You are cracking me up here. Totally missed this getting posted. And of course I remember you SPECIFICALLY but sometimes like 20-30% comment or come back to see new posts. Only like 10% are active on multiple posts because they watch what I am recommending. Just like 1 or 2 percent comment on multiple posts. So usually I keep the movie comments straight I am ok! I remember people in context of what the movie positions and sides are. Right? The Prestige, did the machine work or not? Oh, De is a teleporter theorist. And Sarah is a duplicator. But as soon as you walk away from that movie? Much, if not all, of the context is gone! Hahaha.

Ah well. But thanks for the laughs regardless.

Post somewhere about it after you watch and let me know what you think of it. Creep is so experimental and low budget and so low wattage. But even though the one I love was made in a similar way, it was nothing, nothing like it.

Can’t wait to hear what you think of it.
Taylor

Thanks for stopping by,

Oh, I did finish the film, from the beginning to the end. That was my reaction to the whole movie.

I’m actually surprised that you didn’t notice the jump scares since they stood out too much for me. But I guess that’s just the type of person I am, and you are the type of person you are.

I actually think the Tubby Time scene worked for its purpose since the whole scene was just awkward, weird, and uncomfortable (whether it was the acting or the whole ad-libbing) And like you said, no one would ever go into a bathroom with a camera and film that. But Aaron did (To be fair, he didn’t know what he was going into) and Josef did what he did in that scene. Like seriously abnormal, unrealistic, creepy motions and expressions. (Uh-oh, my whiney senses are tingling, remember when Josef scared Aaron in the tub too? Necessary? Maybe…Disliked? Yes.) The scene worked because that was just hella weird. Who cares if it was the acting, or the circumstances, or the ad-lib. IT WAS WEIRD. So it worked for me like that.

I admire your passion for this movie though haha and for that, I’m going to watch The One I Love for my next movie.

You have a great day man :)

Hey Daniel,
Fair comments all. But this movie feels like something that you and I could make for the first 40 minutes. Literally. No different. UNTIL, they leave the cabin. And then the editing is really tight. The shots are tighter. The writing is tighter. I swear to you I wasn’t going to mention the movie to you all until it came down the the last half, and then, the ending? The ending is a homerun.

And to be honest, I didn’t even notice the “jump scares”. I guess I’m calloused. Hahah. I was just like, funny. But I didn’t see them as scary because I didn’t feel like Josef was a threat … yet. It just wasn’t. So I didn’t even realize it might be scary to some people. Which, having you call it out makes sense to me. I literally was so wigged by Tubby Time, or whatever, that a BILLION jump scares couldn’t compare. (And now I’m building it up like it was scary or something. It was just a guy ad-libbing in a tub. It was the ad-libbing that wigged me out to be honest. hah.)

Anyway, if you didn’t make it that far in, just jump to about minute 30. They go on a hike. They start up a friendship. They lose that friendship. He steals the keys. But jump ahead a bit and see what you think of the ending. I promise you it’s worth a shot. I really do dig this film having seen the whole thing start to finish. It’s well played.

Like in the first scene after Aaron arrives at the cabin. He’s still in his car, the camera pans to the right and then suddenly WHAM Josef comes in like a thunder and I immediately went “Oh, is this one of “those” movies…” When movies intentionally raise the volume in a certain frame to make you jump that’s not really relevant to the story itself, it puts me off. Like a lot. Because I appreciate creepy, eerie movies that really get in my head, not cheap thrills that rely on jump scares to keep the audience “excited”

But I could let the first jump-scare by; I only watched like 5 minutes into the movie, not fair to really judge it by its opening scene. But then came some really, pointless jump scares. I don’t mind the one Josef did to Aaron in the woods because that scene was crucial to the story in hindsight because they built up from that. Josef saw the “baby murder” in Aaron, Aaron started to have nightmares where he was mini peach fuzz, Josef sent the wolf stuffing, etc.

But how about that scene where Josef convinces Aaron to stay for one more drink while they were climbing the stairs? (I actually really loved this scene, the way Josef was silhouetted and he was just a solid, black figure. I later found out that that they actually used the moment from this scene as the cover picture for the movie “Creep”) So you convince a guy, who already made a fair judgment that you are a creep and doesn’t want to stay another few minutes with you, to stay for one drink, and you try to scare him right off the bat? If I was Aaron, I seriously would have just punched him, called him an asshole, and left. I was so mad for Aaron, and as an audience to have to sit through this cheap scare that did not even make sense to portray in the movie.

The rest of the movie was interesting to say the least. The whole grabbing the camera and filming while the person is sleeping reminded me of the 2012 movie V/H/S “Second Honeymoon” short, where somebody grabs a couple’s camera and starts filming them sleeping and other shenanigans. When Josef, or more Mark I think actually in this scene, makes another pointless jump scare after he watches the footage of him killing Aaron, who was he trying to scare? Aaron? Himself? What was the point of that in the story? I didn’t see any— it was just meant to scare the audience, and quite frankly, anybody can scare us like that.

Am I being too sour? I am making this criticism because in my opinion, I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more without these scares. I think it was a well-made movie in that the dialogue was mostly real and natural, the movie did experiments which I think worked, and Mark and Patrick did a great job acting. I was just put off by some scares, and quite frankly pulled out of some parts of the movie by making me think “Well, something’s definitely going to pop out and try to scare me; they’ve been doing that throughout the whole movie, why not now?” I was surprised you didn’t mention anything about the jump scares so I was wondering your thoughts on those. Now that I read what I wrote, I do kind of sound like a whiney audience who doesn’t like being scared, but I actually do. Mainly why I picked up this film! Anyways, enjoyed your comments to the movie nonetheless, thanks for reading my rant haha

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