Are any of the tales in the film based on stories or books? I really enjoyed the entire film. I know that the final one was a spioff of Dracula and that Lon Chaney Jr. was in a Frankenstein based tale, but were the others based on books?
shareI love this film myself. Sometime ago I went on an internet search and found a web page on Russ Jones who wrote the stories. I am hazy about the specific details but Jones may have written short stories for horror comics like Eerie and Creepy and the like, or even some less intense horror comics. I don't think these particilar stories were ones created from existing comic stories by Jones, but possibly the filmakers knew Jones and approached him to write the stories for the film? I would like to know myself. I'm quite a fan of this David Hewitt film as well as "Wizard Of Mars"..There's an odd, cool vibe and atmosphere to these films I quite like-though it may just be me reading something into the movies that aren't really there, i'm not sure...
shareAgreed. Also lotsa fun watching the "acting" in GOH, the schoolplay sets, Lon Chaney Jr. chewing the scenes, and the decent for their time special effects. Also a hoot was John Carradine as the storyteller.
shareAgree also. Don't quite know why i love it so much. Could be because I was maybe 12 years old when this first played on a Saturday night in autumn (under the title "Return From The Past") and the vibe/mood was just right (already being a fan of horror comics and movies). I knew nothing about the movie when I first caught it around 1971 or so, but for some reason for me it seems to capture the mood of the horror comics I liked so much. Better in fact than "Creepshow" later attempted. I thought the humor in "Creepshow" ruined it to be honest. The horror comics I liked were more serious than the tales "Creepshow" contained.
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