Ehirerapp Waste of time

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

metalrage666 What we have here is yet another weird and whacky monster/human hybrid lurking in the marshes and feasting on nude females. However no horror marsh movie is complete without a full set of rubes, a nonsense backstory and the obligatory group of lame city- slickers on a tour to the south; and by the south I mean the moonshine drinking, coonskin cap wearing folk. It took a while for me to even work out what the hell this was even about, however as the over-the-top story would have it, a family of inbreeds is apparently down to its last two "viable" members for producing any offspring and as they were sealing their bond an alligator comes up and kills the bride to be, which sends husband/brother into a fit a rage as he seeks to hunt down the 'gator involved. As it turns out, the alligator was killed barehanded but the revenge/rage had turned to insanity by this point and this grieving husband decides to consume all the remaining body parts of random people left uneaten by the alligator, (including his sister bride). Somehow this insanity induced cannibalism mutated this freak into the human/gator hybrid. Yeah, I didn't get it either, but it is what it is. Nonetheless this thing comes out every so often to breed with a chosen female in order to keep the line of hybrid freaks going. As to why, is anyone's guess as it would make more sense to just stop this idiotic seasonal sacrifice and just live your life but a rube's gotta do, what a rube does best. I get that horror movies in general aren't usually supposed to make a great deal of sense but it has to at least make some attempt at a coherent plot or why bother making them in the first place? And with Creature, it just makes no sense. Everybody in this does things that the average person wouldn't do. I can live with the inane dialogue but why make a horror movie and then have all the horror action performed off screen? In every single horror scene, you get a build up, the usual jump scare tactic and the aftermath. You don't get to see anything! I can understand that this may be a tactic designed to save money on special effects but it just comes off as annoying. I didn't even care for the nudity in this. Pasty white skin and unremarkable breasts on a stick figure physique does nothing for me. Despite all the nudity, sex scenes and even the girl on girl action, the whole movie meanders between tedium and boredom. Naturally by the end, only one couple out of three manage to survive and there's never a follow on to see how these two will explain the deaths of four of their friends, but why get bogged in details. An epilogue shows us that one of the girls was kept alive by the alligator man, (who is called Lockjaw by the way), he's somehow managed to breed with her and she's given birth to a bouncing baby throwback. Creature is just too boring to be remotely interesting and it's a waste that this ever got made. It's too stupid to be funny and the boredom makes it difficult to have enough vested interest to work out that the whole road trip was just a ploy by the leader of our intrepid crew of college cretins to have his girlfriend used as a surrogate for the spawn of lockjaw. Take my advice and don't waste your time with this.

Bezenby This is going to come as a total surprise to you, but for the first time ever in a feature film a bunch of youngsters head off into the woods to get drunk, smoke weed, and 'make out' (whatever that is, I don't know what with me being a Benedictine monk). I was totally expecting them just to have a good time and then head home, but it turns out that there's some monster in the woods who then proceeds to hard sell the youth some unneeded double glazing, gets knocked back, then kills them all. Well, most of them.The cover of the DVD I picked up for fifty pence at an all monk car boot sale in Glasgow boasted of gore and nudity, and while it got one of them right (there's some boobs), the gore was mostly all off-screen, which is weird in these times when our horror hungry youth demands graphic torture scenes. There's some local rednecks involved too, one of the being Sid Haig, whom I've never seen in anything good.It's fine they had practical creature effects, but other than that you've seen this plot before many times. We were all disappointed back in the monastery and had to therefore entertain ourselves with the usual game of soggy biscuit.

gavin6942 In the back country of Louisiana, a group of friends unearth a terrible secret that unleashes a monster from the depths of the swamp.We can now look back on this and say it was one of the worst-grossing films of all time. Perhaps that is something of an honor. To be fair, it really is not as bad as you might think based on how it did in theaters. How did it bomb? What went wrong? That is hard to say.One thing I do know is that the creators love Sid Haig, because he is prominently on display in the poster despite being a relatively minor character. And although he plays basically the Southern version of Captain Spaulding, they threw a "Spider Baby" reference in there, too. So that was nice.While I am sad that the people behind this seemed to be inspired -- at least a little -- by "House of 1000 Corpses", it makes me feel better knowing they also had a very strong "Hatchet" vibe going on. While this is nowhere near as good as Adam Green's film, they seem to have been going for the same story... without ripping it off.

trnjamesbond I heard about this film from looking up new DVD releases on the net. I stumbled across this title and thought the trailer deserved a look-see. After I watched the trailer I thought it looked pretty decent, it seemed to be filmed on quality film grade and not cheesy porno film grade, like most low budgeters these days. I suspect this film was released in a limited amount of theatre's across the United States. I live in Canada, so we don't really get those kind of releases, over here it usually consists of high budget releases(unfortunately).Well, despite of this, I thought the film started out a little cliché so to speak, with your typical teenage group on a road trip, when they stumble an old fashioned southern town, as they drive through, they then notice all the church's seem to be "Out of Business", they also run into a gas station that has no gas,(of course, just like in chainsaw). We then all see the typical and now stereotyped Sid Haig, as the local owner of the gas station named "CHOPPERS", which is named after himself.Haig's character, is almost exact to the character he played in "Rob Zombie's House of a 1000 corpses", he continues on to explain to the "little teenies" telling them where they can find the recollection of the silly southern local legend of the half man, half alligator, due to some weird inception of eating human remains, while grieving over the fact that the main star of the legend had his incest sister eaten by a gator.But that's where the character stereotyping ends. Sid Haig's character is then expanded into something different.I don't really want to move into too much detail, so I'll continue on with my overall review.I thought that the making of the teenage group at first seemed stereotypical, and was very cliché, and that's the point of this film (in my opinion). You got the white clichéd, rich road tripping teenagers with the one black guy. But once again that's where the similarities end. Everything about this film seems campy, and that's how it's supposed to be. That's the point, it's a film mixed with all generations of horror films, such as "The Creature from the Black Lagoon","The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1973)", "Friday the 13th", "House of a 1000 Corpses", and so on.There was a little twist thrown in which involved one of the main teenage characters. This was a surprise to me. I didn't think at first that this film would have any talented writing to catch me off guard. But they did, and bravo!In turn, I read most of the reviews on this site and they seemed to be very negative, well I really don't think that they were in the right frame of mind. I don't think that they got the point of the film at all. Hence the title of the film "Creature". This is kind of a generational "hats off" to all the different styles of horror monsters, and slasher films that have been released thus far, from the 50's monster/creature films to the 70's "docustyle" films to the 80's slasher flick, to the 90's generation of knowing all the rules of horror movies and cheesiness through such films as the "Scream" series.This film like I said in my opinion is supposed to be a hats off, and to be taken lightly. I don't think it should be put down at all. It has all the remedies of a cult classic, the only thing that hinders this, is the lack of promotion, and that's the only way "people think these days" if it's not in your face advertising then it's stupid. Well as far as I'm concerned the crap in the theatre that is advertised well, ends up being total rubbish and forgotten about by next week,(50% of them anyway).I found that independent films mean more to me than most films released today in our theatre's. Everything seems to be forced fed to us, and that's a real turn off. I for one will remember this little horror flick as something different, that carried all the magical remedies of all the cool horror films from the past. So finally I must add "Hat's Off" to all the hard working people that made this monster film possible. It's definitely interesting and worth a watch. Bravo, and thanks to the all the actors and film crew involved. I think with all the crappy remakes out there that this film should be respected.Thanks for readingJeffrey J Turner Sarnia ON Canada