Creep (2004)

Truly Dreadful Film

Great Film overall

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Independent scary movies shot on meagre budgets by enthusiastic amateurs are categorised as underground horror, but the same moniker could also be applied to a small sub-genre of films that take place in the dark, labyrinthine tunnels of underground railways, highly entertaining examples including Gary Sherman's Death Line (1972), Maurice Devereaux's End of the Line (2007), and Ryûhei Kitamura's The Midnight Meat Train (2008). Christopher Smith's debut Creep, which is set in the London underground, isn't anywhere near as good as those films, with a plot that is full of holes, characters that are hard to care about (victims include a drug dealer, a would-be rapist, and a couple of homeless heroin addicts), and a disappointing lack of splatter.Franka Potente plays Kate, whose mission to have sex with George Clooney leads her to take a late night tube ride where she encounters a cannibalistic mutant who feeds on unwary passengers. Trapped underground, Kate must battle to stay alive until the morning. What sounds like a lean, mean set-up ripe for scares is actually predictable and dull, and makes little sense: people have obviously been disappearing from the platforms of Charing Cross for quite some time, yet no-one seems to have noticed, not even with the mutant leaving long trails of blood in his wake (perhaps he nips back with a mop and bucket to clean up his mess, but I doubt it). There's some attempt at a back story for the creature (whose name is revealed to be Craig - I kid you not), but not nearly enough to make sense of.The majority of the film involves lots of wandering through dark tunnels, wallowing in filth and hiding from Craig, culminating in the expected showdown between Kate and the killer. At the end of the film, a bedraggled Kate is seen sat on a platform, having survived her ordeal, although there's a good chance that she will have contracted hepatitis having submersed herself in raw sewage in order to escape. Swings and roundabouts...

Everyone has, at some point, wondered what lurks in dark corners and abandoned tunnels within a city's underground subway system. Well Franka Potente gets to find out exactly what's down there in the murky and atmospheric horror flick Creep, and trust me it ain't pretty. Potente plays Kate, a girl on her way home from an office party in the heart of London. Harassed and stalked by a no good coworker, she dips into a derelict train, and her attacker follows. Suddenly, somethin crawls out of the dark, murders him and drags his corpse off into the night. Kate goes from the frying pan into the fire as she realizes that whatever this thing is, it's really not something you want to be stuck in a labyrinth of desolate subway tunnels with. I won't spoil too much, but the Creep himself is a repulsive deformation whose origin I'll let you see for yourself. The actor who plays him is terrific though, admittedly a maniacal monster, but almost a little bored and jaded by his situation and just dryly going through the motions, which proves to be oddly amusing. That's not to say he's not dangerous or smart though, as Kate repeatedly finds out, fleeing through the dark accompanied by a terrified homeless couple. Potente is riveting in anything, and she seems to seek out more intense fare to star in, always taking her performance to the extreme without ever losing that gravity that I love so much in her work. This one will put you through a wringer, all across the board. It doles out gross out horror, eerie chills and suspense in equal measures. Solid horror.

Okay; it's not the best movie I've ever seen but I think its worth to watch! I have seen this movie many times and I still remember the first time because it made such an impact on me. There is so much tension in this movie even when nothing happens! Most horror movies just have a couple of scary scenes, but I think that Creep is scary and frightening trhoughout the whole movie. The most scary thing about the movie to me is that it could happen. I mean; you don't know what kind of creatures live in the underground, right... ?! Creep plays with your fears in a cheap but effective way!

A woman coming back from a party falls asleep in a subway station and misses her train. When she gets on the next one it mysteriously stops and then when she knocks on the conductor's cabin the lights go out. However, these prove to only be the start of her problems as a deformed man (the eponymous creep) are hunting her and others.Now, the most obvious problem I have with this film was where the hell was this borderline mutant before now? While it's possible that homeless could go missing without anybody noticing he's attacking just about anybody down there in ways that people would realize something is wrong. Overlooking the potential plothole, the movie builds a fair amount of suspense throughout and the snarky heroine certainly has personality even if you might not necessarily like her.Movies like this really capitalize on our fears of the familiar unknown, those dark places in areas marked off-limits. And on some levels it does work pretty well. However, some of the locations seen just seem... insane. The actual Creep makes for a somewhat amusing villain; you don't actually get to see him for a while but he's interestingly multi-faceted except for his rather ambiguous origins. A very solid movie in most regards, although occasionally weak acting and pacing set it back.