Directed by : Patrick Brice
Written by and Starring : Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Release Date : June 23, 2015
I think we're done hoping the found-footage genre is going away, because it seems like it's here to stay for good in varying degrees. A movie like "Creep" proves that the train can and will keep on rolling, even if there is an obvious familiarity to this type of film making. All it takes is a premise to properly justify a story, and in this case it's about Aaron, a man hired to document one day in the life of Josef, a man who has terminal brain cancer. What could go wrong there right?
Well the movie plays off innocently enough, but gradually plummets into a rabbit hole of bizarreness as Josef acts more and more weird in unsettling, unnerving, and potentially dangerous ways. Part of the fun in seeing this story through is wondering what else is going to happen. Even if you have an idea where it's potentially heading, you just might want to see how the mystery plays out anyway. The wolf head mask named Peachfuzz alone should pique your curiousity.
Mark Duplass as Josef does a great job in combining levity and creepiness into this movie. Although the tone of the movie verges on the terrifying horror scenario, it's also lighthearted in it's own way. There are several moments of jump scares in the movie, and they can get repetitive and annoying, but they also kinda all work out anyway because of the fact that they were mostly played off as a laugh. There was even one jump scare that I particularly thought was surprising but really hilarious.
"Creep" isn't exactly a masterpiece of horror cinema, but it's entertaining and captivating enough to find some merit in checking it out.
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