History Film / Creepshow3

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* KarmicDeath: Rachel the Killer Call Girl

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Victor lures the murderous Rachel in the guise of a dorky virgin, only to turn out to be the true predator of the story.

# ''Alice'' - Alice Jacobs is an obnoxious, stuck-up teenage girl who is growing tired of her cheery neighborhood. She comes home one day to find her family in the living room, where her father, a police detective, is fiddling with a new universal remote control. As it turns out, this remote really lives up to its title. Whenever one of the buttons on the device on the device is pressed, Alice finds herself transported into various alternate realities, including one where her family is African-American, and another where her family is Hispanic. If that isn't enough, an apparent side effect of this constant reality-traveling has Alice's body gradually mutating and deforming into a hideous, decaying mess. Realizing the severity of her situation, Alice tries to return her original reality before it's too late.

* BalefulPolymorph: The first segment ends with Alice being transformed into a rabbit.

* ScaryTeeth: Victor sports a huge mouth

* UnRoboticReveal: Professor Dayton's former students believe that his future bride Kathy is a robot; she behaves as such, and doesn't eat or drink. They ultimately dismantle her when Dayton's not around... and are horrified to discover she was a human mail-order bride.
* UniversalRemoteControl: What drives the plot of the first segment. Whenever Alice's father presses one of the buttons on the device, the whole family except for Alice changes ethnicity (i.e., the "Color and Hue Settings" button makes her family turn African-American, and the "Subtitles" button makes her family turn Hispanic).

# ''Alice'' - Alice Jacobs is an obnoxious, stuck-up teenage girl who is growing tired of her cheery neighborhood. She comes home one day to find her family in the living room, where her father, a police detective, is fiddling with a new universal remote control. As it turns out, this remote really lives up to its title. Whenever one of the buttons on the device on the device is pressed, Alice finds herself transported into various alternate realities, including one where her family is African-American, and another where her family is Hispanic. If that isn't enough, an apparent side effect of this constant reality-hopping has Alice's body gradually mutating and deforming into a hideous, decaying mess. Realizing the severity of her situation, Alice tries to get her original life back before it's too late.
# ''The Radio'' - Jerry is a part-time security officer who lives in an apartment complex he shares with a pimp named Leon, as well as one of Leon's hookers, Eva, who supposedly has feelings for him. One day, Jerry's radio breaks down during a baseball game, so he goes to buy a new one from a homeless street vendor to replace it. After crudely patching it up with duct tape and a piece of wire, the radio begins to talk to Jerry in a sultry, female voice. The radio soon begins giving advice to Jerry, telling him the right things to eat and even how to invest his money wisely, almost as if it can predict the future. However, the radio's advice begins driving Jerry down a dark path, having him steal a hidden stash of money, accidentally killing a thief in his building who tries to steal said money, and holding one of his other neighbors captive when they witness the murder. With people growing ever suspicious of Jerry's actions, there's no telling how much longer he'll be able to tolerate the radio's "advice".
# ''Call Girl'' - Rachel is an escort for hire with a dark secret. Namely, she's also a murderer with a penchant for stabbing. The local tabloids have been covering her actions for a while, giving her the nickname "The Call Girl Killer", an accomplishment she's actually proud of. After slaying her most recent victims, including a customer and a homeless woman, Rachel receives a call from her newest client, a timid young man named Victor who is looking for some company. Thinking Victor will just be another easy target, Rachel drives out to the suburbs to meet him. Things seem to be off in Victor's place however, as Rachel doesn't notice him in any photographs. Victor covers this up by mentioning that he's the black sheep of his family, but he does neglect to mention the corpses of three people strung up in another room of the house. After paying $1000 for sex, Rachel ends up killing Victor after a short while. But after cleaning herself up, Victor comes back to life, revealing himself as a vampire who proceeds to give Rachel a taste of her own medicine.
# ''The Professor's Wife'' - Professor Dayton is an eccentric college professor turned inventor who is soon to be getting married. He invites two of his former students, Charles and John, to come and visit to celebrate the occasion. The professor then introduces his wife to be: a ditzy, bubbly young woman named Kathy. When Dayton steps out to grab something from the store, Charles and John suspect something fishy is going on. Remembering that Professor Dayton has been known to have a knack for using his talents with machines to play practical jokes, and having been victims of said practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a robot, a secret project the professor has spent the last 20 years creating. When the duo manage to chat with Kathy, they find that she does somewhat behave like a robot. They deduce this not only because of how young she is, but because she does not eat or drink, she isn't used to heat, and she doesn't even remember how she met Dayton in the first place, which further indicates that she may possibly be mechanical. To that end, Charles and John, far too wrapped up in their own paranoia and superstitions, end up dismembering Kathy to see what she looks like on the inside. Unfortunately, the result is not what they think it is. (Thankfully, Dayton manages to put Kathy "back together" in time for their wedding in the film's epilogue.)
# ''Haunted Dog'' - Dr. Farwell is a cruel, heartless, and reckless doctor who is serving a court-ordered 30 day sentence at a free health clinic after an unspecified offense. Farwell is also incredibly insolent and rude towards his patients, giving them bogus prescriptions, hitting on the female patients, and frequently ingesting the medications he is supposed to prescribe to get high. His attitude with his patients doesn't stop there, as he even goes as far as to mock an old lady who is going blind and showing absolutely no sympathy towards a teenage girl with an inoperable brain tumor. One day, the doctor buys a hot dog from a local hot dog stand, but he ends up dropping it on the sidewalk. Out of kindness (or perhaps not) he decides to give the now filthy hot dog to a homeless man who had been asking him for food. Unfortunately, the homeless guy chokes and dies after taking one bite of the hot dog, especially after Farwell does absolutely nothing to help him. Soon after, Farwell begins seeing the homeless man's ghost in various places, the specter continuously offering him the hot dog he choked on. Whether or not the ghost is all in his head, Farwell ends up being driven into madness by the result of his actions.

# ''The Professor's Wife'' - Professor Dayton is an eccentric college professor turned inventor who is soon to be getting married. He invites two of his former students, Charles and John, to come and visit to celebrate the occasion. The professor then introduces his wife to be: a ditzy, bubbly young woman named Kathy. When Dayton steps out to grab something from the store, Charles and John suspect something fishy is going on. Remembering that Professor Dayton has been known to have a knack for using his talents with machines to play practical jokes, and having been victims of said practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a robot, a secret project the professor has spent the last 20 years creating. When the duo manage to chat with Kathy, they find also behaves like a robot. They deduce this not only because of how young she is, but because she does not eat or drink, she isn't used to heat, and she doesn't even remember how she met Dayton in the first place, which further indicates that she may possibly be mechanical. To that end, Charles and John, far too wrapped up in their own paranoia and superstitions, end up dismembering Kathy to see what she looks like on the inside. Unfortunately, the result is not what they think it is. (Thankfully, Dayton manages to put Kathy "back together" in time for their wedding in the film's epilogue.)

# ''Haunted Dog'' - A cruel, miserly doctor takes a 30 day position at a clinic, where he is very insolent towards his patients, even going as far as to show no sympathy towards a teenage girl with a brain tumour. One day he buys a hot dog, but drops it on the ground. Out of kindness (or perhaps not) he decides to give it to a homeless man. The homeless guy dies after taking one bite, and he returns to haunt the cruel doctor.

# ''The Professor's Wife'' - Two former students come to visit Professor Dayton and meet his wife to be, Kathy. Having been victims of his practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a robot, which the professor spent 20 years creating in his secret lab. She also behaves like a robot and does not eat or drink, which further indicates that she is probably mechanical. When the professor is out of bounds, they decide to dismantle Kathy to see what she looks like on the inside...

# ''Call Girl'' - Rachel is a murderous hooker who receives a call from Victor, her newest client. Rachel thinks he will just be another easy victim. However, Victor isn't quite normal himself...

# ''The Radio'' - Jerry is a part-time security guard who buys a radio from a homeless street vendor to replace his old one which stopped working. However this radio is far from ordinary. It can have a conversation with Jerry, and very soon Jerry is stealing money and murdering people, all at the bay of his new radio.

# ''Alice'' - Alice is a stuck-up, snotty teenager who comes home to find her father meddling with some kind of universal remote. Whenever he presses one of the buttons on the device, the whole family except for Alice changes ethnicity. During this, Alice gradually mutates into what is supposedly her "true form".

Unlike the first two ''Creepshow'' installments, in which the wraparound element linking the stories was a horror comic, ''Creepshow 3'' takes a ''Film/PulpFiction''-esque approach, in which characters from each story interact with each other during the film. Like the first film, it tells five stories:

* InNameOnly: A much lambasted example, which is rather remarkable since like its namesakes it's a horror anthology movie. But unlike the other ''Creepshow'' movies, it had no involvement from George Romero or Stephen King and, even more damning, had no homages to the EC horror comics of the past. Of course, it helps (or doesn't help) that ''Creepshow'' and ''Creepshow 2'' are considered classics, while ''Creepshow 3'' is as widely disliked as any work can be. Creator/TomSavini has been quoted as saying that ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' is the real ''Creepshow 3''.

1. ''Alice'' - Alice is a stuck-up, snotty teenager who comes home to find her father meddling with some kind of universal remote. Whenever he presses one of the buttons on the device, the whole family except for Alice changes ethnicity. During this, Alice gradually mutates into what is supposedly her "true form".
2. ''The Radio'' - Jerry is a part-time security guard who buys a radio from a homeless street vendor to replace his old one which stopped working. However this radio is far from ordinary. It can have a conversation with Jerry, and very soon Jerry is stealing money and murdering people, all at the bay of his new radio.
3. ''Call Girl'' - Rachel is a murderous hooker who receives a call from Victor, her newest client. Rachel thinks he will just be another easy victim. However, Victor isn't quite normal himself...
4. ''The Professor's Wife'' - Two former students come to visit Professor Dayton and meet his wife to be, Kathy. Having been victims of his practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a robot, which the professor spent 20 years creating in his secret lab. She also behaves like a robot and does not eat or drink, which further indicates that she is probably mechanical. When the professor is out of bounds, they decide to dismantle Kathy to see what she looks like on the inside...
5. ''Haunted Dog'' - A cruel, miserly doctor takes a 30 day position at a clinic, where he is very insolent towards his patients, even going as far as to show no sympathy towards a teenage girl with a brain tumour. One day he buys a hot dog, but drops it on the ground. Out of kindness (or perhaps not) he decides to give it to a homeless man. The homeless guy dies after taking one bite, and he returns to haunt the cruel doctor.

* InNameOnly: The film had no involvement from anyone involved in the first two films, and didn't even have a horror comic-style FramingDevice. Tom Savini has been quoted as saying ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' is the real ''Creepshow 3''.