Creak Review
By Casey Douglass
A few weeks ago, I
reviewed Black Spot, a very low budget abandoned road horror by
Luther Bhogal-Jones. I thought it was done really well and gave it
4.5/5. Check it out here.
Creak is one of
Luther’s earlier films, and I must admit, that as much as I liked
Black Spot, it was nice to watch something in HD with better sound.
Creak is set in a city
house at 4am. Predictably, something creaks and upsets the two
sleeping occupants. Well, it upsets one and she in turn upsets the
other by repeatedly asking her to check the house in case someone has
broken in. What then ensues is a great little cat and mouse sequence
of room checking where something is always lurking at the periphery
but never seen.
It's about 5.5 minutes
long but that is just long enough time to ratchet up the tension for
the conclusion to have a strong impact. I enjoyed the way the
intruder was portrayed. At no point was it more than a dark
silhouette with indiscernible features, besides strange protuberances
around the head.
Like Black Spot, the
soundtrack was brilliant, a synthy vibe and harsh punctuating moments
all doing a great job to up the level of interest. My only issue with
the sound was that in some places the levels for the dialogue were a bit
hissy, but that is a minor gripe.
You can watch Creak
yourself by clicking here to get to the Faster Productions vimeo
page.
When you have done
that, there is a great behind the scenes look at how the film was
created on the Faster Productions blog here
.
From the director running late on set to the perils of shooting in frigid rooms it’s an
interesting read.
I give Creak 4.5/5. I
enjoyed it for what it was, a story of paranoia proving to be true
and a film that enjoyably uses a few horror tropes to tell that tale.
