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It’s not nearly as good as its predecessor, but I kinda like two out of the three tales in Creepshow 2.  The first story, Old Chief Wood’nhead, is about a wooden statue that comes alive to avenge the murder of a kindly old couple played by George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour. Kennedy and Lamour are sweet, but the episode is too hackneyed to leave an impression. In The Raft, four teenagers end up trapped in the middle of a lake by a mysterious, man-eating oil slick. The episode mixes sex and horror in the classic tradition and has a nice payoff. The last episode is The Hitchhiker, about a nervous woman who accidentally runs over a hitchhiker… again and again and again. It’s a one-joke story, but the joke works for me. The wraparound story involving a boy and some school bullies is pretty lame, and so is the involvement of “The Creep” character played by makeup guru Tom Savini.