The Creeping Terror (1964)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Simply Perfect

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I am glad I did not waste any money of this piece of garbage. I have seen some pretty poor movies but this one takes the cake. I watched it on late night TV sometime in the 70's or 80's. I will never forget that the sound track kept cutting in and out to the point that I checked my TV to see if there was a problem. I don't think too many people in this so called movie went any further and it is sad that some possibly good careers never got off the ground and it is the fault of this movie. I will not go into the number of goofs since I would be up all night. The most glaring goof was you could see people crawling into the monster to be eaten. Rest In Peace, Mr. Savage.

Apparently Vic Savage, director of THE CREEPING TERROR, never worked in film again after the debacle that was this film. I've watched it twice now and, to that news, I'm not surprised. This movie has earned the dishonor of being the absolute worst movie I've ever seen, rocketing past WAR OF THE ROBOTS as most insufferable collection of images ever put to celluloid. There is absolutely nothing positive I can think to say about THE CREEPING TERROR. I was gleefully watching my way through a 50-movie collection of cheesy science fiction movies until I came to this one; I put the collection down and still haven't gone back for fear of coming across another movie as miserably bad as THE CREEPING TERROR. What if there's another one out there, waiting to turn my brain to slush? I have never regretted another 75 minutes of my life as much as this. And I did it twice! I gave it the benefit of the doubt, believing there had to be some modicum of entertainment to be gleaned from it. I was wrong and I hate myself for trying. A friend of mine learned of my suffering and suggested I watch the MST3K episode on it, but I haven't been able to bring myself to sit down and willfully subject myself to this movie again, MST3K or no MST3K. I hate it with a passion and the mere mention of the title is enough to send flashes of searing pain through my mind.THE CREEPING TERROR believes it's about a crashed rocket ship in a small American town and the alien "monster" it unleashes on the unsuspecting populace. What THE CREEPING TERROR is actually about is a patchwork of shag carpet samples thrown over some poor soul who's forced to drag a series of children's' wagons behind them at an excruciatingly slow pace while some underpaid actor or actress does their best to feign terror before being "eaten" (i.e. being uncomfortably dragged through the hole at the front). Any and all information is passed along to the viewing audience by means of voice-over narration. This movie is almost entirely voice-over narration, which plays over boring scenes of people doing mostly nothing. Sounding like a mid-twentieth century government PSA, it's hard to find an ounce of tension anywhere in this movie. As if the narration weren't enough to kill the mood, no one in this movie can act. When the crashed rocket ship is first discovered, a local policeman crawls through an opening and gets eaten inside (we never see it because this movie is awful) but no one reacts. A lawman is eaten alive by an alien life form and dude just wanders over to the patrol car without a care in the world and radios it in. And no one in town could care less. Everyone just goes about business as normal with an "alien" on the loose because writer Robert Silliphant wanted audiences to suffer. And suffer we did. That monster…Most of this abomination is footage of the "terror" creeping up on people at a snail's pace, confronting them, and the victims failing to do anything short of standing still and screaming. Grandfather out fishing with his grandson? Eaten. Hippies have a picnic? Eaten. All of them. No survivors. A bunch of teens having a dance party in the community center? Eaten. All of them. All. Of. Them. Somehow, no one can escape a creature that won't fit through most doorways and could be easily outrun by a toddler. One hundred and fifteen insufferable minutes of this. Someone, somewhere thought making a movie was a piece of cake. And then someone, perhaps even more incompetent than Vic Savage and Robert Silliphant combined, gave clearance to release this piece of utter trash to unsuspecting audiences. They knew what they'd done. This was released in 1964. Movies had been around a good while at this point. They had to know this was unfit for human consumption and they released it anyway. At least I got 49 other movies to dull the pain from having put money toward this; those poor souls in 1964 who wandered into a theater or the drive- in, ready to have some fun, I mourn for them. All I can do is warn future generations of cheesy, Z-grade creature features to search for their next fix elsewhere. THE CREEPING TERROR has nothing to offer and may have lasting damage to their psyche if subjected to the full 115 minutes.

"Ed Wood would think this is a bad film." A quote from my husband while we enjoyed this film. Seriously good fun and a bonus of a girl really enjoying herself while dancing. How have I lived almost 45 years without this film gem in my library? Now my life is complete. Watching again very soon. This must be one of the top 10 worst films ever made, and by this I do not mean something sufferable to get through, but a film that makes you laugh and inspires shout outs to the screen and dialogue creation. I may even dance along during further viewing. Whether this film is truly bad we may never know due to the lost soundtrack. Someone somewhere must have it, please look and submit to the correct people when found.

When I watched this movie for the first and only time I didn't realize it was made in 1964, I thought it had to be from the 50's. I mean you have a narrator for goodness sakes and it is in black and white. The creeping terror is so slow moving I can't see why anything, let alone a human, would end up as prey, well snail or a turtle maybe. Plus there is the factor of alien biology and chemical compatibility between the two species. This monster looks like a precursor to the Swiffer at it's bottom. The alien who drags it out looks like a very bad Sponge Bob Square Pants. Also if you are a space faring race why are you transporting monsters? To a zoo or some park? zi mean why are these kind of movies even made?????