I'm a sucker for creature features, monster movies, and beastly beasties. Hell, I think I love creature features as much as I love haunted house movies. My favorite episodes of Night Stalker, The X-Files, Buffy, and Supernatural are the creature feature ones. The problem is creature features mostly suck and by suck I mean, are fucking pieces of shit which make Corman movies look like Kurosawa (though Humanoids of the Deep which was recently rereleased is surprisingly "good").
Fred Andrews' Creature was something I had been waiting to rent (for a price drop) and y'know, it really wasn't too bad at all, and in some ways was pretty awesome.
The premise is simple, there's a gatorman legend in the swamps of Louisiana. Six young people (who in some ways actually turn out to be kind of well acted and sympathetic - shockingly) on a roadtrip to NOLA, stop at spooky coon-ass gas station, oh look Sid Haig is creepy, titties! gore! titties!, camping=death!, swamp people=death!, who will survive and what will be left of them? It's not rocket surgery but the effects were good, the acting was much better than average - Wayne Pere and David Jensen were particularly awesome, Lauren Schneider and Serinda Swan were particularly attractive (and convincing characters), and the twist wasn't bad in the least. The climax of the movie kind of made me go, "Meeeeeeh." but it wasn't a deal breaker. Production value was far superior to a majority of the straight-to-video congealed discharge I've watched a few minutes of - Creature looked like a real movie.
All in all Creature was enjoyable and not a complete disappointment and better than most creature features (fuck you Sci-Fi channel).
Fred Andrews' Creature was something I had been waiting to rent (for a price drop) and y'know, it really wasn't too bad at all, and in some ways was pretty awesome.
The premise is simple, there's a gatorman legend in the swamps of Louisiana. Six young people (who in some ways actually turn out to be kind of well acted and sympathetic - shockingly) on a roadtrip to NOLA, stop at spooky coon-ass gas station, oh look Sid Haig is creepy, titties! gore! titties!, camping=death!, swamp people=death!, who will survive and what will be left of them? It's not rocket surgery but the effects were good, the acting was much better than average - Wayne Pere and David Jensen were particularly awesome, Lauren Schneider and Serinda Swan were particularly attractive (and convincing characters), and the twist wasn't bad in the least. The climax of the movie kind of made me go, "Meeeeeeh." but it wasn't a deal breaker. Production value was far superior to a majority of the straight-to-video congealed discharge I've watched a few minutes of - Creature looked like a real movie.
All in all Creature was enjoyable and not a complete disappointment and better than most creature features (fuck you Sci-Fi channel).
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