Jordy Verrill was played on-screen by Stephen King himself.

The segment ends with the greenery continuing to spread across his land and far beyond. The segment was titled The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.

After his death, a weather report is heard, stating that 'Castle County is going to turn green so fast in the next month.that it's going to be almost miraculous!' The story was adapted into the second segment of the anthology film Creepshow in 1982.

Eventually, fearing what he was becoming, Jordy fetched his shotgun and put an end to his own life. Over the course of the next few days, Jordy began to grow a thick coat of vegetation over his entire body, no matter what he did to stop it - bathing only seemed to speed up its growth. However, when he touched the rock it split open, exposing him to a foul gas. Talk about flesh crawling! Tom Savini's special effects are great, as usual.Jordy Verrill was the main protagonist who appeared in the Stephen King short story Weeds and its adaptation into The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill segment of horror anthology movie Creepshow.Īfter discovering a recently-crashed meteorite on his property in New England, hillbilly farmer Jordy thought that he might be able to sell it to the local university in order to pay off his bank loan. Marshall as a wealthy, obsessively clean old jerk who is savaged in his futuristic apartment by a legion of cockroaches. Jordy Verrill, a comedic and dim-witted backwoods yokel played by Stephen King, watches as a meteorite crash lands on his farm. Some of the acting is good, too, particularly Adrienne Barbeau as a heavy drinking, obnoxious faculty wife who gets what she deserves, Hal Holbrook as her hen-pecked husband and E.G. All five of the tales presented, despite some missteps, offer up good gory fun. Each tale has a different horror theme usually tempered with some comedy and ranging from a rich patriarch returning from the dead to get revenge on his obnoxious family to a meteor that causes an outbreak of vegetation to a fanged, ape-like creature that's been locked away in a crate for decades. One of the best things about it is director George ('Night of the Living Dead') Romero's creative, vivid direction, that captures the bright color schemes and comic book framing to a tee. Despite some major problems (mainly contained in Stephen King's uneven and often heavy-handed script), this is still a pretty fun attempt to bring 1950s EC horror comics to the big screen.

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