OK, I have a poor memory but some things seem to get stuck in, like one particular “horror” movie/tv episode/tv short. I can remember it had multiple “stories” in it, but the one I remember was about a group of kids who go sailing on a lake on a little wooden platform thing, and this black goo on the river surface starts grabbing them. Sounds pretty lame I know, but I was terrified of it… 
Anyone know what I’m talking about?
Ooh, that strikes a cord.
I remember there was a horror movie from the 80’s that had three or four short stories in it. It was based on a comic book; after each story the scene would fade out and be replaced by a similar scene in the comic book.
Anyway, I think your black-goo-terrorizes-kids-on-a-boat story was in that movie. If we could just identify the movie…
Creepshow
Creepshow 2 sounds about right; the third story (about running over someone) also sounds really familiar. Same with the name.
Another of my life’s mysteries solved! Thanks!
I’ll watch the trailer IMDB has after I reset my comp after I finish at the SDMB and I’ll let you know with a definitive answer. But until then you can have a preemptive thanks.
I didn’t see the movie, but I know I read that short story. I think it was by Stephen King. It was a creepy story.
Yep, Stephen King. I believe it was entitled “The Raft,” and I believe it was in Skeleton Crew, but it’s been several years and it’s all kinda foggy-like…
The Raft or sure… I first read it in a men’s magazine (gallery?) where it was inserted in as a 'mini-novel… and you could TAKE IT OUT of the magazine and read it without guilt in front of your patents (yes, I was in high school then). I may actually still have that little mini-novel somewhere,
Stephen King mentions that The Raft was published in Playboy in his intro to Skeleton Crew. Never saw the TV version. Did they escape?
Is that in any way related to a couple of things I remember? Specifically a fisherman whose lunch gets soaked, and he spies an apple, and upon taking a bite out of it, gets caught by a hook and pulled into the water… or a pizza delivery boy who plays his music really loud and isn’t quite polite and so is doomed to sit forever, zombie-like in a backwoods truckstop?
There’s another story in a similar vein that I read years ago (The Black Lake, maybe) by someone whose name escapes me, where the entire lake is a predatory liquid creature. It shapes bits of itself into edible things to act as bait to attract its prey (like an insect on the surface to attract a flying bird, which it then swallows). I’ll hunt around home for it if anyone’s interested…
I’ve seen that movie, but I can’t remember if it was Creepshow 1 or Creepshow 2 (I only saw one of them). Besides the raft episode, another of the episodes was about a man whose apartment was taken over by a huge number of cockroaches.
I also remember the fisherman getting hooked, but I can’t remember if it was in that movie or not.
According to the plot summaries at IMDB, it is Creepshow 2 that has The Raft in it.
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If this is the one I remember, one of the boys swims away from the raft as the last girl is being consumed. He flails away and makes it to the shore where he collapses. The last cutaway scene is a cresting black wave about to crash down on him. Very scary :eek:
I read “The Raft,” but in was in The Twilight Zone magazine. It was featured on the cover.
In teh story, no one gets off the raft… the last kid realizes too late that he could have nade it while the last girl was being consumed. He hypothesizes (sp?) that the 'swirling colors thatcan be seen in the blask film are hypnotic, and made to make the experience pain free… he asks the slick to make it quick, and the colors begin to swirl… and that’s the end.
Oohh… I’ll have to hire this from the video store…
Stephen King and George Romero teamed up to make “Creepshow” as a tribute to the old EC horror comics they’d liked as kids. King wrote 5 different “Tales from the Crypt” style stories for “Creepshow”:
The sequel, “Creepshow 2” (not very good!) DID include an adaptation of King’s short story “The Raft.” The one difference: in the story, the last surviving kid willingly gives himself up to the creature, since he no longer has the strength to fight. In the movie, the kid makes a break for it and swims to shore. He THINKS he’s safe, but the blob comes up on land and gets him after all. (Which makes you wonder… if the blob COULD leave the water, why didn’t it come up on the raft and devour all the kids right away???).
The other episodes involved:
A wooden cigar store Indian comes to life to avange the murder of the store owner (George Kennedy) and his wife.
A rich married woman runs over a tramp with her car, while speeding home from a rendezvous with her lover. But the dead tramp won’t be left behind- he keeps pursuing her, in various stages of decay.
“Thanks for the ride, lady!” :D:D
Part of that was filmed on the then-new I-95/395 interchange south of Bangor, ME, where King lives. I know this because that’s where my in-laws live too.
This is the Leslie Neilsen of Naked Gun, Airplane, Spy Hard et al, right? Damn, it would be scary to see him in a serious role for once; besides Forbidden Planet. That doesn’t count because he was goofy in that as well.