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Stomach turning terror

Jan 28 2005

Evening Mail

 

THE year is still young and CREEP (18) is a film which more sensitive viewers could find revolting enough to walk out on.

But if any film this year can top the washroom sequence here, then I can't wait to see it.

For horror fans who've been left high and dry since the inventive Saw last October, it's worth the admission money alone.

Bourne Supremacy and Run Lola Run star Franka Potente plays Kate, a slightly tipsy partygoer trapped on the London Underground overnight.

She thinks she's off to possibly meet George, as in Clooney, but instead she meets Craig, as in Creep.

Left at the mercy of a tired director's imagination, this 85-minute trip could just as easily have been another woman-inperil 'tunnel thriller' running more on empty than inspiration.

There are enough cliches here to guarantee formulaic satisfaction, but debut writer-director Christopher Smith has also turned Craig (Sean Harris) into one of the most memorable monsters in cinema history.

His handwashing scene with a twist is pure, visual poetry - and makes De Niro's Frankenstein seem like Postman Pat.

If you like gruesome horrors, don't miss it.

 

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