Creep Analysis

Setting: The setting of the film is in an underground in Charing Cross, which she finds herself in a position where she has been trapped in overnight, an underground is a place that you would normally come and go, a location you would approach in the process of reaching your specific destination, so for her to be trapped overnight challenges the original situation where people would come and go from a train station, the killers hideout in the movie seems to be a place where he keeps all of his victims in some sort of make belief hospital operating room, the normal expectations from an operating room are challenges as everything is unclean and very unhygienic in comparison to a real operating room in an hospital.

Characters: Kate is the female main character in the film, a false killer which leads you to believe that the villain is the male character when he firstly tries to sexually assault Kate towards the beginning of the film, the actual killer of the film is not seen in until 45 minutes into the film which adds suspense to all the weird events that are occurring, wants to make the audience think that the killer is some sort of creature or animal the way their never seen and moves around so shifty throughout the majority of the film, when you finally see the killer he has a number of weird features which make him out of the ordinary to the audience such as he has a disfigured nose and no eyebrows which typically would attract the audience making him look extremely weird, he also has a number of scars on his body which would make him look dangerous and as if he’s been in some bad situations, there’s blood on his body which makes him also look dangerous and gives him the gory effect that you would automatically connect with the doctors operating room, there’s a certain part in the film which leads you to believe that the killer is psychotic as you see him pretending to be washing his hands under a tap which is not working.

Iconography: The start of the movie uses blood as an iconic feature by putting in on the floor leading you to believe that someone has been killed and been dragged from the current spot they was at. An iconic unique sign that the killer used was by feeding body parts to rats which made him look crazy. The film also uses extreme violence and some horrific gory scenes which shake up the audience.

Camera Work: theirs a wide shot at the end of the movie where a man approaching the woman who looks like a beggar at the current time, by using a wide shot it allows you to see the man approaching the woman, throughout the film there is a number of close up shots of the killer which emphasises his horrific body features, POV shot use when Kate is looking for an exit, creating the effect that someone or something is watching her. As she is running through the tube, the camera is in 3 different positions, from behind from in front, and POV, this is because from behind it looks like she’s running from something, in front it looks like she’s trying to reach a certain destination and POV shows that something is watching her, she then stops and we see a close up of her face which expresses the desperation she’s experiencing. The use of CCTV Camera shows that she is being monitored and recorded but whoever is in the CCTV operating room isn’t there or their just not being responsive.

Lighting: in the start of the film the only light that has been used is the use of torchlight which limits the audience on what they can see which in affect creates more suspense, also I would make the audience look in other places to see if things were lurking in the shadows, shadows is a key feature when making a horror film. During the time that Kate was on the tube the lights flicker creating the affect that she is going to be in the dark which would put her in a bad situation as her vision would be limited, which scares people.

Sound: the use of Kate screaming creates the effect of someone who is scared and shows you that theirs a situation when someone’s in trouble and in desperation of help, the opening sound track of the sound of a rattling train station with the effect that you’re on the actual train, it’s a good effect to create and it links to the setting, the man who tried to sexually assault Kate is dragged from the train station on the floor and with the use of diegetic sound of the male character screaming out in pain, which creates the situation where you can see that the victim/villain (due to the fact he tried to rape her) is in an horrific position.