''Creepshow 3'' is a 2006 American

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film, and a

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and

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's horror

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'' (1982) and '' Creepshow 2'' (1987). It was directed and produced by Ana Clavell and James Dudelson. The film stars Kris Allen,

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, Emmett McGuire and Stephanie Pettee. Like its predecessors, the film is a collection of tales of light-hearted horror: "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife", and "Haunted Dog", although there is no

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angle this time around. The film was panned by critics.

Plot

Wraparound story

Unlike the first two ''Creepshow'' installments, in which the wraparound element linking the stories was a horror comic, ''Creepshow 3'' takes an approach similar to

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'' in which characters from each story interact with each other during the film. There is also a

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as a common element in the movie.

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, and other things from the hot dog stand are peppered throughout.

Alice

Alice Jacobs is a stuck-up, snotty teenager who comes home to find her father meddling with some kind of universal remote. Whenever he presses one of the buttons on the device, the whole family except for Alice changes

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(i.e., the "Color and

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Settings" button makes her family turn

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, and the "

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" button makes her family turn

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). During this, Alice gradually mutates into what is supposedly her "true form". Just when Alice thinks everything is back to normal, her father presses another button, revealing Alice's true form. Her family is absolutely horrified at the sight of Alice. The story ends with Professor Dayton, the mad scientist from down the street, using another remote control to turn Alice into a white

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. Notable in this story is the link to

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''. Victor, the vampire, makes an appearance in this story.

The Radio

Jerry is a part-time

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who buys a

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from a homeless street

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to replace his old one which has stopped working; however, this mysterious new radio is far from ordinary as it can have a

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with Jerry. Very soon, Jerry is stealing

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and murdering people, all at the whim of his new radio. After escaping with a hooker who lives in his building, Jerry is told by the radio to kill the hooker or she will kill him. He refuses and destroys the radio. Right after, the hooker finds his gun in the car and shoots Jerry, killing him. Moments after she kills him and wipes the gun clean, she is shot in the head. The shooter is revealed to be the pimp living in the same building as Jerry. When the pimp returns to his car, another radio tells him to go and start a new life. Alice's father Detective Jacobs also appears in this story, investigating the various murders and strange goings-on taking place. The killer call girl, Rachel, also makes an appearance in this story, as well as the pimp and the two boys from "The Professor's Wife".

Call Girl

Rachel, a murderous

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, receives a request from a shy man named Victor, her newest client. Rachel thinks he will be just another easy victim. When Rachel gets there, scenes of a murdered family with their necks ripped out are flashed on-screen, and there is no evidence of Victor living in the house. Rachel then chains him to the bed and proceeds to stab him in the chest, places a pillow over his face, and then has a quick shower. She then keeps hearing Victor's voice saying, "You killed me." Rachel removes the pillow and reveals a gruesome creature with a large, toothy mouth. It is then revealed that Victor is an actual

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. He kills Rachel and hangs her in the room with the house owners whom he's already killed. Blood starts pouring down her neck in a strange way indicating she will become a vampire. The two young men from The Professor's Wife and the pimp from The Radio appear in this segment.

The Professor's Wife

Two former students come to visit Professor Dayton and meet his fiancée Kathy. Having been victims of his practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a

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, which the professor has supposedly spent the last 20 years working on in his

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. She also behaves like a robot and does not eat or drink, which further indicates that she is probably mechanical. When the professor is out of the house, they decide to dismantle Kathy to see what she looks like on the inside. To their utter horror, they learn that Kathy really was a human being after all and that she was a mail-order bride. The professor later buys an 'advanced' voodoo kit from the homeless street

to put Kathy back together in time for the

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. Rachel, the killer call girl, makes a brief appearance in this story.

Haunted Dog

A cruel, miserly

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, Dr. Farwell, is working a 30-day

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-ordered sentence at a

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, where he is very insolent and rude towards his patients. He even goes as far as to show no sympathy towards a young girl with a

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and mocks an elderly woman who is going blind. One day, he buys a

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. Dr. Farwell accidentally drops it on the ground. He sadistically decides to give the dirty hot dog to a

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man who has been bothering him for some spare change. The homeless man dies after taking one bite, and he returns to haunt the cruel doctor. The story ends with the doctor having a

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from having had too many encounters with his ghostly stalker. Victor from "Call Girl" also appears in this segment, and he seems to be in cahoots with Dr. Farwell. The homeless man can be heard muttering, "Thanks for the good dog" to Dr. Farwell throughout the segment, an allusion to ''Creepshow 2''s "The Hitch-Hiker". The Hispanic woman from "Alice" also makes an appearance in this story.

Epilogue

It is revealed that the street vendor/homeless man got the two radios from Professor Dayton in "The Professor's Wife". After this tale ends, it then shows Professor Dayton at his wedding with his resurrected wife (who is bandaged up from being murdered in "The Professor's Wife") with a huge crowd around them. It shows Professor Dayton and his wife driving off. Alice's mom states that Alice will look so beautiful on her wedding day to which her family agrees as Alice's rabbit form is in the back seat of Professor Dayton's car. The priest asks the husband how Carol is with the response that she's not well at all and still believes that she has a daughter named Alice. It then zooms in on the back of the hot dog guy's head. He turns around, revealing that he was the Creep (resembling the version from ''Creepshow 2'') all along.

Cast

"Alice" * Stephanie Pettee as Alice * Simon Burzynski as Harry the Postman * Rami Rank as Neighbor * Derek Schachter as Neighbor's Kid * Snowball as Alice (Rabbit Form) Alice family #1 * Roy Abramsohn as Alice's father/ Detective Jacobs * Susan Schramm as Alice's mothe
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* Bunny Gibson as Alice's grandmother/ Dean Thompson * Matt Fromm as Jesse Alice family #2 * Nathan Kirkland as Alice's father * Selma Pinkard as Alice's mother * Kalena Knox as Alice's grandmother * Brian Jacobs as Jesse Alice family #3 * Leonardo Millan as Alice's father * Magi Avila as Nurse Jacobs/ Alice's mother * Margarita Lugo as Alice's grandmother * Robert Gonzalez as Jesse "The Radio" *

as Jerry *

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as Eva * Akil Wingate as Leon * Cara Cameron as The Radio * Elwood Carlisle as Legless the Homeless Man * Justin Smith as Ronald * Karen Agnes as Sherry the Hooker * James Dudelson as TV-operator * Scott Dudelson as Passed-out Junkie "Call Girl" * Camille Lacey as Rachel * Ryan Carty as Victor * Moya Nkruma as Street Girl *

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as Claire the Homeless Woman * Pablo Pappano as Fat Joe * Frank Pappano as Father * Margaret Pappano as Mother "The Professor's Wife" * Emmet McGuire as Professor Dayton * Bo Kresic as Kathy * Michael Madrid as Charles *

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as John * Joseph Russo as Father Russo "Haunted Dog" * Kris Allen as Dr. Farewell * Ed Dyer as Cliffie * Leigh Rose as Mrs. Lensington * Dean Dinning as Stephan Rhodes * Katherine Barber as Dusty Rhodes * John C. Larkin as Security Guard * Mike Dalager as Dr. McKinney * April Wade as Nurse * Greg McDougall as Hot Dog Man/Creep * Andre Dupont as Ambulance Attendant-1 * Christopher Estes as Ambulance Attendant-2 * Dean Battaglia as Dino

Production

''Creepshow 3'' was backed by the Taurus Entertainment Company and directed by James Glenn Dudelson and Ana Clavell. The film's special make-up effects were created by Greg McDougall, who has also worked on Steven Spielberg's ''

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'' in the special effects department.

Release

The film was released on April 24, 2006, in

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, in the

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by HBO in 2007, and in the

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on October 20, 2008, by Anchor Bay UK.

Reception

On review aggregation website

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the film has an approval rating of 0% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 2.7/10. Steve Barton at ''

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'' called it an "in name only" sequel and that it was "void of any character, depth, integrity, scares, or feeling." James Butane, also of ''Dread Central'', rated it 2/5 and said "This is not a movie worthy to be called Creepshow for any reason, believe me." Rob Hunter of ''

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'' panned the film as "bad" and said "the film never feels like a ''Creepshow'' film."

References

External links

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