it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Nothing happens, woman running down the sewers, some gory images but nothing too serious. Wasn't worth the watch.

It was difficult to determine the genre of this film. IMDb tags it as 'horror, mystery, thriller' but it's not any of those. 'Horror' requires a certain level of intelligence to the plot and filming style in order to generate fear; 'mystery' implies there is an actual plot with some depth giving the audience something to decipher and 'thrillers' are supposed to be tense, exciting and suspenseful which Creep isn't. There's a psycho on the loose randomly killing people and there's not much more to the story than that so I'd classify this as a basic 'slasher' movie.There's a five minute opening sequence which sets the scene, none of it is important. The entire film is Kate (Franka Potente) running away from a mad man/monster. She meets people along the way who may or may not get killed (avoiding spoilers) and there's a bit of gore midway through.As a brainless slasher flick, watched with friends while drinking, you'd likely enjoy this as it's inoffensive slasher/gore nonsense but if you actually concentrate on films while watching them and you don't like wasting your time then definitely give this a miss.I'm a huge fan of Franka Potente and she's a wonderful actress but her acting in Creep during a handful of scenes was downright amateurish. It felt like she was there for the paycheck to be honest but she still managed to pull off a good performance, it was just a bit choppy.I don't understand why the producers/studio chose 'order of appearance' to list the cast. Franka was the (only) star and should have received top billing.Overall, this felt like a cynical money-making endeavour by everyone involved.5/10

WARNING: This is not a "complete synopsis" review summarizing the movie and criticizing the acting. If you've wanted such a review - I respectfully suggest you seek another review.I am not a movie critique, not even a cinema student. I'm your average "pls mess with my head!" horror fan, and a huge one. I think I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said I've seen around 90% of all the horror films of the past two decades or so. This one, imho, is one for the pantheon.In the horror / psych-thriller genre - one can easily differentiate between the crazed charismatic intellectual antagonist (i.e. Hannibal Lecter, "Jigsaw") and the slasher-monster-freak (i.e. Jason Worhees, Freddy Kruger). I'm a great fan of the latter. For instance, I really liked the characters portrayed by Kane in "See No Evil" and by the "Butcher" in the 2008 version of "Train"/"Terror Train" (couldn't find the guy's name...).However, having watched Creep - I have found the scariest, creepiest and most disturbing Killer-Freak of them all. Sean Harris's performance in this film is no less then dumbfounding, shocking and astonishing. In this day and age, the feeling of fear, frustration, helplessness and disgust is often delivered to us through close ups of dismembered body parts and medical pornography. Not so in Creep. Here - one feels revolted merely by looking at "the creep". Great way to make the audience feel a pinch of the unpleasantness experienced by the characters in the story. Honestly, if you can look at the guy and remain calm - you're tougher than I am :) Some of you might disagree, and I respectfully accept that. However, if you ask me? Regardless to the plot (that isn't the most original one nor the most brilliant, though not the worst!), the acting and any other aspect of the movie, I for one will never forget this film. "Craig" aka The Creep is my number one monster/freak horror character of all times!

Creep is written and directed by Christopher Smith. It stars Franka Potente, Paul Rattray, Kelly Scott, Ken Campbell, Vas Blackwood, Sean Harris and Jeremy Sheffield. Plot finds Potente as London party girl, Kate, who falls asleep while waiting for the last tube train home. Locked in for the night Kate finds there is something sinister lurking down in the dark depths of the London Underground system.I'm a bit late to the party as regards writing a review for this film, but I'm pleased to see that on internet movie sites the film is actually rated about right. Average. Lifting from many a horror picture along the way, director/writer Smith can't be accused of originality, but for two thirds of the movie he at least has a good sense of mood, pace and creeping unease. Premise is a good one and the locale is ready made for some quality stalk and menace monsterings, with Potente, sporting an odd look for her, doing a nice line in shriek-panic-and frantic running. But then not only does Potente turn into a generic dopey lass, the Creep of the title grabs too much screen time (so not worth the wait) as Smith completely throws away the atmospherics and, erm, creepiness. Choosing instead to pander to gooey conventions in a seemingly desperate need to shock for the blood craving movie watcher.Still, there's enough here to totally not dismiss it as a failure, while it's always nice to see Vas Blackwood getting work, but Smith should have trusted himself to make an unnerving chiller and not shift the tone so dramatically for the weak final third. 5/10