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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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.

KATE should have died. Dumb and stupid blonde gets everyone killed. Why George have to die. If she would have killed the monster when she was screaming like a dumb white blonde in horror movies. The ending was stupid crying on ground with hand over face for what. Ur dumb azz lived after u the reason ur friend and George were slain. Never again.

Independent scary movies shot on meagre budgets by enthusiastic amateurs are categorised as underground horror, but the same moniker could also be applied to a small sub-genre of films that take place in the dark, labyrinthine tunnels of underground railways, highly entertaining examples including Gary Sherman's Death Line (1972), Maurice Devereaux's End of the Line (2007), and Ryûhei Kitamura's The Midnight Meat Train (2008). Christopher Smith's debut Creep, which is set in the London underground, isn't anywhere near as good as those films, with a plot that is full of holes, characters that are hard to care about (victims include a drug dealer, a would-be rapist, and a couple of homeless heroin addicts), and a disappointing lack of splatter.Franka Potente plays Kate, whose mission to have sex with George Clooney leads her to take a late night tube ride where she encounters a cannibalistic mutant who feeds on unwary passengers. Trapped underground, Kate must battle to stay alive until the morning. What sounds like a lean, mean set-up ripe for scares is actually predictable and dull, and makes little sense: people have obviously been disappearing from the platforms of Charing Cross for quite some time, yet no-one seems to have noticed, not even with the mutant leaving long trails of blood in his wake (perhaps he nips back with a mop and bucket to clean up his mess, but I doubt it). There's some attempt at a back story for the creature (whose name is revealed to be Craig - I kid you not), but not nearly enough to make sense of.The majority of the film involves lots of wandering through dark tunnels, wallowing in filth and hiding from Craig, culminating in the expected showdown between Kate and the killer. At the end of the film, a bedraggled Kate is seen sat on a platform, having survived her ordeal, although there's a good chance that she will have contracted hepatitis having submersed herself in raw sewage in order to escape. Swings and roundabouts...

Everyone has, at some point, wondered what lurks in dark corners and abandoned tunnels within a city's underground subway system. Well Franka Potente gets to find out exactly what's down there in the murky and atmospheric horror flick Creep, and trust me it ain't pretty. Potente plays Kate, a girl on her way home from an office party in the heart of London. Harassed and stalked by a no good coworker, she dips into a derelict train, and her attacker follows. Suddenly, somethin crawls out of the dark, murders him and drags his corpse off into the night. Kate goes from the frying pan into the fire as she realizes that whatever this thing is, it's really not something you want to be stuck in a labyrinth of desolate subway tunnels with. I won't spoil too much, but the Creep himself is a repulsive deformation whose origin I'll let you see for yourself. The actor who plays him is terrific though, admittedly a maniacal monster, but almost a little bored and jaded by his situation and just dryly going through the motions, which proves to be oddly amusing. That's not to say he's not dangerous or smart though, as Kate repeatedly finds out, fleeing through the dark accompanied by a terrified homeless couple. Potente is riveting in anything, and she seems to seek out more intense fare to star in, always taking her performance to the extreme without ever losing that gravity that I love so much in her work. This one will put you through a wringer, all across the board. It doles out gross out horror, eerie chills and suspense in equal measures. Solid horror.

Yeah that is a weird explanation but I guess the unique British style of the 70s is no more and we may have to settle for the Hollywoodized horror films nowadays. Not that it is a bad thing.There is no character development at all. I don't mind that, I care for the atmosphere and the scares rather than the characters. Still, the movie could have spent some time building some atmosphere. But then it might be a really long film.On the positives, the movie has a capable and menacing villain. That must be the best part of the movie overall. Good makeup too. The movie has quite a few scares especially the scene where they show his face for the first time(WOW). I was impressed. But maybe showing the guy might not be the right idea but he was impressive enough so that didn't bother me. Another positive is the ending. No Hollywood style last second jump scares. At least they spared us on that one.There is quite a bit of violence too but that is common in current day horror movies. There is a mutilation scene that might be a little much but to the Saw generation, this might not matter.Regarding Franka potente...she looks a little bigger, I thought, for the role. Maybe they could have got a smaller actress for this role? She looks like she could take on any monster who comes her way.Overall I was entertained but this seems like a run of the mill Hollywood horror film rather than a movie like Triangle.