Stars: Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass | Written by Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass | Directed by Patrick Brice

Lauded as one of Empire’s 50 best horrors of the 21st Century, Creep is a product of the “mumblecore” era of genre filmmaking, some would say pioneered by this film’s star Mark Duplass; whose feature prior to this, Safety Not Guaranteed, that really caught my attention. If you haven’t seen that film then I strongly recommend you prioritise that. It’s fumbling work of offbeat sci-fi whimsy that you won’t regret spending a little quality time with.

Creep, however, is a markedly different beast. It’s a two-hander, featuring Duplass and Patrick Brice (who incidentally worked on the music for Safety Not Guaranteed) and is presented as found footage, which as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m pretty bored with, but this makes a better attempt than most to integrate the format into the narrative,...