Movie Review: MISTER CREEP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Staff Writer

Posted: December 16th, 2022 / 02:25 PM

MISTER CREEP movie poster | ©2022 Silent Raven Films

Rating: Not Rated
Stars: Amber Solis, Ali Alkhafaji, Shaela Payne, Brian Anderson, Judy McMillan, Marvin Ritchie, Thomas Burke
Writer: Isaac Rodriguez
Director: Isaac Rodriguez
Distributor: Silent Raven Films
Release Date: December 5, 2022

On one hand, MISTER CREEP doesn’t do much to stand out from the found-footage horror pack. On the other hand, the movie fulfills its mandate to be traditional horror on a tight budget, with characters who have understandable motives for putting themselves in dangerous situations, and enough weirdness to hold our attention for its contained sixty-seven-minute running time.

MISTER CREEP begins with a videotaped interrogation session between the title character, also known as Joe Yates (Brian Anderson), and a police detective. We then accompany the forensics team to a crime scene, where things quickly go fatally wrong.

Cut to twenty years later. Film school students Beth (Amber Solis), John (Ali Alkhafaji), Val (Shaela Payne), and mostly unseen camera operator Dave (Thomas Burke) are shooting at the site of an old disappearance for a class project. Their community college, which they acknowledge nobody has ever heard of, is just outside Houston. Houston, it seems, is one of the nation’s biggest hubs of missing persons.

Nobody except John is tremendously enthusiastic about what they’re doing. The group is collectively in their mid-twenties to thirties, and none of them have any idea how to break into showbiz – okay, Dave once got a gig on a porn film. They don’t think this latest endeavor is going to help much.

However, when the gang regroups at Val’s apartment, she tells them of the Internet legend of Mister Creep, who supposedly killed at least two hundred people. He broadcast tapes he’d made of his victims post-mortem, and supposedly, the broadcast is still running.

It’s all just low-tech enough for the group to scrounge together the equipment necessary to pick up the signal, and wouldn’t you know, just as they’re about to give up, something breaks through the old TV static. It’s not crystal-clear, but it’s enough to put visions of making a real documentary into the crew’s heads. This is actually a fairly impressive bit of VFX, given the overall leanness of MISTER CREEP.

The film students begin researching Mister Creep at several abandoned locations. No prizes for guessing how this all turns out, but writer/director Isaac Rodriguez doesn’t seem interested in re-inventing the wheel, just to keep this wheel rolling in the right direction, with the kinds of elements we expect from this subgenre.

There are a few nice quirks, like how the initially aggressive John becomes increasingly timid, Val’s unusual interests, and a sequence with an older woman (Judy McMillan) who may or may not be able to shed light on the legends.

MISTER CREEP succeeds in looking light a real found-footage film, while at the same time seeding in a coherent story, with credible performances and its own personality. It’s a successful example of its type.

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