Five years after the acclaimed George A. Romero / Stephen King collaboration debuted, cinematographer Michael Gornick helmed a cult sequel, which featured three stories instead of five.
The first story, OLD CHIEF WOOD’NHEAD is the tale of an elderly couple (George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour), who run a general store watched over by a wooden Red Indian statue, in a desolate and dying rural American township who are given some special jewellery by a local elderly Indian off a nearby reservation as a gift of kindness, but when a bad young Indian and his gang try to take what isn’t theirs, the statue decides to take action….
The second story, THE RAFT, sees a bunch of students arriving at a remote lake, but after they swim to a raft in the middle of the lake, they find themselves trapped by a human-devouring oil slick surrounding it….
The final story, THE HITCH-HIKER, sees an adulterous businesswoman (Lois Chiles) who, in her eagerness to not get caught by her husband as she speeds away from her dalliance, accidentally runs over a hitch-hiker and thinks he is dead, but clearly isn’t…..
Whilst not as fulfilling as the original 1982 film (the middle story is the strongest) it still has enough to offer die-hard horror fans.