Review of Creep

This 'found footage' film is a waste of your time. Nothing happens for the majority of this film, leading up to an anticlimatic end. One random dude pays another random dude to film him for the day and makes up BS stories about his life (he's dying of cancer, he's making a film for his unborn son, he put on a wolf mask and raped his wife). He develops and obssession with the guy filming him and briefly turns into a stalker, before luring the camera man out and burying an axe in his head. Films done on hand held camera are getting very tired and this film adds absolutely nothing to the genre. In fact Creep being a 'found footage' film is almost entirely unnecessary and doesn't help the film in any way. The characters in this film are two dimensional and woefully underdeveloped. The camera man spends 80% of the film behind the camera (obviously) and we learn practically nothing about the man, so it's hard to care about him. The guy being filmed makes up so much crap that we don't know what to believe. Near the end he sends one last video to his new 'BFF', where he admits he has problems and doesn't know how to deal with them, therapy doesn't seem to work and he claims he just needs someone to talk to. This is done in an attempt to make us feel sorry for him, but the ending to the film undoes this as it's revealed he actually enjoys being a stalker/murderer. This film is a slow burner which fizzles out at the end. The stalker part of the film is too short and poorly done, making the whole film feel a bit pointless. The stalker says he really cares about his camera man, but there is very little to make us care about this film.