{"id":1533,"date":"2021-04-08T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:37:40","slug":"creepshow-season-2-episode-2-an-order-of-dorothea-puente-with-a-side-of-food-of-the-gods-hf-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/creepshow-season-2-episode-2-an-order-of-dorothea-puente-with-a-side-of-food-of-the-gods-hf-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Creepshow’ Season 2 Episode 2 – An order of Dorothea Puente with a side of Food of the Gods \u2013 HF Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official for me at least the second season of Creepshow is just as good or maybe even better than its inaugural season. Today\u2019s episode Dead & Breakfast <\/strong>and Pesticide<\/strong> offers up greed, haunted houses, Instagram Live feeds and Food of the Gods<\/strong> trauma. And most importantly, the iconic Keith David and Hellraiser\u2019s<\/strong> Ashley Laurence.<\/p>\n

A marketing ploy at a haunted Bed and Breakfast becomes too realistic; an exterminator gets more than he bargained for when he takes on a big job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first segment Dead & Breakfast <\/strong>pays to tribute to two things I hold near and dear to my horror loving heart a ghost story and female serial killers like Lizzie Borden and in this case Dorothea Puente. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. Her total count reached nine confirmed murders, and six unconfirmed. Newspapers dubbed Puente the “Death House Landlady”.<\/p>\n

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Dead & Breakfast <\/strong>stars Ali Larter and C. Thomas Howell as brother and sister owner of The Spinster Bed and Breakfast, where the establishment specializes in a haunted stay at the site of their late grandmother’s alleged murder spree. Things clearly have not been going well, because they want and need visitors. To get reservations and to draw excitement and notoriety to the hotel they invite an influencer played by Iman Benson to spend the weekend there. Her visit goes from bad to worse, ending in a way I am almost sure she does not expect.<\/p>\n

The episode is directed by Axelle Carolyn (The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/strong><\/em>) and written by Michael Rousselet and Erik Sandoval (Dude Bro Party Massacre III<\/strong><\/em>). It is a nicely done “retelling” of the Death House Landlady with the modern twist, updated elements and classic poetic ending. The segment also has its humorous tones. Larter, Howell and Benson do a good job with their characters, hitting the expected notes if you will. Larter departs from her usual nice girl\u00a0 in a satisfying way.<\/p>\n