Don't waste your money...
While I like creature movies in general, I only like good ones. This movie has no business trying theatrical distribution. This distributor is going to lose millions. The movie is basically the same quality and mentality as what you might see produced by Roger Corman or Charles Band, which are dirt-budget cheaply written ride-the-trend productions. To their credit they launch careers for actors and filmmakers trying to get their first break, but the products are horrible.
The Corman / Band era is over, however. Until the 90's, movies like that could take advantage of the fact that nobody knew they sucked. Word of mouth was only as good as your local community. Today we have the internet, where everyone with at least one finger and a brain stem can type their reaction to a movie and send it up to a site where it gets visibility. Thousands of viewers can rate movies at many sites, such as this one. This averages out to an overall audience reaction, despite idiots who give everything they see one star or those who give everything they see "all" stars. This spreads the word with unprecedented speed. Now we can know that if hundreds of people rate a movie and it averages 3-4 stars out of 10, that tells everyone else to steer clear.
The cost of distributing a movie to the theater is ENORMOUS. I know about this first hand. It is harder to distribute a movie to a US theater than it is to raise millions of dollars to produce it in the first place. With Blu-Ray on the rise, and the increasing popularity of using the internet to stream movies, theatrical distribution is riskier than ever.
I suppose the distributor of Creature figured the time was ripe. It's the second deep-south swamp horror to come out this month, the other being Shark Night, which was marginally better. But I suppose they were inspired by the surprise success of Piranha, which had a lot of star cameo power, a lot of gore, a lot of nudity, and a lot of fun. All Creature had was a little nudity. The plot was confusing, the characters sucked, and the creature costume was even worse than Swamp Thing 20 years ago.
Seriously, guys. College students can make a better film than this.
C.S. HAVILAND
http://CSHaviland.com