Creep

Creep is a British-German horror movie set within the London Underground, starring Franka Potente and Sean Harris.

Kate, a young, snooty socialite, ends up getting trapped in the underground after missing the last train. During a sexual assault she meets Creep, aka, a malformed, extremely strong psychopath who goes to extreme lengths to hunt her down.

The movie is a classic horror movie playing on our fear of the dark, enclosed spaces and ugly balding people with knives.

""Franka Potente’s performance is excellent, and in the interviews on the DVD, she shows that she’s clearly put a lot of thought into how she went about portraying Kate – but it’s really jarring to have such a bitch as the main character.""
 * Abandoned Hospital
 * Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Justified and played straight. The maintenance tunnels underneath the subway are accessible to humans, and the tunnels closer to the Abandoned Hospital are not specifically meant to exist -- given that the hospital  Played straight with the sewers in the opening.
 * Asshole Victim:
 * Arguably Kate herself (even though she doesn't actually die).

- Critical Dave


 * Attempted Rape
 * Atomic F-Bomb:
 * Bald of Evil: Creep.
 * Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. George is one of the first characters to appear,  The director's commentary mentions that George's actor was fully expecting to have his character die within ten pages of the script because of this trope, but was pleasantly surprised when he found out that wasn't the case.
 * Bloody Handprint: The DVD cover features one on a train window. Also used in the film, when Creep smears his blood-soaked hand over the security monitor.
 * Break the Cutie: Kate (with shades of Break the Haughty) and
 * Chekhov's Gun:
 * Darkness Equals Death
 * Death by Sex:
 * Downer Ending:
 * Eye Scream: All over the place. The first corpse seen (that of one of the train drivers) has a piece of metal driven through his eye, Kate, and, in their final confrontation, Creep shoves his thumbs into eye sockets.
 * Facial Horror: fate.
 * Final Girl
 * Fingore: One of Kate's fingernails becomes badly damaged, and she starts pulling parts of it off when she notices the damage.
 * Gorn
 * Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted twice, brutally:
 * When Creep slits throat, the camera cuts away to focus on Kate just as he starts doing it - only for it to cut back again to show the full, gory result.
 * When Creep is  The viewer doesn't actually get to see the corpse as he's doing it... but, taking into account the grisly noises combined with blood splattering all over Creep as he hacks into the corpse, you don't need to see it to be horrified.
 * Groin Attack:
 * The Grotesque: Creep.
 * Hello
 * Heroic BSOD:
 * Hope Spot: A particularly brutal one.
 * Implacable Man: Creep.
 * It's Personal:
 * Jump Scare: Several, but none are more jarring than the first full appearance of Creep.
 * Kill the Cutie:
 * Laughing Mad:
 * The London Underground
 * Matchlight Danger Revelation: Used with torches, twice. Happens at the very beginning when Arthur shines his torch around and sees Creep for a split second, and later with Kate when Creep is fully seen for the very first time.
 * Meaningful Background Event:
 * Nothing Is Scarier: A lot of the film is utterly quiet, save for a very creepy ambient soundtrack reminiscent of Silent Hill.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Creep has shades of this.
 * Rule of Scary
 * Say My Name: "MANDY!!"
 * "Jimmy... Jimmy... Jimmy... Jimmy..."
 * Slashed Throat: How meets his end, although it isn't a clean slash - his neck is viciously hacked into.  also meets his end in this way.
 * Slasher Movie
 * Team Pet: Ray the dog.