't enjoy it? I didn't.

Starting point is 00:08:54 Here's it's so gross that, and I felt this exact same way about a movie I watched last week. I'll think of the name, but so it's, other people really like the movie. I couldn't enjoy it because it grossed me out so much. I thought I was going to freaking throw up. Yeah. Like I said earlier,

Starting point is 00:09:11 I just like the themes that I was exploring. I don't know if story-wise I was invested in it like I was the other ones. Yeah. And I hated that guy so much that I was just, I was happy to see him get his comeuppance, but not in the way it did. It was just so disgusting. I wish we didn't end on it.

Starting point is 00:09:27 I'm glad that we did because then I didn't have to concentrate again, but like that, like, I had a harder time with that than I did the human centipede. Because like, I haven't watched that one. I haven't seen that harder. Like, like, the particular fear. Like, think about like, oh, I can't, no, I actually,

Starting point is 00:09:43 I'm not going to keep talking about it. I think you're crazy, Jay. I think you're crazy. If that's your fear, if you watch creep show, which was undoubtedly an amazing movie, And your favorite of them is they're creeping up on you. I actually think that you are sick and twinned disturbed. Disturbed and you're either fucking with us or you're disturbed individual and you should seek cockroach attention. Like, look at her.

Starting point is 00:10:06 We got might have to 51-50. Alan Smithy's chiming in here. He says, hi to the three of us. And he says, what way, what was your favorite performance of the film aside for Med Harris, who's clearly the best? Stephen King also gives a banger performance. Leslie Nielsen. I was going to say that. I really did like Stephen King.

Starting point is 00:10:25 I thought he was very endearing, but for me, it's got to be Leslie Nielsen just because, again, I'm not used to him giving the type of performance. I'm used to what I said earlier about seeing him in Naked Gun and the scary movie type of films, which I love when he does that kind of humor. I just did not expect this. I mean, the way we were dealing with having some humor in this, and I figured I'm going to get that type of performance. So to see him be so terrifying and so menacing and scary, it's just, it's just, it took me. me to a place where I wasn't expecting with him so he was phenomenal. You know who else was amazing?

Starting point is 00:10:57 The girl who played Billy. Oh, Adrian Barbeau? Yeah, that was her. Yeah, no, because you, in, what, within 20 seconds, you can't stand her, so she did a great job. Who are you looking for right now, Tara? I'm looking for the very first lady. What was the short?

Starting point is 00:11:13 I forget. In the very first short, which was called, I was hoping I just find her. I don't remember what the first show. Yeah, I'm going to look. Just, Father's Day. The Father's Day one.

Starting point is 00:11:28 Exactly. She was great. I'm not going to find her name because she's a little too. The one who smoked cigars or the one inside? The one who smoked cigars. Yes, she was really good. The one who died like first. She was really good.

Starting point is 00:11:40 Yeah, exactly. Yes. I just saw her go scroll down. Right there. Oh, Vivica Lindfurs. Yeah, she was really good. So it looks like she's been. working forever. She won a primetime Emmy. She had five wins, five nominations.

Starting point is 00:11:55 But you might tell me for what? Was she a soap star? Let's see. Oh, she was in Stargate? Stargate. She was in the way we were. Yeah, hold on one say. So if we have all those, oh wow, she was in law and order. Okay. Yeah, I'll go to click her thing. I'm curious. Dane Emmy scroll down a little bit. Nomini. So she won for Best Actress for no exit. It's 1962. She's also a nominee. No, it's for the daytime Emmy

Starting point is 00:12:27 for Outstanding Performer at a Children's Special, CBS School Break Special, what's it called? For playing Anna Rosenberg for episode of Matter of Conscience. Yeah, but she won for no exit. Not for Emmy, baby. That's Berlin International Film Festival. Oh, you're sorry. You're just looking for Jesse Emmy. There we go. Life goes on.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Life goes on. What was that? Drama series. Do you guys know that? I don't. She also nominated for another Primetime maybe for a thing called A Question of Guilt. So it looks like she's been around forever.

Starting point is 00:13:02 She was really great. I really liked her. You guys have any last thoughts? I just also thought, too, the pacing. I really appreciate how frenetic it was. And I thought none of the stories overstayed their welcome. And I just, I really like this a lot.

Starting point is 00:13:15 That's a good. I think the last one overstayed is welcome. I'm not going to disagree with that. I think that the rest of them didn't. though. I would watch a, it actually inspired me to write something like that. Leslie Nielsen one, I'm like, oh my God, this should have been a full-length movie. Yeah, I could have watched a whole-length movie on that storyline too, for sure. I love revenge stories. I think that they're interesting. It was kind of like beef, really good. This, I think this movie's great. I have to talk to you guys about a different time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, just a fun little piece

Starting point is 00:13:44 of trivia, the creature in the crate segment nicknamed Fluffy by all the crew. It was designed by the special effects Tom Savini I thought I'd leave you guys on that that they named him Fluffy Fluffy. That's funny Isn't that the name of the three-headed dog right in Harry Potter? Yeah yeah yeah yeah

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The Reel Rejects - CREEPSHOW (1982) MOVIE REVIEW - COCKROACH SCENE TRULY MESSED US UP! -FIRST TIME WATCHING

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