In a desperate plea for mercy, Phil pukes up his chocolate bar and offers it back to Xander, but it's too late. Not to be outdone, the vengeful old man rips the intestines out from a boy in a hot dog suit, continuing the sick sense of humor from King's anthology. Xander curb-stomps a teen's skull into a sewer grate, dislodging the young man's eyeballs. While 1982's Creepshow was chock-full of gore, this modern revival cranks up the death scenes. Xander's corpse finds the squad of sinners and executes them one by one. It doesn't take a master sleuth to predict what happens next. Xander's abandoned house where a bowl of oversized candy bars mysteriously rests on the dead man's porch, complete with a makeshift sign that reads 'Take One.' Rumor has it that Xander's daughter split his skull in half, but the gang ignores the old man's warning, stealing all the candy bars as they flee the scene. "Take One", the issue's first tale, displays the deadly consequences of sugar-lust as it follows Phil, the runt of the group, and his friends' mad dash to steal candy on Halloween. Unlike its predecessor, Creepshow #1's short stories revolve around the terrors that tear youthful innocence limb for limb. From the wax candles that drip onto Sylvia's skull to Nathan's excitement after finally getting his cake, 1982's Creepshow proves that Halloween comics can be fun and frightening. The final scene reveals the spooky synergy between horror and humor. He murders Sylvia, his daughter's favorite niece, by snapping her neck, and with the party spoiled, serves the guests a corpse-cake complete with candles adorned atop Sylvia's severed head.
After Nathan crushes Bedielia's body with his gravestone, the vengeful corpse sneaks into the family manor in search of dessert. Suddenly, Nathan's corpse climbs out of his grave to choke Bedelia, demanding, as he did years before, that he wants his cake. She also replays the memory of when, fed-up and fueled by rage, she bashed her father's skull, christening his special day with blood. She remembers how her father shot her fiancé in the chest and his unceasing demand for cake on Father's Day. Before meeting her family for dinner, Bedelia visits her father's grave with a bottle of whiskey and digs up the ghosts from her past. "Father's Day," the first entry in the original comic anthology, centers around Great Aunt Bedelia and her mysterious past, a past doused in the blood of her slain father, Nathan. 1982's Creepshow provides a tantalizing template for how to create a spine-tingling horror comic.
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