2011 · horror · monster
Creature
Directed by Fred Andrews1h 33m2011
An ex-Navy seal, his girlfriend and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper, who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half-alligator.
Our read: Creature (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · monster entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / monster, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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