The Creeping Terror

The Creeping Terror 1964 b&w, 606mst3k.  (I skipped all host segments) Heavy narration. Francis Coleman vibe. No, this is goofier than Coleman. Crashed spaceship and alien. Alien is like a giant slow moving rug. People keep climbing under the spaceship. The spaceship just looks like people climbing under a garage door that will only open about a foot. This movie is very bad. First victim is a girl in a bikini who pretty much climbs into the carpet monster’s mouth. The creature is lizard like, but more like a muppet. Like a Godzilla muppet with a cross between Gumbi and Gamera’s head, but all in shag carpet with vacuum cleaner hoses hanging off. But it also has tent like qualities. Good stuff. The narrator is really going on and on about married friends not hanging out with their single buddies. I think Narrator may have some personal issues about this. It’s such an odd out of place bit of narration, with no relevance to anything else. Very weird. There’s a lady wearing a big weird dress putting a baby to bed and hanging laundry, as the creeping terror slowly drags itself nearer. And eats her, what with her refusal to move. There’s no way this thing can work a doorknob, maybe head inside? You could walk at a totally normal pace. Back to the spaceship. There are a lot of dials and gages in this thing. Also another of the carpet monsters, but I guess he’s restrained. It might not be a he. Now it’s Opie out fishing with Allen Sherman, but he’s fatter and bearded. I gotta say this is a top tier episode. It’s just fucking crazy. Nobody ever runs from this creature. The narrator is back. There’s a song? This movie feels earlier than 64. I think 1964 was the British Invasion and Beatlemania. I bet this movie sat on the shelf for a while, judging by the hairstyles. The creature in this makes those pickles from It Conquered the World seem pretty scary. Wow. There’s a super repetitious dance sequence with annoying music. High pain but hysterical. Most of the movie is watching this big muppet thing slowly lumber towards people. Hey, 2 people finally ran away! Now it’s all organ music while a guy is driving. Now a man has been beating up equipment for a while. The End. Def top tier, probably top 10 or 20.