CREEP (2005)
Starring: Franka Potente, Vas Blackwood, Craig Frackwell, and Sean Harris as "Creep"
Directed by: Christopher Smith
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The film opens with two sewer workers checking the lines but come across a tunnel that never existed before. While inside a semi-mutilated woman being chased by a creature screams and the scene fades....
A woman leaving a modeling agency party takes the subway but falls asleep on the platform. When she awakens, she finds the subway terminal is locked down for the night and she thinks she's alone.
She finds the shelter of a
homeless man and woman and pays the man to show her the way to the guards
station. During her time in the tunnels she witnesses a fellow male employee
, who in fact tried to rape her, dragged away by "Creep", an is later found
castrated. She finds the homeless female, bloodied, strapped to a medical
table, with her legs in stirrups. The homeless man is killed on a train by
the "Creep".
She is eventually captured, and placed in a water cage where she finds that
one of the sewer workers is still alive. They eventually find a way to
escape but can they escape "Creep"?
Creep is a well made shocker with clever plot twists. It also gives you a creature that you first fear, then learn to pity. He is the way he is through ways not of his doing, but the film barely touches upon his situation. This is the one thing I disliked about this film.
Creep keeps the homeless
girl in a former medical facility. What is a medical facility doing in the
bowels of the subway system. There are indicators that there were, at one
time or now, others like him. You see a picture he keeps (which I cannot
tell about without giving a semi-spoiler), which sort of gives you an idea
of where he came from. But by not filling in this large gap, "Creep" is left
to appear only as a murderous mutated being, showing no mercy to his
victims.
The acting in this film is OK, but large kudos go to actor Sean Harris who
plays "Creep". He not only gives a sense of menace, but even thru the
hideous looking face he has, he can still invoke pity. It's an acting lesson
for the "Creeps" of the future...
My Rating:
REVIEWED BY TONY BERNARDINI
