Every Story Of Creepshow Season One Ranked

12. By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain

In this unimaginative Loch Ness Monster-style story, the daughter of a supposedly insane man who spent his life raving of a monster sighting happens upon the same creature herself, lying by the side of a lake. She sees this as an opportunity to validate her father’s sanity and silence the community that ridiculed him, though her mother and abusive stepfather don’t believe her.

The final vignette of the season was met with a unanimous shrug of disappointment, it seems. Creepshow is a name that horror fans associate with larger-than-life premises, performances and visuals; ought the series have ended with a bang? This story is easily the blandest of the bunch. It’s based on a story by Joe Hill (novelist and son of Stephen King, who played the horror-obsessed boy in the original’s wraparound story) and directed by none other than Tom Savini – this should’ve been epic! The story is unimaginative, overly sentimental (it doesn’t even get that right) and is entirely devoid of fun. Surely that’s the one prerequisite of a Creepshow story: make it fun. Simple. Honestly, of the twelve, this is the only real dud.