Horror or Sci-fi bargain bundles are becoming a great source of film material for us here at Splatter. You may have casually picked one up at the store and considered the purchase, but put it down for some reason or other. These things often hold rare movie gems. Of-course they contain cheap, bad, movies but if you’re a Splatter fan like us these bundles are priceless. The Creeping Terror comes from one of these sets. You may remember that it was featured on an episode of MST3K. Many horror fans consider it one of the worst B movies ever made and I’m glad to be viewing it uncut, without the MST3K riffs.

Martin Gordon and his wife Brett are heading home from their honeymoon when they run into Uncle Ben, the sheriff of Angel County. Martin is the senior deputy so he finds it necessary to assist in the latest crisis. It seems a plane has crashed in the woods nearby. Before the group gets to the site a strange creature that looks like a moving carpet exits the spaceship and heads out to feast on dumb people. When Ben gets there he goes inside the space craft and gets eaten. We hear gunshots, screaming and something that sounds like a lion growling. There are in fact two carpet aliens. A special military unit of half a dozen men is called in and the situation is now handled by Dr. Bradford.

The first visible kill is a real treat. The creature goes for a couple making out in the woods. The guy flees but the girl is not so lucky. The rug monster slurps her up slowly. We hear odd sounds like if it’s choking or retching. There is also howling and some growling. Dr. Bradford arrives and plays around with the instruments inside the alien ship. The second monster is held by a metal harness but I wouldn’t get too close (Uncle Ben RIP). Later in the woods a small kid and his plump grandfather are eaten. Then a group of kids hanging out in the woods become the monsters meal. As if that weren’t enough the creature heads for the community dance hall. The crazy sixties young adults swinging there hips and arms don’t know what hit them when the monster suddenly appears inside the building. He eats them all. Every single one. After news of the tragedy gets out the Coronel orders the monster to be killed despite Bradford’s protest to capture him alive for analysis. The monster then appears at lover’s lane and kills more people. Dude, this may be the slowest monster ever but he sure manages to kill people. One could easily runaway. You could say he ends up getting the dumb ones. There is a priceless scene at lover’s lane where the creature has trouble eating a guy inside the car. He topples the car over and keeps pushing it until his mouth can easily suck the guy out through the window. The military outfit is just as useless as everyone else in this movie. When they finally encounter the monster they shoot at it causing no harm apparently. Then they just stand there as the rug monster knocks them all down and sucks them up. The Coronel decides to throw a grenade at the creature and this does kill it.

When Dr. Bradford gets to the crash site he does something, causing an explosion inside the ship and freeing the second monster who tries to eat him. He crawls away, weakened by the crash until out of the blue Martin charges in with his car. He crashes it into the creature killing it. As Bradford lies on the ground dying from explosion wounds he tells Martin that the monsters were mobile laboratories. They would suck in a human and examine its contents. Martin tries to destroy the ships computer with a stick to stop the transmission but can’t. We now assume that the data gathered by the carpet creatures was transmitted to their alien planet or something like that. Bradford dies on the spot. Not so much a happy ending huh?

The overall Creeping Terror experience was one of fun boredom. This movie has many faults. The director must have lost a substantial part of the audio because most of the film is told by a narrator, and often over moving lips. The acting is forgettable but the creature somehow is not. Jose and I have had many talks on the worst of the worst painful to watch B movies. This one was one I had wanted to see uncut for a long time. I knew it was going to be cheesy and lame but sometimes a lowly, silly movie can really make your day. But don’t get me wrong, this is an awful film but to those of us that like movies like this they hold a special place in our hearts.

- Jorge Antonio Lopez