A young girl’s distressing symptoms quickly escalate without her medication, and when the dead rise from their graves, townspeople take justice into their own hands.

Creepshow’s third season concludes with two solid if unremarkable tales. In Drug Traffic, a border control officer and self-confessed Marxist (Michael Rooker, Guardians of the Galaxy) refuses to let an Asian-American woman and her daughter cross into Canada with their stash of drugs. What he doesn’t realise is just how essential they are to prevent the girl from transforming into something from your nightmares. The creature is truly horrific, and there’s some jibes about politics and US immigration policy, but there’s no great surprise in its denouement.

Dead Girl Named Sue is set in 1968, and because that’s so far in the past, it’s shot in black and white! Actually, it’s a nod to Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, with the dead coming back to life. The segment is based on a short story by Craig E Engler from the Nights of the Living Dead anthology and directed by John Harrison (Frank Herbert’s Dune), following police chief Evan Foster’s attempts to protect the awful Cliven Ridgeway from a vigilante mob. Should he turn a blind eye to the law and let justice run its course, or will the victims get their own revenge?

Verdict: Season 3 of Creepshow has had as many misses as hits, and this closing instalment treads the middle ground. Fun, but hardly essential. 6/10

Nick Joy