Creature (2011 film)

Creature
Directed by	Fred M. Andrews
Produced by	Sidney Sheinberg Jonathan Sheinberg Bill Shineberg
Written by	Fred M. Andrews Tracy Morse
Starring	Sid Haig Mehcad Brooks Serinda Swan
Studio	The Bubble Factory
Release date(s)	September 9, 2011 (2011-09-09)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Creature is a 2011 American horror film, based on a screenplay written by Fred M. Andrews and Tracy Morse. The film is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where a group of friends discover a local legend and are in a fight for their survival. The movie has an MPAA R-rating in the United States with a running time of 93 minutes, it is in Dolby Digital SRD and is also available as a digital cinema print (DCP). The film opened in theaters on September 9, 2011, in the United States and Canada and was directed by Fred M. Andrews. It stars Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller, Dillon Casey, Lauren Schneider, Aaron Hill, Daniel Bernhardt, and Sid Haig. In its first weekend in the USA, Creature earned only $327,000 from 1507 venues. It was the lowest grossing first weekend ever for a film appearing on over 1500 screens, and the second worst per location average ever.^[1]

Synopsis

An ex-Navy seal (Mehcad Brooks), his girlfriend (Serinda Swan) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half-alligator with a deadly disease called squaids.

The legend has it that an inbred local man by the name of Grimley (Daniel Bernhardt) lost his family to a monstrous white alligator, which then drove him to madness and some believe he was transformed into that very creature that now haunts the depths of the swamps. Their curiosity piqued, the group decides to play along with the local tourist trap and journey deep into the backwoods to find the old dilapidated cabin which is supposed to be the birthplace of the creature.

As they set-up camp for the night, their faith is put to the test when Lockjaw turns out to be more than just a myth and they realize the locals are hiding a horrifying secret that jeopardizes them all.

Cast

• Sid Haig as Chopper
• Mehcad Brooks as Niles
• Serinda Swan as Emily
• Dillon Casey as Oscar
• Amanda Fuller as Beth
• Lauren Schneider as Karen
• Daniel Bernhardt as Grimley
• Aaron Hill as Randy
• David Jensen as Jimmy
• Wayne Pére as Bud
• Pruitt Taylor Vince as Grover
• Jennifer Lynn Warren as Ophelia
• Rebekah Kennedy as Caroline

References

1. ^ Brandon Gray. "Weekend Report: 'Contagion' Catches On". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3270&p=.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 

Further reading

• Big Hype, Big Creature in This Trailer on Shock Till You Drop [1]
• Don't Get Out of the Boat in this First Trailer for Creature Starring Sid Haig on 28 Days Later Analysis [2]
• Creature Proves Blood is Blood and Gets a New One-Sheet and Trailer on Dread Central [3]
• Sheinberg to self-distribute indie horror Creature on Screen Daily [4]
• It Came Out of the Viral Media Swamp in the New York Times [5]

External links

• Official website
• Creature at the Internet Movie Database