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As we are about to tackle Shudder’s The Creep Tapes (2014) in Static Age, we take a look at the two Jason Blum-produced films that spawned the hit TV series.
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Creep (2014) poster
Creep
(2014)
Down on his
luck, videographer Aaron Franklin (Patrick Brice) answers an online
advertisement from Josef (Marc Duplass) who’s supposedly dying from a brain
tumour, and wants his last days to be filmed in order to be presented as a gift
to his yet-unborn child. It ends up that the advertiser becomes obsessed with
the videographer, justifying the film’s title as he gradually becomes a creep.
The protagonist
duo penned the screenplay (with Brice directing and Duplass producing), of what
must be the most boring time I’ve hard with a horror movie in many years.
Following a successful premiere at the South by Southwest film festival (I
don’t know what the audience was thinking), it had a bit of turbulent history
(I think I know what the distributors were thinking) until it found a home on
video on demand, when it was hailed by critics as some sort of great
psychological thriller. To me it is just another found footage trash that
becomes even worse because all you see on screen is two people talking. Had the
two male leads developed a homoerotic romance, things could be a bit more
interesting.
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Creep 2 (2017) poster
Creep
2
(2017)
A Youtuber and
all around alternative semi-Goth girl (Desiree Akhavan) is answering an online
ad by serial killer (Marc Duplass) who seems to have suicidal tendencies.
Written by
Patrick Brice (who also directed) and Marc Duplass, this sequel is admittedly a
better effort than its predecessor, mainly due to some surprisingly clever
choices it makes with its camera work and editing, as well as the screenplay
which just when you thought you knew where it’s going it heads into a totally
different direction.
Be warned though
that despite its ‘woke’ approach (both central characters seem to be gay) –
that comes along with full frontal male nudity, but only a mere glimpse of tit
from the female – and its very brief time (like the first film the running time
is again thankfully under 80 minutes long), this is unmistakably boring; just
not as much as the original.
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