You’ve got to give the crew behind Creeper a little credit for effort–they recorded all their own music to add onto this three minute short film. It’s too bad that that’s pretty much the only area in which they succeeded.
In this one, a young man finds himself running afoul of some random monster or possibly human that sounds like he’s been chain-smoking rope since the eighties. Anyway, this human / monster thing is dispatched to kill the young man for some reason, but we don’t know what that reason is. All we know is, his time is UP.
And yes, the musical score is pretty nifty, but what they forgot to do was actually make a movie. There’s no coherent plot here outside of some fart noises on voice mail and a guy getting killed for no clear reason. I’m not even sure whether the guy that did the killing was a man or a monster. And what’s with all the coughing? The movie was actually TOO short, leaving a lot of its issues unresolved.
There are a great many questions that I don’t have answers to because Creeper didn’t bother to create them.
The Screenhead Ten Scale respects the musical side of this whole short endeavor, but at the same time, can’t help but be a little unsettled by the fact that there’s not much of a, you know, MOVIE here. It thusly hands out a three out of ten.
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