Creature is a Mildly Entertaining Bad Movie
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Creature is what you’d expect if you combined Swamp Thing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:a throwback ‘80s creature horror that’s main character is so silly it’s stupid.
Horror Queen Says: Bloody Thumbs Down!
Written by BHM Editor Horror Queen
September 9, 2011
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Released: September 9, 2011
Directed by: Fred Andrews
Written by: Tracy Morse, Fred Andrews
Starring:
D’Arcy Allen as: Villager
Daniel Bernhardt as: Uncredited
Mehcad Brooks as: Niles
Dillon Casey as: Oscar
Amanda Fuller as: Beth
A few hundred years ago in a swamp, legend has it a young Cajun named Grimley was just about to marry his sister in order to continue the family lineage (and because she’s hot) when she was suddenly dragged under water by an alligator. As many a love struck incestuous teen would do, Grimley followed the reptile back to its lair and proceeded to kill it and eat the remains of its human victims, thus morphing into a ‘creature’. Because no one could think of a more descriptive film title?
This ‘creature’ who continues to lurk in the
same swamp
today, now
nicknamed ‘Lockjaw’ by the locals, looks similar to one we might see in
a rerun of the old ‘60s Star Trek TV series – a large man in
a wet suit with rubber bulges all over it. This is enough however to
keep the banjo-strumming (well, they should have banjos) locals in
fear, always on the lookout for young females to offer up as mating
partners, or at least meals, to their God (oh yeah and they refer to
the inbred reptile maniac as ‘God’).
Speaking of younger females, into the town come
three of
them with a
few ex-military male friends lost on their way to the Big Easy.
Stopping at an old shack to ask for directions, the group is greeted by
Chopper (Sid Haig, The
Devil’s Rejects, House
of 1000
Corpses), who convinces them to instead head for the bayou in
search of the legendary Lockjaw. I think if I ran into Sid Haig on the
street I would immediately scream and run. With a history of incest and
carnage in all his films, he’s far more menacing than anything else in this movie and may actually have been its saving grace if that were possible.
Probably because they realized this film's predator was about as interesting as a wad of gum, filmmakers turn to distractions like lesbianism, masturbation, pot-smoking, even throwing in a few spiders which like Sid are also more menacing than the actual monster.
With the group now smack dab in the middle of Lockjaw-land, mayhem of course ensues with each character meeting death in the order of their obnoxiousness and lack of acting ability, until only the two best looking and most likeable remain to fight the thing alone. There’s a bit of a surprise ending in Creature which many will miss, as sitting through all 93 minutes of this film a lot to ask.
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