History Series / Creepshow

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In "Stranger Sings", Sara is initially shown as the gentle partner in the [[spoiler: homicidal human/siren partnership. However, she becomes steadily more murderous until by the end, the former siren Miranda has to kill Sara and save Barry.]]

In October 2020, Shudder announced an animated special featuring two stories, by Creator/StephenKing and Creator/JoeHill. A second season premiered in April of 2021, and a third season premiered September of the same year.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to [[spoiler:Uncle Kevin]] at the end of "Model Kid" after getting tag-teamed by [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon the Gill-Man]] and [[Film/TheMummy the Mummy.]]

** "Model Kid" has the titular character bring his models of [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon the Gill-Man]] and [[Film/TheMummy the Mummy]] to life to get revenge on his abusive uncle.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/KevinDillon [[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E7HouseOfHorror once again appears in an episode of an EC comic book-based horror anthology television show as an]] AssholeVictim for being TheBully by getting dismembered by monsters in some fashion (previously Dillon went OffWithHisHead, here he instead became HalfTheManHeUsedToBe).

* AFatherToHisMen: Captain Talby from "Bad Wolf Down" will do anything to protect his men, including turning them all into werewolves to fend off a squadron of Nazis. Of course, as [[DirtyCoward Quist]] learns, he’s not so protective to deserters.

* AndIMustScream: At the end of "The Last Tsuburaya", [[spoiler:Wade]] is trapped inside of a painting in the form of a horrific and feral demon, presumably for eternity unless the painting is somehow destroyed.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: "Bad Wolf Down" ends with [[spoiler:the [=GIs=] turned werewolves using their abilities to wage a guerrilla campaign against the Nazis]].
* AndIMustScream: "Night of the Paw" addresses the issue with the classic Monkey Paw tale: even though Whitey wished [[spoiler:Marjorie back to life, she still is stuck in the coffin, six feet under.]]

* AgeLift: In the original short story "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" the main characters are two young kids. In the 'Creepshow' episode they're much older teenagers.
* TheAlcoholic: Richie from "Gray Matter" became one of these after the death of his wife, leading to him neglecting his son and making him get him a box of beer after school every day. Things get even worse when he drinks a tainted beer can that turns him into a BlobMonster [[spoiler:with an insatiable appetite for humans.]]
* AsHimself: Creator/TedRaimi plays himself in "Public Television of the Dead", bringing the Necronomicon (which he claims has been in the family for years) onto an antiques show for appraisal. The host of said show stupidly decides to read the book aloud, turning Ted into a Deadite.

* BadSanta: Kris Kringle in the Holiday Special was appointed by God to kill Bob, the progenitor of werebeasts. Unable to defeat him, he switched sides to join Satan, vowing to kill Bob's entire bloodline with his army of mall Santas.
* BadBoss: Bunk Dill and Polish Frank from "Okay I'll Bite" constantly abuse Elmer Strick, who they've forced to cook for their opium-running ring, whenever he isn't able to supply them with the drugs as fast as they'd like.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In "Stranger Sings", Sara is initially shown as the gentle partner in the [[spoiler: homicidal human/siren partnership. However, she becomes steadily more murderous until by the end, the former siren Miranda has to kill Sara and save Barry.]]

* BlackComedy: It's a good, old fashioned, Southern pie-eating contest in Musky Holler! Except that the "contestants" are [[spoiler: ravenous zombies]] and the "pies" are [[spoiler: the faces of incapacitated prisoners]].
* BlobMonster: Richie from "Gray Matter" slowly mutates into one, gaining a sensitivity to light and an insatiable appetite, at first for warm beer and then pets. By the end, [[spoiler:he's moved on to humans, and it turns out he can multiply into more [[BlobMonster Blob Monsters]], with the implication that he will more than likely wipe out the human race.]]

* DirtyCoward: Quist in "Bad Wolf Down", who locks up his squadmates in a jail cell after deciding they were a liability in attempting to escape the Germans.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Henry Quayle is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's smart enough to realize that getting your fat sucked off by a leech is maybe not the greatest idea.

* EyeScream: In the trailer we briefly see a (presumably) dead body with a gaping hole in his eye socket.

* FacialHorror: Well, it doesn't get more horrific than seeing a man's entire face get chewed off by the undead.

* GenreRoulette: The show loves switching up what genre of horror any given episode will fall under.
* {{Greed}}: Alex and Carla end up falling victim to this in "The Man in the Suitcase." It proves to be their grisly undoing.

--> "It's CHORE DAY!"

--> "[[IncomingHam The king has arrived!]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Each of the G.I.s in "Bad Wolf Down", when transformed, adopts the stance and features of a different cinematic version of a werewolf: Rivers is a bipedal full-body hybrid a la ''Film/TheHowling'', Doc is a bearish quadruped in the style of ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', and Talby is an old-school ''Film/TheWolfMan'' type.

* PoliceAreUseless: Double Subverted by Chief Connors in "Gray Matter", who stays in town during a hurricane to prevent looting and attend to people who may need help. When he learns Richie has been neglecting his son Timmy and sent him out into the storm to get beer, he immediately goes to arrest him. [[spoiler:However, Connors didn’t account for Richie having turned into a BlobMonster who feeds on humans, and is taken out easily.]]

* ScaryScarecrows: One made of straw, cloth, roots, animal bones and a homemade Valentine shows up in "The Companion." It is both highly affectionate to its creator and violently homicidal to anyone else.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Show up in "Bad Wolf Down".

* WouldHurtAChild: The monster in "The Companion," who gruesomely impales a Girl Scout.

** From that same episode, the titular "man in the suitcase" warns that no *Western* hospital can help him with his condition. [[spoiler: Of course, Western medicine would have little effect on a {{Djinn}}]].

** [[spoiler: Butcher "Bunk", a sadistic prison guard in "Okay,I'll Bite"]]. Cruelly bullying Elmer a former doctor convicted for [[MercyKill overdosing his mother when she was dying of cancer]] and framing the gentle man for attempting to hurt another inmate to deny him any chance of parole, this is all so Elmer has to stay in prison and make opium for the inmates. This eventually culminates in two prisoners working for him breaking Elmer's finger and crushing one of his spiders. [[spoiler: Bunk eventually meets his end at the hands of a transformed Elmer.]]

** [[spoiler: Butcher "Bunk", a sadistic prison guard in "Okay,I'll Bite"]]. Cruelly bullying Elmer a former doctor convicted for [[MercyKill overdosing his mother when she was dying of cancer]]) and framing the gentle man for attempting to hurt another inmate to deny him any chance of parole, this is all so Elmer has to stay in prison and make opium for the inmates. This eventually culminates in two prisoners working for him breaking Elmer's finger and crushing one of his spiders. [[spoiler: Bunk eventually meets his end at the hands of a transformed Elmer.]]

** [[spoiler: Wade]] in "The Last Tsubaraya", who happily remembers refusing buying a vase for asking price from a man whose daughter desperately needed a heart transplant just to see the look on the mans face at the possible loss of his child. He eventually bought it, but for a much lower price, selling it again later for a million. Also happily burns a priceless painting(the titular last Tsubaraya) after looking at it just so he's the only one who will ever see it. [[spoiler: It makes his fate of becoming the demon trapped in the painting much more satisfying.]]

** [[spoiler: Wade]] in "The Last Tsubaraya", who happily remembers refusing buying a vase for asking price from a man whose daughter desperately needed a heart transplant just to see the look on the mans face at the possible loss of his child. He eventually bought it, but for a much lower price, selling it again later for a million. Also happily burns a priceless painting(the titular last Tsubaraya)after looking at it just so he's the only one who will ever see it. [[spoiler: It makes his fate of becoming the demon trapped in the painting much more satisfying.]]

** [[spoiler: Chet]] in "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain. The boyfriend of Leigh, Rose's mother, he only is with her for the life insurance, pushing around Rose and Thomas and [[spoiler: planning to leave after stealing the find of Champy's dead body to get rich and famous, taking it from Rose(who wanted it as proof that her father wasn't crazy. He even tries to kill Thomas, a TEENAGER, when he gets in the way.]] However, [[spoiler: it turns out the body was Champy's baby and she's none too happy when she emerges from the lake.]]

** Mrs. Bookberry from "Public Television of the Dead" is strongly implied to have been pushed into becoming the cruel, racist, and arrogant prima-donna television star she is today by her verbally abusive father. Her father's voice emanates (whether it is the work of the Deadites or the result of her own mental instability is not elaborated on) from her puppet, Henrietta the Bear , who berates her and furiously warns her not to screw up. This causes her to cower and tearfully promise "Daddy" that she'll make him proud.

** [[spoiler: Butcher "Bunk", a sadistic prison guard in "Okay,I'll Bite"]]. Cruelly bullying Elmer a former doctor convicted for [[MercyKill overdosing his mother when she was dying of cancer]])and framing the gentle man for attempting to hurt another inmate to deny him any chance of parole, this is all so Elmer has to stay in prison and make opium for the inmates. This eventually culminates in two prisoners working for him breaking Elmer's finger and crushing one of his spiders. [[spoiler: Bunk eventually meets his end at the hands of a transformed Elmer.]]

The series began streaming on the horror service Shudder on September 26, 2019 and then premiered on Creator/{{AMC}} on May 4, 2020. Each episode features at least one short story by popular horror authors, including Creator/StephenKing, Creator/JoeHill, and Creator/JoshMalerman, among others. Creator/TomSavini directss the collection, and the series features actors from the first franchise, including Creator/AdrienneBarbeau.

** Richie from "Gray Matter" didn’t start out as one, but after his wife died he became an alcoholic who neglected his son. He then proceeds to take the trope UpToEleven after he begins mutating into a BlobMonster.

* ElsewhereFic: In a manner of speaking: "A Dead Girl Named Sue" takes place during the events of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'', and concerns a cop trying maintain his sense of law and order in spite of a lynch mob enacting vigilante justice due to the zombie apocalypse [[spoiler:and ultimately winds up joining them in the end, following him feeding a KarmaHoudini criminal [[KarmaHoudiniWarrenty to one of his past victims, now zombified]]]].

** [[spoiler: Wade]] in "The Last Tsubaraya", who happily remembers refusing buying a vase for for asking price from a man whose daughter desperately needed a heart transplant just to see the look on the mans face at the possible loss of his child. He eventually bought it, but for a much lower price, selling it again later for a million. Also happily burns a priceless painting(the titular last Tsubaraya)after looking at it just so he's the only one who will ever see it. [[spoiler: It makes his fate of becoming the demon trapped in the painting much more satisfying.]]

The series began streaming on the horror service Shudder on September 26, 2019 and then premiered on Creator/{{AMC}} on May 4, 2020. Each episode features at least one short story by popular horror authors, including Creator/StephenKing, Creator/JoeHill, and Creator/JoshMalerman, among others. Creator/TomSavini will be directing, and the series features actors from the first franchise, including Creator/AdrienneBarbeau.

** [[spoiler: Alex and Carla]] in "the Man In The Suitcase". While Justin feels remorse and sets a time limit on hurting the titular man for only a single day and [[ItMakesSenseInContext getting the coins that he produces]], the duo refuse to end it, pushed by greed to continue and even [[spoiler: attempt to murder Justin, with Carla striking him with a wrench and knocking him down a flight of stairs. However, the man inside is a Djinn and punishes the pair by painfully stuffing them into their own suitcases.]]

** In the original comic story, Skeeter is killed when a group of kids leave what is implied to a flaming bag of poop on the doorstep which accidentally burns down the house with the boy inside it. In revenge, the boy's ghost along with his friends murder the kids responsible. In the final scene the friends burn alive a very young kid who just tagged along. In the television episode, a group of teenagers burn down a treehouse knowing that the group of friends are inside it killing everyone inside. The final scene involves the ghosts getting their revenge on someone who's very much an AssholeVictim as opposed to the little kid in the original story.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: "Bad Wolf Down" ends with [[spoiler:the {{GIs}} turned werewolves using their abilities to wage a guerrilla campaign against the Nazis]].