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The Creeping Terror (1964)

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Don't Fear The Creeper, 19 November 2005

Author: dunmore_ego from Los Angeles, California

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Worse than Ed Wood's "Plan 9", worse than Hal Warren's "Manos: The Hands Of Fate", even worse than Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor".

Not having been born when this movie was first released, I can only assume that it died the burbling, cinematic death it wholly deserved, released alongside the likes of "Dr. Strangelove", "Goldfinger" and even such pap as "A Hard Day's Night". Fact is, "The Creeping Terror" would have remained in its Z-Movie graveyard were it not for the notoriety it achieved via its skewering on MST 3K.

A monster from space is a large offcut of shag carpet draped over a few drunk college students, waddling about the countryside "eating" people, victims courteously lining up to step horrifyingly apathetically into its maw (a rug doggy-door on its anterior surface). Oh, the blandly unmitigated terror. Oh.

Auteur director Arthur Nelson (who went on to never make another movie), apparently lost the soundtrack, substituting narration and abominable looping over the "action", elevating the movie to the level of excruciating infomercial.

My only hope is that more educated audiences fifty years from now will be saying the same things about "Pearl Harbor"…

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