Creep (film)

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Creep
Creep film poster
Directed by	Christopher Smith
Produced by	Jason Newmark, Julie Baines
Written by	Christopher Smith
Starring	Franka Potente, Ken Campbell, Sean Harris
Distributed by	Pathé Distribution
Release date(s)	January 28, 2005
Running time	85 min
Language	English
Budget	35 Million
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Creep (2004) is a British slasher film directed by Christopher Smith, starring the German actress Franka Potente.

Potente plays Kate, a young woman who is trapped overnight on the London Underground after falling asleep on a platform and missing the last train she intended to catch. The film also features Vas Blackwood and Ken Campbell as sewage workers George and Arthur, Jeremy Sheffield as Guy, and Paul Rattray and Kelly Scott as the homeless couple Jimmy and Mandy.

The film debuted at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and also featured at the London Fright Fest.

The director has indicated the subtext of the film is Kate's search for love — through the film she encounters a number of men, including the killer, but is socially unacceptable for some reason. The film plays with the audience's sympathies for the characters: the heroine Kate comes across as unlikeable at times, whilst the 'evil' characters get moments of sympathy.

Many aspects of the storyline bear a striking resemblance to the 1972 film Death Line, although Smith has claimed to have never seen the earlier film. [1]

1 Story
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Two sewage workers, Arthur and George, discover an unknown tunnel in the sewers beneath London, and we see them attacked by some unknown horror. The film then follows Kate, a popular German party girl living in London, as she travels between parties. Intending to catch the tube, she falls asleep on the platform at Charing Cross and misses the last train. Though finding that the station has been closed for the night and that she is locked inside, she sees a train pulling into the station.

On board, she encounters Guy, an unwanted acquaintance from the last party. When he attempts to rape her, something pulls him out of the train's door and brutally attacks him. The film then follows Kate's attempt to escape from the underground and the hideous 'Creep' of the title (Sean Harris). Along the way she is helped by a homeless couple, Jimmy and Mandy, who spend their nights sleeping in the station, and by George, who has been captured by the eponymous killer for food.

One by one, the characters are picked off in a variety of different ways until Kate comes face to face with the killer. She helps George escape the killer and find Mandy, whom George declares to be dead. While fleeing they hear a scream, and it transpires that Mandy is in fact alive, but Craig, the 'creep', is now performing a caesarean on her with a very large, rusty, serrated blade. They encounter Craig in an abandoned ticket office, which seems to have been tranformed into his own personal sleeping quarters. They attempt to attack him, but George's head is impaled by Craig on a blade sticking out of the wall. Kate escapes and battles with Craig on a station, eventually slitting his throat by stabbing him with a hook attached to a chain, which she throws into the path of an oncoming train. Afterwards she finds her way back to Charing Cross Station and the dog runs up on her knee. In the end of the film, a person that leaves a train puts a coin next to her, thinking she is a homeless beggar by the state of her clothes, and she bursts into tears in overwhelming relief because she has survived and is now safe.