Creep (2004) - Archive

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"Creep" is so much an exercise that you can see the actors actually standing in position to be slaughtered. You see them stand in front of an appropriately placed spot with the death just waiting to happen. The predictability doesn't stop there. The killer is fashioned after the new breed of ugly man. The creep of the title seems to have been born disfigured..but there's more disfigured than just his body. The film has Franka Potente as pretty much the typical running chick who doesn't seem to understand how to use a weapon on a monster when she has the open chances. There's one scene where she has a chance to hit Craig the creep with a crow bar but reluctantly misses. It's a clear open chance to eliminate a complete vile creature of pure evil and she misses reluctantly. The film follows Kate as she tries to find a way out of the stinking subway station while a maniac is chasing her. The victims of Craig the creep are a homeless couple(Paul Tattray & Kelly Scott), George(Vas Blackwood), Arthur(Ken Campbell), & Guy(Jeremy Sheffield). They all are the unfortunate victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and, in many ways, are killed thanks to Kate seems to be a magnet for others getting killed. She is almost raped by Guy and Craig kills him. Then the idiot gets Jimmy the homeless man to help her try and help Guy! Jimmy asks her "Did he not try and rape you!" Then poor Jimmy's girl, Mandie gets left alone and becomes a vicious victim of Craig's(her murder isn't seen but one can clearly imagine it). Poor George just wants to get out, has Craig held down and beaten bloody, when Kate reluctantly won't hit the monster. So poor George winds up getting a blade penetrated through his skull. Everyone becomes an unfortunate victim, but the nitwit Kate somehow survives because of the written rule that the main heroine must be able to survive no matter how bumbling and stupid she it. The film has a grit and many moments that work thanks to the under dwellings of the subway station and the look of the creep is ghastly. We never know where he is lurking which adds greatly to the surprise factor. Still, it's at best average because of such a weak heroine who just makes foolish mistakes. When you have the creep down, kill it for pete's sake!

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--April 6th, 2006