Release Date: 14 April 2005

Synopsis :

London. Midnight. A cold winter’s evening. Unable to find a taxi in the West End, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. Slightly tipsy, she waits for the last train but drifts off to sleep…. and awakens to find everyone else gone.

Gripped by panic she attempts to leave the station but realizes she has been locked in. Then a train pulls into the platform and she boards, somewhat unnerved, as she’s the only passenger. Her relief at finally being on her journey home turns to alarm when halfway through the tunnel the train jerks to a halt and her carriage is plunged into darkness.

Kate is about to face the first of a series of terrifying events – ones that will shatter her nerve and chic composure - testing her endurance to the limit. She is not alone in the maze of nooks and dank crannies. Lurking in the pitch-black maze is something unimaginable…

Something that calls a hidden laboratory home…

And something that won’t leave Kate alone.

A frightening descent into the shadowy subterranean world of London, Creep is a modern tale of nightmare terror exposing the extremes of raw survival. German star Franka Potente leads an exciting cast, including Sean Harris, Jeremy Sheffield, Vas Blackwood and Ken Campbell on a shocking journey through the unknown horrors lurking in the rat-infested depths of the bustling capital city’s underground train network.

Movie Review:

Run Run Run! Lola, Run for your life! Oh wait, that’s the wrong film. This isn’t the sequel to the German film that gave Franka Potente her big break into the movie industry. The mistake shouldn’t be faulted as Creep features Franka Potente as Kate who also does a lot of running scenes but the only differences would be a creepy stalker behind Kate’s running.

Someone must have thought of capitalizing Franka Potente’s high octane running performance in Run Lola Run and use it in a horror slasher stalking type of film like Creep. However it’s just nowhere as inventive or pulsating like Run Lola Run and after a couple of running scenes, it gets rather tedious and lots of questions start popping up.

Questions such as why didn’t any of the employees of the subway station wake Kate up in the first place after the last train had left and the subway station was going to be locked up. Kate definitely doesn’t look like those squatters types who populate the London undergrounds and there was a security guard that had a camera that watches the platform where Kate fell asleep. It didn’t really add up or make any sense, making it one of those mindless bloody gruesome slasher kind of film!

There were moments when the victims could have turn the tables on their stalker but instead of facing their creepy stalker, they chose to run. It might have been a good idea if they were in familiar surroundings but they are in the creepy stalker’s turf and once they had the chance to knock the stalker down, shouldn’t they keep him down until the stalker is unable to chase them? Some might argue that the victims were too scared to face their stalker but it really felt that the victims had to run in this film in order to make this movie last for one and half hours.

It’s quite a pity too because the atmosphere of the underground subways and being locked in it after operating hours had its own scary movie potential. The setup was just not utilized properly and instead of being scary, it became boring.

There was also a setup for a background story of the stalker. A little insight to what might have caused the creation of this monster but it’s too little and it didn’t really add enough substance to create the sympathy for this stalker that it was trying to go for. This film also made the mistake of revealing the stalker’s appearance too soon in the film and the spook of a mysterious stalker was gone.

As for the level of blody guesome scenes in this film, there just a couple of those scenes to turn those causal viewers off but not enough to feed the fans of bloody disgusting guesome horrors. Given the expertise of the current horror savvy movie fans, it might not be all that interesting or intellectual or even engaging enough to satisfy them at all.

Movie Rating: C-

Review by Richard Lim Jr