Review – Creep

This picture is a masterpiece in illogic. It keeps itself going almost exclusively based on characters’ decisions to act as nobody in the universe ever really would. The victims of a “creep” living in the London underground consistently pass up no end of opportunities to escape, destroy their attacker, or at the very least arm themselves. Indeed, the very premise itself (woman accidentally locked in subway with rapist, homeless people and psychotic monster) requires so many leaps of faith that it’s impossible to accept as anything besides an impossible, drawn-out nightmare sequence. I thought about awarding at least a point for the ending, which did have a vaguely entertaining twist. But unfortunately that small punch line didn’t justify the long, horrible joke. Wish I’d skipped it