Word: comicbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of making people's flesh crawl. The number of his books in print (predominantly paperbacks) climbs toward 40 million. Indeed, his pot currently boileth over. Creepshow, an original King screenplay directed by George Romero (Night of the Living Dead), will be released in October; a $6.95 comicbook version of the script has just been published by New American Library as part of the promotional hoopla. An adaptation of Firestarter, the sixth of King's seven novels, is being filmed in Michigan, where local residents have eagerly offered to sell their homes for use in the movie...
...music started to play in my head." He is crossing a railroad bridge over a river when a train materializes: "The freight's electric horn suddenly spanked the air into a hundred pieces with one long loud blast, making everything you ever saw in a movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death flew at them: WHHHHHHHONNNNNNK!" He describes a hailstorm in a forest: "Instead of whispering or talking, the woods now seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums...
...erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen by people with something more potent than popcorn coursing through their veins. But even as a trip movie it cannot be compared to such classics as 2001 and Fantasia...