The Creeping Terror

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Movie
Original title The Creeping Terror
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Vic Savage
as AJ Nelson
script Robert Silliphant
production Vic Savage
as AJ Nelson
music Frederick Kopp
camera Andrew Janczak
cut Vic Savage
as AJ Nelson
occupation

The Creeping Terror is a 1964 American horror film directed by Vic Savage .

action

Martin Gordon and his wife Brett return from their honeymoon in the small California town of Angel County, where Martin's uncle Ben works as a sheriff. Martin will one day take over his post. Meanwhile, a plane crash occurs near Willow Creek. Brett's employee Jeff is already driving up to the scene of the accident. Brett intercepts Martin and Brett, so that the three of them arrive at the scene of the accident shortly afterwards. Jeff is nowhere to be found, but the three of them find his car and cowboy hat not far from the crashed flying object, which looks more like a large rocket. Ben crawls into the rocket, which does not show any damage from the outside. Shortly thereafter, his panicked screams resound inside. Martin alerts the military.

Jeff and Brett are dead, so Martin is temporarily the new sheriff. Colonel James Caldwell appears with his soldiers and examines the object in flight. Inside, two soldiers recognize a fixed monster that they cannot get too close to. Caldwell calls on the specialist Dr. Bradford, who specializes in communicating with extraterrestrial life. However, the alien seems to refuse to communicate with the expert.

A second monster escaped unrecognized from the spaceship and murders its way around. Women, old people and children fall victim to the monster, as well as a whole group of young people and numerous visitors to a dance hall . Only in the event of an attack in a parking lot can a man escape and inform the military. Bradford, Martin, Brett and Caldwell and his men appear. Bradford demands that the monster be caught alive. Numerous soldiers are killed while trying to overwhelm the creature. Caldwell eventually kills the monster with a hand grenade . Bradford discovers an electronic transmission device in the body of the monster. He rushes back to the spaceship to check the equipment inside; there is an explosion in which the previously fixed monster is released. It hurts Bradford badly. The scientist explains to Martin that the monster not only killed people, but also analyzed them to find a weak point in the people, which should facilitate a future attack. Martin must prevent the data from being transmitted into space. Martin does his best, but cannot destroy the machinery of the spaceship, so that the data is sent. Bradford expresses his hope that the two aliens may have been the last of their kind or that humanity may have evolved so much in the event of an attack in the future that it can defeat the aliens. He then dies in Martin's arms.

production

The Creeping Terror , alternative title The Crawling Monster , was filmed at Spahn Movie Ranch in the summer of 1963 . The film's budget was very low, as actor William Thourlby recalled, that nobody was paid for their work. When the director and lead actor Vic Savage disappeared shortly before the completion of the film, Thourlby took the film roles, which were in poor condition, so the sound was missing in many scenes. Parts of the film therefore had to be dubbed; over long stretches the plot is reproduced by a narrator. The film was finally completed in April 1964. The costumes were created by Rebecca Boltres , the film construction by Bud Raab ; for special effects was Clifford Stine responsible.

Shortly before it was shown in the cinema, the film was bought by the Teledynamics Corporations for television exploitation. In the USA, the film was released in 1985 as part of the VHS series Saturday Night Shockers and in 2008 on DVD. The comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) presented the film on September 17, 1994, where it was commented on in the style of the series humorous.

criticism

The film received negative reviews, including "one of the worst films of all time" and "breathtakingly awful". The “notorious spotted wool carpet monster” was negatively highlighted, which reminds of a spotted tea warmer , especially from behind . Other critics described the very slow monster as "Hochflorteppichkiller" ("killer deep-pile carpet"); the film is told in a hilarious manner, while "people wait patiently to be eaten off the murderous carpet".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Showdown With Development . In: Harry Medved, Bruce Akiyama: Hollywood Escapes: The Moviegoer's Guide to Exploring Southern California's Great Outdoors . MacMillan, 2007, p. 275.
  2. ↑ a b c d Bryan Senn: A Year of Fear: A Day-by-Day Guide to 366 Horror Films . McFarland, 2007, p. 154.
  3. ↑ The Creeping Terror . In: Jim Driscoll: Reflections of a "B" Movie Junkie . Xlibris Corporation, 2008, p. 364.
  4. ^ A b Ed Dowling: TV Film Front: Who Sold What, And Were . In: Radio-Television Daily , May 26, 1964, p. 5.
  5. ↑ The Creeping Terror . In: Andrea Shaw: Seen That, Now What ?: The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch . Simon and Schuster, 1996, p. 355.