Creep - Flawed, but fun

When cinema recounts the ‘horror greats’ it’s unlikely that they’ll ever mention ‘Creep.’ The reason being... it’s nothing special.  Yet, despite it’s ‘averageness’ I really can’t bring myself to hate it.  In fact, I’m writing this review after my third viewing of it (or is it fourth?) so it must have something appealing about it!

A woman – could be any attractive blonde leading lady – gets trapped on the London Underground for the night and ends up being stalked by the titular ‘creep.’ And that’s about that.  Expect running, screaming and generally chasing.  I won’t go into who or what the ‘creep’ is, as that’s half the fun – I will say that it’s never entirely written in stone as to what he is, leaving his origin partly up to the viewers’ imagination.

Like I say, nothing special, but not a bad ‘slasher’ film.  It does have its flaws.  As usual, you’ll roll your eyes when the woman does get the upper hand over the creep and yet fails to ‘finish him’ as we all would when faced with a similar situation.  Obviously, she’ll often make decisions which will prolong the story, as opposed to doing the sensible thing.  But, if you’re into your horror movies, you’ll be used to the leading lady doing all that and will accept it as simply the way horror films work.  The other thing that’s worth mentioning is that the leading lady isn’t that nice.  She’s hardly your average ‘scream queen.’ She can be a complete b*tch when she wants to and it’s hard to root for her sometimes.  When you’re feeling sympathy, it’ll probably be for the secondary characters she encounters along the way, namely the ‘junkies’ who have made the Underground station their home.

However, I can’t remember the last horror-slasher film that was perfect.  This one definitely isn’t, but if you’re in the mood for something pretty easy to watch and understand, plus with a few good gory moments and you can forgive the obligatory plot holes, then give it a go.  It’s not too long and won’t waste much of your time if you don’t enjoy it.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that