¡Qué horror! 2015
Candidate #12
CREEP
(March 2014)
The set-up: Aaron (feature debut director Patrick
Brice) is a videographer-for-hire, who goes to work for Josef (Mark Duplass),
without initially knowing any pertinent details other than how much the job’s worth,
and that “discretion is appreciated.”
That’s
really all you need to know too, and I’ll leave Mr. Brice himself to say why.
“I wholeheartedly agree
that Creep is a better, more full experience the less
you know going into it. We were really trying to make something that a large
part of the enjoyment would be the discovery of the film itself.”
Suffice
it to say that Creep is pretty much a
two-man op. Or, at least, a two-man op with some invaluable help from Blumhouse
maestro, Jason Blum.
Working
from a rough treatment, Brice and Duplass went off to shoot a majority of the film,
which, under the guiding hand of Blum (whose input was, in Brice’s words, meant
“to make [Creep] marketable as a
horror film”), has resulted in a piece that’s both disturbingly intimate, and
intimately disturbing.
“If you want to see a
movie like Creep it's because you have two very relationship-oriented
filmmakers, guided by Jason Blum, so what you're going to get is a movie that
does not follow all of those rules of what a horror movie is. When Jason saw
this, he told us, I've seen every piece of shit found footage horror movie,
because I'm the guy they came to, but he liked we were not horror filmmakers,
that we got the performances right, the relationship dynamics right.”
--Mark
Duplass
Parting
Shot: As much as Creep impressed (and
disturbed) me, I honestly don’t know how to feel about hearing there are plans
for sequels…
(Creep OS courtesy of impawards.com.)
