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Hard to believe that one of the greatest horror anthologies of all time hit theaters forty years ago. In that span of time, I\u2019ve had two dogs, three cats, two turtles, at least seventeen hamsters, three hundred goldfish and beta fish (most of them lasting two days), one salamander and one dwarf rabbit that grew to be the size of Gunnar Hansen. A big fuck you to the pet store clerk who sold me <\/span>that <\/span><\/i>bill of goods. Dwarf my ass. Oh, and I went from a virgin to way not a virgin, got married and had two amazing children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And now back to the real story. When I watched the coming attraction for <\/span>Creepshow <\/span><\/i>on TV and saw that it was the love child of Stephen King and George Romero, I believe I had a Bob Rossian happy accident in my skivvies. Romero\u2019s <\/span>Dawn of the Dead<\/span><\/i> had rewired my brain a few years earlier and King was feeding me nightmare fuel every night before I hit the lights. His cocaine and booze years made for my caviar and champagne days and nights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What took <\/span>Creepshow<\/span><\/i> to a whole other level was the way it was shot as if we the audience were flipping through the pages of a comic book. Every kid my age read comic books then, unlike now where they watch a three hour superhero movie and then go back to their video games and Tik Tok. If you\u2019re one of them, pick up a comic book. Reading is fundamental! Watching basically the same movie, with different steroid cases in tights, ain\u2019t.\u00a0 Anyway, a movie that blended horror with comics seemed to be literally made for me and everyone my age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n