Amazon.com: MSTies rejoice! The year 2000 is not for naught! Rhino Video has beamed us another fine transmission from the Satellite of Love! The particular piece of filmic anguish we must share this time with Mike and the 'bots is "The Creeping Terror," in which our namesake villain appears to be a drunken syphilitic Gumby trailing a moldy picnic blanket. As Mike points out, he's neither the most nimble nor the most ferocious cannibal alien you've ever seen: "The creeping part is apt, but the terror part is just not happening." However, the supporting cast are more than happy to help him out and basically crawl inside his mouth. Who could really blame them, though; death seems an acceptable alternative to acting in this virtually dialogueless turkey. The boys do get some admirable shots in every now and then, though, once the overzealous narrator clams up, the townsfolk stop offering themselves up for dinner (Mike: "Did anyone in the '50s ever think of running?"), and start fighting back, most notably with an acoustic guitar (Servo: "Only Tom Paxton can save us now!"). Finally, what would any good MST3K episode be without at least one snarky reference to Peter Graves and a needless twist-dancing sequence? --Bob Michaels
Pretty good episode, Worst film I've ever seen I just wanted to mention the fact that this is unquestionably the worst film they've ever done on MST3K. There are a few movies that are technically even more incompetent, but this one is just... so.... boring. (The only one that can compare to it is 'Monster A-Go-Go'.) They dance and dance and dance and dance and dance and dance and dance. And oh the voice over. The heartless, anemic voice over designed to replace the lost soundtrack. Uhhhhh. The episode itself is pretty good, though.
Ahhh, they deserved to get eaten... Like the SOL denizens, I found the titular creature creeping, but it's hardly a terror. Unfortunately, I also found this entry in the MST3K pantheon hardly funny as well. Mike & the `Bots throw out a few decent digs at the silly monster and its ravenous appetite for humans who... well, who just stand there frozen in terror, and let it eat `em. Most of the people-eating scenes take a long time to play out (especially the high school reunion dance scene, complete with some weird subplot that was never explained), which gives our heroes ample time to come up with lotsa food jokes... most of which were either really bad "groaners", or were just downright dumb. Speakin' of dumb: the intermission sketches are unbearably awful, and should be avoided if you wish to remain sane...
On the upside: I was astounded by the use of narration in this movie. Apparently the producers of this movie thought the character dialogue was so awful that they decided to cut most of it out and have a narrator throw out the exposition. Well, actually the awfulness of the character dialogue isn't just apparent, it's painfully obvious! Check out some of the things spoken in the aforementioned high-school-reunion-nosh scene, and you'll see what I mean...
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The Movie Made To Be MST'ified! I wonder if producers and directors in the '50's and '60's could appreciate the idea that in merely 25 years time, their handiwork would be totally trashed by our heroes, the silloetted friends on the bottom of a TV screen! THIS piece of trollop is so bad..... no wonder that in the ending skit, Tom Servo and Crow dive for cover in the gullet of Gypsy!
Most memorable lines:
The showing of the Jr. Sherriff's baby, when Crow says! "Oh, cootsie cootsie coo, my sweet little boat anchor!"
When the portly grandfather gets "et" by the "thing in the closet" wannabe, and one of the bots say: "Looks like the world has lost another Santa!"
When the glob of blob attacks that old racecar to get at the dead teenagers, someone remarks about how canned meat isnt to fresh, and their hillarious remarks about getting a Snickers out of that vending machine! "That car has cream filling inside!"
This dog of a movie is truly a two edged sword! If you can endure the monotone narration, the outdoor scenes in glorious white-and-white, the technological superiority of the mutants with their computers with DIALS stolen from the Wizard of Oz set, and that monster's tracheotomy inviting teenagers into taking the plunge into monotany, then you will LOVE Mike and the Bots adding their own brand of "narration" to this piece of s--....er, masterpiece!
Not the best MST3K, but an appallingly bad movie The Creeping Terror is truly a bad movie. The MST3K dialogue is occasionally funny, especially when the boys point out that in the absence of the discovery of drugs, the '60's would have continued as depicted in the dance scene. My favorite scenes: the vague ... depictions of the giant carpeted bugworm eating women. Garter belts and all.
You too can make a horror movie for less than [amt] Here is a true MST3K classic from Season Six. The Creeping Terror may well be the most ridiculous horror movie ever made. The creative geniuses behind the film searched far and wide for the most talented actors available and made sure that none of them appeared in the movie. The actors that were chosen were given lines to speak, but 75% of the time a weird narrator describes the action and conversations himself. Telling someone where to go loses a lot of its impact when you end up having a third party tell you that so-and-so told that guy where to go. Worst of all, the narrator wanders into lengthy soliloquies about matters such as marriage that have nothing to do with the plot. What about the monster, you ask? Oh, brother. If the sight of carpet scares you, you may find the monster a little unnerving, but I can guarantee the complete absence of terror in your reaction. For what it is worth, though, the monster has the creeping part down pat. Without the active assistance of his victims, the alien would quickly starve to death. While they could all easily flee, his victims choose to sit quietly and wait for the monster to creep over to where they are; then, when he finally manages to reach them, they are kind enough to actually pull themselves up into his mouth. I can't even describe the foolishness of this monster's appearance--you just have to see it for yourself.
The movie has other problems, as well. For instance, when the monster creeps into a dance hall (and why do all horror movies from the 50s have to have a dance hall segment, anyway?), instead of feeding themselves to the alien, two guys we don't even know decide to have a fist fight for no discernible reason. Of course, this is a vast improvement over the silly music and dancing we are forced to endure for several minutes as we wait for Mr. Slowpoke to get there (I say dancing, but I think at least one guy was having some type of seizure on the dancefloor). Speaking of the dance music, I must offer one caveat to your potential purchase of this video. You will hear a lot of the inane, repetitive dance music from the film; one host segment in the SOL features Mike listening to the tune on his new stereo for minutes on end, and the ending credits are also accompanied and drawn out interminably by the tune. It takes days to get the song out of your head, so be prepared. Laughs are what matter most, though, and this experiment has plenty of them from start to finish, making The Creeping Terror one of the better MST3K videos released by Rhino.
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