Creepshow

=== Prologue ===
Billy Hopkins, a young boy, gets disciplined by his abusive father, Stan, for reading Creepshow, a horror comic. Not wanting his son to be exposed to the comic's content, Stan throws it in the garbage while ranting on stories like people coming back from the dead and people turning into plants. As Billy sits upstairs, wishing that his father rots in Hell, he hears a sound at the window. The source of the noise turns out to be the Creep, the host of the comic book, who beckons him to come closer. The scene transitions to the first story.

"Father's Day"

Many years ago, Bedelia Grantham's wealthy, abusive, and domineering father Nathan made her life a living hell, even going so far as to have her lover killed just so he could keep her under his thumb. That Father's Day, she proceeded to bash her father's head in with a marble ashtray (which is hidden throughout the other stories) as he yammered loudly for his cake. Seven years later, the rest of the Grantham family gather together at the family estate on Father's Day, the anniversary of the murder. Nathan Grantham comes back as a zombie-like creature to get the cake he never got, and kills off his relatives one-by-one.

"The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"

Jordy Verrill, a comedic and dim-witted yokel who runs a gas station, watches as a meteorite crash lands on his farm. Jordy plans to sell the meteorite to the local college, hoping that the sale will provide enough money to pay off a $200 bank loan. Taking precautions, he douses the meteorite with a bucket of water, causing it to crack open and spill a glowing blue liquid. Resolving to try to glue the halves together in the morning, Jordy nonchalantly dumps the liquid from the meteor into the soil, but not before it makes contact with his skin.
Over time, a strange grass-like substance grows all over Jordy's farm, everything Jordy has touched, and even on Jordy's body, which causes him to itch furiously. He starts to draw a bath to relieve the itching, but the ghost of his deceased father appears in his mirror, warning him against it, saying that water is what the plants want. Grimly rationalizing that not getting in would only delay the inevitable, Jordy succumbs to temptation and collapses into the bathwater.
The next morning, as The Farm Report plays on TV, Jordy's farm has been completely coated with dense layers of the alien vegetation, and Jordy himself has been transformed into a human-shaped collection of plant matter. In despair, he reaches for a coach gun and blows the top of his head off, killing himself. Immediately afterward, the weather announcement mentions that moderate temperatures and heavy rains are predicted as the plants spread down the roads to other towns.

"Something to Tide You Over"

Wealthy control freak Richard Vickers learns that his wife Becky is having an affair with well-to-do beach bum Harry Wentworth. When he confronts Harry about the affair, he plays a recording of a terrified Becky begging Harry to come save her. He soon lures Harry to Comfort Point, his private beachfront estate, and once there, he forces Harry to jump into a hole in the sand, whereupon Richard buries him up to his neck. To make matters worse, Richard has buried Harry below the high-tide line, ensuring that he will drown when the tide comes in. As a final insult, he even shows Harry live footage of Becky suffering the same fate before he drowns.
Later that night, Richard hears voices calling his name, as a mysterious, unseen presence easily bypasses Comfort Point's extensive security system. The culprits turn out to be Harry and Becky, the two lovers having returned as waterlogged, seaweed-covered revenants intent on revenge on their killer. Richard shoots them, but when the bullets have no effect, he barricades himself in his bedroom, only to find Becky and Harry already inside. The two victims taunt Richard, who laughs insanely.
Sometime later, the undead lovers buried Richard up to his neck on the beach. They have since disappeared together into the surf, leaving Richard's own seaweed-covered video camera to record his coming demise. The hysterical Richard screams that he can hold his breath "for a LONG time!" Some of the tide goes into his mouth as the story ends.

"The Crate"

At the prestigious Horlicks University, janitor Mike Latimer finds an old, dusty crate underneath a basement stairwell. The crate also catches Mike's interest when he discovers that it has been stored underneath the staircase for over a century and supposedly contains specimens of an "Arctic expedition". He notifies biology professor Dexter Stanley about the find, and invites him to the basement to help him open it. Once opened, the crate is revealed to contain a shaggy, diminutive, and ferocious creature. After the monster kills and eats Mike, the frightened Professor Stanley enlists the help of grad student Charlie Gereson. After the monster also kills and eats Charlie, Dexter goes to his colleague and fellow professor Henry Northrup for help.
Henry turns out to be married to an abusive and alcoholic shrew of a woman named Wilma "Billie". Seeing the supposed creature as an ideal way to rid himself of his wife, Henry appears to believe Dexter's story. To this end, Henry spikes Dexter's drink with sleeping pills and writes a note stating that Dexter had supposedly assaulted a female student. This brings Billie rushing to Amberson Hall, where Henry lures her under the basement stairs, trying to awaken the creature. As Billie rants at Henry for dragging her out there in the middle of the night and assaulting her, the beast awakens and proceeds to consume her.
The next morning, Henry tells Dexter that he secured the beast inside its crate and then dumped the crate into a nearby quarry, watching as it sank to the bottom. He convinces Dexter that the creature has drowned, and both men agree to let the authorities handle the disappearances. Unknown to Henry and Dexter, the beast is still alive and is last seen tearing the submerged crate apart.

"They're Creeping Up on You!"

Upson Pratt is a ruthlessly cruel business mogul who suffers from mysophobia, which has rendered him living in a hermetically sealed penthouse apartment outfitted with electric locks and surveillance cameras. His apparent contacts with the outside world are through the telephone and are primarily made to put-upon employees. One stormy night, Pratt receives a call from George Gendron, one of his subordinates, informing him that his company (Pratt International) has recently initiated a corporate takeover of Pacific Aerodyne. Gendron also informs Mr. Pratt that the takeover caused a business rival, Norman Castonmeyer, to commit suicide.
Pratt actually reacts joyously to this news, but soon after, he soon begins finding cockroaches, which he fears more than anything, crawling all around his apartment. Before long, someone manages to get through on Pratt's private line. The caller turns out to be Norman Castonmeyer's widow, Lenore, who tearfully recalls her husband's final moments and curses Pratt for causing his death. Later, a rolling blackout heads towards the building. During the blackout, cockroaches numbering in the hundreds of thousands begin to overwhelm him.
At his wits' end, Pratt locks himself inside a climate-controlled panic room to escape the growing swarm of cockroaches. He gets another call from Lenore, who continues to curse at him. It's during this call that Pratt finds his bed covers wriggling, and he removes them to discover that the cockroaches have already invaded the panic room. With no way for Pratt to escape, the cockroach swarm charges at him, which induces a fatal heart attack.
When electricity returns to the building, the apartment is utterly devoid of cockroaches. Pratt's corpse is shown in the panic room. Pratt's body soon begins to contort as cockroaches burst out of his mouth and chest, re-enveloping the panic room.

Epilogue

The next morning, two garbage collectors find the Creepshow comic book on the curb. They look at the book's ads for X-ray specs and a Charles Atlas–type bodybuilding course. They also see the advertisement for a voodoo doll, but lament that the order form has already been redeemed.
Inside the Hopkins house, Stan complains to his wife that he has a stiff neck, figuring he must have strained it. Upstairs, Billy is revealed to have sent away for the voodoo doll and has decorated it with a piece of his father's clothing and some of his hair. Stan clutches his throat in pain as Billy repeatedly and gleefully jabs the voodoo doll with a pin, finally getting revenge on his father for his abuse.