'Creepshow' adds Tom Savini as director, Shudder announces more cast details

Shudder has finally given us more details about the upcoming Creepshow series! This morning the streaming service revealed new casting updates via a press release. Most importantly, it also confirmed that Tom Savini will be rejoining the Creepshow family as director. Savini did the special effects makeup for the original 1982 Creepshow film.

Series show runner, Greg Nicotero explained that, “there wouldn’t be a Creepshow without Tom Savini. His mark on the horror industry and unflinching approach to Special Effects Make-up did more for the genre than anything since the invention of fake blood. Tom has always been a visionary and his love of cinema and making movies is felt in every frame of his episode. I’m honored to have my friend as a big part of the team.”

“Having done all the creepy, monstrous, gory effects in the original movie, I am indescribably overjoyed to come full circle now directing an episode of this Creepshow series,” Savini said in the same statement.

Savini will head to the director’s chair for an episode entitled “By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain”. Based on a story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill who also played Billy in the original film. Comics writer, and frequent Hill collaborator, Jason Ciaramella will be writing the script.

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New Stories and New Faces

David Arquette, Tricia Helfer (Lucifer), and Dana Gould (Stan Against Evil) were announced to star in the upcoming series. They join the previously announced Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Tobin Bell (Saw), and original Creepshow alum Adrienne Barbeau. Arquette will star in an episode titled “Times is Tough in Musky Holler”. Where small town leaders that control the residents through fear, get their comeuppance. Directing the story is John Harrison (Tales from the Darkside: The Movie) and John Skipp and Dori Miller will be adapting the script.

The episode for “Lydia Layne’s Better Half” will see Helfer in a tale about a powerful woman denying her protege/lover a promotion. However, she fails to anticipate the fallout. Written by Harrison, and directed by Roxanne Benjamin, based on a story by Harrison and Nicotero.

Finally, “Skincrawlers” will star Gould who plays a man considering a new weight-loss treatment that has unexpected complications. Benjamin also directs this story, with a script by Paul Dini and Stephen Langford.

The six-episode series will feature two stories per episode. Creepshow will premiere on the AMC Networks-owned Shudder sometime in 2019. So stay tuned and be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror!