Creep

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with two sewer workers in London, Arthur (Ken Campbell) and George (Vas Blackwood), who discover a tunnel in one of the walls that neither of them is familiar with. Arthur enters and when he does not emerge or respond to George afterwards, George follows. He soon discovers Arthur, injured and in a state of shock. Moments later, a similarly injured young woman jumps out in front of them, crying for help, only to be pulled back into the darkness.The focus then shifts to a young German woman, Kate (Franka Potente), at a party. After hearing of another party that George Clooney is supposedly attending, she decides to travel there. After unsuccessfully trying to get a taxi, she heads to Charing Cross tube station, but soon falls asleep on the platform while waiting for the train. When she awakens, she is alone and finds the entire station locked up for the night. Another empty train arrives and she boards it, but it stops abruptly. Confused, Kate makes her way to the conductor's compartment but is unsuccessful in finding a reason for it as unbeknownst to her, the driver has been killed. Kate soon encounters Guy (Jeremy Sheffield), an obsessive acquaintance from the previous party. Guy, intoxicated by cocaine, crudely attempts to seduce her, but Kate is not interested and tries to leave the train. Guy then sexually assaults her, but is dragged off of her and out of the train by an unseen attacker.Kate flees from the train and runs into a homeless couple, Jimmy (Paul Rattray) and Mandy (Kelly Scott), and their dog, a Jack Russell terrier called Ray (Strapper). Kate explains what has happened and Jimmy reluctantly agrees to help her after she pays him. Meanwhile, Mandy is also attacked while alone. Kate and Jimmy find Guy lying on the railway track with his back mutilated. After they pull him onto the platform, Ray appears with blood smeared on his fur. Jimmy, immediately thinking of Mandy, goes with Ray back to their shelter where she is nowhere to be found. Kate attempts to contact a watchman via speakers to get help. Suspicious of her, the watchman demands Guy to be dragged in front of the security cameras to prove that she is not lying. When she does so, Guy dies and the watchman is also killed in his office by having his throat slit by the stalker. Kate runs back to a despondent Jimmy who has shot himself full of drugs. She eventually persuades him to help her find Mandy and a way out of the station. After exploring a tunnel together, another train pulls up in front of them. Jimmy enters and is killed by the stalker, who was lurking on the roof. Kate flees into the sewer system below the station, but is soon captured by the killer; a hideously deformed, mentally ill hermit named "Craig" AKA The Creep (Sean Harris).Kate finds herself in a water-filled cage deeper underground, presumably being stored as food for Craig. She also meets George, who is still alive and also trapped. However, before Craig can harm either of them, Kate manages to escape, temporarily incapacitate Craig, and release George. Together, they run through several dark corridors and end up in a secret, deserted abortion clinic, where they find an unconscious Mandy strapped on an operating chair and mistakenly presume her to be dead. However, before they can investigate further, Craig appears and they are forced to flee and leave Mandy alone with him, who kills her in a twisted imitation of an abortion.George and Kate eventually find themselves in an abandoned platform and Craig soon catches up to them once again. George attacks Craig, but is impaled through the head with a serrated blade protruding out of a wall. Kate attempts to escape, but is soon cornered by Craig. She breaks down until she spots a large hook on a long chain, with which she stabs Craig's throat. She then hears the distant sounds of an approaching train and she throws the other end of the chain over the tunnel, in an attempt to electrocute him. Her plan fails, and although severely wounded, Craig rises and attempts to crush Kate with a barrel. Then the train passes through the tunnel and smashes into the chain, which tears out his throat. Craig finally dies, and Kate makes her way through the tunnel and finds herself back in Charing Cross Station. Tattered and filthy, she collapses on a platform and Ray appears, curling onto her lap. The film ends when a man waiting for a train puts a coin next to her, thinking she is a beggar, and she breaks into hysterical giggles and tears.

Tags: violence, dark, murder

Review:
An excellent example of a simple idea developed into a compelling 90 minute script.The set up requires no bells and whistles, no lengthy exposition or wordy back story; Kate (Franka Pontente), a young German business woman living in London, drifts off whilst waiting for the last tube train.
The retention of a certain sense of mystery is to be welcomed and reminds us that in this film the ride was always going to be more important than the exact destination.My understanding is that the budget for this film was, to say the least, minimal, in which case our applause for this British horror should be all the louder, for at no point does one have the impression of corners being cut or effects failing to deliver.If this sounds like your kind of film then it probably is.
After a few seconds the train comes to sudden halt and Kate comes to the realisation that someone or something is lurking down there, which has some nasty surprises waiting for Kate.When watching "Creep", what entered my mind was that I was seeing the backwoods horror slasher "Wrong Turn (2003)" basically set in a subway, but only more bloodier and incredibly cruel.
The story is fairly linear and has no plot holes that i noticed and the acting and script are OK.The problem with Creep is that it doesn't really do anything to set it apart from the rest of the Horror crowd, but when compared to some its not to bad.With floods of horror movies in recent years (Toolbox Murders, Grudge, White Noise, Descent, Boogeyman to name but a few) Creep is left languishing in mediorcratity.For horror fanatics, its worth watching and it can hold its own in the genre.
When the end-credits start to roll, there are still many unanswered questions to ponder on but director/writer Christopher Smith (in his debut) seemly preferred to fully focus on tension and adrenalin-rushing action instead of long, soporific speeches and theories that could explain the existence of the "creep" in the London subway.
I reckon this isn't very original, and I'm sure many people won't appreciate the lack of content, but I forgive Smith and I think it's better this way than going over the top completely, "Jeepers Creepers"-style (that particular film started out great as well, but as soon as the Creeper's identity was clear it turned into a very mediocre horror effort).
Brit horror successfully marries suspense and gore to create a more than decent movie.Franka Potente is Kate, a socialite on her way to a party in London where George Clooney (Yes really) is believed to be hanging at and where she will attempt to seduce him (Yup, I'm not kidding).However, she falls asleep at the subway station and misses the last train, leaving her trapped inside.
And indeed, mindgames seem to be the only explanation for some of the slightly ludicrous events which occur in the first half.Nonetheless, this movie is about running away from the bad guy, whose appearance and identity imply he's 'not normal' (Are they ever), and to this end the film does a decent enough job.
It could have been another "28 days later" or even a "Blair Witch Project"The first 20 or so minutes of the movie I was really excited, directer did a decent job with cinematography and suspense, although I don't think He managed to capture true eeriness of an empty London Underground.Characters were a big let down.
As she races off on a situation taking her from one daunting encounter to the next, however, she learns of something far more malign and evil waiting for her out there.In a lot of ways, the British Film Industry is really becoming one on it's own, especially in the horror thriller department, with films such as Creep and the successful 28 Days Later (which this has strong echoes of in parts.) In terms of succeeding in what it set out to do, Creep does cleverly create (especially at the beginning) a scary sense of isolation and tense fear.
At it's clever running time, it also (though inadvertently, I suspect) manages to pay homage to some of those pioneer high-concept horror films from the 70s that rely on shocks and fear through-out without really focusing too much on character development and such.Of it's weaknesses, some scenes are a little predictable, but these don't really succeed in making it less scary or effective in any way.
And as the summary says, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best.The main problem was it appears to have been cut too much, making it look like the film didn't know whether it wanted to be teen slasher or psychological horror.
This is a could-have-been that starts out on an attractive premise, but fails to deliver and ends up looking like the makers were too ambitious and wanted to make a horror movie that would work on different levels, with more than just one basic plot line, but ended up with a messy movie that really goes nowhere, just like the tube that the protagonist gets into at the beginning.The movie begins with a sequence in the sewage system of London, where two employees are doing their maintenance work.
She gets on the underground, only to find out she's all alone there too...The introduction is certainly appealing to the horror buff, and we're led to believe that we're in for a movie that will explore our fear of being trapped, the "underworld" (both in a real and metaphorical way), the dark, claustrophobia...
Instead, the movie soon chooses to follow a different plot line, which, in my opinion, is much less interesting and much more conventional, more oriented to commercial success and to please those viewers who look for easy scares and blood-packed, gory scenes.
The film began with a good opening with a promise of an intriguing plot but, unfortunately like most modern horror films, the film was severally let down by Clichéd events, "I will stand with my back to this broken window, whilst we are been hunted", two dimensional character "I am a girl I can not hurt an unarmed murderer" , and awful script "I will shout and scream, even though the bad guy is searching for me' and uninspired finale 'how to kill the bad guy and not get my hands dirty in the process'.
The Film Council ,who funded this miserable garbage should be stranded, on one of the London Undergrounds disused stations, for allowing this clichéd, dismal specimen to be committed to film, a half mutant thing made up of all the horror movies the director has seen and felt fit to imitate, most notably Deathline.
the performances are OK and the story is so-so: it is just a dirty little horror movie, with a simple plot, stupid characters, some graphic scenes and one genuinely shocking moment (believe me, the first sighting of the creature is nothing you would wanna show your kids).
Why I got this feeling, I'm not quite sure but I was certain of one thing and that's that once it ended I realised that it wasn't anything particularly special no matter how much it had me engaged and no matter how much it had me looking away.Why the film is called 'Creep'; I'm not certain of either.
Certain events occur and you just think to yourself 'Why the hell are they/aren't they doing that'; this includes the fact Kate (Potente) doesn't think nor act as frightened as she should be when she sees her accomplice covered in blood on a train or the fact she's willing to go down a darkened tunnel in the tube station just after witnessing it or maybe the worst one: when she actually has a chance to kill the Creep yet is talked out of it  I really hated that scene.
These along with the way the film ends frustratingly open at the very end are all disappointing aspects of Creep.I can only recommend this if you're looking for brainless horror/gore that doesn't take too much thinking yet remains interestingly poised for the majority of the runtime as chase and gore as well as life and death are all mixed up in the equation..
An appallingly distasteful horror film in which poor Franka Potente finds herself down in the tube station at midnight and it's not a very nice place to be, not with the titular creep creeping about slaughtering anyone unlucky enough to be sleeping rough or who may have missed the last train home.
A British/German co-production, "Creep" was a fast moving, claustrophobic little thriller that reminded me at times of "Midnight Meat Train" and "The Descent," maybe with a pinch of "Mimic" for good measure."Creep" is set in the dark world of London's Underground system.
Allying herself with George, a London sewer worker who's trapped in the next cage, Kate breaks out and again tries to head for the surface, leading to a final showdown in the creature's hidden lair, deep underground.I won't reveal much more because I don't want to violate the Spoiler Warning rules, but I will say that the scene where Kate and George discover the lair of the "Creep" (which appears to be a disused hospital/laboratory) is a bit muddled and therefore the supposed revelations found there aren't very well defined, so the big "moment" turns out to be a bit anti-climactic.
This low budget British horror flick pretty much flew straight under the radar upon release towards the end of 2004, and while the film doesn't deserve the status of a classic, or even a modern genre classic; Creep still offers a good, horrific eighty minutes and fans of classically plotted horror thrillers will no doubt enjoy themselves.
While this plot doesn't really allow the audience to engage with it due to the fact that it is so shallow, director Christopher Smith keeps the film ticking over with an onslaught of suspense and tension brought about by the claustrophobic landscape of the tunnels underneath London and the fairly generous helping of disgusting gore effects, which are a nice addition to any horror movie if you ask me.
If the film has any sort of commentary on the state of the management of London's subways, it's muddled at bestbut it doesn't matter, as nobody sees this sort of thing for social comments anyway.The effects of the 'creep' itself are actually quite good.
This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the underground of London."Creep" is a good horror movie.
Franka Potente plays Kate-a flirtatious young woman who finds herself locked in the London subway system after hours.After a sleazy colleague-who followed her in-is brutally murdered right in front of her,Kate must escape the clutches of a mysterious flesh eating creature that seems determined to kill anyone in its path."Creep" is not original-in fact its premise is clearly lifted from the 1972 horror film "Deathline".Both of them are based around the bloody exploits of a deformed cannibal killer who lurks in the shadowy abyss of the London underground transport system.Still Christopher Smith's grisly debut offers some effective shocks plus plenty of grue.The location sets are creepy and the film has a genuinely claustrophobic feel that gets under your skin.Give this grisly horror flick a chance.8 out of 10..
"Creep" is a surprisingly good, low-budget British horror movie that looks like it came fresh from Hollywood.
I found the entire atmosphere of the movie to be pretty scary, the majority of the film is spent down in the dark subway tunnels, where anything could be lurking around the corner, which is a very creepy feeling.
What I got was a film that asked me to suspend disbelief too many times, a plot with more holes than Ms. Potente's panty hose, and at least one set piece which served absolutely no purpose other than to shove the entire audience across that fine line between nasty suspenseful horror and pointless, sick shock tactics (ooo yeah, let's have the 'creature' shove a huge serrated blade inside a captive woman's genitals...).
Potente is no stranger to bloody horror (Anatomie, Anatomie 2) but here she is simply required to run around screaming whilst occasionally delivering lines of total banality.A criminally wasted opportunity all round, and Smith should be actively prevented from making any more films (guys just don't give him the money!) until he's learned how to a) write an intelligent script that makes sense, and b) understands how to create scenes with REAL tension.
the reason i liked this is because i jumped straight into action, their was gore, a decent plot, and cast that acted the movie out great.The creep was ugly little boy when he was younger and spent his childhood and teen time in a hospital, then when he was mid-ages he escaped into London's underground subway to only live their and kill whoever is wandering around his hideout for food and fun.
He is grotesque in every way, yes thats means his looks!When Kate (Franka Potente) leaves a business party to try and meet George Clooney, her friend tells her the person she was meant to leave with has already left in a cab, in a hurry Kate rushes off to the subway only to drink the rest of her vodka, while she is waiting for the last train Kate falls asleep, from here Kate wakes up and all of a sudden a train appears before her eyes, when is boarding the train, in the background you can see another person run onto the train, could this be the creep?
So i would advise anyone who likes a good horror film that delivers frights, atmosphere, gore and a dumb blond running away from a psycho to watch it,,,,,you will not be disappointed..
Franka Potente is one of the worst things in this film second only perhaps to the Creep that seems to live in the London Underground.
Don't get me wrong the film is scary in places but more often than not its pure gore instead of a horror that freaks you out through what you can't see as opposed to what you can see.On the plus side it is nice to see more British based films with a high number of British actors but sadly this film lacks in all aspects, it really needs to Creep of into a corner and die a slow and painful death.See it at your peril for it is a truly bad apple!.
German superstar Franka Potente stars in this British horror titled "Creep" - that's basically the most worthy thing to say about this film, which could have been a lot better.
Without going too much into the storyline of the film, it basically revolves around Kate (Potente) who gets locked in the subway, nearly raped by a friend, then harassed and nearly killed by this thing, this "Creep".
Like all (most) good horror films, he has a back story, but it isn't given to the viewer so that they can actually make sense of it.
I like that the director keeps the monster under wraps until the ending."Creep" is a well-made horror film that's definitely worth watching.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com.
Worst Movie I Ever Saw. I find it disappointing that there is no 0 on the 1-10 scale.This is the worst movie i have seen.Not only is it gory beyond belief, but has no story line and leaves you with many questions that would have put the movie together.The beginning with the opening credits and the girl supposedly being chased through a hall, with blood all over her was disturbing and unrelated-unless she was Mindy.Then there was this other person on the bus who i at first thought to be the creep but wasn't and you never saw him again.(the guy i'm referring to is the one that had blood all over his eye.)the creep was weird, i had no clue what it was supposed to be, maybe a dead guy or something, but he looked more like a creature..and he could talk, which confused me a bit.Now i am only 12 turning 13 years old, so maybe this movie was more disturbing to me then the other commenters.I enjoy watching a good horror movie to get a good scare, but this movie wasn't really scary just disgusting and filled with gore and had no story line..
Writer/Director Christopher Smith cut his teeth on soap operas and it shows - nothing but cardboard characters and clichés.Like most feeble horror movies, it tries to compensate for its lack of imagination with blood and guts and even a torture scene but it's all so hopelessly misjudged and unconvincing (and not at all scary) that even gore fans will be disappointed.The film's one redeeming feature (and the only reason it gets a 2 rather than a 1 rating) is the very end (and I mean the absolute final shot) which is strangely moving and recalls the end of Scorsese's 'After Hours' - not that I suggest you watch it that far to see what I mean.So yes, another example of the British Film Council tossing money away on utter garbage.
Right people- you may think this is another childish 'I know what you did last summer' sort of teenage horror flick- an oh so predictable film, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.'Creep' shocks you when you least suspect it.
Essentially a remake of the 1972 cult horror thriller 'Death Line', this low-budget British indie traps a haughty French gold-digger (Franka Potente) in the bowels of the London Underground long after the last train has departed, and where someone (or something) is hacking up commuters.Firs time director Christopher Smith knows what hardcore horror fans want - gore - and the plot can't exactly hold water, but Smith also makes clever use of the overlit labyrinth of tunnels that lead to atrocity.The film never really explains itself in great detail, but it certainly moves itself along at a frenetic pace..