The Creeping

When I sat down to watch the 2022 horror movie "The Creeping", from director Jamie Hooper, I had never actually heard about it. But with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, then I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch it.

The storyline and script in the movie, as written by Jamie Hooper and Helen Miles, was so incredinly slow paced and boring. There is an insane amount of dialogue to sit through and there simply just isn't enough of anything overly interesting or scary going on throughout the course of the 94 minutes that the movie dragged on for. And I do mean 'dragged' literally. I was on the brink of giving up on watching "The Creeping" just 40 minutes into the ordeal, but opted to endure the suffering in the hopes of the movie picking up in pace and intensity.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. But it should be noted that the acting performances had potential, just a genuine shame that the actresses and actors virtually had nothing to work with from the script in terms of plot, dialogue and anything interesting.

If you enjoy horror movies, such as I do, then do yourself a favor and skip on wasting 94 minutes on watching "The Creeping". It is a dull and monotonous viewing experience that doesn't even remotely functions as a proper horror movie.

My rating of director Jamie Hooper's 2022 movie "The Creeping" lands on a very, very generous three out of ten stars, and that is based solely on the acting performances and the production value the movie had, because the script was just simply a swing and a miss.

The Creeping is in a way just what you'd think it is: a very British horror movie with chills than full on scares. On the other hand, it is also a very well crafted drama about the effects of dementia on a family, as well as Hammer-like gothic horror. It is quite intentionally made to look like it was produced in the 1970s or 80s. Perhaps this was a stylistic choice, perhaps it was to somewhat cover for the budgetary constraints that led to some cheap looking CGI. Either way, it worked and I enjoyed it. I wouldn't have paid to rent it, but for free on Tubi it makes for some pretty decent entertainment.

Bummer... I was rather looking forward to this one, but all I can say is that it is not put together very well and as suggested by the other reviewer's rather incisive title, VERY uninteresting and uneventful.

The acting is below average, there is absolutely NO tension in the movie. Towards the beginning are the cliched obligatory scenes showing her as a little girl and her father together playing games and such. Totally plastic, totally artificial.

And, this is one of the cases where I REALLY don't care whatsoever about what the theme or main plot is. It is SO bloody uninteresting and absolutely NOT compelling or involving in any way, that quite honestly, you just don't care.

Seriously...

So, the content of my review has about as much substance as the movie does, so that should tell you something... : )

At least in many other cases where the movie isn't made very well or the acting isn't that great, at LEAST there may be an intriguing premise or idea behind it. Here, it just simply doesn't matter...

I'm giving it a VERY generous '4' because the look and photography were kind of nice. But, honestly... that is about it...

I don't say this often in reviews, as a matter of fact I generally don't go to the trouble to leave negative reviews. But, since I had more expectations for this film and others might too, I just wanted to say...

Don't waste your time...

I decided to watch The Creeping after reading the Dread Central review which called it "A Scary and Classic Haunted House Tale" and I'd fully agree with that. The Creeping is reminiscent of older films from the 70s & 80s that are a bit slower paced but use the time to build up atmosphere and tell a spooky story. There are scares but it takes its time building up to them and is all the better for it. It pays homage to lots of other films whilst still doing its own thing. The performances are all great and the cinematography and sound design work really well. The director was obviously working with a smaller budget than big Hollywood films like The Conjuring but it never distracts from the story. Highly recommended for lovers of retro horror films.

Don't look at the high ratings as they are fake. I just wasted over an hour of my life watching this trite, cliche horror flick with cgi straight from the 1980's.

The acting is fine, the cinematography is also fine. The story however has been done over a million times and I feel sorry for the actors getting stuck in this movie as they alone did a great job with the horrible material they were given.

You've got to wonder why it seems all the people with zero talent get to make movies like this. The story has been done so many millions of times and to much better effect. I really feel cheated.