The mixture of found footage with a true crime spin can often prove dynamite.
Getting found footage right is a true art form, as you have to ensure it is scuzzy enough and not polished to make it believable but also don’t forget about the scares.
For Isaac Rodriguez’ Mister Creep, we follow a group of filmmakers who find a broadcast of a serial killer and start on a quest to find its origin.
The film is interspersed with very unnerving clips of the killer, who was aiming to kill 200 people in sacrifice to a mysterious ‘god’.
We get breadcrumbs about his identity throughout, even discovering the clown mask he adorns has been melted onto his face.
At a sparse 66 minutes, Mister Creep doesn’t mess around and builds to quite the chilling finale, with some genuinely scary imagery. There is an air of ambiguity about its closing frames, which will either work for the viewer or potentially derail what they’ve just seen.
Rodriguez’s feature is low budget and accumulates enough goodwill, with some solid performances to make it a worthwhile found footage film.
Look out for Mister Creep on the film festival circuit.
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