Creepshow : The Last Tsuburaya / Okay I'll Bite! (2021)

Made for Shudder, airing October 7th in the US.

Season 3. Episode 3.
Story 1:  It is the 100th Anniversary of the passing of famous painter Tsuburaya.

In his will, it is said that his closest descendent shall inherit a painting that no one has ever seen.

Tsuburaya's great nephew Bobby is the lucky inheritor.

He is approached by two people, Dr. Mai Sato, a curator of a museum and Wade Cruise, a rich and greedy art collector -who both want the painting.

Bobby takes Wade up on his high-priced offer and Wade quickly invites many people to his unveiling of the painting the next evening.

Instead of showing off the painting, Wade destroys it, unknowingly tying himself to the painting for the rest of his life.

Story 2: Elmer is a prison inmate in for the crime of mercy killing.

He was a pharmacist on the outside and works in the pharmacy at the prison.

Elmer has a great love for spiders.

Elmer keeps his spiders he has collected while in prison as pets. They are dedicated to Elmer as much as he is to them.

When a bully prison guard who is on Elmer's ass to cook meth tries scaring him into doing his dirty work by having two other prisoners break his finger and try killing his spiders, Elmer and his spiders get their revenge.

Stars Gina Hiraizumi , Kenny Alfonso, Joe Ando Hirsh, Brandon Quinn, Jade Fernandez, Joesph Steven Yang, Nicholas Massouh , Jackson Beales, Nate Andrade, Tony DeMil, Nic Starr, Deborah Bowman, Glenn Magee, Kevin Blake Allen, Bryan SilverBax

Directed by John Harrison & Jeffrey F January

Rated TVMA
ANIMATION/HORROR/MYSTERY/THRILLER/SCIFI/SERIES/TV

Creepshow : Skeletons in the Closet / Familiar (2021)

Made for Shudder, airing September 30th in the US.

Season 3. Episode 2. 
Story 1: Lampini has been a horror movie memorabilia collector all of his life, thanks to his father.

He owns a horror movie props museum, along with his girlfriend and their friend, both also very dedicated collectors, on Hollywood Boulevard and they are all very proud of what they have acquired over the years.

Lampini's latest display he believes will be his best ever. Something to really be proud of.

But when Bateman, a fellow collector arrives looking to blackmail Lampini for his most recent art, there is trouble to be had.

Story 2: Couple Jackson and Fawn are out on the town.

After leaving a club a bit tipsy, they find a psychic reader shop and decide to step in.

Fawn is really enjoying the experience but Jackson, not so much.

It doesn't help matters that shortly after sitting down with the psychic, he slipped Jackson a note, warning him that something bad followed him in there...

Worried but not saying much about the note, Jackson and Fawn settle in to watch a movie.

When Fawn is asleep, Jackson is visited by a demon.

It goes away but returns at Jackson's work the next day.

Really worried now and with nothing left to lose, Jackson goes to see the psychic once more.

The psychic tells Jackson all about the demon following him, why, and what to do to stop it forever.

Unfortunately, Jackson doesn't know much about demons.

Stars Valerie LeBlanc, Lucas Godfrey, Paul Kim, Casey Wortham, Victor Rivera, James Remar, Andrew Bachelor, Hannah Fierman, Keith Arthur Bolden, Robert Stevens Wayne 

Directed by Joe Lynch & Greg Nicotero 

Rated TVMA
ANIMATION/MYSTERY/HORROR/THRILLER/DARK COMEDY/SCIFI/SERIES/TV

Creepshow : Mums / Queen Bee (2021)

Made for Shudder, airing September 23rd in the US.

Season 3. Episode 1.

Story 1:  Jack is a young boy who loves his mother Bloom dearly.

One day, Bloom tells him that the two of them will be taking a trip to meet his grandmother, who will be turning 100.

They start out the door, only to be stopped by Jack's father Hank, who will not have Bloom taking his son anywhere.

During a scuffle, her suitcase falls to the floor and opens up, revealing money and a bottle of booze.

Hank makes it look like Bloom has problems, but he really planted the money and booze in her suitcase because he knew of her plans all along.

Hank and a friend take Bloom, claiming to get her some help.

When Bloom doesn't return, it breaks Jack's heart. 

Jack finds what appears to be flower seeds in his mother's suitcase and decides to plant them, in his mother's garden and in her honor.

Jack could have never dreamed of what grows from those seeds.

Story 2: Teen besties Debra, Trenice, and Carlos are pop star sensation Queen Regina's number one fans...

Queen Regina happens to currently be 9 months pregnant.

Debra lets out that her mother, who works at the local hospital, told her that Regina will have her baby tonight.

Completely excited and wanting to get the first glimpse of Regina's baby, the friends take a ride straight to the hospital.

Nothing can stop them from getting to see that baby.

Instead, what they witness is out of this world.

Stars Ethan Embry, Brayden Benson, Erin Beute, Lowery Brown, Malone Thomas, Hannah Kepple, Olivia Hawthorne, Nico Gomez, Monica Louwerens, Bruce Anthony Shepperson

Directed by Rusty Cundieff & Greg Nicotero

Rated TVMA

ANIMATION/MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR/SCIFI/SERIES/TV

Creepshow : Skincrawlers / By the Silver Water of Lake Chaplain (2019)

Made for Shudder, airing  October 31st in the US.

Season 1. Episode 6.

Story 1: Henry is a man who has battled his weight all his life.

He has been following and using infomercial star Dr. Sloan's weight loss products for many years.

When Henry gets an email inviting him to try a new product by Dr. Sloan claiming to be the one that will miraculously change his life forever, Henry makes an appointment.

Henry and a few others who want to lose weight arrive to find out how this new product works, but when it becomes apparent that the treatment involves fat-sucking leeches, Henry bails.

After a few weeks, one of Dr. Sloan's patients whom Henry met while attending the workshop meets up with him by chance.

Her transformation is too good to be true.

Now, a bit more confident that Dr. Sloan's product will also help him, Henry agrees to have his treatment done on a morning TV talk show in front of millions, but it happens to be on the same day as a rare solar eclipse.

Story 2: Rose, her young brother Joesph, and their mother Leigh have been scared and abused by Leigh's boyfriend Chet for years.

After their father, Leigh's husband,  died years ago, Chet stepped in to so-called help them, but all he really cared about was the insurance payout.

Now that the money is gone, things aren't any better for them. If anything, things are only worse.

Rose and Joesph's father was convinced that a lockness monster lived in the lake near their home and his beliefs were surely the death of him.

After getting lost in the fog and returning, he made many claims that the creature was real.

But he died with everyone in town believing he was crazy.

Everyone except Rose, Joesph, and their friend Thomas.

Rose spends much of her time looking for the creature but has yet to see it for herself.

On a day, not unlike the day their father was lost in the fog, Rose, Joesph, and Thomas find what they believe has to be the very same creature their dad claimed was real.

Stars Melissa Saint Amand, Chad Michael Collins, Dana Gould, Hina X Khan, Beth Kenner, Jason Graham, Darin Toonder, (voice) Adrienne Barbeau, David Alexander Caplan, Sydney Wease, Gena Shaw, Connor Jones, James Devoti

Directed by Roxanne Benjamin & Tom Savini 

Rated TVMA

ANIMATION/MYSTERY/THRILLER/SCIFI/DARK COMEDY/HORROR/SERIES/TV

Watcher (2022)

Released June 3rd in the US.

Filmed entirely in Romania.

The story : American Julia has followed her husband Francis to his native Bucharest because his job has sent him there.

They take up residency in a lovely , furnished apartment.

Quickly , Francis is working many long hours.

Julia makes due by learning to speak Romanian , exploring around town and meeting the neighbors.

Then , one day , Julia notices a man , in the next building over. He seems to be watching her...

She tells Francis about the man , but just shrugs it off.

After a night out about town , Julia and Francis witness a crime scene.

Not knowing much of the language , Julia has to rely on Francis to tell her what is going on.

But she doesnt learn much.

The next day , Julia sees that same crime scene on the news and asks Francis about it once again.

He just explains that a woman was murdered.

At dinner that same evening with friends , Julia learns that there is a serial killer roaming the streets on Bucharest.

The killer has apparently killed three woman and one of his victims had survived a similiar attack.

While looking into the murders online , Julia watches a video by the surving woman.

She explains all the things that led up to her attack.

This really bothers Julia , just as much as the guy in the next building over from her , constantly watching her through the window.

When Julia is at the movies on day and believes the killer is behind her , she flees into a local market.

There , Julia thinks the same man from the movies has followed her inside the market.

The more she thinks about the situation , the more worried she becomes.

Julia believes the man who is watching her is also the serial killer stalking Bucharest but she cannot be certain.

Stars Maika Monroe , Karl Glusman , Tudor Petrut , Burn Gorman , Gabriela Butuc , Lucian Ionescu , Madalina Anea ,  Cristina Deleanu , Flaviu Crisan , Ioana Abur , Bogdan Farcas , Stefan Iancu , Florian Ghimpu , Alexandru Ion , Radu Bunescu , Ciprian Chiriches , Ionut Grama

Directed by (& story partly written) Chloe Okuno

Rated R
MYSTERY

Terrifer 2 (2022)

Released October 6th in the US.

Filmed in New Jersey and New York.

The story: Just when everyone thinks Art the killer clown is dead, those chances cannot be counted on.

While his body is taken to the coroner's office, it is somehow resurrected and Art is back, with a vengeance.

He makes his way back into town, not being noticed at all.

At the same time, Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan are getting ready for Halloween.

Sienna is busy making her costume from scratch. A perfect replica of a character her deceased father had created only on paper.

Another inspiration for the costume is a treasured sword her father had once given her.

Meanwhile, Jonathan has his fathers sketchbook and is heavily thinking of going as Art for Halloween.

When Sienna and their mother find this out, they highly advise against the idea.

But what neither one of them know is ,  Jonathan having his fathers' sketchbook is the reason he has even considered Art as a costume.

While Sienna is tormented by strange nightmares starring Art, Jonathan believes their father was onto Art when no one else was connecting himself and his sister to the killer clown.

Stars David Howard Thorton, Lauren LaVera, Sarah Voight, Elliott Fullam, Casey Hartnett, Kailey Hyman, Amelie McLain, Charlie McElveen, Jonathan Davis, Samantha Scaffidi, Leah Voysey

Directed by (& story written) Damien Leone

Not Rated

SEQUEL/HORROR/MYSTERY

IF (2024)

Released May 17th in the US.

Filmed in New York.

The story: As a little girl, Bea found nothing more exciting than being with her parents and creating magic through play and imagination.

Now, Bea is 12. 

Her mother has passed away and her father is in the hospital for a minor surgery.

Bea will be staying with her grandmother, who she hasn't stayed with in years.

But Bea is a very responsible 12-year-old who believes she is no longer a child and can handle what gets in her way.

When returning back to her grandmother's apartment after going to the store one night, Bea believes she has seen a child run into an apartment upstairs.

Bea tries to talk with the child, but is told to go away and that she didn't see anyone.

She persists, but another tenant tells her to go, and she does, so thats that.

Yet the next night, Bea sees what looks like a child follow an apartment tenant out into the street.

She quickly follows them and when they enter another apartment building, Bea watches from outside.

What she sees, she cannot believe. 

But continuing on back to the apartment and following the child, the man, and what looks like a giant purple monster back into their apartment, Bea has to find out what is going on.

The child that Bea thought was a child is not a child at all! She is in fact an imaginary friend, or an IF, as she is taught...

She, along with the big purple monster.

They are IF's who have been forgotten due to their children growing up.

These IF's , which there are many more, are looking to find new best human children friends.

Stars Audrey Hoffman, Catharine Daddario, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Ryan Renyolds, (voice) Phoebe Waller-Bridge, (voice) Louis Gosset Jr, (voice) Steve Carrell, Alan Kim, Liza Colon Zayas, Bobby Moynihan, Laquet Sharnell Pringle, Ed Herbstman, Barbara Andres, Alexander Rivero, Shauna Pinkett, SaRaya Paris Johnson, (voice) John Krasinski

Directed by (& written) John Krasinski

Rated PG

FAMILY/FANTASY/COMEDY

"In loving memory of our friend Louis Gosset Jr."