Sassy socialite Kate (winniningly played with personable spunk by Franke Potente) gets locked in a subway station after she dozes off while waiting for the train. Unfortunately, a lethal and ferocious subhuman mutant beast named Craig (a genuinely scary portrayal by Sean Harris) is also in said subway station with Kate. Will Kate be able to survive the night? Writer/director Christopher Smith adroitly builds and sustains a substantial amount of nerve-wracking claustrophobic suspense, makes inspired use of the dark, dank, and dingy subterranean setting, relates the gripping story at a constant brisk pace, and delivers a sizable smattering of grisly gore. Better still, there's no silly humor to detract from the grim severity and stark intensity of the often gut-wrenching horror (a sequence with Craig brutally operating on a bound and helpless young lady is especially brutal and upsetting). Craig makes for a truly frightening and grotesque creature whose exact origins are never completely explained, although it's suggested that he's the toxic product of some kind of secret sadistic medical experiments (thereby making Craig at least semi-pitiable and hence as much of a victim as the people he stalks and kills). Potente scores strongly as a tough and appealing heroine; she receives sturdy support from Vars Blackwood as likable and sarcastic sewer worker George, Paul Rattray as twitchy heroin addict Jimmy, and Jeremy Sheffeild as coke-snorting would-be rapist jerk Guy. Danny Cohen's slick and agile cinematography offers plenty of striking spooky images while the shivery soundtrack by the Insects hits the spine-tingling spot. Well worth seeing.

I want to like CREEP; it's my kind of film. A, well, 'creepy' horror film set on and around the London Underground, with a pared-down story, sinister villain and a resourceful heroine fighting against the odds. And yet, by the end, it's turned out to be a disappointing experience, and the reason for that is that it's oh so painfully predictable.

Christopher Smith is definitely a better director than he is writer; case in point, I can't fault his direction, which is adequate by genre standards, but what I can fault is his staid waiting. After a mildly atmospheric set up, this turns into the usual dull cat-and-mouse game between heroine and killer, with extraneous characters being messily murdered (and worse) and even a bit of torture porn thrown in to sicken viewers. It's all very familiar and, unfortunately, not at all frightening.

It doesn't help that the bad guy is a bit lame, despite the sterling efforts of the ever-menacing Sean Harris. He looks exactly like Smeagol at the opening of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING, part-way towards becoming Gollum when he was still played by Andy Serkis in extensive makeup. He's a bit of a weirdo, a tragic figure more than anything else. Franka Potente's tough heroine is better, but the supporting actors are wasted (particularly the excellent Ken Campbell, whose skills would have enlivened this greatly).

It's worth remembering that this was done before – and much better – in the superior 1970s Brit chiller DEATH LINE, starring Donald Pleasence. What an engaging, atmospheric and, yes, terrifying movie that was! Sadly, despite its interesting setting, Creep is lacklustre by comparison.

While inspecting the sewage system of London, two workers are attacked by a weird creature. Later, Kate (Franka Potente),decides to leave a party trying to meet the actor George Clooney that is in London. She waits for the last subway train, but after drinking many alcoholic beverages, she takes a nap on the platform bench losing the train and being trapped in the closed subway station. Later, a train going to the yard passes she gets and she meets her acquaintance Guy (Jeremy Sheffield),who tries to rape her in the wagon. Guy is hardly attacked by the creature, and Kate escapes through the tunnel. This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the underground of London.

"Creep" is a good horror movie. The story is scary, the eerie creature is horrible, his screams are frightening and I believe that the fans of the genre will like this flick. It is not possible to feel empathy for the character of Franka Potente, which is very arrogant. Further, her yellow dress is absolutely awful, but at least exposes her beautiful legs. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Plataforma do Medo" ("Platform of the Fear")