Creep
2004
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets. Read more
| Starring | Franka Potente, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell, Jeremy Sheffield |
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| Director | Christopher Smith |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
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Creep
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
| Starring | Franka Potente, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell, Jeremy Sheffield, Paul Rattray |
|---|---|
| Director | Christopher Smith |
| Studio | PATHE DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Jun 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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With nods to cult British horror Death Line and John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, Christopher Smith's debut feature is an entertaining ghost-train ride through subterranean hazards and hidden laboratory terrors. A late journey on the London Underground turns into a nightmare for a chic PR girl (played by Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) when she falls asleep on a platform and finds herself trapped underground. An attempted rape sends her further into the dank, dark tunnels where something even more dangerous and monstrous lurks. Tautly directed by Smith and well-anchored by a barnstorming turn from Potente, this often brutal tale of tube terror does exactly what it's meant to: creep you out with sudden shocks, eerie atmospherics and gory thrills.
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Derivative horror movie that amounts to little more than a succession of unpleasant murders and protracted scenes of torture.
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77 out of 89 people found this review helpful
Creep? Crap
It's a continual source of frustration to me that the British Film Industry continues to pump its already limited resources into producing ill-thought-out junk such as Creep.
In any stalk-n-slash pic, however highly the audience has already suspended their disbelief to find themselves watching the movie in the first place, there still needs to be some rational motivation behind the killer's actions. Jason had a motive; Freddy had a motive. Creep doesn't. Being simply 'psycho' does not provide enough depth, and simply comes across as a cheap excuse for some bloodletting.
In one of the extras on the disc, (all of which can be described at best as piss-poor,) writer/director Smith explains the alternative opening and ending to the film that he had storyboarded but never shot. The really annoying thing is that he seems to think that the alternative opening provides some sort of reasoning behind Creep's actions: It doesn't. It provides more of a backstory, but still doesn't explain why there were a lot of scientists in the sewers/underground doing secret experiments on children in the mid 1970s, less so why they had to evacuate and leave one child behind.
The plot, writing and editing is like Swiss cheese. (Anyone who's at all familiar with the effects of cocaine on the male anatomy will know that Guy would have not been so much of a threat as he was made out to be.) Franka Potente and Vas Blackwood are the best thing about Creep, both making good efforts in spite of the stunted dialogue and generally weak script.
But then add to all this some fundamental film-making flaws, (the crossing the line in the cages scene particularly made me cringe,) and you've got 85 minutes of me huffing and puffing in front of the screen, impatiently waiting for everyone to die so I can go to bed.
I implore you not to watch this movie. I want to see British movies get their gloves off and start taking on the might of Hollywood, and start playing the game like we're playing to win.
Low budget does not have to equal low quality; indeed it often encourages more creativity. A shame, then, that in this case it didn't.
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- RJTaylor from Manchester
- Posted 06 Sep 2005 15:41
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Most recent members' review
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
A 4 rating but only just!
I gave this film a ‘watchable’ rating but it scraped into that by the skin of its teeth. The film itself looks slick, and atmospheric, but what a total waste of an opportunity script-wise. The premise of the creepy tunnels of a deserted London underground, plagued by an unseen killer seemed a great idea. But the moment the killer was revealed, all the tension of a malevolent being reeking havoc drained away. Why reveal him so early!!?
Instead we were left with the somewhat pathetic individual of a ‘Creep’ who the director seemed to want us to pity rather than fear. Also the lead character of ‘Kate’ played by the oh so wooden ‘Franka Potente’ is oddly portrayed as such nasty piece of work, as to illicit zero sympathy from the audience. In the end you get so sick of her rude and offensive attitude you just want the Creep to win and her to die! -
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