{"id":357242,"date":"2021-10-23T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/creepshow-goes-full-twilight-zone-and-stiffs-a-good-guy-in-time-out\/"},"modified":"2021-10-23T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:32:13","slug":"creepshow-goes-full-twilight-zone-and-stiffs-a-good-guy-in-time-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/creepshow-goes-full-twilight-zone-and-stiffs-a-good-guy-in-time-out\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Creepshow’ Goes Full ‘Twilight Zone’ and Stiffs a Good Guy in “Time Out”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Creepshow’ Goes Full ‘Twilight Zone’ and Stiffs a Good Guy in “Time Out”<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">The Creep has left karma out of the picture all together with this week\u2019s tales of terror.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\"><figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \"><img width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/creepshow-3_5.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Time Out in Creepshow\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/creepshow-3_5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/creepshow-3_5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Shudder<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure><!-- START BYLINE --><div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on October 22nd, 2021 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    This is hard to believe, but we\u2019ve already reached the penultimate episode of <strong><em>Creepshow<\/em><\/strong>\u2018s third season. While past seasons have managed at least one killer segment, we\u2019re still waiting for season three\u2019s winner \u2014 could it come this week with \u201cTime Out\u201d and \u201cThe Things in Oakwood\u2019s Past?\u201d We\u2019ll find out together, but first, a quick recap of the season\u2019s offerings so far shows that neither I nor my partner in slime, Meg Shields, have been fully won over by Shudder\u2019s highly successful anthology series<\/a>.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
They\u2019re undeniably popular with the streamer\u2019s fan base, but the show is endlessly dogged by budget limitations and the resulting restraints in creativity. As noted in Meg\u2019s write-up from last week\u2019s episode, the show also seems to be veering away some from its most tried and true narrative element \u2014 the grim and ghoulish karmic comeuppances that are the dead and gut-ter of the Creepshow<\/em> brand, itself inspired by similar tales from EC Comics. Time will tell if it pays off creatively, but if last week\u2019s segments are any indication the show needs to return its pointed aim at jerks in need of a bloody lesson sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, let\u2019s check out Creepshow<\/em>\u2018s fifth episode of its third season\u2026<\/p>\n\n
\u201cTime Out<\/b>\u201c<\/strong>
Director: Jeffrey F. January
Writers: Barrington Smith & Paul Seetachitt<\/p>\n
Comic panels tell us a US Marine named Joe is exploring a recently liberated cit during World War II. Other soldiers are snagging suitcases and monkey paws (nice one) to bring home from the war, but Joe\u2019s eye catches something more practical \u2014 a large armoire. Cut to live-action in the present day and a boy named Tim is exploring during Grandpa Joe\u2019s funeral, and he stumbles across the armoire before being stopped by his grandmother. Ten years later and Tim\u2019s in Law School? Time is funny. He\u2019s studying hard and wooing a special lady when the armoire arrives along with a note from his grandmother\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you don\u2019t have time, go inside this closet and you\u2019ll find it. But be careful. Never go inside without the key, and don\u2019t get greedy. Stolen hours are never free.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thanks for the clarity on this life or death matter, meemaw!<\/p>\n
Turns out time pauses while you\u2019re inside the armoire \u2014 for everyone but you. Tim plays it pretty careful, a few minutes here, a few hours there, and he\u2019s able to stretch mere moments into far, far longer. He uses it to excel at time management, to do more work than other lawyers at the firm, to impress his boss on a daily basis, and it all pays off as he rises through the ranks. As the note says, though, stolen hours are never free, and he\u2019s growing older than his actual age would suggest.<\/p>\n
So, regarding the karmic concern in the introduction above? \u201cTime Out\u201d once again neglects that angle completely and instead takes its tale in a more Twilight Zone<\/em>-like direction. Think \u201cTime Enough at Last\u201d without any of that classic episode\u2019s wit, power, or dark irony. Here we know exactly what\u2019s coming as soon as we read the warning about the key, and while common sense would dictate you immediately have a copy of the key made at WalMart and hang it inside the damn armoire, Tim instead puts his faith in the durability of wool sweater pockets. You\u2019d call him a fool, but let\u2019s not let grandma off the hook \u2014 why pen a brief, mysterious note instead of spelling out the dangers of this gift you\u2019re passing on to your grandson?!<\/p>\n
Anyway, the beauty of karmic comeuppances in the EC Comics vein is that we love to see bad people get what\u2019s coming. Without that we\u2019re left with good (or indifferent) people suffering mere misfortune instead, and while horror can obviously bring the goods on that front it all just feels flat in the context of what Creepshow<\/em> can manage on their eighty-dollar budgets. Production design is wanting as the big beats are delivered via comic panels, and we\u2019re left with nothing but a slow march towards Tim\u2019s inevitable doom.<\/p>\n
Speaking of slow and time, the episode itself seems to play some tricks with time too. We meet Tim as a boy, eight to ten years old, and we\u2019re told it\u2019s the present day. Over the course of \u201cTime Out\u201d we move nearly thirty years forward, ostensibly into the future, yet the production design never changes to reflect even the slightest advances or changes. I get that science<\/a> fiction isn\u2019t the goal here, but it feels like a part of the tale that no one gave enough thought to \u2014 and it\u2019s not the only one.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThe Things in Oakwood\u2019s Past<\/b>\u201c<\/strong>
Director: Greg Nicotero & Dave Newberg
Writers: Daniel Kraus & Greg Nicotero<\/p>\n
The small town of Oakwood is celebrating an ominous anniversary two hundred years after all of its citizens disapp<\/a>eared. It\u2019s been quiet and normal in every way since, but the discovery of a time capsule buried in a local park has people all aflutter. The mayor\u2019s daughter, Marnie, has been doing some deep digging of her own in the town\u2019s historical records, and what she finds has her terrified. Something evil is coming to devour Oakwood\u2019s population once again, and she believes their salvation rests inside that crate.<\/p>\n
Unless it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Spoiler\u2026 it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Creepshow<\/em> has delivered fully animated segments before, most notably as a special in 2020, and this segment returns to the format. Unsurprisingly, it appears to be a cost-saving measure in part because \u201cThe Things in Oakwood\u2019s Past\u201d ends in the kind of big, bloody fashion that Shudder would never spring for in live-action. It\u2019s enough to make you wish they maybe cut this season in half, though, and put that money towards doing just that. The story\u2019s basic enough with just enough mystery and suspense before hell is unleashed, and a live-action, practical effects-filled version might just have been the high this season has been lacking.<\/p>\n
The animation just doesn\u2019t cut it, and while it\u2019s a couple steps improved from the previous animated episodes it\u2019s still flat and lacking in real life. They keep the art to a minimum meaning still frames are moved about, small animations make mouths move, etc. The finale finds some gory vibrancy as bodies are torn in half and such, but it still pales beside what could have been.<\/p>\n
The bright side here is that the voice talent puts much of this season\u2019s live actors to shame with their performances. Mark Hamill and Ron Livingston are both doing good work here, and Danielle Harris ups the ante with a lively, fun, and charismatic turn as Marnie. They help give the illusion that the segment is peppier than the animation would otherwise suggest. Oh, and unrelated, but mention of an upcoming unveiling of the Carpenter Arctic exploration collection is a nice touch too.<\/p>\n\n
This season of Creepshow<\/em> continues to be a mere shell of what Meg and I are always hoping for with the series, and honestly it\u2019s insane that we haven\u2019t lost that optimism yet. With only one episode left in season three, it all comes down to next week. Fingers crossed, severed or otherwise\u2026<\/p>\n
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\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he’s so damn young. He’s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists ‘Broadcast News<\/a>’ as his favorite film of all time. Feel free to say hi if you see him on Twitter @FakeRobHunter<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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