Each vignette would be set in a different era from a Val Lewton inspired B&W chiller, to the in-theater gimmicks of William Castle, to a 3D segment meant to cap the entire affair. However, the Pittsburgh auteur had an idea for an anthology that could trace the history of horror pictures, complete with aspect ratio and film stock changes. The movie Romero really wanted to direct was The Stand – King’s post-apocalyptic American epic that could’ve never been financed under a major studio (despite Dawn of the Dead dealing with similar End Time themes). However, because of a meeting the suits had set, a friendship had been kindled, as the two scare masters shared a love of cinema (with King professing to be a huge fan of Night of the Living Dead ) and macabre storytelling. The book they’d bought the rights to was Salem’s Lot – a New England vampire spook show that eventually became a stellar two-part CBS Movie of the Week under Texas Chain Saw Massacre (’74) director Tobe Hooper (Romero exited the project just before it headed to TV). Romero initially hooked up with Stephen King after showing Martin (’78) at the US/Utah Film Festival (which would later morph into the Sundance Film Festival), when two studio executives approached him, saying the writer/director would be perfect to helm a new property they’d just acquired from the up-and-coming horror author. The segment ends with the greenery continuing to spread across his land and far beyond.George A. After his death, a weather report is heard, stating that 'Castle County is going to turn green so fast in the next month.that it's going to be almost miraculous!' Eventually, fearing what he was becoming, Jordy fetched his shotgun and put an end to his own life. Over the course of the next few days, Jordy began to grow a thick coat of vegetation over his entire body, no matter what he did to stop it - bathing only seemed to speed up its growth. However, when he touched the rock it split open, exposing him to a foul gas. He was played by Stephen King.Īfter discovering a recently-crashed meteorite on his property in New England, hillbilly farmer Jordy Verrill thought that he might be able to sell it to the local university in order to pay off his bank loan. Jordy Verrill is a character in the 1982 Stephen King horror anthology film Creepshow, in the segment entitled 'The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill'. Stephen King Source Images of Jordy Verrill

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