Creep (I) (2004)

Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.

Director:

Christopher Smith

Writer:

Christopher Smith

Stars:

Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell, Franka Potente

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vas Blackwood	...	George
Ken Campbell	...	Arthur
Kathryn Gilfeather	...	Girl
Franka Potente	...	Kate
Grant Ibbs	...	Man
Joe Anderson	...	Male Model
Jeremy Sheffield	...	Guy
Sean De Vrind	...	Friend
Ian Duncan	...	Friend
Debora Weston	...	Mya
Emily Gilchrist	...	Karen
Craig Fackrell	...	Homeless Guy
Elizabeth McKechnie	...	Woman
Kelly Scott	...	Mandy
Strapper	...	'Ray' The Dog

Storyline

Heading home late one night after a party, Kate falls asleep while waiting for her train. She awakens to find herself trapped in the London underground, with all the doors locked for the evening. While being attacked by a co-worker who has followed her, a mysterious unseen creature drags him away and kills him. This begins a terrifying ordeal, as Kate and a young homeless couple are stalked through the dark tunnels by something dangerous with payback on its mind.

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Plot Keywords:

underground | tunnel | london underground | gore | subway | 

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Taglines:

Your journey terminates here.

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, language, some drug use and sexual content

Details

Country:

UK Germany

Language:

German English

Release Date:

28 January 2005 (UK)

Also Known As:

0:34

Filming Locations:

Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£477,687 (UK) (28 January 2005)

Gross:

£1,728,375 (UK) (18 February 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

UK Film Council, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dan Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When they were filming Franka running through a tube train, the cameraman behind her ran straight into one of the posts on the train.

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Goofs

The unexpected train that Kate boards at Charing Cross and where she is followed by Guy is a 1996 Stock Jubilee Line train. When she runs into the cab and gets out of the train into the tunnel the train has switched to a 1972 Stock Train.

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Quotes

Arthur: It depends which area you're in. If you're in the areas around Chinatown, there's a strange sort of *seafood* smell, whereas in Soho...
George: Oh wow wow wow stop right there! This ain't the fuckin' Discovery Channel!
Arthur: I'm just trying to educate you, that's all.
George: Trust me, there's nothing I wanna know about *shit*.

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Connections

Referenced in The Making of 'Severance' (2007)

User Reviews

Bloody Northern Line

This is good little shocker; not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but tight, competent and disturbing. An excellent example of a simple idea developed into a compelling 90 minute script.

The set up requires no bells and whistles, no lengthy exposition or wordy back story; Kate (Franka Pontente), a young German business woman living in London, drifts off whilst waiting for the last tube train. She awakens to find the place deserted, but quickly comes to realise that she is far from alone. Someone, or something, is down there with her and it's intentions are wholly malicious.

In fact she encounters several other characters in her quest to survive, including a lecherous work colleague, a homeless couple and a caged sewage worker, all of whom add pace and substance to the plot. There is a slightly awkward gear change somewhere in the middle of the film when tension thriller mutates into gore fest, but nothing so clumsy as to slow the hectic pace. For those of you with weak dispositions this is likely to be a harrowing ride; for those of you who relish a bit of well executed carnal mayhem this should press all the right buttons.

The climax of the film is perhaps less successful than the main body of the film, but it is punctuated with a nice moment of unexpected social commentary which provides a satisfying conclusion.

Some may find themselves feeling somewhat cheated of a clear explanation as to the exact nature and history of the threat encountered by Kate and her confederates, however, for me this was not the case. A horror film writer should not need feel compelled to dot every i and cross every t, in the same way a writer of political thrillers might be expected to. There are enough clues here to give you a very pretty clear idea of what brought this evil into existence, making a detailed and conclusive solution superfluous. The retention of a certain sense of mystery is to be welcomed and reminds us that in this film the ride was always going to be more important than the exact destination.

My understanding is that the budget for this film was, to say the least, minimal, in which case our applause for this British horror should be all the louder, for at no point does one have the impression of corners being cut or effects failing to deliver.

If this sounds like your kind of film then it probably is. Buy a ticket and climb aboard.