Creep (1995)

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I expected a little out of this; I love Tim Ritter's Killing Spree, and kinda liked Truth or Dare. But this is such a stinker it deserves a courtesy flush.The movie starts off with Angus fleeing from a crashed police car. He gets chased a little by a cop, but gets away pretty easily. We get introduced to a female cop who constantly has flashbacks of her mother being attacked. She gets assigned to catching Angus. Angus makes his way to a couple in a car out in the woods. The girl leaves to go relieve herself, and Angus kills the guy and steals his clothes. He then kills the girl and hangs her in a crucifixion type pose. He steals the car and goes to find his sister, Kascha (or something like that). Kascha has an abusive "boyfriend", and Angus wants him done with. He meets the fat slob, and stabs him in the stomach. The FBI takes over the case, saying that Angus is the most prolific serial killer in history, with over 300 murders. Angus goes to his mother's grave site, digs her up and curses her for dying before he could kill her. Him and his sister have sex and then he kills her too. He goes to a pawn shop and robs it, and after burns the owner's face. The FBI gets closer to catching him; meanwhile, the female cop finally realizes that the person who attacked and killed her mom was her own father, who for some reason has teamed up with Angus. Angus kills the father but gets stopped by the female police officer.This movie is absolutely abysmal, I am a lover of bad movies but this is just flat out terrible. There really isn't gore, just bad looking blood and a Papier-mâché head. As expected there really isn't any acting in this, Kathy Willets seems bored and probably hates every scene she's in. Joel Wynkoop does a better job, but still can't act at all. This movie just exists, as a big, stinking pile on Tim Ritter's name. There's nothing good in it, and it's too bad to be funny. Watch this if you want to waste some of your life.

The first thing I noticed about Tim Ritter's Creep is all the trippy colors, that were seemingly only there to mask the unfortunate looks of that stripper, Kascha played by Kathy Willets. Kascha has a brother named Angus, played to perfection by the legendary, Joel D. Wynkoop. Angus is a serial killer who was in jail for armed robbery, and he recently escaped. Angus hooks up with his sister, together they kill her abusive husband. Meanwhile, a pair of Father and daughter cops are on their trail, but Angus and Kascha don't seem too concerned, they just want to go play in there mothers grave site, both were abused by their sadistic/drug-addicted parents, so I guess that would kind of make sense. At this point, all I can say is, things won't end up like anything resembling what you might think. And just nevermind the fact that Creep was shot on video, as this movie totally rises above. Creep is incredibly fast-paced, and unpredictable, with a decent script tolerable acting (as if it matters). Let's just say, Creep really keeps you on your toes. As politically incorrect as it wants to be, Creep includes such hi jinx as cocaine in the baby food, the humiliation and murder of a fat man, more than enough references to incest to go around, and even our pal, Asbestos Felt drops in for a visit, it's Floridian fun for the whole family, courtesy of Twisted Illusions. Wynkoop does a great job at adding the perfect combination of sleazy and psychotic to the character of Angus, although, Ritter could have done better at casting Kascha. For a much better Tim Ritter Movie, check out Killing Spree, but if you're looking for something more mean-spirited, then Creep it is. I'm sure I would like this a lot more if it weren't shot on video and would probably rate it higher. Anyone who shoots their films on video knows they have to try even harder to impress the viewer (Darkness, Shatter-Dead) I, for one, am fairly impressed. This is modern Exploitation, straight out of the 60's Drive-in. Long live Florida Gore. 7/10

This movie is so bad, so cheaply shot, so poorly acted and written that it's amazing it was ever made. Some scenes provoke howls they are so stupid, but there are far too few to bother watching this atrocious piece of garbage. If this were one-tenth as lurid and provocative as it was meant to be it would be well worth viewing. But, you can't make a movie with a budget you lifted out of your kid's piggy bank. In some of the scenes you can tell the video was shot in some low-rent neighborhood. They didn't even try to keep some of the neighbors out of the picture. It should be a crime to make movies this bad, it cheats people out some of their lives spent watching it. Well hope that's enough lines for IMDb, this flick isn't worth more than two lines. Thumbs WAY down.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I bought this one from a video store in Jupiter, Florida. The store was having an inventory reduction sale. I bought "Creep" along with a handful of other movies for about thirty bucks. The guy behind the counter looked at "Creep" and then looked at me and said, "You know the story behind this movie?" No, I said, what's the scoop? "You see the lady on the cover with the huge knockers? She was busted for prostitution back in the 90's. It was a famous case in Florida. Somehow [director] Tim Ritter got her to be in his movie. Yeah, Ritter lives around here. He's from Jupiter." Wow, I said, I didn't know that this was a locally made movie. I looked at the video box cover again and saw a bleached blonde with huge knockers getting strangled from behind by some drooling lunatic. As if that image wasn't enough to get me excited, now I had the full back story on this B-flick to get my heart pumping. I was ready for some "Creep".So my brother pops over the other day and we decide to give "Creep" a whirl. "Creep" is the story of Angus the nutbag and his desire to kill people. Angus goes to visit his sister who happens to be a stripper. She was the woman on the cover, (Kathy Willets), that the guy in the video store was talking about. She looked good to me although my brother was less impressed. "Oh God, she's hideous! Don't fall for the fake breasts! Any of the other women in the movie were better looking!"So Angus kills people while Willets and her large, fantastic, fake breasts bounce in your face. Some other women get naked as well. "Creep" is truly for the die hard B-sleaze lover. Any normal moviegoer would have a heart attack watching it. It was shot on video and looks cheap and tacky. I would give it a 4/10 only because of plentiful fake breasts and blood. If you're a B-fiend, you should check it out.