Creep (2004/I)

Director:

Christopher Smith

Writer:

Christopher Smith (written by)

Release Date:

28 January 2005 (UK)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil Dwells Underground.

Plot:

Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.

Plot Keywords:

Underground | Tunnel | London Underground | Subway | Acquaintance

Cast

Franka Potente	...	Kate
Vas Blackwood	...	George
Ken Campbell	...	Arthur
Jeremy Sheffield	...	Guy
Paul Rattray	...	Jimmy
Kelly Scott	...	Mandy
Sean Harris	...	Craig
Kathryn Gilfeather	...	Girl
Grant Ibbs	...	Man
Joe Anderson	...	Male Model
Sean De Vrind	...	Friend
Ian Duncan	...	Friend
Debora Weston	...	Mya
Emily Gilchrist	...	Karen
Craig Fackrell	...	Homeless Guy
Elizabeth McKechnie	...	Woman
Strapper	...	Ray the dog
Jonathan Taylor	...	Dead Driver #1
Morgan Jones	...	Night Watchman
Daniel Joseph Scott	...	Dead Driver #2
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Spencer Hawken	...	Man On Train Platform (uncredited)

Directed by
Christopher Smith

Writing credits
Christopher Smith		(written by)

Produced by
Julie Baines	....	producer
Alexandra Ferguson	....	line producer
Martin Hagemann	....	co-producer
Barry Hanson	....	co-producer
Robert Jones	....	executive producer
Kai Kuennemann	....	co-producer
Jason Newmark	....	producer

Original Music by
The Insects

Cinematography by
Danny Cohen

Film Editing by
Kate Evans

Casting by
Emma Style

Production Design by
John Frankish

Art Direction by
Matthew Gray
Ellen Latz
Ashley Winter

Set Decoration by
Emma Field-Rayner

Costume Design by
Phoebe De Gaye

Makeup Department
Uli de la Lama	....	hair stylist: Franka Potente
Nicola Frost	....	makeup artist
Jan Sewell	....	hair designer
Jan Sewell	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Marc Grewe	....	production manager
Richard Lloyd	....	post-production supervisor
Tim Wellspring	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Matthew Baker	....	additional first assistant director
Matthew Baker	....	key second assistant director
Simon Clegg	....	third assistant director
Barry Derbyshire	....	additional assistant director
Alexandra Ferguson	....	additional assistant director
Max Keene	....	first assistant director
Andrew McEwan	....	second assistant director: re-shoots
Elke Sasserath	....	assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Gordon Fitzgerald	....	property master
Ulrike Gojowczyk	....	props
Lee Hedges	....	dressing prop daily
Mark Hedges	....	dressing propman
Dan Maslen	....	storyboard artist
Jim McCallum	....	stand-by props
Thorsten Sabel	....	set dresser: Germany
Keith Stevenson	....	set dresser
Nic Stubbings	....	stand-by props

Sound Department
Julie Ankerson	....	foley artist
Nick Baldock	....	sound editor
Peter Baldock	....	supervising sound editor
Michael A. Carter	....	adr mixer
Michael A. Carter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gary Dodkin	....	boom operator
Rick Dunford	....	adr editor
Rick Dunford	....	dialogue editor
Thomas Paisley	....	second sound re-recording mixer
Michael Spencer	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
Mike H.G. Bates	....	prosthetic makeup artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Mike H.G. Bates	....	special makeup effects supervisor: Hybrid Enterprises
Suzanne Bates	....	prosthetic makeup artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Nicola Pandel	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Mike Stringer	....	prosthetic makeup artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Mike Stringer	....	prosthetic makeup design: Hybrid Enterprises

Visual Effects by
Phil Attfield	....	visual effects supervisor
Robin Beard	....	digital effects artist
Kimberley Broughton	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Lee Clappison	....	online film editor
William Foxwell	....	scanning and recording operator: Lip Sync Post
Simon Frame	....	visual effects supervisor
Scott Goulding	....	scanning & recording
Tom Hocking	....	digital compositor
Katja Hollmann	....	digital lab supervisor: Lipsync Post
Mark Kilburn	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Katy Lemon	....	scanning and recording operator: Lip Sync Post
Alasdair MacCuish	....	senior producer: Lipsync Post
Victoria McDowell	....	visual effects line producer
Peter Minister	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Gruff Owen	....	digital compositor
John Parnham	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Jenny Rose-Barber	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises
Dawn Whitehead-Binns	....	effects artist: Hybrid Enterprises

Stunts
Katja Bernet	....	stunt double: Franka Potente (as Katja Jerabek)
Nrinder Dhudwar	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Lewis Buchan	....	camera operator
Mark Clayton	....	gaffer
Kenneth Cornils	....	key grip: Germany
Simon De Glanville	....	camera trainee
John Evans	....	second assistant camera
Dean Foard	....	best boy
Paul Hymns	....	key grip
Nathan Mann	....	focus puller
Jem Morton	....	additional grip
Georg Nonnenmacher	....	gaffer
Kim Seber	....	focus puller
Roger Tooley	....	Steadicam operator
David Cozens	....	first assistant camera (uncredited)

Casting Department
Vanessa Baker	....	adr voice casting
Brendan Donnison	....	adr voice casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Shane Kingdon	....	costume assistant
Rachel Vallance	....	costume assistant
Elena Wegner	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Stuart Fyvie	....	digital colorist
Matt Gauci	....	avid technical support
Andrew Melhuish	....	first assistant editor
Kevin Phelan	....	head of post-production: LipSync Post (uncredited)

Music Department
John Baggott	....	additional musician: piano
Matt Biffa	....	music clearance
Matt Biffa	....	music consultant
Peter Brandt	....	additional musician: double bass (as Pete Brandt)
Stuart Gordon	....	additional musician: violin
Juliette McCarthy	....	additional musician: cello
Richard Todman	....	music editor
Alison Wright	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Ritchie Beacham-Paterson	....	producer: Lipsync Post
Pauline Burt	....	risk manager
Tina Falcone	....	assistant accountant
Hollie Foster	....	assistant coordinator
Matthew Hobbs	....	production coordinator
Mark Lo	....	misc crew
Ben Luxford	....	floor runner
Richard Morrison	....	title designer
Keeley Naylor	....	unit publicist
William Prouty	....	assistant to producer
Algernon Sloane	....	location manager
Maxine Stanley	....	post-production accountant
Trevor Stanley	....	production accountant
Jonathan Taylor	....	assistant: Julie Baines
Niall Trask	....	runner
Elizabeth Tremblay	....	script supervisor
Katie Kubert	....	production intern (uncredited)

Thanks
Erol Arguden	....	thanks
Michael Schmid-Ospach	....	thanks (as Michael Schmidt-Ospach)

Production Companies

• UK Film Council
• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (as Filmstiftung NRW)
• Dan Films
• Zero Film GmbH (as Zero West)

Distributors

• Pathé Distribution (2005) (UK) (theatrical)
• X Verleih AG (2005) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Alfa Films (2005) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• GAGA (2005) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2005) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Independent Films (2005) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• AXN (2007) (Japan) (TV)
• Imagem Filmes (2005) (Brazil) (all media)
• Italian International Film (2005) (Italy) (all media)
• Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Oy Nordisk Film (2005) (Finland) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• RTL Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing) (RTL8)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Universal Pictures Benelux (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2005) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2005) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Hybrid Enterprises

Other Companies

• ARRI Lighting Rental  lighting
• ARRI Media  camera equipment provided by
• Art4noise  sound post-production
• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• Kodak  motion picture film supplied by
• Lip Sync Post  digital grading
• Lip Sync Post  sound re-recording
• One Post  titles post-production
• Sapex Scripts  post-production script services

Also Known As:

Creep (Germany)
Creep (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
0:34 (Japan) [ja]
Creep (France) [fr]
Creep - Il chirurgo (Italy) [it]
Gad (Serbia) [sr]
Nakaza (Croatia) [hr]
Plataforma do Medo (Brazil) [pt]
Tromos sto metro (Greece) (DVD title) [el]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, language, some drug use and sexual content.

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

UK | Germany

Language:

German | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:R | Taiwan:R-18 | USA:R (cut) | Netherlands:16 | Hong Kong:III | Argentina:16 | Norway:15 | Malaysia:18SG | Brazil:18 | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:18A (Manitoba) | South Korea:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Italy:VM18 | France:-16 | Italy:VM14 | Germany:16 | Ireland:18 | Japan:R-15 | Singapore:M18 | Singapore:NC-16 (cut) | UK:18 | Philippines:R-13 | Finland:K-18

Filming Locations:

Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK

Company:

UK Film Council

Trivia:

Titles that didn't make it: "Runt", "Cellar Dweller", "Horunder", "Here Kitty Kitty", "One Track Mind" and "Piccadilly Nightmare".

Goofs:

Continuity: When the train that Kate boarded at Charing Cross comes to a halt in the tunnel, she goes to the front of the train where the car number above the door to the front cab reads 96101. After the lights have gone out and the nasty boyfriend has activated the emergency lights, Kate returns to the same front cab door and the car number has changed to 96107.

Quotes:

Jimmy: So what are you, French?
Kate: No, I'm German.
Jimmy: German? I support Germany when they're playing against England at football. Come to think of it I support anyone who's playing against England at football.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Making of 'Severance' (2007) (V)

A run of the mill horror movie which doesn't impress

I'll keep this short as a movie like this doesn't deserve a full review.

Given the setting, this movie could have been something really special. It could have been another "28 days later" or even a "Blair Witch Project"

The first 20 or so minutes of the movie I was really excited, directer did a decent job with cinematography and suspense, although I don't think He managed to capture true eeriness of an empty London Underground.

Characters were a big let down. Our "heroine" in this movie is a worthless piece of crap, and you really don't care if she dies or not. As many people have said before, I was rooting for the homeless people and the black guy, who managed to give me a chuckle or two(whether intentional of the writers or not).

The main villain, is kept in the dark for the first half of the movie, but when he is revealed I was really disappointed. I won't spoil it but lets just say my 10 year old sister could probably beat him in a wrestling match.

All in all this is just another mediocre horror film which falls into the trap of following a simple Hollywood formula. This film had a lot of potential but really failed to hit the mark.

Just to highlight how lame this movie was, the characters in this movie had at least FIVE TIMES to finish off and kill the main villain. INSTEAD THEY RUN AWAY.