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"What if it happens to be our kin? What if that old fool was right?" Six friends leave for a week of fun in New Orleans when a stop at a local gas station introduces them to the legend of Grimley, a local half-man/half-alligator killer bent on revenge. They decide the best way to enjoy themselves is to venture into the swamp and see if it's real. Tell me you don't want to watch that. I have to admit that I am a sucker for these over the top cheesy killer creature movies. The gold standard to me is a tie between "Piranah" & "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus." Those are fun to watch because they are really cheesy but they know it so they go for the comedy side too. That makes them so much fun to watch. This one had the low-budget cheesy stuff that I was looking for, but it felt like they tried to compensate by making the rest of it as serious as they could. The acting was so bad though that it didn't come off like they wanted. It became a movie that thought it was more serious then it was. Still fun to watch, but not one of the better of this genre. Overall, I was hoping for more comedy to go with the cheese. I give it a C+.

Another movie about backwoods freaks preying on unsuspecting young travelers usually visiting, passing thru, or detained. In this movie they are traveling thru Loisiana to the city of New Orleans. And the backwoods freaks this time are a bunch of people who've made a pact with a "Gatorman"; part man, part alligator. This pact is steeped in religion and appears cultish. They give Gatorman what he wants and he gives them what they need. What he wants is tender, sweet, female flesh for dinner and sex. In return, he gives his worshipers what they need. Perpetuation; continuity. The cult are bred or born from incestuous sex; the women of which are sacrificed regularly to Gatorman (I'm only the messenger, folks).

Legend has it that circa 19th century, the Boteen (spell check) family, who lived reclusively deep in the swamps, were concerned about their lineage because their family tree was thinning out due to sterility. You know the saying: "Desperate situations call for desperate measures"? --Well it was up to 2 Boteens, Caroline and Grimley, who were brother and sister to save the Boteens from extinction. On the eve of their wedding, while they were frolicking on the swamps filled with love and anticipation of their union, a white gator rose up from the swamps and took Caroline. Grimley goes after her, finds the animals larder, but she's already dead. He kills the gator, but is overcome by grief and goes mad. He begins to consume the gators store of human remains (including sister Caroline) and "Gatorman" --who looks like a cross between a linebacker, a gorilla, and a reptile-- is born.

After seeing an old flier made for tourists daring them to go to Grimeley's old home in the swamps and directions to get there from a storekeeper, six young people, 3 guys and 3 girls, decide to make a side trip from their journey to visit the old house of legend (I think we agree, reader, that this can't be good). This movie is not a bad entry into the "Backwoods Freaks" genre. But instead of some psycho with a love for sharp things and torture after you, this time it's a Gatorman aided by a religious inbred cult. I would say that action and story-wise, it's fair. I did have a little problem with the way the lead in this movie took a bullet and didn't even limp after. As well, he got a pummeling from Gatorman that should have (in my opinion) broken every bone in his body. Bit of credibility lost there, I think. Still, if you understand that these type of movies are what they are; that they can often be a bit amateurish (some of the writing and directing here; the acting was okay) and a bit exploitive (some nudity with the violence in this one) and that they are designed strictly for entertainment and revenue, then most likely you would accept this entry into the Backwoods Freak genre as a fair one. Love, Boloxxxi.

While I like creature movies in general, I only like good ones. This movie has no business trying theatrical distribution. Its distributor is going to lose millions.

The movie is basically the same quality and mentality as what you might see produced by Roger Corman or Charles Band, which are dirt-budget cheaply written ride-the-trend productions. To their credit they launch careers for actors and filmmakers trying to get their first break, but the products are horrible.

The Corman / Band era is over, however. Until the 90's, movies like that could take advantage of the fact that nobody knew they sucked until it was too late. Word of mouth was only as good as your local community. Today we have the internet, where everyone with at least one finger and a brain stem can bang out their reaction to a movie and send it up to a site where it gets visibility. Thousands of viewers can rate movies at many sites, such as IMDb, Yahoo Movies, Fandango, Flix, Hulu, etc. This averages out to an overall audience reaction, despite idiots who give everything they see one star or those who give everything they see "all" stars. This rapid response medium spreads the word so fast that after just a day or two of release, I can see that hundreds or even thousands of people have averaged a movie to 4 stars out of 10, and that means I should steer clear of it.

(Obviously it didn't work with me this time because I'm one of those rare persons who doesn't pay much attention to the opinions of others.) The cost of distributing a movie to the theater is ENORMOUS. It is harder to distribute a movie to a US theater than it is to raise millions of dollars to produce it in the first place. With Blu-Ray on the rise, and the increasing popularity of using the internet to stream movies, theatrical distribution is riskier than ever.

I suppose the distributor of Creature figured the time was ripe. It's the second deep-south swamp horror to come out this month, the other being Shark Night, which was marginally better (but not a good bet either). I suppose they were inspired by the surprise success of Piranha 3D, which had a lot of star cameo power, a lot of gore, a lot of nudity, and a lot of fun. All Creature had was a little nudity, and that's just not enough. The plot was confusing, the characters were ridiculously unbelievable, and the creature costume was even worse than Swamp Thing 20 years ago.

Seriously, guys. College students can make a better film than this.

I could tell this movie was going to be great when we walked into the theater and no one else was there. I had expected it to be awful from the get go, but it surprised me by also being completely nonsensical. What looks like a typical "monster eats a bunch of teens in the woods" movie is actually much more convoluted. Throughout, I couldn't shake the feeling that this had started off as a kinky softcore porn that accidentally mutated into a horror movie somewhere along the way. While the breasts all gave a moving performance, the rest of the cast left something to be desired. Of course, that could have just been the weird script. There should have been subtitles for the 40% of the dialogue that was delivered in fake Cajun accents, but what we could understand didn't make things any clearer. I mean, yeah, we got the gist of it, but we just kept asking why. Why did anyone do anything that they did in this film? I guess it's up to the viewer to decide. Audience participation!

I have no idea what the writer and director had on their minds when they set this baby up, but I'm pretty sure I can tell you what they didn't: logic, character development, timing, or continuity. If you love bad horror movies like I do, you might enjoy this, but honestly we spent more time being confused than laughing. Plus I kept waiting for it to stop beating around the bush and just turn into Deliverance 2 already, but it never did.

I've always been a fan of blood, gore and guts. I would watch anything that fell under the genre of Horror. I've seen all the Friday the 13ths, Nightmare on Elm Streets, and Halloweens; I've seen all the Jeepers/Creepers, Texas Chainsaw Massacres, and Saws; and I've watched most of the classic Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Invisible Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon movies. Some of my all-time favorite Horror films have been the less mainstream films though; such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space and the cult classic Evil Dead. When I was asked if I was interested in passes to see a screening of Creature, I couldn't resist. I'd seen a trailer for the movie and knew that it was definitely a "low-budget" film; and with low-budget films comes low expectations.

Using a budget of approximately $3,000,000, an extremely small amount by Hollywood standards), Fred Andrews III makes his directorial debut. The most notable actor in Creature is horror film stalwart Sid Haig, mostly known for playing Captain Spaulding in the movies House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Sadly, Haig basically just plays a dumbed down version of Spaulding and sadly his is extremely underutilized because he's the best thing in the movie. The "creature", if you will, is not a computer generated image but is merely someone wearing a costume; similar to the way it was done back in the "good old days." Regrettably the comparison to the "good old days" stops there. Yes, there's the nudity, and quite a bit more than the standard gratuitous, there's pot smoking and drunkenness; but, the shock factor is lacking. The kill scenes show very little gore…if any at all. The characters are underdeveloped, giving you no one to relate to or to root for. The witty humor is dull and the dialogue isn't much better. There really isn't much that actually works.

Grade: F

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While I'm not sure what I expected going into this, I didn't really get what I was looking for. I think I was hoping for something a bit more like Hatchet which was a ton of fun and had quite a bit of gore. This movie feels like it's just a step above a Syfy channel movie. If you've ever had the misfortune of stumbling upon one of those without expecting it, you'll know what I mean.

I liked the slight throwback to 80's era movies what with the camping, one-by-one killing, and somewhat gratuitous nudity. Everything else was pretty bland. The creature effects are OK, but not fantastic. The effects in general, really, are just OK. Then there's the suspension of disbelief which is just a bit more than I can handle (aside from the monster stalking the swaps of Louisiana). I won't go into why exactly, but it's just a mess. The movie isn't terrible, but it's certainly not anything that's going on your favorites list.

Man i've watched some garbage movies lately. Monster brawl, dear god no, and then this. Im gunna try and go catch batman in theaters tonight to remind myself that good movies do exist. Basically everything in this movie is something we have seen before. Teens go to creepy rest stop, locals creep em out, they go somewhere they are warned not to go, locals terrorize them but there's more to be worried about, the creature. The creature is about the only remotely memorable part of this movie, it looked semi-cool but doesn't actually do anything worth talking about. Pretty much all the deaths happen off screen and we are shown maybe a severed limb or the spray from an attack but never the full out carnage so the death scenes are easily forgettable. The characters are all of the same characters from any other movie like this but at least the women show a lot of tits. plenty of nudity in this movie. Its all well made but nothing new or memorable at all I should have turned this movie off half way through like i did those other two.

Do not buy this on bootleg or rent this at Redbox. Don't waste your time, money or breath.

This movie is worse than Megafault or Howard the Duck. I hate this movie. It was so bad that it made me angry. It was disgusting, stupid and boring. I could have clawed my own eyes out. There were 5 other people in the theater who left, so I was the only idiot left watching the movie. I got in with a free movie pass and I wanted to ask for it back. I was sitting there like an abused woman knowing that things would get better. This movie went downhill from start to finish. Lockjaw looks like he is wearing a costume from Party City. The whole incest thing = GROSS! AWFUL - AWFUL - AWFUL

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.

This is a fun little film that I used to see its kind playing in the drive-in back in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is always good to see Sid Haig, who starred in many of drive-in exploitation flicks back in the day before House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects made him a horror icon. The plot is pretty basic: six friends go into the swamp to check out a local legend and fall prey to a creature from the swamp that looks pretty cool. There is trouble with the locals as well as some personal betrayals going on. I see some early reviewers on this site, knocking the film as expected because, as I imagine, many of them did not grow up watching these creature features and have little love for them. This is the kind of film Drive-In critic Joe Bob Briggs used to review and champion; I only wish I had a chance to see it at a drive-in instead of a indoor theater.

Six 'kids' on a road-trip to New Orleans stop off at a tourist trap to check out the local legend of Lockjaw, a half-swamp-man/half-alligator that supposedly lives in the bayou...

I've absolutely no problem with cookie-cutter horror films wherein dumb youngsters seem to go out of their way to be torn limb from limb; on the contrary, I positively encourage them, just so long as they don't skimp on the graphic violence and gratuitous nudity. Creature, a by-the-numbers monster film from first time director Fred Andrews, begins in the right spirit, delivering in both departments with full frontal nudity from a young woman who gets her legs chewed off when she takes a naked dip in a swamp.

The bare flesh continues with the introduction of the three uninhibited girls—Emily, Beth and Karen (Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller and Lauren Schneider), all of whom strip off to some degree during the film, but the gore proves frustratingly tame, the majority of the nastiness occurring just out of frame. Add the fact that the film's monster is a laughably bad man-in-a-rubber suit creation, and it soon becomes apparent that Creature is one of the genre's weaker efforts.

Sid Haig does his best to inject some fun into proceedings with a deranged performance that is essentially Captain Spaulding without the clown make-up, and the plot is given some much needed pep with the introduction of some lesbian shenanigans and a touch of incest (Karen giving her brother a hand with his photography being surprisingly perverted), but the lack of decent splatter, the weak monster, and a very silly ending make this far from essential viewing.

4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

The movie is called "Creature", you should know what you are getting yourself into. If not, the first few minutes will quickly let you know (and I'm not talking about the nudity, but the other "thing"). Of course having Serinda Swan in it, elevates the whole movie as does the appearance by Sid Haig.

The effects may not be the best and you will know where all this leads (be it through the relationships between the characters or otherwise/cliché). But it doesn't entirely take all the fun out of it. I actually did enjoy myself a few times. And that is what the movie tries to achieve. It's not a masterpiece nor will it get anywhere near a Horror Hall of fame or anything like that. But you can have fun with it, if you let yourself

Craptacular. Even worse than your average creature-horror movie. The creature itself looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle...

Has anybody out there seen a single television commercial for this movie? Or even a trailer in a movie theatre? I never saw anything about it, and I think that is what lead to such a poor opening for this film. Nobody knew about it. I find that to be a shame because a movie like this had a real shot at finding a good cult following. Finally, we have a true "monster movie" told very much in an old-fashioned way. It remained very true to the genre, and I thought this film was a blast. It never takes itself too seriously. It understands its fan base and accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. If you are a fan of fun popcorn monster movies, I recommend giving this one a try.

Incest. A touch of cannibalism. A sprinkling of nudity. And a half- man/half-gator creature. Hmmm. Must be the Louisiana Bayou! And so it is! Really. What can you expect from this kind of story. The moral is that you have to go into it expecting what you should be expecting. If you do - and you're not expecting some horror masterpiece - you find a movie that ain't good by a longshot, but that can still pass some time in a way that at least isn't painful.

In "Creature" we're following the adventures of six young people (3 male, 3 female) on their way to New Orleans, who stop at a backwoods store and get introduced to a local legend about this creature. The creature has an interesting background. Born (evolved? transformed?) a couple of hundred years before when a brother and sister decided they had to - well - take responsibility for making sure their family continued on. Unfortunately, before they could accomplish this, the sister was eaten by a large white gator, whom the brother then killed. But driven mad by the experience, he proceeded to consume everything in the gator's lair - including his now dead sister. This apparently was enough to transform him into Gator-Man! Gator-Man now keeps the family line going, with the use of nubile young females chosen against their will for this purpose - and, just by happy (or unhappy) coincidence, there are three nubile young females in the movie.

You get what you expect. And you should know what you're going to get right off the top. The movie opens with a young woman who goes swimming (stark naked) in a gator-infested swamp. Not surprisingly, we see no more of the young woman after those opening few scenes. That opening is certainly eye catching. The story from then on isn't great. It's not horrible, mind you. I've seen worse. Not unexpectedly, there are a couple of scenes that come across as mildly soft core porn-like, and there is for some reason that I didn't think was necessary a strange, religious cult-like background to the whole thing. And in at least one close up I thought Gator-Man looked surprisingly like the Gorn who did battle with Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek. There's a couple of twists involved - including one that keeps the movie going when you thought it had ended (and I'm still not sure whether that was good or bad!)

The strength of this movie was actually in the performances. The cast was (to me at least) completely unknown, but they all did a good job. They didn't just go through the motions. They were taking this seriously enough, which must have been a challenge at times. I thought that the three young women especially did a great job of showing very believable terror at their plight. The performances made this rather silly story watchable. (3/10)