There’s a scene from the original 1982 Creepshow I’ve always remembered, with a line we’ve used ever since. It’s a Stephen King short story, The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill, and actually starred the author as the doomed backwoods, bad-luck farmer who runs afoul of a meteorite crashing down near his cabin.
#Bales2020FilmChallenge Day 11: Meteor in movie: Creepshow of course!!! Specifically the story The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill.🤘🤘🤘🤘 pic.twitter.com/3XvA8qUkOd
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Fantasizing about the riches the meteorite could bring him while ignoring the already ominous things happening to the area surrounding the rock itself, Jordy reaches for it, touches it, and immediately knows he’s made a terrible mistake.
“Aw, Jordy, you lunkhead!”
It only takes 24 hours for the fuzzy green plant life to…
