Creeping Death

With no expectations going in, I was delighted to find this movie being one of those hilariously terrible, so-bad-it's-good movies that you can laugh with and at from beginning to end.

If only there were some more gold nuggets of lines like "Do you know how to have a conversation, dude?" and "My nipples are as hard as rocks!" and "Oh no, it's face, that's a face, that's a face!" and "This is why you never got into film school, you know nothing about cinematography" (ironic!), this would be deserving of yearly rewatches in cult fashion.

Oh, and it's pretty amazing how some people created IMDb accounts just to give this one a 10 star rating and a review with remarkably high praise. So weird, right?!

I was really looking forward to Creeping Death after seeing the trailers, but unfortunately, it fell flat on almost every level. The plot was predictable and lacked any real tension, making it hard to stay engaged. The characters were one-dimensional, with motivations that felt forced and unconvincing.

The dialogue was cringe-worthy at times, filled with clichés that took me right out of the story.

While the visuals were decent, they couldn't save the film from its lackluster writing and direction. Overall, Creeping Death was a missed opportunity, leaving me more frustrated than entertained. I'd give it a pass if I were you.

Matt Sampere had an idea years ago of a story he wanted to tell.

Matt wrote, directed and starred in Creeping Death, a movie that doesn't overcomplicate things and just tells a tale based in my favourite season of the year Halloween.

The movie caught the essence of autumn perfectly from the opening scenes.

It had it all with gore and great storytelling.

Yes characters came across unlikeable (like so many big budget Hollywood movies) so I found myself rooting for the monster which I thought looked very cool!

It also had great emotional scenes with his mother which pulled at the heart strings.

Low budget. Unskilled actors. Weak story but still, in some strange way, somewhat watchable.

This is obviously a passion project for those involved but it fails to deliver for the mainstream. The characters are stereotypical, uninspired and uninteresting.

The special effects just aren't special. There's an attempt to create gore and although it's obviously low budget, some of it was interesting to watch. The kill aspect is what kept me watching. I wanted to see what they were going to attempt next. As a horror fan, that's what makes the film for me.

It's not an amazing film but it is someone's interesting new Halloween lore movie and if you're into checking out those new ideas, it's worth a watch.

On Halloween night, a group of irritating twenty-somethings steal a mysterious sack from the porch of a strange old man, not realising that the contents of the bag - pieces of local dogs - are an offering to appease an ancient Celtic deity called the Aos Sí. In meddling with the age-old tradition, the obnoxious youths incur the wrath of the deity, plunging their friend Tim (played by the film's director Matt Sampere) into a night of terror.

It's bad enough that Creeping Death is clichéd, poorly written and badly acted, but add the fact that the film is so dark for much of the time that it's virtually impossible to figure out what is happening and what you have is a real test of one's patience. It's hard to be scared when straining one's eyes (or rolling them at the awful dialogue and dreadful performances). Great job in getting the film off the ground, but zero marks for originality, technical accomplishment, and overall entertainment factor.