Creep 2 (2017)

Creep 2: Directed by Patrick Brice. With Karan Soni, Mark Duplass, Desiree Akhavan, Kyle Field. A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.

“Directed u0026amp; co-written by Patrick Brice, in 2014 movie CREEP, we saw a videographer, Aaron (played by the director himself) takes a one-day job in a remote mountain town through a Craigslist ad where he meets an interested weirdo, Josef (played by Mark Duplass). And from their very first meeting, Aaron started to wonder about what kind of mess he has actually stumbled into! Duplassu0026#39; performance as a very much likable but a totally unpredictable psychopathic killer was an absolute blast. But the thing is CREEP (2014) was that kind of a fun u0026amp; intriguing psycho-thriller that relies u0026amp; succeeds heavily on its uncertain turn of events u0026amp; the unfolding nature of mysteries u0026amp; doubts behind its characters as well as a final twisted, satisfactory payoff at the end. The original CREEP succeeded that on many level and become 2014u0026#39;s one of the finest genre offerings. Now, to do a sequel to a movie like that is always challenging u0026amp; risky venture as the target audiences already got the idea behind its mysterious antagonist in the very first movie. In order to recreate the first filmu0026#39;s unease aura of uncertainty and unpredictable flavor of the story, the filmmakers need almost a miracle to work that again for a sequel. After three years, the same writer-director duo is now back with that seemingly impossible task to awe the viewers again. And surprisingly they have still somehow managed to pull off a good u0026amp; entertaining follow up here in CREEP 2. This time itu0026#39;s about Sara, an online video blogger who runs a web series called Encounters…where she meets estranged, weird men to document a glimpse in their lifestyle. But as nowadays our activities in the virtual world gets u0026quot;defineu0026quot; by the amount of responses where like, share or no. of views somehow matters at the end of the day, it turns out that Sara is no different than any person we know who is looking for a big breakthrough but frustrated on her current low key status. Before call it quits, she decides to do one more episode and then she finds u0026quot;Aaronu0026quot; on Craigslist. Yes, u0026#39;Josefu0026#39; from the original CREEP is now introducing himself in the name of his infamous victim of the first film. The chemistry between Aaronu0026#39;s unsettling but charming killer-instinct and quite calm u0026amp; bold Sara was the real workforce for CREEP 2 and it worked beautifully for the performances that the respected actors showcased till the end. One of the most crucial u0026amp; challenging parts for this sequel was its ending and as I still canu0026#39;t come up with a better one in my mind, so it wonu0026#39;t be right to get much critical about it from my side as a viewer. Kudos to Duplass and Brice for creating almost an equally entertaining sequel where you may think you know the guy u0026amp; his game but as a sequel it succeeds in every turn as it still able to baffles you on thinking u0026#39;what he or she going to do next?!u0026#39;”