I recently watched Creep, most notable for staring Franka Potent (man, was Run Lola Run really back in 1998? Crap!). The premise is that there’s some nutty monster running around in the London subways killing and eating people.
It’s heavy on gore, and has plenty of scary tunnel scenes. You know, where the camera is slowly tracking around a bending tunnel — well lit or not — and you’re all like, “shit! in just a millisecond something nasty is going to slide into frame!”
The set design — is that “production design” — is awesome, and the little short on the topic on the DVD is worth watching. The sort of story around it sort of nice, if left too open ended for my myth-loving self. It’s sort of like an urban version of Decent, but with one monster instead of a tribe. Oh, and as Kim said of the monster, “wait, is he wearing pants?”
The flippant disappointment was that they didn’t go with the Radio Head song. I didn’t even catch it playing in the background anywhere.
This one turned out to be largely a disappointment for me. It started out so well, and I agree with you, the set design and lighting is awesome. very effective.
But ultimately I found it really frustrating to watch. For one thing, the antagonist was such a cliché. Yes, he’s a hideous mutant, but that doesn’t make him magical. Yet, he was always able to appear at just the right spot to scare our little friends.
Most annoying however, is that Franka’s character is given multiple opportunities to off this murderous bugger and _doesn’t do it_. Like every second horror film protagonist. Obvious, stupid and annoying.
mmmmm yes. I did yell at the telly ‘Just kill him bloody damn hell!’