Creep – Review

The aptly named Creep begins from the camera’s POV and does not change, as starts on narrator Aaron as he drives to a remote house, having accepted an online job. The posting offered $1,000 cash for anyone that could provide a camera for eight hours of work, and video services, with discretion appreciated.

As Aaron (Brice) drives, he considers who his client may be, perhaps it would be some sultry widow woman, looking for “rubdowns and sweet nothings.” Unfortunately for Aaron, this was not that type of movie. As he arrives at an empty house, he begins to question the job, and what he is doing. However… then his client Josef (Duplass) finally arrives, cash in hand and ready to go on the day’s video-journaling.

While Josef immediately calms the situation with some intimate revelations about cancer and needing to record some messages for his unborn son “Buddy,” the day is only just beginning. As the day unfolds, the men will share in an experience of revelation.

Without digging too much into the story, the whole movie presents an atmosphere of confusion, anxiety and possible danger. Mark Duplass is fully capable of playing both genuine and kind, as well as offbeat and/or unhinged. He was able to use all of it in his role in Creep, balancing many sides of an unknown and mysterious character.

Creep must have been a practically zero budget movie, and has a cast of two. Despite both of those factors, it is very well done, and strangely effective. The first and second viewings will elicit differing experiences, as knowing what is coming reveals a very strange psychological study.