This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As a guy who makes a podcast about horror movies saying important things and the progressive politics thereof, I am theoretically the audience for this film.
Michael, after driving the town to became an angry mob in Kills, has for no apparent reason fled to a sewer pipe under an overpass, where presumably spent the last 4 years doing [unspecified]. Then an outcast boy accidentally stumbles on him after being pushed off a bridge. They form a mentorship(?) relationship where…
Stars are not an adequate way to discuss this movie.
Words fail.
I described it to a friend as "imagine you told somebody who had never seen a horror movie to make a horror movie and the only reference you gave them was Army of Darkness but you also told them that horror movies are usually about teenage girls, so they subbed in the cast of Sailor Moon and then killed them by throwing mattresses at them."
You watch Creep, you think "this is great" then you see that it has a sequel and go "Oh no, this movie should not have a sequel."
And somehow it's even better. Somehow the cast is even better. Somehow watching an equally unpredictable character face off with this known quantity psychopath is phenomenal watching. This movie has no business being as good as it is.
