I actually remember when this thing came out and how excited I was and how it got some attention from the horror community. Then sadly I rented it (yes kids from a video store) and remember being super disappointed. I decided to return to it again recently to see if this thing had maybe managed to age well. And my answer is no it was crap in 2006 and its crap now. There's no style, no real EC comics homages, and no involvement from Romero or King. Instead this was brought to us by the team of Ana Clavell and James Dudelson, who for some reason managed to get there hands on the rights to this and Romero's "Day of the Dead" they also made "Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)" a movie which I haven't seen but have heard is absolute garbage. After an opening which includes some of the most piss poor animation available we then get into five tales. "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife", and "Haunted Dog". The only two decent ones are "The Radio" which stars AJ Bowen, its way to long and eventually over stays its welcome, and the other being "Call Girl" which blows its load to early and ruins what could have been a decent tale, but, still has some nice creature effects. The rest are just goofy wastes of time. Something this film actually manages to do and I've heard people give it credit for this is how the stories manage to intertwine with each other, this was unique for the time, but, new and better horror anthologies like "Southbound" have managed to do it way way better, here it never really helps the plots of the tales. Both Clavell and Dudelson have talked about a potential fourth film since this movies release. Let's all hope the zombie apocalypse happens before that.

It took that third opus a long time to get out, twenty years mind you. It's nearly an afterthought: how can such two good successful films by Stephen King and George Romero be continued twenty years later? First because the period during which the title was controlled exclusively by the first author and director must have come to its end, liberating the title, otherwise it should have been attached to the original proprietors and paid for.But it is hard to go back to the concept of these Creepshows and some changes have to be introduced. The very first change is that there is some continuity in the whole film because some actors and their roles go from one episode to the next or the one after the next. Some situations too are similar or even the same, not to speak of some objects like cars. The next change is the style. This film really targets the grossest effects we can imagine. Gross is not necessarily bad but in this case it is done without much finesse and from gross we move to sickening and that is the lowest level in horror stories or movies according to Stephen King himself. And along that line the director does not hesitate to introduce human beings who suddenly turn into very monstrous beings that can resuscitate after having been killed, resuscitate to haunt a living drug-addicted doctor for example, etc. And of course the concept of a mad scientist or technician is introduced with no real delicacy. The story of his wife – real or not real – Frankenstein or simple aging lustful old man – and how she ends up in a microwave oven is just plain funny. It was supposed to be a prank at first and it ran out to be a slaughterhouse scene with so much blood we just wonder if it is not half a dozen wives and not only one. And at the end the mad scientist marries her finally but this time it is so openly a recomposed body that there is no doubt at all any more. We are dealing with Doctor Frankenstein, middle name Lego, playing with body parts as if they were some press-in parts, pieces and pawns.We definitely are not in a comic strip adventure for a young teenager, male preferably, but for some older teenagers, male as well as female, or whatever gender they may decide to have, trying to experience some disquieting experience that is supposed to make their stomach growl and their intestine dance some frantic tarantella from their waist to their groin, though it remains rather soft and bashful at this lower level.Enjoy the film, but after a light dinner if you do not want to have some accident generally attributed to airsickness in a plane or road-sickness in a bus or a car. And be sure you take a sleeping pill afterwards to avoid all kinds of nightmares.Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Creepshow III is not as bad as its infamous reputation. Taking into account the creators behind this film are in fact those responsible for the abomination known as Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, their second attempt at a devote homage to Romero is in fact successful - - as a devote Creepshow/Romero fan; it really is not that bad of a film.The original Creepshow is fantastic as is Creepshow 2 and Tales from the Darkside is also another entertaining segmented hit from the same group of creators. I personally love these movies; they're parodies and spoofs of their inspiration source yet faithful homages at the same time so wonderfully portrayed it brings back childhood memories of being scared of nonsensical jibber jabber such as ghosts and zombies and monsters hiding under the bed. In the 80's and 90's Romero and King worked alongside on these films inspired by E.C comics, shorts by Stephen King - what have you. Let's look at Creepshow III in that way; after Romero and King's series of segment-based horror/comedy film they therefore set new grounds for new film makers to indulge and be inspired by and I think Creepshow III is exactly that - - taking into account its restrictions of pushing boundaries which I am sure the film makers would have intended to do but this is clearly an incredibly low budget film so there are bound to be set backs in script, acting, special effects … even though I don't think those particular structures in the film are that bad at all. AJ Bowen in "The Radio" is particularly good as is Camille Lacey in "Call Girl" as a serial killing prostitute. My main point is that there are movies out there that are far worse than this. I have intentionally seen a lot of horrible movies so I can appreciate a wider range of cinema, some movies I have seen have $0 budgets and are shot on a digital home videos; Ben & Arthur (2002) comes to mind, and then there is Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003) that is screened all the time at my local cult theatre so teenagers can get drunk/stoned and laugh at how appallingly awful everything about it truly is. Think Monster A Go-Go (1965) where the film ran out of funding, so the movie abruptly halts halfway and finalises the ending with stock footage. What about Santa With Muscles? Anything by Ulli Lommel is also worth burning and burying – my point being is that Creepshow III suffers a bad rap and I fail to see why, the first segment is probably the worst segment of all three Creepshow movies perhaps, but the film picks up with The Radio, Call Girl (which is reminiscent of the first Creepshow's "Father's Day" and "Something to Tide You Over" and the second movie's "The Hitchhiker) and even "The Professor's Wife" has a good sense of gory humour to it. After all this movie *is* intended to be a comedy/horror – it is probably more comedy based though with minor childlike horror elements. It reminds me of Goosebumps or Freaky Stories.So did I enjoy Creepshow III? Apart from the failure of a coherent "Alice in Wonderland" reference that is the first segment "Alice" (even though there is good humour behind it) the movie is actually quite funny particularly "The Radio" and "Call Girl" being my favourite segments. The movie is a good cousin to the original two films and as a devote Romero/King/Creepshow fan I say that in all confidence. If one had a broad and open mind toward low budget cinema then you would understand that the infamous bad reviews that Creepshow III receives are in fact inflated and exaggerated by the horror community that are forever expected every horror movie that is released to be the next Rosemarie's Baby or Halloween, people are always demanding too much of horror.The reason I love horror so much is its capability to be so diverse and so broad that one can manipulate fantasy, mystery, action, sci-fi into the mixing pot and whatever the outcome you can still optionally chose comedy as its strongest feature. So whether you think Creepshow III is good or bad, just take this film buff's advice; there is always *always* something far worse than whatever you have seen, so keep looking – when you find that ultimate bottom of the pit failure of celluloid it will help you appreciate movies like Creepshow III more.

I wish I could have given this movie a rating of less then one star. But alas, I cannot. This is the biggest abomination for a Creepshow I have ever had the displeasure of gazing my eyes and ears upon. I am extremely happy and relieved that I knew this was an unofficial sequel to the cult classic Anthology before I watched the thing. I may have cried a little bit if Romero and King had been involved with this mockery of a Flopshow! It makes me sick to think they can take a cult classic name, such as Creepshow, and drop it on what is this monstrosity known as Creepshow 3. The only thing I can even remotely say I liked about it is the fact that in one way or another, all five stories got tied together. However, that still does not erase the below mediocre acting, the effects were okay, but they certainly could have been loads better. This is one anthology I wish I had never found out had an unofficial squeal. The worst part about the whole shenanigans is I bought the three Creepshows as Italian Imports. But, alas, I was to naive to realize there is a possibility that if it is an import that it may not play on an American player. So I curled up with my blanket and put 3 in to my American DVD player only find out it was not compatible with my player. So I rushed out and spent $10 on an American copy without even exploring the possibility that I may be able to watch it on my computer. Fiddled with it last night, got it on the computer, now I have two copies of a movie that I won't even consider using for a coaster. Pathetic to say the least!