Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Bereamic Awesome Movie

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

BA_Harrison Independent scary movies shot on meagre budgets by enthusiastic amateurs are categorised as underground horror, but the same moniker could also be applied to a small sub-genre of films that take place in the dark, labyrinthine tunnels of underground railways, highly entertaining examples including Gary Sherman's Death Line (1972), Maurice Devereaux's End of the Line (2007), and Ryûhei Kitamura's The Midnight Meat Train (2008). Christopher Smith's debut Creep, which is set in the London underground, isn't anywhere near as good as those films, with a plot that is full of holes, characters that are hard to care about (victims include a drug dealer, a would-be rapist, and a couple of homeless heroin addicts), and a disappointing lack of splatter.Franka Potente plays Kate, whose mission to have sex with George Clooney leads her to take a late night tube ride where she encounters a cannibalistic mutant who feeds on unwary passengers. Trapped underground, Kate must battle to stay alive until the morning. What sounds like a lean, mean set-up ripe for scares is actually predictable and dull, and makes little sense: people have obviously been disappearing from the platforms of Charing Cross for quite some time, yet no-one seems to have noticed, not even with the mutant leaving long trails of blood in his wake (perhaps he nips back with a mop and bucket to clean up his mess, but I doubt it). There's some attempt at a back story for the creature (whose name is revealed to be Craig - I kid you not), but not nearly enough to make sense of.The majority of the film involves lots of wandering through dark tunnels, wallowing in filth and hiding from Craig, culminating in the expected showdown between Kate and the killer. At the end of the film, a bedraggled Kate is seen sat on a platform, having survived her ordeal, although there's a good chance that she will have contracted hepatitis having submersed herself in raw sewage in order to escape. Swings and roundabouts...

Lucabrasisleeps Yeah that is a weird explanation but I guess the unique British style of the 70s is no more and we may have to settle for the Hollywoodized horror films nowadays. Not that it is a bad thing.There is no character development at all. I don't mind that, I care for the atmosphere and the scares rather than the characters. Still, the movie could have spent some time building some atmosphere. But then it might be a really long film.On the positives, the movie has a capable and menacing villain. That must be the best part of the movie overall. Good makeup too. The movie has quite a few scares especially the scene where they show his face for the first time(WOW). I was impressed. But maybe showing the guy might not be the right idea but he was impressive enough so that didn't bother me. Another positive is the ending. No Hollywood style last second jump scares. At least they spared us on that one.There is quite a bit of violence too but that is common in current day horror movies. There is a mutilation scene that might be a little much but to the Saw generation, this might not matter.Regarding Franka potente...she looks a little bigger, I thought, for the role. Maybe they could have got a smaller actress for this role? She looks like she could take on any monster who comes her way.Overall I was entertained but this seems like a run of the mill Hollywood horror film rather than a movie like Triangle.

nightwatch4773 30 years after we embraced Donald Pleasence in Raw Meat, Christopher Smith gives us the best underground subway horror in 3 decades. This film was just terrific and we get the lead actress from Run Lola Run to run some more but this time from something slightly more insidious. We get a great little back story as well and a creature that is sure to " Creep " the hell out of you. Thank you Mr. Smith because you inspired a few more underground subway horror films in the decade to come most notably The End of the Line and the stupendous Stag Night. So get the popcorn ready, turn out the lights and get ready to be scared Old School Style.

basilisksamuk The locations were the stars of this movie. I'd be interested to know how they managed to get permission to shoot in some of the underground stations but even more interested to know where some of the other subterranean locations were located.It's a decent horror film that works by sticking to its underground theme. The "monster" isn't particularly original though well done. The film is very similar to Death Line (the 1973 version) which I think I like better though it has been some time since I last saw it. It has a very neat ending which delivers some humour after all the grimness that precedes it. It could so easily have been just another torture porn film but it is better than that.If you don't go in expecting too much it delivers a film worth watching.