Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series) The Creeping Terror (1994) User Reviews

Classic!

[Rene_Sens · 10/10 · 21 December 2009]

All right. It's one of my favorite episode. Why? It's easy 'cause it was my first one in some way. Scene with fat grandpa and Bobby fishing and then walking around was the first time when I saw MST3K company in action. And it was brilliant, I fell in love with the show. This particular scene (as well as whole episode) contains a pack of brilliant memorable quotes:

"- Oh-oh! Here comes the most challenging scene in this movie!", "- Let the currant take you away! SWIM!!!", "- Now the Earth has one last Santa...", "- Cruelty to small animals is one of Bobby hobbies.", "- Wait! His name is not Bobby, he's Steve! Ah, STEVE! STEVE!"

And so on, and so on, and so on...

One word - classic!

The infamous walking-carpet monster provides some of the funniest material in the series; but the sketches are bad and the movie is just too infuriating

[J. Spurlin · 28 February 2007]

Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) pretends to be a security guard impeding Mike Nelson's way around the Satellite of Love. Dr. Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) and TV's Frank (Frank Conniff) do their laundry as they force Mike and company to watch "The Creeping Terror" (1964), a jaw-droppingly bad horror flick about a space alien that looks like a large carpet with people under it; the monster's ludicrously bobbing head looks like a Venus flytrap. The creature moves like a snail through molasses, but catches and eats most of the characters, who seem unaware of an activity called running away. Mike and the 'bots survive the schlock by mocking everything from the ponderous and unnecessary narrator to the pointless scene of a mother taking her baby's temperature. Meanwhile, Crow (voice of Trace Beaulieu) makes a flag for the Satellite of Love; Gypsy (Jim Mallon) suggests a parody of the TV series, "Love, American Style"; Mike plays "Creeping Terror" music on his makeshift stereo system; and Tom Servo willingly finds out what it's like to get swallowed.

The monster is easily one of the three or four most laughable in the history of horror films, and provides for some of the funniest moments in the MST3k series. The trouble is, "Creeping Terror" is, to quote Leonard Maltin's "Movie and Video Guide," "bad on every conceivable (and inconceivable) level." Watching the shamelessly immobile scenes in "Manos: Hands of Fate" aren't nearly as infuriating as seeing this lugubrious parade float creep, creep, creep, creep, creep, creep, creep its way to people who just stand there. "Manos" was pathetic, but "Creeping Terror" is maddening. The parody of "Love, American Style," and the sketch where Mike listens to the dance music from the film, are both boring; they help prevent this memorable episode from being one of the best.

One of my top ten favorites!

[mhorg2018 · 10/10 · 10 November 2019]

I first saw this horribly bad movie at 6pm on channel 9 on a Saturday night in NYC. It was so hypnotically bad, I couldn't look away. Thankfully, MST3K makes this movie worth watching. From the beginning shot when the screen is dark "The point of view of Helen Keller", to this really obese guy screeching "Bobby" before the sight of the creature causes him to fall in a puddle "he's making his own broth!" The crew hits on all cylinders.