CREEP! Docu-Drama Reveals Unbelievable Story Behind the Infamously Bad Monster Movie

The trend of laughably bad but entertaining giant animal attack films has definitely become popular in recent years, but this sort of low-budget sci-fi and horror schlock is nothing new. The sub-genre of so-bad-they’re-good films featuring killer animals and crappy creatures goes back to the grandaddy of the art, Roger Corman. Even further, if you count the more suspenseful stylings of William Castle. Perhaps the most well-known purveyor of the worst films we love is Ed Wood, but a lesser known auteur of the awful was a man named Art Nelson, aka Vic Savage. Nelson was a con man, who among his many other methods of scheming, stealing and cheating, made filmmaking an art of illegitimate business. In 1964, Nelson set out to make a monster movie, the result of which would become the obscure and poorly made film The Creeping Terror, a film that owns a cult following and arguably the title of “worst film ever made.”

Screen shot of the monster from the 1964 film The Creeping Terror.

CREEP! is a film from director Pete Schuermann that will tell the story behind the making of The Creeping Terror, which by all accounts is far more fascinating and unbelievable than Nelson’s film proved to be when it was all said and done. CREEP! combines documentary footage and clips from the original film alongside professionally re-enacted scenes by talented actors to expose the comic yet darkly disturbing tales of sex, drugs, rape, money scams, heartbreak, bank robberies, Nazism, missing persons, suicide, false identities, and ties to the Manson murders that promises this making-of film will be deviously delicious. CREEP! also features many major players involved with bringing The Creeping Terror to fruition

CREEP! launches a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012. You can follow @CREEPfilm on twitter and “Like” the film on Facebook.

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