No insignificant length there, surely.īut what story did the shorn segment tell? Indeed, the story is twenty-seven pages long in the second draft of the script, which would have given us a nearly thirty minute segment had it been adapted faithfully. “It would’ve been substantial,” Rubin says of “Pinfall”. The finished feature is over ninety minutes already, after all. But that’s at least one story that I’ve heard.”Īnother consideration would have been the film’s runtime. Which I find extremely hard to believe that, you know, Savini and Nicotero couldn’t pull that off. “It was partially a special effects issue.
It’s long been understood that budgetary concerns kept “Pinfall” from being produced, a sentiment that Rubin echoes. So it’s interesting that “Pinfall” was there from the beginning … just never made it anywhere from my understanding.” Then the third draft has the three segments that we see. “So ‘The Hitch-hiker’ is omitted from the first two drafts, and finally ends up in the third draft. Rubin notes that “Pinfall” sticks around in the second draft, which also features “Cat from Hell”. 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.
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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.
That’s all.įor 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. This is something that I found cool and wanted to share.
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Late yesterday night, an announcement was made that a new support tier had been opened up and for $175, you could land yourself playing dice that were carved from wood that was used to build the actual cabin we saw in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II! The email also states that there are only 750 of these sets available, so if you’re keen on holding onto a part of movie history, this is your chance! Just click on the link above and make your pledge.Īlso, I want to make it clear that we are in no way, shape, or form sponsored by Space Goat or the Evil Dead II board game. Related: Space Goat Talks Bringing ‘Evil Dead II’ to a Board Game (Interview) That’s why I have a lot of respect and excitement for it. We’ve been seeing board games being turned into movies (a lá Battleship and Ouija) but when was the last time we saw the opposite happen? Sure, some games get reskinned to take on the appearance of a popular property but Evil Dead II: The Official Board Game is an original product built from the ground up.
We’ve been doing some fun coverage of the Evil Dead II board game that is currently on Kickstarter and all for what I believe to be good reason.
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