Creep
Movies review
As of Aug 18, 2026, Creep is rated 6.4/10 on TMDB (1,686 votes).
Is Creep worth it in 2026?
A 6.4/10 from nearly 1,700 TMDB votes reflects a film with real defenders but more detractors, and the split is easy to explain: the central performance is the engine, generating genuine psychological unease and tension that carries the film further than its bones deserve. The found footage format is the most consistent complaint across reviewers, flagged as gratuitous rather than purposeful, meaning the scares arrive despite the gimmick, not through it. Structural problems compound the issue: a weak screenplay, unsympathetic characters, cheap jump scares, and an ending reviewers called outright silly suggest the film's psychological tension collapses before the credits roll rather than paying off. There is directorial reach here, but reach without execution is still a miss.
Found footage completists or viewers specifically drawn to character-driven psychological horror who can absorb a weak screenplay and a deflating ending in exchange for a genuinely unsettling central performance.
The ending is described as silly, not merely ambiguous or abrupt, which means the tension the film builds is likely squandered rather than resolved; if found footage already strains your patience, this film will spend its entire runtime working against itself.
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Pros
- unsettling performance2
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- The disturbing and mind-bending ‘Creep’ certainly startles with its sense of sophisticated salaciousness, so why should it not meet the expectations of its haunting and hallucinato...
- I'm pretty far from on board with Found Footage Horror, and _Creep_ hits a lot of the reasons why. It also seems like there was no reason it had to be Found Footage in the first pl...
- tension and scares2
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- The disturbing and mind-bending ‘Creep’ certainly startles with its sense of sophisticated salaciousness, so why should it not meet the expectations of its haunting and hallucinato...
- Not to be confused with the 2004 British slasher set in Charing Cross Underground Station, 'Creep' is an American Handheld horror movie about a film-maker who answers an advert to...
- directorial ambition1
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- I'm pretty far from on board with Found Footage Horror, and _Creep_ hits a lot of the reasons why. It also seems like there was no reason it had to be Found Footage in the first pl...
Cons
- found footage format unnecessary2
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- I'm pretty far from on board with Found Footage Horror, and _Creep_ hits a lot of the reasons why. It also seems like there was no reason it had to be Found Footage in the first pl...
- Not to be confused with the 2004 British slasher set in Charing Cross Underground Station, 'Creep' is an American Handheld horror movie about a film-maker who answers an advert to...
- poor screenplay and execution1
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- Not to be confused with the 2004 British slasher set in Charing Cross Underground Station, 'Creep' is an American Handheld horror movie about a film-maker who answers an advert to...
- unsympathetic characters1
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- Not to be confused with the 2004 British slasher set in Charing Cross Underground Station, 'Creep' is an American Handheld horror movie about a film-maker who answers an advert to...
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