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I remember seeing the trailer for this film, and reading some promising reviews about Creep around the time of its release. I remember thinking that this film had the potential to be chilling, as many people including myself have a fear of being stuck all alone in the dark and being freaked ... Read review
Ever missed the last train?London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, ... more
Kate (Franka Potente 'The Bourne Identity/Supremacy') heads for the Underground. She takes a seat away from the crowd of late-night revellers and waits for the last ...
Your journey terminates here. London midnight on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi ... more
Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. She takes a seat away from the crowd of late-night revelers and waits for the last train. Before long she drifts...
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Stephen Norrington - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Keir, Traci Lords, Udo Kier
Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Advantages: Some realistic gore and a cute dog. Disadvantages: Fails to scare, weak characterisation and is too long at 80 minutes
...reading some promising reviews about Creep around the time of its release. I remember thinking that this film had the potential to be chilling, as many people including myself have a fear of being stuck all alone in the dark and being freaked out by sounds around you.
At the beginning of this film I could sympathize with Kate and feel her fear of being all alone, and the emotions she must have felt when another train pulled into the station. ... ...
While Creep had so much potential it failed to deliver the goods in most areas, so therefore I don’t recommend you buy this film. If you do want to see it then I suggest you rent it out, or better still just wait until it comes on the tele and if you’ve got nothing better to do then give it a go.
Creep was released on DVD in 2004 and is available at Amazon for £5.97, or new & used from the marketplace starting at £1.99. ... more
One booze filled evening Kate leaves her party in the hope of getting a date with George Clooney who is apparently in the area. Unable to hail a taxi in a dress that barely covers certain assets, Kate rushes underground to catch the last train of the day. With less than 10 minutes to wait she consumes yet more alcohol and drifts off to sleep. When she wakes she has of course missed the last train and finds herself trapped underground.
Her panic is short-lived as another train comes along and Kate hops aboard and begins to settle down for the ride. This is one ride however that Kate will soon regret taking as it appears that she is not alone on the train, and is unaware of the horrors that await her.
I remember seeing the trailer for this film, and reading some promising reviews about Creep around the time of its release. I remember thinking that this film had the potential to be chilling, as many people including myself have a fear of being stuck all alone in the dark and being freaked out by sounds around you. At the beginning of this film I could sympathize with Kate and feel her fear of being all alone, and the emotions she must have felt when another train pulled into the station. So then how come a film that starts off so promisingly ended up being no more than an average low budget horror, that for the most part makes absolutely no sense whatsoever?
It’s basically a film where you have to remove your brain, otherwise you’ll spend the whole time questioning everything that’s going on rather than sitting back and enjoying it. Right from the start where our heroine finds herself stuck underground sounds implausible as I doubt there would be no way of you getting out in such a situation. That is the first of many questionable moments during the film, which really shouldn’t have arisen if more thought had gone into the proceedings.
My other problem with the film and one that is certainly not unique to Creep, is the fact that apart from the odd moment I never felt concerned enough about Kate to care whether she made it out alive. You see we never get to find out much about Kate, only the fact that she likes a drink or six and has a hideous taste in clothes. It’s important, for me at least when watching a horror film to be able to form some sort of attachment to the character/s. Having one dimensional characters meant that I couldn’t have cared less what happened to them including the heroine. There was even a hint halfway though that there was more to the killer than meets the eye, but for some reason this was thread was just left hanging. If these characters had only been developed more, then the film would have been all the better for it.
The acting was again on the whole a disappointment, although Franka Potente (The Bourne Identity/Supremacy) did the best she could with a limited script. For the most of the film she basically just had to run around screaming and shouting f**k, so nothing too taxing, and one that won’t win her any best actress awards. The best performance actually was given by the dog that belonged to a homeless couple down below, and he was the only one who I cared about the fate of. The other characters featuring the rather ‘I fancy myself’ Jeremy Sheffield (Holby City) were instantly forgettable also, and their only real purpose was to hang around to add to the body count tally. Sean Harris (who?) was just irritating as the bad guy, and every time he screeched I just wished I had ear plugs.
Where the film did score some points was for the very realistic gore that takes places on many occasions throughout the film. I’ve lost count when watching these sort of films how many times I’ve been less than impressed with the make up used, but in this film the blood looked very realistic indeed. For those of you who can’t stand rats then I advise you to stay clear of this as there are quite a few of them gnawing away at victims flesh. It was a shame though that the make up department however failed to live up to expectations when it came to the revealing of the baddie in the film. The first initial glimpses of him made me believe that his unveiling would be truly horrifying, but alias when I did see him in the flesh so to speak I actually burst out laughing. Note to make up department, horror films aren’t scary if the killer looks so fake and silly that the audience laughs instead of shuddering with fear.
Directed by Chris Smith ( Severance) this is only the third film that he’s written and directed, and one can only hope he gets better as time goes on. With a weak script and no sense of which direction he wanted the film to take, what we’re left with is this mess. The tube station setting with its many tunnels and obvious dark corners should have made for plenty ‘jump out of your skin’ moments, but Smith fails to use this setting to its full potential.
At just over 80 minutes in length, the ending couldn't have come soon enough for me. While the running time isn’t long by any means, the fact that it still felt dragged out meant I’d had enough at the halfway mark. If Kate’s situation had been more believable from the start and the back story of the killer explained a little more, then this film could have been so much more than your average slasher films.
This film is rated 18 which I feel is justified as it does contain strong bloody violence. As I mentioned the gore is very realistic throughout and while it wasn’t enough to make me squirm, I’m sure there are many of you that may find it all too much to watch.
While Creep had so much potential it failed to deliver the goods in most areas, so therefore I don’t recommend you buy this film. If you do want to see it then I suggest you rent it out, or better still just wait until it comes on the tele and if you’ve got nothing better to do then give it a go.
Creep was released on DVD in 2004 and is available at Amazon for £5.97, or new & used from the marketplace starting at £1.99.
Advantages: Great setting | Nice start Disadvantages: Doesn't last | Creep isn't creepy
...the place. So does Creep succeed or has it missed the last train? Party girl Kate is about to have a rough night. Stuck at a booze up that's going nowhere other than advances from serial womanizer Guy (Jeremy Sheffield) she decides what any sane woman would do, go to another party in the hope of having sex with George Clooney. Not wanting to keep George waiting by getting a taxi she decides to head down to the Underground. Unfortunately she dozes ... ...One of the huge advantages Creep has is its setting. The London Underground isn't the nicest of places to be in the day let alone when you're on your own there at night. Then there are all the myths about the 'sewer people' that live down there and kidnap people to have a quick snack. It all makes for lovely horror setting material, dark, dank and with a past. It also helps to set it in a place where many people go to, not an old mansion on top of ...
3rdRockSatan 16.10.2005
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Advantages: Slightly different to your usual slasher film Disadvantages: Didn't go into enough detail about the more interesting aspects of the plot
OK this was never going to be amazing. I didn't get to see it at the cinema as I'm sure there were probably better films out at the time. I bought this DVD because its Halloween weekend, I'm too old to go Trick or Treating and I wanted a cheap, uncomplicated throw away horror. I got what I wanted.
The film begins in the sewer system. Two men, one who seems to have a strange love for, erm, tunnels and the other who is on community service are wondering ... ...The tunnel lover is obviously extremely excited to come across an opening to a tunnel that he hasn't been down in his twenty years on the job. Now this is a slasher film so of course he goes down the dark tunnel ALONE. George, the guy on community service (Vas Blackwood - Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), has to go in after him and the film begins.
Our 'heroine' is Kate (Franka Potente - Bourne Identity / Blow), the selfish rich girl who is on ...
SarkeBeeley 30.10.2005
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Advantages: It's only 75-minutes Disadvantages: It's lame, poorly executed, average extras
...paper I've no doubt that Creep sounded like a decent idea that would get people into the cinema. But the final product is executed poorly and must go down as an opportunity missed.
Kate is a woman who leaves a party on a quest to meet George Clooney at a club in London. She makes her journey across the city by taking the London underground. Sadly the affects of alcohol send her to sleep on the platform. She awakes to find the place deserted, the ... ...nightmare.
The thing with Creep is that it's unbelievably stupid and at times amateurish. For a horror film it's pretty devoid of any real scares. Instead it relies on throwing in some nasty gore that just comes across as unpleasant and unnecessary. This is also a film doesn't offer anything new. The idea of being trapped in the underground with a crazed killer could have given some stellar moments of horror. But there is none of this, without credits ...
utero 02.01.2006
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Advantages: great story, original concept, Disadvantages: acting isnt fantastic
...UK theatrical trailer. Creep is currently available for £4.99 at HMV. All in all, a good horror film. It does what it's meant to; it scares! The actors are rubbish but luckily enough their parts don't demand much acting, they all succeed in looking petrified which is really the only emotion needed in this film. A good story, an original concept and the 'creep' will strangely get the watchers sympathy once you understand his background and the hell ...
leanne8686 29.01.2009
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Advantages: It's a British film! Disadvantages: the film ...
...that I was begging the Creep to kill her and get her off my screen.
The attempt by Smith to give the Creep a back story was bizarre. I can see what they were getting at, but it just didn't come off - and don't even get me started on the 'operating theatre' scene. Ok then, do ... Horror films are renowned for their misogyny, but this scene really takes the biscuit. There is no reason for it - chop her head off or something - but this? I was actually ... ...like my horror films!). There were a couple of things I liked. I do like cinema verite style in films - to give it a sense of realism - there was some good examples of this, especially with some classic hand held camera work running down corridors - loving the use of vanishing points. There was also a sense of the film being over-exposed and over-saturated at points - this detracted from the realism but worked in places.
I was just simply disappointed. ...
Polstar242 27.02.2006
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When Kate falls asleep and misses the last train from London, panic sets in as she realises that she's locked in the underground station. She is somewhat relieved, then, when a train finally appears at the platform. Relief, however, soon turns to complete and utter terror...
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