Creep

Christopher Smith's first feature film is a good, but by no means a perfect film. He shows an incredible competence for the jump-scare style horror film which raises the level of scariness beyond most entries in the genre. As a script writer however, he needs a lot of work. The film goes off the rails (pun intended) so many times here that it undermines the great acting from Franka Potente *Transmitting Fanboy Love*.
The story is simple. A woman leaves a party to catch a late subway train, falls asleep in the station and is locked inside. She is being stalked by something underground and interacts with a lot of the people who live and/or work down there in both the active tunnels and the many abandoned ones. There is not much subtext here (these are not Guellermo Del Toro's sewers) other than a brief and darkly humourous comment on how the average city dweller thinks of the homeless.
The scares are many, and most are pretty darn effective. One of the movies strengths is that there are many scenes in which the movie does things just a bit different than your average horror film. Just when things are getting interesting, it gets all convetional again. At a certain point believability is pushed way out of bounds and the last 20 minutes are chalk full of badly executed horror cliches that cheapen the great 1st and 2nd acts.
I give this a luke-warm recommendation to hard-core horror fans (this is way too much for the average multiplex horror fan), while at the same time, i'm really looking forward to his next film where he may hopefully work out the snags.