CREEPSHOW: Stephen King's GRAY MATTER

Creepshow is an American horror anthology television series that serves as a continuation of the 1982 film of the same name with each episode featuring two horror stories. The series premiered on September 26, 2019, on Shudder
"Gray Matter" (also titled "Grey Matter") is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the October 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.
"Gray Matter" Directed by: Greg Nicotero
Story by : Stephen King Teleplay by : Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi
Original Airdate: September 26, 2019
The Creep opens a crate (resembling the one seen in the first film) to discover it contains issues of Creepshow. He grabs one of the issues out of the crate, then turns to the audience, and laughs. After the opening credits, there is an advertisement for other Creepshow issues. Then there is an advertisement for deluxe full-over the head horror monster masks (consisting of a vampire, a sea monster, a witch, a Sasquatch, a vampire mummy, a voodoo zombie, Lady Frankenstein, a weregorilla, a scarecrow, the Creep, a genie, and a severed head) before the first story begins.
"Gray Matter": During Hurricane Charlie, a group of townspeople are huddled together in a store to wait out the coming storm. They are met by local boy Timmy Grenadine (Christopher Nathan), who nervously asks for a case of Harrow's Supreme beer for his alcoholic father Richie (Jesse C. Boyd). When Timmy mentions that his father is "real sick" and doesn't want to go back home, the chief of police (Tobin Bell) and his friend Doc (Giancarlo Esposito) volunteer to check on him. While they travel to Timmy's house, Timmy explains to shopkeeper Dixie (Adrienne Barbeau) that after Richie's wife died, his drinking problem spiraled out of control. After drinking a "bad beer" one day, Richie gradually mutated into a gelatinous monster with a taste for human flesh. When the chief discovers the monster, he tries to put it down, only for the creature to absorb him and begin multiplying. Doc runs back to the store to report on what has happened as Dixie calculates that within only six days, the creatures will take over the entire world and drive humanity to extinction. The hands of the multiplied creatures then break in through the ceiling and grab Doc as he, Dixie, and Timmy scream.