It’s interesting, because it was pitched that it would be a five segment anthology like the original, but there are still only these three.”

“The first draft that’s actually noted as such from January of ‘84 includes ‘Pinfall’, along with ‘Old Chief Wood’nhead’ and ‘The Raft’. “ We have three drafts of Creepshow 2,” Rubin reveals of the Romero Archival Collection. The other, “Pinfall”, has gone sadly unproduced to this day. One, “ Cat from Hell”, would eventually find its way into the Romero-penned Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. Since its release, it’s been revealed that there were indeed two other tales meant to be included in the follow-up.

Romero on the set of ‘Creepshow’ (1982)Ĭuriously, Creepshow 2 features a mere three stories during its runtime (not including the wraparound segments), whereas the original film boasted five stories. Unfortunately, even for its pedigree, Creepshow 2 earned even less than its predecessor, putting the series as we know it* into the tomb until horror streaming service Shudder brought the property back in 2019 as an anthology television series which is three seasons in at the time of this writing. Whereas King wrote and Romero directed the previous feature, the sequel found Romero writing the screenplay based on King stories, with frequent Romero cinematographer Michael Gornick helming this time around. Romero once again in tow, albeit in diminished roles for this outing. Romero Archival Collection ( ) to chat about the origins of “Pinfall” and its ultimate, tragic fate as the King/Romero collaboration that never was.įollowing up on the modest financial success of 1982’s Creepshow, Creepshow 2 arrived a half decade later with Stephen King and George A. Rubin was kind enough to take time away from overseeing the library’s George A. Rubin, the Horror Studies Collection Coordinator for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. Joining us for this peek into an unmade Romero is Benjamin T. Romero, “Pinfall” was originally slated as the second story to unfold in the sequel before it was ultimately axed in favor of “The Hitch-hiker”, the third tale in the finished film.

Adapted from an unpublished Stephen King story by George A. For the newest installment of Phantom Limbs, we’ll be cracking open the pages of Creepshow 2 and poring over “ Pinfall”, an unproduced segment of that 1987 horror anthology.

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