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The Creeping Terror
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There once was a man named Vic Savage. You're probably thinking "So?" Well, he knew an Exploitation Filmmaker named Allan Silliphant (who would later direct The Stewardesses, the most profitable 3D movie with respect to budget of all time) who was related to Stirling Silliphant (writer of In the Heat of the Night). Vic bought a story from Allan, pretended he bought a story from Stirling, and pulled together some investors - supposedly by promising cameo roles. He took the money, made... a "movie," and disappeared with most of the investors' money.The story is about a UFO that releases a giant caterpillar-like monster who begins eating random people. It turns out that the monsters (there's a second one inside the ship) are actually robots sent to analyze human beings for aliens. Although the monsters are destroyed by the end, the spaceship still beams its collected data into space...This "movie" would later be remembered as being particularly bad even for Mystery Science Theater 3000. For tropes and specifics relating to the MST3K version, please check the episode recap page.A documentary-turned-drama, The Creep Behind the Camera, was released in 2014 about Vic Savage and his scamming of the town investors. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: At one point, it looks like the Terror is humping a convertible. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Most memorably obese Investor #5 as Bobby's grandpa. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: The drunk at the party is seen still drinking at the bar while everyone is slowly trying to either leave or crawl into the monster's mouth. | |
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Watsonian versus Doylist | |
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Watsonian versus Doylist: How does the monster eat people? Doylist explanation: They crawl into its mouth. Watsonian explanation: Doesn't exist. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: What the Narrator says about "the military". | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: Most of the women in the movie just scream at the sight of the monster. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: The actual baby survives the film. | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
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Improbable Weapon User: The young folk singer weaponizes his acoustic guitar against the Terror. It works as well as you might expect, especially when said guitar has no strings and is a breakaway prop. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: The spaceship has a second creature in it. | |
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Token Romance | |
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Token Romance: During the party, one character is stewing about her boyfriend standing her up, then a pair of guys duke it out (presumably over her) while the monster rampages. This subplot is suddenly introduced and vanishes just as quickly. | |
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Godzilla Threshold | |
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Godzilla Threshold: The military is forced to use... a grenade. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The second monster is killed, but the spaceship sends off a signal to... somewhere... and the threat that more monsters may come is raised, though there's some speculation by the film that the society from which it came is extinct now. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The first victim's boyfriend is never seen nor heard from again after he runs off and leaves her to her fate. Apparently, he didn't think it worth telling anyone about the monster. | |
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The End... Or Is It? | |
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The End... Or Is It?: The Terrors are destroyed, but the information they collected is successfully sent to their masters. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: Apparently infantry engagement rules in the '50s required soldiers to stand tightly clumped-together and fire at the enemy from seven feet away. Colonel Caldwell only thinks to use a grenade after his entire squad is eaten. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Most of the scenes with the monster eating people are set to jazz music. Completely takes away from the scariness of the situation. | |
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Leave the Camera Running | |
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Leave the Camera Running: A lot of long scenes of nothing going on, except dancing, or driving, or playing a guitar... | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| The Creeping Terror / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Almost all of the victims tend to stand in place and scream rather than flee the easily outrunnable creature, except the ones in cars. They just kind of sit there and scream, even though they could out speed the monster by walking away casually. The monster design pretty much makes it impossible to eat anyone without their willing assistance. In an attempt to stop the transmission of humanity's biological data, Martin rushes into the UFO, loaded gun in hand—then tries to pistol-whip the computer. Needless to say, this doesn't work. | |
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Monster Misogyny | |
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Monster Misogyny: One of the most blatant examples. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: The second monster is defeated by ramming it with a truck! Armies of the world, take note: when guns are useless, grab a Ford! | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: And for others, it is ruined by the fact that, well, they are getting eaten (and that it doesn't apply to the male victims). | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: A blink-and-you-miss-it moment. When the monster attacks the dance party, a woman tries to escape, only for a guy to come after her and pull her away tearing her dress top off. | |
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Informed Conversation | |
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Informed Conversation: Most of The Narrator's narration is what the dialog would have been. | |
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Swallowed Whole | |
| The Creeping Terror / int_eea96e78 | comment |
Swallowed Whole: How just about everyone gets it, though the men go down fast while the women go down struggling, wriggling, and screaming all the way. | |
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Science Is Bad | |
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Science Is Bad: Doctor Bradford is clearly wrong for taking any kind of non-military action. Not that the military are any better. | |
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