What a Creep

The creep in Creep is a real mean baddie with a penchant for sharp objects caught in vital organs in the human body. This horror / thriller flick is a great squealer and stomach-churner, with its many moments of splashing blood and staring into the face of an inhuman fiendish grey-skinned, hunchbacked deformed... thing. Kudos to the make up and costume people of Creep! Even upclose, the obvious wrinkles in the skin suit on the actor could very well be taken to be real loose skin hanging off the... thing.
Creep worked because one fear of every person who has taken the subway, underground, metro, MRT, etc before is that something lurks down in those tunnels. Something that will find you when you close your eyes and miss the last train home. Something that is ugly, that likes meat and blood, and will drag you into the foul pits of the city - not hell, but close - the sewers.
Another reason why Creep was so great was its witty dialogue and natural cast. They may have been acting as themselves for all I know, because that's what it felt like. Oh and the inclusion of the Irish man is so clever because everyone knows, having an Irish or Scottish accent in your film is sure to makes things fun. It did. I really really liked the irishman, for many reasons; one of them being his devotion to his fellow homeless partner and his foolhardiness to go running off after a blood trail into unknown depths.
The only problem I have with Creep is its ending! It was a nice touch to end on a bittersweet-ish, sardonic kind of note, but it left you hanging and unsure. It was hinted at briefly that the creep was one of the mutated babies born and bred in the underground labs, but there was so much more that could have been done to mine this back story. Why were there labs underground? Who was the doctor? Did he create or simply help birth these creatures? Because if it was the latter, can you imagine what kind of statement could be made about the city and how poor mothers are forced to go underground to birth their pitiful deformed babies and leave them there to rot? Very importantly, are there more? After all, there were a number of cribs and a wealth of tunnels that could harbour these dark creatures.
At any rate, Creep did well in engaging, frightening and grossing you out. It could have gone one step further to haunt you, if the movie had learnt from the creep who struggled to eke out its existence unlike his bottled, unborn brothers and sisters. Creep, the movie, bottled itself in nice and tight: incomplete but a nice specimen to put on display and appreciate every now and then.