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.

Danii Disaster No, seriously... if this movie was made in the 80s, you could, perhaps, excuse it to some extent, but it was produced in 2011, for Pete's sake!In this day and age, it is totally inexcusable to waste money on making this kind of crap! I would also complain about waste of talent, but none was involved -- not one of the cast members could pass for an actual actor.You could also bring up waste of effort, but that is also not applicable, since the movie is exceptionally poorly-written and badly-pieced-together.Sometimes you watch a movie and it makes no impression on you, so you forget it. But some movies are so BAD that you feel obligated to warn others. Well, this was one of those.Lame, wacky, dump. Basically, a TOTAL waste of time.

Vincent Lee Creature is a movie that's not ashamed to admit it's a throwback to clichéd monster and slasher flicks. This is not something that I have a problem with.Creature ticks almost all the required boxes for a genre movie. A group of college-aged friends going out on a trip to some backwoods locale? Check. Creepy and suspicious rednecks? Check. Nudity and premarital sex? Check. Strangely elaborate and detailed legend for the film's monster/serial killer? Check. A monster/serial killer that's actually menacing, a high body count and numerous gory and brutal deaths? Not quite.Like I mentioned earlier, I don't have a problem with a movie plays up genre clichés. What I do have a problem with, however, is a movie that plays up a genre's clichés without delivering its unique thrills. Simply put, the actual creature in Creature was boring.One would expect a movie starring a half-gator, half-man monster named Lockjaw (because we all know the monster is the main attraction in this type of movie and that the "protagonists" are just humanoid chew toys) to feature some nasty deaths but Creature just doesn't deliver. He looks fearsome enough but his kills are just boring since his preferred method of inflicting pain is to simply pound and stomp on his victims.There's not much else to say about this movie because there simply is not much to it. The acting is surprisingly decent by genre standards, the characters are likable enough for you to almost wish they didn't die painful deaths for our amusement, and the plot does its job in keeping you awake until it's time for people to die. It's just that when they do, you won't sit up and pay attention. There is literally nothing memorable or even exciting about the deaths in Creature. The most memorable kill in my opinion wasn't even done by the monster and if there's one sign that a monster movie has not done a job, it's a human character being more interesting than the monster.For all its earnestness and delightful indulgence in genre clichés, Creature just doesn't deliver the gory fun it should. Go watch Hatchet instead.

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