Creature (2011) Review

So I just sat through my first indie horror limited release film. Creature. I never saw any commercials for this flick, no trailer was seen, in fact the only ads I even saw were the website banners whenever I went to Arrow in the Head. The monster looked awesome, so I googled the shit out of it and found out that it was playing at my local AMC theater. Popped into my car and drove my ass down to see it.

Once I sat down, and the lights dimmed for the previews to begin I got in a good mood. I have had a thing whenever I go to the movies, if the trailers before the movie sucks, then the movie I am about to see will blow ass. But every single trailer I saw was pretty damn cool. So, naturally I was pumped for this puppy. Then the movie started, with a full shot of a girls boobs I might add. She immedietly gets killed for skinny dipping. THEN BAM! CREATURE slams on screen and we get introduced to our main characters.

The first thing I noticed was that I actually recognized one of the actors in this movie, and fellow True Blood fans with as well, Mehcad Brooks aka Eggs from the second season of True Blood. He is out "hero" of the film. Which I am all for, its not every day we get a theatrical horror film where to token black guy is the lead and ultimate badass of the movie. So I dug him, and found myself wanting to see him pull through all the crazy shit he was going through. All the other actors in the movie are lesser knowns, with the exception of horror film ace Sid Haig (House of a 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects) pops in for a few scenes.

The character development in this movie is fairly well done, we get a solid 45 minutes of getting to know each one of these guys before we get into the madness. All the actors portray their characters respectively, none of them had me rolling my eyes at their performences. So, thats good at least. Once we get to the point of ending character development and into character dismemberment the movie picks up. The creature, "Lockjaw" is given a background story that I can swing with (incest is a big theme in this flick) seeing that it takes place in Louisiana.

When the action sets in and Lockjaw begins to do what he does best (rip people to shreds) I got a litte sad. The majority of the kills are off screen, if it wasn't for the nudity and swear words this would no doubt be PG-13. I pray for an unrated Blu-Ray in the future with all the kills properly put back into place. One more thing that bugged me a little is this; the movie is called CREATURE, but we only have a solid 20 minutes of epic mayhem in the movie. I really wanted to see more of this guy, I loved his look and creepy little clicking alligator sounds, as well as his ever fucking loud roar he lets out after every single kill he pulls off. But, I can see past all of that because I had so much fun with the finale of this movie. It was a B movie, and played it proudly.

As the credits rolled on this movie, I sat there with a smile on my face. It was mostly everything I expected it to be. With the exception of not seeing the monster for the majority of the flick until the final twenty minutes. If you are willing to sit through 45 mintues of fairly well done character development, fifteen minutes of offscreen kills, then twenty of full blown stalk sequence and action then go pay your $7.50 and get your ass into that theatre and watch this beast right now.

I give it 3/5

Mood: Happy