Creep (2004)

Creep (2004)

Director: Christopher Smith

Writer: Christopher Smith

Cast: Franka Pontente, Sean Harris, and Vas Blackwood

Genre: Horror/Thriller/Mystery

Run time: 85 minutes

SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!!

The film opens with two people working in the sewers. They notice this new hole that leads to more parts of the sewers they never realized existed. Then a female scream gets their attention, that lead them into going deeper into the mazes of the sewers.

The film then introduces the heroine as a strong-willed, doesn't-care-about-the-poor type of character. She goes into the subway, hoping to catch the last train. But then she falls asleep. She misses the train and finds out she is stuck in the subway. A train stopped in her station and she got on board, but then it screeched into a stop. Then the horror begins. First, it was an unknown killer, and as the movie progresses it was revealed it was a screeching psycho. 

Thoughts:

• This is going to be an endless chase scene in the subway/tunnels with only two actors or maybe a few.

It gets more interesting, shifting from a slasher film into a torture porn. Then of course there's a moment in the film where they could have killed the monster, but they chose to keep him alive and run away. Probably to make the film longer? The scene that got into me was when the killer turns the faucet on and tries to wash his hands even though there was no water gushing out the faucet. Then he wore a surgeon robe or whatever you call it. Then after the torturing he went outside and looked at some bottles with fetuses inside, and then looked at the picture with an old doctor posing with a bald child.

Was he a doctor before he became a creep? If not, was his dream is to become one? Considering the killer has still some white hair left on him, was he the doctor in the picture?

More chase scenes follow. Then the creepy part was when the monster spoke and imitated the girl he killed. And then, you would hate the heroine for having such a soft heart- ironically as she was portrayed to be a strong, non-caring woman in the first minutes of the film - that she decided to have sympathy for the killer. Soft heart, wrong decisions. The ending, well, was a bit confusing. With her looking like hell after the whole thing, she decided to sit on a station. Passengers come in and one gave her spare change. She laughed and looked at the camera with "the look."

Will she be the next creep? 

I'll give the film a 7.5/10 rating. The makeup was great, the acting was good, but the characters weren't just consistent. There were dumb parts of the film where you would hate the heroine, and you'd assume it was written that way just to make the film longer. But all in all, it was a worth watch.

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