I know I'll probably get a lot of flak for suggesting this, but I strongly feel that this anthology piece director Romero did, largely helped by Stephen King, is Romero's finest outing outside of his seven zombie films (of which so far I've seen five). One of the best by one director as well--and it puts the much-more-celebrated 'Twilight Zone: The Movie', which came out around the same time, to shame. Definitely one to purchase and rewatch, for the horror aficionados amongst you. The 80's weren't so bad...

I was so terrified of this movie as a kid. Now that im older its not so scary at all. Still a good movie even tho its old and poorly made.

These Stephen King penned short stories really recall the classic EC horror comics of the 1950s. It also helps that George A. Romero mixes in the garish comic book colors to every story with each beginning and ending with actual cartoon/comic book sequences.

The stories themselves are all good. There is some corny gore, with lots of really red blood, but not much in the way of slashings, stabbings or anything like that. There are some jumpy scares, primarily in the opening story about a vengeful corpse in "Father's Day" and from the captured Antarctic baboon monstrosity of "The Beast". There are also a couple of stories of prolonged horror with the surprisingly funny acting of Stephen King himself in "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and from Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson, who trade a little torture in "Something To Tide You Over". And to finish things off, we have the cockroach chaos of "They're Creeping Up On You".

Choosing a favorite story of the five presented here is a tall order. Leslie Nielsen is nuts as the scorned Richard Vickers and he wins my favorite character vote, although Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall and Stephen King are also excellent.

The greatest compliment I can give this anthology is I can't pick a favorite story from all of them.