Creature (2011)

Sorry, this movie sucks

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Blistering performances.

What we have here is yet another weird and whacky monster/human hybrid lurking in the marshes and feasting on nude females. However no horror marsh movie is complete without a full set of rubes, a nonsense backstory and the obligatory group of lame city- slickers on a tour to the south; and by the south I mean the moonshine drinking, coonskin cap wearing folk. It took a while for me to even work out what the hell this was even about, however as the over-the-top story would have it, a family of inbreeds is apparently down to its last two "viable" members for producing any offspring and as they were sealing their bond an alligator comes up and kills the bride to be, which sends husband/brother into a fit a rage as he seeks to hunt down the 'gator involved. As it turns out, the alligator was killed barehanded but the revenge/rage had turned to insanity by this point and this grieving husband decides to consume all the remaining body parts of random people left uneaten by the alligator, (including his sister bride). Somehow this insanity induced cannibalism mutated this freak into the human/gator hybrid. Yeah, I didn't get it either, but it is what it is. Nonetheless this thing comes out every so often to breed with a chosen female in order to keep the line of hybrid freaks going. As to why, is anyone's guess as it would make more sense to just stop this idiotic seasonal sacrifice and just live your life but a rube's gotta do, what a rube does best. I get that horror movies in general aren't usually supposed to make a great deal of sense but it has to at least make some attempt at a coherent plot or why bother making them in the first place? And with Creature, it just makes no sense. Everybody in this does things that the average person wouldn't do. I can live with the inane dialogue but why make a horror movie and then have all the horror action performed off screen? In every single horror scene, you get a build up, the usual jump scare tactic and the aftermath. You don't get to see anything! I can understand that this may be a tactic designed to save money on special effects but it just comes off as annoying. I didn't even care for the nudity in this. Pasty white skin and unremarkable breasts on a stick figure physique does nothing for me. Despite all the nudity, sex scenes and even the girl on girl action, the whole movie meanders between tedium and boredom. Naturally by the end, only one couple out of three manage to survive and there's never a follow on to see how these two will explain the deaths of four of their friends, but why get bogged in details. An epilogue shows us that one of the girls was kept alive by the alligator man, (who is called Lockjaw by the way), he's somehow managed to breed with her and she's given birth to a bouncing baby throwback. Creature is just too boring to be remotely interesting and it's a waste that this ever got made. It's too stupid to be funny and the boredom makes it difficult to have enough vested interest to work out that the whole road trip was just a ploy by the leader of our intrepid crew of college cretins to have his girlfriend used as a surrogate for the spawn of lockjaw. Take my advice and don't waste your time with this.

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.

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

Wow! This is amazing, an actual movie that has teeth and not a pathetic love sick movie. It seems that there are only a few who can truly master a scary "monster" movie. I have seen numerous movies over the years such as "Humanoids from the Deep", "Terror Within", and "The Beast" that have the right combination of materials for a horror movie. There are a few want to be movies out there that I would call "a flop or a joke". This is not one of them. If you are the type of person who enjoys the movie for what it has to show you. Prepare to be entertained. For your time, money, and understanding of a horror movie you will not be disappointed.