{"id":34856,"date":"2015-10-01T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34856"},"modified":"2021-01-24T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:29:31","slug":"creeping-terror-the-crawling-monster-the-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34856","title":{"rendered":"Creeping Terror, The \/ Crawling Monster, The (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Within 48 hours, Dr. Bradford had closely examined the creature and the spaceship and reached a number of conclusions. He was sure the creature had come from beyond our solar system.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror-Poster-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror-Poster-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror-Poster-89x128.jpg 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror-Poster.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA sheriff (Vic Savage) returns from a honeymoon with his new wife (Shannon O&#8217;Neil) to find a spaceship has landed, and an enormous shaggy monster is devouring everyone it sees.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mutant Monsters<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;stunningly bad low-budget sci fi film&#8230; features the worst excuse for a monster in history&#8221; &#8212; a creature that &#8220;looks like an old deformed carpet with several white misshapen beards and a large mouth&#8221;. He points out that the &#8220;actors playing the [creature&#8217;s] victims actually have to force themselves into the mouth of the barely mobile creature&#8221;, and notes that &#8220;adding to the absurdity&#8221; is the fact that &#8220;director Art. J. Nelson&#8221; (who also starred as the sheriff under the stage name Vic Savage) &#8220;lost his soundtrack, but, rather than tossing out footage of a lot of people having conversations, he simply added a narrator so we wouldn&#8217;t be curious about what everyone is saying&#8221;. He concludes his review by noting that the &#8220;film is for bad-movie lovers only &#8212; but even they may find [it] pretty tiresome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I can&#8217;t really imagine watching this sub-Z-grade movie without the &#8220;assistance&#8221; of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew, who add appropriately derogatory commentary and\/or supplemental dialogue to every scene in the film &#8212; humorously highlighting all of Peary&#8217;s complaints above blow-by-blow. Viewed simply as a TRULY TERRIBLE movie, however &#8212; how much worse could it be? &#8212; this flick holds a certain surreal allure: as <a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/sciencefiction\/creepingterror.htm\">Richard Scheib writes<\/a>, it &#8220;exerts a terribleness that is fascinating to see. The gap between what it sets out to achieve and what it actually does achieve is a gaping chasm.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stunningly bad &#8212; everything<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror3.png 540w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror3-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror4.png 540w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror4-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CreepingTerror4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror2.png 540w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror2-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror1.png 540w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror1-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Creeping-Terror1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes &#8212; simply for its cult infamy as such a truly terrible movie. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057970\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badmovies.org\/movies\/creepterror\/\">BadMovies.org Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/sciencefiction\/creepingterror.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifilm.org\/musing517.html\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=296&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Within 48 hours, Dr. Bradford had closely examined the creature and the spaceship and reached a number of conclusions. He was sure the creature had come from beyond our solar system.&#8221; Synopsis: A sheriff (Vic Savage) returns from a honeymoon with his new wife (Shannon O&#8217;Neil) to find a spaceship has landed, and an enormous shaggy monster is devouring everyone it sees. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Mutant Monsters Science Fiction Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that this &#8220;stunningly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34856\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65743,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34856\/revisions\/65743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}