THE CREEPING TERROR
USA, 1964
Director: Vic Savage
LOL/10
- The "Creeping Terror" is actually a monster from outer space that looks like a large, old carpet with weeds growing on it, and a head made of old shaver cables. It makes sounds like a 90 year old Asthmatic, it moves about as slow as a Roman snail, and when it tries to eat a victim with its strange mouth (which actually looks like a deformed vagina), it's actually the victim crawling into the mouth!
"Highlights":
"The Creeping Terror" is a masterpiece of crappiness; so bad, so incredibly bad... it's just bad =D
USA, 1964
Director: Vic Savage
LOL/10
I've seen a lot of bad movies in my life. Unintentionally funny stuff like "Manos" or the "Troll" flicks, frustrating crap like "Skeleton Key 2" or "Shock Labyrinth" and complete garbage like "Capture Of Bigfoot" or "Nail Gun Massacre" - but I've never seen anything as stupid, as ridiculous, as crappy, as brain-meltingly terrible as "The Creeping Terror".
Everything is bad in this movie. Everything is wrong in this movie. Yes, everything. EVERYTHING!
- The "Creeping Terror" is actually a monster from outer space that looks like a large, old carpet with weeds growing on it, and a head made of old shaver cables. It makes sounds like a 90 year old Asthmatic, it moves about as slow as a Roman snail, and when it tries to eat a victim with its strange mouth (which actually looks like a deformed vagina), it's actually the victim crawling into the mouth!
- Instead of proper dialogue (reportedly the original soundtrack got lost after shooting was completed), we get some serious guy who narrates over almost every scene and tells us what's going on *yawn*
There are a few dialogue scenes, but they were dubbed in such an amateurish way, it's just annoying.
There are a few dialogue scenes, but they were dubbed in such an amateurish way, it's just annoying.
- The acting is superlame and the characters are all completely uninteresting cardboard cut-outs. When the monster crawls towards them, they just stand around and wait to get eaten.
"Highlights":
~ The scene where the army arrives (the 'Army' is actually a couple of dumb guys in some old pick up truck).
~ The opening scene where the alien's spaceship crashlands (which is actually "reversed" stock footage of a Mercury Rocket).
~ The completely pointless How-marriage-can-change-your-life sequence.
~ The people at the "Hootenanny" who all dance like they experience epileptic seizures.
~ The people at the "Hootenanny" who all dance like they experience epileptic seizures.
~ The guy who beats onto the instruments of the spaceship with a steelpipe for about 2(!) minutes. etc. etc.
"The Creeping Terror" is a masterpiece of crappiness; so bad, so incredibly bad... it's just bad =D
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Oh man, I first heard of this movie when someone wrote in to Famous Monsters magazine about it - he had a line in there that had me rolling around on the floor for DAYS - and it's one I still use - he said "one of the creatures escapes the spaceship and goes on a destructive rampage...knocking over a table and three chairs." ROFL So I stayed up until almost dawn one night that next summer (in the days before home video or recording movies that air at 3am) when the TV Guide said the movie was going to be on the Late Late Show. I nearly laughed myself to death that night - as I was in a period of really enjoying the bad movies of old. It's quite an experience. You have the movie pegged - and there's the weirdness of the stock footage rocket coming down in reverse, but the little piece of mockup spaceship wall with the opening people keep crawling into looking NOTHING like the rocket - but instead looking kind of like a wall they're crawling under. One of the All-Time Worst - and I'll sit down with anyone who wants to watch it at any time!
ReplyDeleteLOL That line is hilarious :) Don't get me wrong: as terrible as it is, I also laughed my ass off. That's why I gave it a LOL :)
DeleteWhen I finally made it to the USA, that should be the first movie we're watching together :)
This makes me glad I passed on buying that same Cult Terror DVD set. Although I'm pretty sure I have this on one of the other countless Mill Creek sets. This movie looks atrocious.
ReplyDeleteHaha, yes, this movie IS atrocious :D
DeleteThe only way I can get through this film is with the help of MST3K!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. In this particular case, MST3K can help a lot! :)
DeleteAlex is right MST3K all the way. Or maybe Elvira. ;) I did catch this one on a local horror show here, Svengoolie, and what a mess.
ReplyDeleteHaha yeah, I forgot about Elvira who can also be a great help :)
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