Pre-Halloween Horror-watching #4: Creep

[xannoside]

Creep
Genre: Urban Monster in the Dark
Director: Christopher Smith (who went on to direct the well-received Triangle and Black Death), 2004
Starring: Franka Potente and some British people
TL:DR: A little uneven, but overall a decent use of of the "beast in the underground" concept (helped by it actually being the London Underground)

Comments

[jethrien]

You can watch them so I don't have to.

[xannoside]

At some point, one of these will be good, I swear it!

[jethrien]

More, I hate horror movies. Remember that part where I was getting terrified by the robots shooting me in Portal? Yeah. I don't do well with scary things. It's best for everybody if I don't wake Chuck up sixteen times a night convinced that something in the closet is going to eat me.

[xannoside]

What about funny horror movies? Or horror movies that walk a more "fun" than "scary" line?

[jethrien]

Evil Dead 2 is about all I can take, and there's still a little jumping and clinging to things. Army of Darkness is ok. Death Ship alternated between snark and hiding behind my hands. I whacked a friend in the chest in fright during First Contact when the Borg punch into sickbay the second time I saw it, I had trouble going to the bathroom at night for six months after The Sixth Sense, and I almost drove off the road when some bushes moved on the way home from Signs. I'm a movie wuss.

[xannoside]

What about Shaun of the Dead?

[jethrien]

Enjoyed it, but there were definitely a couple scenes that were spent clutching at the couch.