The film Creep

Just saw this for the first time the other night. On Film 4 I think it was.

I thought it was going to be one of those modern American horrors due to the previews. Like 'Jeepers Creepers' or something like that.

As I started watching it I realised it was a British film. I was thinking that as it's British I hope it isn't crap, as so many British films seem to be for me.

Boy was it crap. It was really bad.
It was so obviously trying to mimic the modern American horror films with it's style. Bits on the train were direct rips from 'Jeepers Creepers 2'.

I think it really started to go downhill as soon as she met the two homeless people. The dialogue when she was asking for help was just so unrealistic it was unbelievable.

And the acting was as though the actors in it weren't treating it as a proper film. As though just because it's 'only' a horror film they don't have to put the effort in and can ham it up.
I'm not necessarily saying that the modern American horrors similar to this are all great, but I do acknowledge that they've obviously taken a lot more care on the production side of things than this careless piece of tat.

Almost everything about it was shoddy and bad.
Except for the main actress, who I thought was okay. The best thing about the film. At least she appeared to be trying to do a competent job despite the bad material she had to work with and the bad supporting actors cast around her.

It's films like this that really annoy me about the British film industry at the moment.
With certain genres it's as though they feel that they don't even need to try, as something like horror is 'easy', so they think that they can get away with being lazy and casual in the way that they make it.

If certain British productions can make a good film in the horror genre like '28 Days Later' and even 'Shaun of the Dead' then there really is no excuse.
 
I don't think Creep is as bad as people say it is, if you want to see a bad film watch "26 Weeks Later" Severance was billed as a "comedy horror" an in my opinion was niether, there are alot worse english horror films about "Wilderness" is one that springs to mind and is one to definitely avoid, if you like horror films and you don't mind that there foreign, then I suggest "Them" a very good french film set in romania, no doubt film4 will be showing it in the future, I doubt Sky will show it.
 
It was also the first time I watched it. I'm a bit 'meh' about horror movies but thought there where some scarey bits. As mentioned the acting was a bit wooden and I don't understand why the mutant dude was down there with an operating theatre. We witnessed some photos of him, when he was young, with his dad in a doctors coat and babies in jars but that's about it. Also how could he be so strong when he was so thin and ameciated? Best bonus was that the main protaganist was very hot :)
 
Sorry for that - hardly a constructive answer, but there you go.

I found the end inconclusive, unfullfilling and a bit of a cop out. Either kill off your main character as per Leon, or let them survive. Sending them back and using the Dallas Dream trick is just poor.
 
Was your dodgy dvd the American version, because that has a really terrible ending compared to the British version. There isn't really a Dallas Dream trick in the end of the British version.

There is only a slight hallucination/dream part near the end, but everything else did happen apparently and she is actually stuck down there when she wakes up from only dreaming she escaped

Acting was fine and dandy imo, nothing bad at all.

Well that's what I saw.
 
OMG I watched this about a year ago one evening with my boyfriend and my daughter - I had a glass of coke on the table next to me and my daughter asked me at the end of the film why I hadn't drunk it and I said that I had been too scared to move!

I loved the film I thought it was fantastic and would recommend it to anybody! I found it really creepy and it made me feel really jumpy - I don't like gore that much so had to look away in parts but I loved it.


What a special touch too with the ending - Fantastic!
 
I actually didn't mind it, but purely for being creeped out by the empty underground at night. The film loses it once the creep is actually revealed.
 
Agreed. A shame as that is actually the best part of the film, the torch lighting us seeing the Creep for the first time, but it goes downhill after that. They should have saved it for the climax rather than halfway through.
 
the descent is a CLASSIC.

brilliantly dark and the ending is great. lets you think she has escaped and then you have the floor pulled out from under you..

it was dark and violent and tense, everything a proper horror film should be

and the acting was good
 
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