10 Forgotten Horror Movies From The Early 2000s
9. Creep
The London Underground is one of those perfect horror settings. Although most Londoners embark on it as part of their daily commute, that doesn't take away this overwhelming eeriness of it - especially at night.
Creep is one of the, well, creepiest explorations of the anxieties inherent to the London Underground; a film that moves and behaves less like a narrative, and more like a nightmare you can't wake up from. The setup is that a woman has got blackout drunk on her way to a party and, contrary to every anecdote from Londoners who have been in this girl's exact scenario, wasn't thrown out onto the street by security come closing time. She wakes up in the Underground, alone, with nothing to do but wait until morning.
Which would be fine... if she were alone.
Even when the film stays in the brightest-lit sections of the Underground, the dizzyingly bright lights just feel uncomfortable. And when it moves into the tunnels, it's replaced with an oppressive, suffocating darkness. Not to give too much away about what happens next, but suffice it to say, you won't forget it and you'll definitely be thinking twice before taking the tubes at night.