Tomatometer Percentage: 95% Creep is a film that didn't really do anything overtly great with its found footage cliche, yet was rescued by Mark Duplass as eerie, disturbed Josef. The story revolves around Josef hiring a videographer, Aaron, on Craigslist to come and film a testimonial for his unborn son. Josef tells Aaron that he's dying, and doesn't have long to live, but wants to have a video his girlfriend can show their son of what he's like as a person. Aaron turns up to a cabin in the middle of absolutely nowhere and the weirdness kicks up almost instantly. No sooner has Aaron met Josef in person than he is in his bathroom, filming the father-to-be pretending to have a bath with his infant son. It's the weirdest thing you'll see in the first ten minutes of any film this year. Where writer-director Patrick Brice, who plays Aaron, doesn't make for the most natural actor, Duplass more than picks up the slack. He makes it look scarily easy to play a deranged psycho, but it's a joy to watch; a performance that is as surreal as it is nerve-wracking. Although prosaic in its format, Creep delivers genuine chills and thrills through Duplass' anchoring performance, and the directions the story takes which keep you guessing as to who Josef really is and what he really wants.
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