Creatures

A movie about aliens that turn humans into zombies sounds just crazy enough to potentially be fun. But the execution is rather poor and the characters are not very well developed or likable. So I really didn't find myself caring if they were killed off or not. In fact I actually wanted most of them to be offed.

For example, the story begins with a bus full of university students on a field trip to observe meteorites. Most of them are jerks who act like they don't even want to be there. Several of them are relentlessly making fun of another student for being Mexican. Yes they're literally making fun of someone for their race/national origin. Who does that? Shamelessly right in front of everyone at that. Most of the students either participate or raise no objections. I'm no SJW but it struck me as quite bizarre.

I don't fault the movie for the cheesy special effects, because that can actually be part of the charm for many B movies. There were even a few scenes that made me laugh, especially the projectile hedgehog scene. My problem is that the writing was quite bad and random stuff would happen that didn't make any sense. None of the characters had any sort of consistent personality. They would do baffling things with no apparent logic or motive. Story elements are introduced without ever being fleshed out.

With this type of movie one must strike a balance between being comedically farcical and just plain bad. This didn't quite deliver for me but it is watchable, if barely. 4/10 (seems like a star for each time I chuckled, Lol)

Bad acting.

Bad effects.

Bad script.

The only way it would be redeemable would be if it was submitted as a remedial student's film project.

If you want to watch how a low budget B grade alien invasion movie should be done watch Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste".

'Creatures' is so bad it hurts. It's well enough photographed, I will give them that but the rest...complete garbage. Acting is diabolically bad. There is like 30 'actors' in the film and yet none of them has any charisma or onscreen presence. None of them can act and none of them is memorable. Also, the lead guy who is absolutely pathetic is a producer and an executive producer of the film, not an actor and he's just so painful to watch/hear it's beyond me that they actually allowed him to appear on the screen, let alone being the lead. The script is absolutely non existent, the comedy bits are painfully unfunny and the gore is pretty much all digital. Please don't even get me started on the cgi which is absolutely atrocious. Some latex puppets are present as well but at this point, nobody cares. Seriously, this is a rock bottom kind of film. It's general look doesn't look THAT cheap so I would say it's not an amateur effort which is even worse because that means the people behind it are extremely untalented. Also, the little plot there is seems to be stolen from the recent 'Critters' sequel/reboot(aliens chasing cute fluffy alien). Do yourself a favor and avoid it like a plague.

Who else might combine aliens, zombies and furry little gremlins? The acting and camerawork in this film aren't bad, but everything else is, especially the story itself, along with the editing, which lacks the timing that might have make it work as a "so bad it's good" movie- it's not. Save your hour (or however much you could take) for something better. Pretty much anything.

Shockingly bad.. Possibly the worst film ever. Needless to say I couldn't make it until the end. Just bad bad bad. Do not even contemplate watching this movie.