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Kate and her friend is going to meet a celebrity
after a party but when Kate finds out that her
friend, who's got the VIP tickets has left she
decides to take the subway and meet her. Drunk
as she is, she soon falls asleep only to wake
up a while later finding herself all alone locked
inside the subway. Or so she thought... something's
hiding in the tunnels, waiting for her.
This British horror flick has one of the coolest
premises in quite a while. Think Wrong Turn in
the subway, only not quite as good. See, while
the premise is cool, it's not very complex and
the concept gets old pretty quickly. Watching
people run through tunnels and scream is only
entertaining for so long. I'm trying to think
of a good way to describe this movie so that
you'll understand what I mean so let me tell you
about the story, but beware there might be some
minor spoilers coming up.
The movie opens up with two sewage cleaners who
find a new tunnel down in the subway. Curious
as they are they decide to check it out, and
I don't think that I have to tell you that
it was not very clever. Anyway, so next we're
introduced to Kate, a rich, blonde bimbo who's
going around telling people at a party that
she's going to meet some big celebrity. Why
the script writers decided to make her a bimbo
beats me, this just makes it harder for us to
root for her as she's not a very likable
character from my perspective. So anyway, her
friend who has the tickets has apparently left
the party without her so in panic she decides
to run to the subway and catch the next train,
which she misses due to the fact that she's
too drunk and falls asleep.
Desperate to get out of the locked up subway
she tries to find an exit but it seems to be
in vain. All of a sudden a train shows up at
her station and she happily runs onto it
while in the background we see someone else
run onto it as well. When the train stops in
the middle of a tunnel, we see that it's a
friend of her's that jumped onto the train,
how he got into a locked subway is yet another
good question. Anyway, let's not go further
into the many plot holes that this movie holds.
When her so called friend tries to rape her
someone grabs his legs and pulls him under
the train. After that I can just sum it up
by saying that we're in for about an hour of
screaming and running through dark tunnels.
As I love slasher flicks I naturally enjoyed
this but I was expecting so much more from
this flick that when it didn't deliver what
I had expected I was left disappointed. Now,
my review might not have been overwhelmingly
positive but to tell you the truth it's still
a pretty decent horror flick, it's just not
that special as one might think that it'll
be from watching the trailer. Still, it's a
good flick so I will defenitly have to tell
you that you should see this on the big
screen if you get the opportunity, just don't
get your hopes up.
Creep was actually rather gory, it's too bad
that it's too dark to tell what's going on
in the more brutal scenes though. We get a
lot of blood splatter, a couple of corpses
with their eyes carved out, a slit throat and
a lot of more to feed the gorehound.
What does one say about a soundtrack so
inconsistant that you sometimes wonder if the
theatre has pressed the mute button? I craved
for a little more background music in order
to set the right atmosphere but in the end we
simply didn't get a solid score.
If you think that Creep is about some killer
creature or ghosts in the subway, you're
mistaking. It's a slasher in the vein of
Wrong Turn and Toolbox Murders '03. It's
a good flick but I was left kind of
disappointed but I'm still going to have
to recommend this flick, simply because
it's not that often that you get to see a
good gory slasher in theatres these days.
Review By: AnthroFred
