10/5: Creep 2

Backed up a bit, so here's yesterday's movie:

10/5: A few binges ago I watched Creep, a movie about, well, a damn creep, and also a movie that totally did not need a sequel. Well, here we go with Creep 2. The sequel. Yep.

Well, all things considered, Creep 2 actually kinda proved me wrong. While still not completely necessary, Creep 2 does give us a deeper delve into the beyond twisted nature of our friendly neighborhood serial killer. And he is, generally, friendly, which is probably the thing makes him all the more damn creepy.

I mean, I guess if I was gonna get murdered I'd want to get killed by this guy. He's got that whole "aw-shucks" factor you want in a serial killer.  

Played masterfully once again by Mark Duplass, our serial killer from Creep has lost his zest for killing. Poor fella. He finds a videographer who is wanting to jumpstart her web series and offers to tell her his entire history as a serial killer; in other words, her perfect subject. 

Creep 2 is almost less of a horror movie, or even as a movie, than a character study. It's a look into the creepy psychosis of someone who has gladly killed 39 people (he even calls it his career). At its most successful it can be unsettling; at its least successful, like the incredibly unnecessary and cliche end of the film, highly implausible. Luckily though the movie tends to lean toward success and leaves you with a deeper look at the interworkings of a deeply disturbed individual. 

Did I need this movie? No. Did it give me the occasional willy? Yeah, sure.

Not that kinda willy, weirdo.

8/10