Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

marno76 I wish movie reviews were weighted on the basis of age. people downvoting this movie must be very young: this is the only explanation possible. Sorry guys: this movie is a gem. It is goddamn creeping: slowly crawls under your skin and goes back and forth into your mind. Until the end.

crownofsprats An NPR podcast ran a story a while back, in which the NPR-ish narrator recalls with some embarrassment how he didn't realize that a kooky guy he had been friends with for years was in fact a homeless pathological liar. At first, the listener naturally assumes the story would be about the mechanics of this prodigious feat of deceit. But then it slowly becomes evident that the real story is how much of a gormless doofus the narrator happens to be, and how he had essentially enabled this charade the entire time by ignoring all sorts of obvious warning signs.The dynamic is kinda the same here. It's also my main gripe with this film, but later on that. In the tradition of modern American workplace criticism etiquette, the turd sandwich must always start with a compliment:Mark Duplass - aka the actor who plays the titular creep - totally carries the entire film. As far as character acting is concerned, he nails this role. It's hard to be menacing and endearing at the same time, and Duplass pulls it off with a weird grace that keeps the viewer off-balance for most of the film, even when he is not present on screen. Even though you know the general direction the film is veering in, this kooky fella's weird ramblings and edgy antics will keep you guessing throughout!The other character - played by Partick Brice - is a pasty, out-of-shape, out-of-work camera-beardo. He is not particularly dumb - in fact, he seems to be guardedly on edge from the get-go - but he is bland, unimaginative, and for lack of a better term, just plain ineffective. He is unemployed and alone; he wears a "fitness to productivity office workouts" t-shirt to bed. (Brice totally nails this role.)Now, when you pair a malleable doofus like that with a vibrant weirdo, all sorts of interesting possibilities open up. Perhaps they would have been explored if these guys had more money. If this cost more than several grand to make, I don't see how or why: the only other person in the film besides the two leads is a voice on the other end of a 30 second phone call, no effects and minimal props, and the whole film could have probably been filmed and edited on an iPad. With this in mind, the film is actually a dazzling example of squeezing the most out of a shoestring budget. But what at first feels like a realized vision veers into the territory of a squandered opportunity as it nears its disappointingly anticlimactic conclusion, racking up an ever-growing list of plausibility gripes along the way. The cameraman has bizarre recurring dreams, but they're pointless - they don't inform his actions, they don't indicate character development...they hardly even qualify as generic foreshadowing! And even though there's nothing inherently implausible about wanting to keep the law out of certain situations, the writing in that regard has to be one of the lazier efforts in horror at addressing the absence of cops. So it's pretty dumb, and even though it's technically a horror film, most of the "jump scares" in the film are literally the creepy guy running away from the camera guy and then jumping out at him from the corner like a 9 year old. Boo indeed. But the two leads make this more entertaining than it ought to be, and though it's not particularly scary, it has a wry, improvised sense of humor that had the potential to really knock this one out of the park - if only their ideas about character trajectory were better developed.

jackmeat My quick rating - 4,7/10. I don't know. A movie that has the "good" and the "bad" reaching so far extremes makes rating ti difficult. First off, handicam movies are not a novelty anymore, and I am sick of MOST of them. Yes there are some good ones, "Chronicle" reached the plateau, but most of them think it is still something new. Bad news it is not. At least the story of this movie warranted it being used, though which is a lot more than I can say for "Phoenix Forgotten" Ok, I should stick with this movie. The acting is above average for sure. Mark Duplass does a great job of making the dialogue and facial expressions creepy, yet so believable. His character is almost unnerving in how it seems like the everyday guy you see at the grocery store. Also Patrick Brice as the one who answers the ad for a single day job of videotaping this guy for a $1000 bucks does a really good job with adapting to the strangeness of what is going on. Oh, and since those two also wrote this, I am sure it kind of flowed for them as to what they were thinking as they wrote the story. Get used to those two, they are the only characters in the movie (minus a female voice on the phone). Yet they carried out the story well. The bad news is, there wasn't much to the story and if you read other reviews, don't expect some smack in the face ending. I'd say check it out for the acting but don't expect much beyond that.

jadavix "Creep" is a classic, one of the best horror movies of the new millennium. Mark Duplass is superb in his role of Josef, perhaps the titular "creep". The found footage thing gets a bad rap, but it has been done to superb effect before: consider "Man Bites Dog", "Blair Witch Project", "Paranormal Activity", and the short film "Safe Haven". "Creep" is another classic to add to this list.The film really only involves two actors, and I was surprised, in a sense, to hear that it is mostly improvised. Before watching "Creep", I would have had a hard time imagining improvisation working in a horror movie. It seems like you could all too easily stray from the fearsome undercurrent each scene is supposed to carry with it - or, you could try to make everything you say scary, and thus merely become ridiculous.It must have been a tightrope, but Duplass and Brice were more than up to the challenge."Creep" has possibly the most naturalistic acting seen in a found footage film since "Blair Witch".