Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Rhino / Wea
• VHS Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630577224X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,790 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Worst Movie Ever. Buy it., April 16, 2001

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Jeff Workman "Bozyo" (Bethesda, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Creeping Terror [VHS] (VHS Tape)

No movie comes close to being as bad as The Creeping Terror.

At many points, it seems as the director refused to shoot scenes more than once. There is a point in which a hair is stuck to the camera, several other major video problems, and several times when the actors fall for no apparant reason.

The whole plot of the movie is the monster going around eating people, most of whom are making out at the time. The monster creeps up to them extremely slowly, none of them attempt to run, and then either the people climb into the monster, or they instantly appear halfway inside of it.

There is basically no dialogue in the movie. Whenever people are talking, the narrator just explains what it is they're talking about.

Most of the scenes in the movie are completely pointless, and some are unrelated to the rest of the movie. While the monster is eating a group of people who are conveniently standing in a corner waiting to be eaten, it for some reason flashes several times to a scene of two men fighting. All of the other scenes are long and unnecessary, and involve people doing very little for several minutes, then getting eaten by the monster.

There are also some things that just don't make sense. At one part, a man suddenly explodes for no apparant reason, and it is not explained later in the movie.

I've seen a lot of MST3K episodes, but none of them come even close to being as funny as The Creeping Terror. Most MST3K movies are boring and have little plot, but this movie is actively horrible, as if the people making it were complete idiots, or just didn't care at all how it would turn out. Mike and the robots don't even have to make that many comments, because the movie is just so amazingly and obviously bad, although the skits are funny as well. I think everyone should see this movie.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You too can make a horror movie for less than [amt], August 18, 2002

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Creeping Terror [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Here is a true MST3K classic from Season Six. The Creeping Terror may well be the most ridiculous horror movie ever made. The creative geniuses behind the film searched far and wide for the most talented actors available and made sure that none of them appeared in the movie. The actors that were chosen were given lines to speak, but 75% of the time a weird narrator describes the action and conversations himself. Telling someone where to go loses a lot of its impact when you end up having a third party tell you that so-and-so told that guy where to go. Worst of all, the narrator wanders into lengthy soliloquies about matters such as marriage that have nothing to do with the plot. What about the monster, you ask? Oh, brother. If the sight of carpet scares you, you may find the monster a little unnerving, but I can guarantee the complete absence of terror in your reaction. For what it is worth, though, the monster has the creeping part down pat. Without the active assistance of his victims, the alien would quickly starve to death. While they could all easily flee, his victims choose to sit quietly and wait for the monster to creep over to where they are; then, when he finally manages to reach them, they are kind enough to actually pull themselves up into his mouth. I can't even describe the foolishness of this monster's appearance--you just have to see it for yourself.

The movie has other problems, as well. For instance, when the monster creeps into a dance hall (and why do all horror movies from the 50s have to have a dance hall segment, anyway?), instead of feeding themselves to the alien, two guys we don't even know decide to have a fist fight for no discernible reason. Of course, this is a vast improvement over the silly music and dancing we are forced to endure for several minutes as we wait for Mr. Slowpoke to get there (I say dancing, but I think at least one guy was having some type of seizure on the dancefloor). Speaking of the dance music, I must offer one caveat to your potential purchase of this video. You will hear a lot of the inane, repetitive dance music from the film; one host segment in the SOL features Mike listening to the tune on his new stereo for minutes on end, and the ending credits are also accompanied and drawn out interminably by the tune. It takes days to get the song out of your head, so be prepared. Laughs are what matter most, though, and this experiment has plenty of them from start to finish, making The Creeping Terror one of the better MST3K videos released by Rhino.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Movie Made To Be MST'ified!, August 25, 2003

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S. A DUNN (Chehalis, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Creeping Terror [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I wonder if producers and directors in the '50's and '60's could appreciate the idea that in merely 25 years time, their handiwork would be totally trashed by our heroes, the silloetted friends on the bottom of a TV screen! THIS piece of trollop is so bad..... no wonder that in the ending skit, Tom Servo and Crow dive for cover in the gullet of Gypsy!

Most memorable lines:

The showing of the Jr. Sherriff's baby, when Crow says! "Oh, cootsie cootsie coo, my sweet little boat anchor!"

When the portly grandfather gets "et" by the "thing in the closet" wannabe, and one of the bots say: "Looks like the world has lost another Santa!"

When the glob of blob attacks that old racecar to get at the dead teenagers, someone remarks about how canned meat isnt to fresh, and their hillarious remarks about getting a Snickers out of that vending machine! "That car has cream filling inside!"

This dog of a movie is truly a two edged sword! If you can endure the monotone narration, the outdoor scenes in glorious white-and-white, the technological superiority of the mutants with their computers with DIALS stolen from the Wizard of Oz set, and that monster's tracheotomy inviting teenagers into taking the plunge into monotany, then you will LOVE Mike and the Bots adding their own brand of "narration" to this piece of s--....er, masterpiece!