GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

metalrage666 What we have here is yet another weird and whacky monster/human hybrid lurking in the marshes and feasting on nude females. However no horror marsh movie is complete without a full set of rubes, a nonsense backstory and the obligatory group of lame city- slickers on a tour to the south; and by the south I mean the moonshine drinking, coonskin cap wearing folk. It took a while for me to even work out what the hell this was even about, however as the over-the-top story would have it, a family of inbreeds is apparently down to its last two "viable" members for producing any offspring and as they were sealing their bond an alligator comes up and kills the bride to be, which sends husband/brother into a fit a rage as he seeks to hunt down the 'gator involved. As it turns out, the alligator was killed barehanded but the revenge/rage had turned to insanity by this point and this grieving husband decides to consume all the remaining body parts of random people left uneaten by the alligator, (including his sister bride). Somehow this insanity induced cannibalism mutated this freak into the human/gator hybrid. Yeah, I didn't get it either, but it is what it is. Nonetheless this thing comes out every so often to breed with a chosen female in order to keep the line of hybrid freaks going. As to why, is anyone's guess as it would make more sense to just stop this idiotic seasonal sacrifice and just live your life but a rube's gotta do, what a rube does best. I get that horror movies in general aren't usually supposed to make a great deal of sense but it has to at least make some attempt at a coherent plot or why bother making them in the first place? And with Creature, it just makes no sense. Everybody in this does things that the average person wouldn't do. I can live with the inane dialogue but why make a horror movie and then have all the horror action performed off screen? In every single horror scene, you get a build up, the usual jump scare tactic and the aftermath. You don't get to see anything! I can understand that this may be a tactic designed to save money on special effects but it just comes off as annoying. I didn't even care for the nudity in this. Pasty white skin and unremarkable breasts on a stick figure physique does nothing for me. Despite all the nudity, sex scenes and even the girl on girl action, the whole movie meanders between tedium and boredom. Naturally by the end, only one couple out of three manage to survive and there's never a follow on to see how these two will explain the deaths of four of their friends, but why get bogged in details. An epilogue shows us that one of the girls was kept alive by the alligator man, (who is called Lockjaw by the way), he's somehow managed to breed with her and she's given birth to a bouncing baby throwback. Creature is just too boring to be remotely interesting and it's a waste that this ever got made. It's too stupid to be funny and the boredom makes it difficult to have enough vested interest to work out that the whole road trip was just a ploy by the leader of our intrepid crew of college cretins to have his girlfriend used as a surrogate for the spawn of lockjaw. Take my advice and don't waste your time with this.

TdSmth5 Six kids are on a roadtrip to New Orleans. They include 2 sets of brothers and sisters, and 2 couples. One set of siblings are single. The brother is the guy in charge of sorts. They stop at a rest stop along the way somewhere in Louisiana. There they meet 3 rednecks. The rest stop is also a museum of sorts dedicated to the local monster said to roam the area- a human/alligator mutant that came about after the last member of an inbred family devoured a scary alligator that ate his sister/bride-to-be. The kids decide to visit the house where all this happened and to camp nearby for the night.Of course that's when the creature goes after them, and so do the crazy townfolk who worship the creature and try to find a bride for it. The couples try to hook up, the single girl tries to take advantage of a drunk girl and later of her brother. There's a bit of twist in terms of the intentions of two of the kids.The first hour of Creature is entertaining. That's when everything is setup up. Our initial lead is a funny and likable guy. Things also become quite sexy. Unfortunately during the last 30 minutes the movie loses direction during the resolution of it all. People start running around, the creature pops up here and there scaring people and occasionally killing someone. And the least likable or interesting couple will turn out to be the heroes.Creature has a decent story and script but they needed more funds to make it work. Direction doesn't do the story justice, at the same time, it could have been much worse, too. Overall, I liked this movie more than I should have. Credit goes two likable main characters and a story that's better than what this movie manages to make of it.

BA_Harrison Six 'kids' on a road-trip to New Orleans stop off at a tourist trap to check out the local legend of Lockjaw, a half-swamp-man/half-alligator that supposedly lives in the bayou...I've absolutely no problem with cookie-cutter horror films wherein dumb youngsters seem to go out of their way to be torn limb from limb; on the contrary, I positively encourage them, just so long as they don't skimp on the graphic violence and gratuitous nudity. Creature, a by-the-numbers monster film from first time director Fred Andrews, begins in the right spirit, delivering in both departments with full frontal nudity from a young woman who gets her legs chewed off when she takes a naked dip in a swamp.The bare flesh continues with the introduction of the three uninhibited girls—Emily, Beth and Karen (Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller and Lauren Schneider), all of whom strip off to some degree during the film, but the gore proves frustratingly tame, the majority of the nastiness occurring just out of frame. Add the fact that the film's monster is a laughably bad man-in-a-rubber suit creation, and it soon becomes apparent that Creature is one of the genre's weaker efforts.Sid Haig does his best to inject some fun into proceedings with a deranged performance that is essentially Captain Spaulding without the clown make-up, and the plot is given some much needed pep with the introduction of some lesbian shenanigans and a touch of incest (Karen giving her brother a hand with his photography being surprisingly perverted), but the lack of decent splatter, the weak monster, and a very silly ending make this far from essential viewing.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

Scarecrow-88 Oh, man, could this have been a good one. Too bad. The filmmakers got a lot of mileage out of Sid Haig's appearance in "Creature", a monster mayhem movie with just enough boobs to make it worth at least one watch. The cast is made up of beautiful people, and the rubber suit monster is quite grotesque (referred to as Lockjaw, kind of a half-man/half-gator). The plot is ridiculously simple: a group of friends are on their way to the Big Easy when they stop off at a gas station with a shrine dedicated to backwoods monster lore in the back of the store. Curious, the group decide to visit the dilapidated cabin of a man named Grisby, known for killing a large white gator that was terrorizing the swamp lands around the area, himself becoming a monster after going insane, eating from the remains of the creature's killing den, and remaining in the swamp, in essence transforming into Lockjaw. What the twentysomethings are unaware of is that Lockjaw is very real and that the backwoods folk keep him fed so their bloodline can continue. Haig is one of the locals who keeps Lockjaw's appetite satiated. Haig's presence alone helps this tease of a fun horror movie, but his energy and charisma can do little to compensate for a lack of on screen grue. There's a bit of titillation (the opening of this movie has a female victim stripping naked and giving us a nice full frontal (and back so we can savor her ass) shot of her gorgeous nude form), with multiple lasting shots of breasts (Lauren Schneider, the bubbly redhead with a great sense of humor and enthusiasm, delightfully shows her rack to a grinning Haig, also smooching with a drunk Amanda Fuller (who has her top and bra removed by a jovial Schneider, in a horny mood) with a possible lesbian seduction interrupted by boyfriend Aaron Hill killing a snake, dammit), but like most of the possible gory violence, never enough to warrant any real satisfaction. The severed limbs props (a head, foot, etc) are really right out of a William Castle movie, and the monster's rampage is all about what you don't see. Hell, we don't even get to delight in much of the beast's aftermath. This movie really gives you little of anything that can be considered essential viewing. The cast does seem game, though. Too cheap and unimaginative. This could have been a decent companion to Adam Green's Hatchet, but, alas, "Creature" just doesn't offer much in the way of thrills. Mehcad Brooks gets to be the token black character who actually plays the final hero of the picture, trying to rescue his photographer hottie from being the monster's plaything.