Robert Lee is a senior author at Collider who focuses on modern movie releases and animation, as well as both the best and worst films in a genre.
Science fiction and horror have always been able to complement each other greatly in the world of film, even in the earliest days of the medium's inception. From all-time classics like Frankenstein, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Alien to 21st-century hits like Nope, A Quiet Place, and Signs, there will always be an inherent value in combining the infinite possibilities of science with their inherent horror potential.
Creature design played a much larger impact during the older, black-and-white era of sci-fi horror filmmaking, as a film's entire appeal and memorability could be tied to the impact and legacy of the core monster. However, this element is where The Creeping Terror finds its biggest failure, as the strange, snail's pace-moving monster at the center of it all manages to conjure up more feelings of laughter than genuine terror.
✕ Remove Ads While Yucca Flats's unique approach of minimal dialogue and omnipotent narration could be tools of great narrative strength in the right hands, this serves to only make the actual film an unintentionally hilarious time. The film is blatantly non-subtle about its anti-nuclear messaging, yet doesn't have the strength to make the overall experience anything more than a chaotic, near-incomprehensible mess.
✕ Remove Ads It's rare for a film to make so many choices that feel designed to make the final product as underwhelming and lacking in entertainment as possible. The film has one of the slowest and most monotonous paces possible, a wholly uninterested narrator who speaks with the enthusiasm of a jaded school teacher, and the titular monster itself having next to no screen time. It has its unexpected charms, but these come as a result of its endless flaws, not in spite of them.
4 'Doom: Annihilation' Directed by Tony Giglio Doom had already received a film adaptation in the 2000s, which while largely lambasted by critics of the era, ended up finding its own audience thanks to some fun visual effects and a great first person action sequence.
✕ Remove Ads While the inherent concept of retelling the story of Dracula in space sounds like it could at the very least be fun to watch, the film does very little in terms of using its space setting to add to the story of Dracula. It's not nearly as campy and fun as other horror icons sent to space like Jason X or Leprechaun 4, instead being a boring and highly predictable experience that goes above and beyond in terms of bad filmmaking.
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