![]() Ja’ness Tate as Grace, Maddie Nichols as Lola - Creepshow, Season 2, Episode 3B – Photo Credit: Curtis Baker/ShudderĪfter watching “Sibling Rivalry,” I immediately went to the internet to read reviews. There were issues of sexual assault, and racist and bigoted representation-as if I were back in the early ’90s instead of 2021. ( Creepshow 2021) But the weak plot wasn’t the only problem. The sister turns the brother, and together they seek revenge. After a short confrontation, the siblings reconcile and figure out that the sister’s best friend had turned her into a vampire. She is-apparently completely unknown to herself-a vampire who murdered their parents. The girl is dismissed as delusional, although the brother is really trying to kill her. In this installment, a teenage girl confides to her high school counselor that her brother is trying to kill her. Uneasiness flooded me as it did the first time I had watched “The Raft.” Then I watched “Sibling Rivalry,” and my heart dropped low in my chest. I was captivated and charmed by most of the stories. As a long-time fan of the franchise, and someone who enjoyed the first season, I looked forward to it. In April 2021, the second season of the Shudder’s Creepshow series premiered. The ideologies of the ’90s and before that I had seen and silently flinched at are being called out, fought about, and finally discussed. The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements are heavily reported topics in both mainstream and social media. That’s a scary movie, Ash, it’s supposed to bother you.įlash forward to 2021, the world is still struggling to come out of a pandemic on the heels of social, civil, and political unrest. For a young Latina dealing with additional familial and cultural traumas, saying that something I saw in a film (let alone, a horror film) bothered me was going to go unheard. Unfortunately, these stereotypes of gender, sex, race, and class were rampant in all media. “The Raft” - Creepshow 2īy the time I watched Creepshow 2, I had already internalized a slew of what I now recognize as misogynistic, racist, and bigoted ideologies hand-fed to western society. He stops when Laverne awakens screaming because the lake monster is eating her face. While Laverne is sleeping, Randy sees his chance (his own girlfriend and Laverne’s boyfriend only recently dead) and begins to kiss and touch Laverne’s unconscious body. When friends Randy (Daniel Beer) and Laverne (Jeremy Green) are the only ones left alive, they are marooned on the raft. The trauma I sustained as a child has made it difficult for me to accurately say when certain things happened in my past-but I know they happened. The first time I watched “The Raft,” I was a pre-teen. One by one they are eaten alive by the lake monster. In doing so, one of them is attacked by a giant blob creature. The friends-two couples-decide to swim out to a raft in the middle of the lake. Four college students head to a lake during the off season for some fun and privacy. One of my frequent VHS picks, Creepshow filled me with terror and glee, exactly what a horror/comedy is set out to do.Ĭreepshow 2 had equally fantastical and horrifying tales, but it was a brief, “non-scary” scene from “The Raft” that unnerved me. Creepshow was a cult classic by the time I was a kid in the ’90s picking out VHS movies, a bizarre mix of Disney animated films and horror, at the local Video 2000.
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