Creepy is a film that takes its titular feeling to frightening new heights, and Kurosawa’s game of bait-and-switch intensely compounds when acted out alongside his mastery of tension.

| Aug 1, 2023

Kurosawa shows, in masterful way, that creepiness lurks at the surface of society, just behind the façade of daily life, hidden in plain sight.

| Jan 1, 2021

Without giving it away at the performances ar ace and the story is creepy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 26, 2020

Creepy texturally feels like Kurosawa, but it's empty of his usual substantive characters, intelligence, and style.

| Aug 13, 2020

A Hitchcockian tale of psychopaths and serial killers.

| Original Score: B | Jul 2, 2020

The film is delightfully free of any cheap scares, opting instead for slowly building tension that overtakes you before you even realize it's there.

| Apr 28, 2020

Although this is familiar territory for Kurosawa, Creepy is highly effective and accessible genre material, suggesting social customs sometimes allow for victimization in one's very own neighborhood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2019

With trust, assumptions and gut feelings taking center stage under an uncomfortable microscope, Creepy definitely lives up to its name.

| May 17, 2019

Creepy is a sterile bore that, at 130 gruelling minutes, considerably outstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 12, 2019

The master of slow terror has returned, but he is a bit slower than he should be. Nevertheless, the film is definitely worth seeing for its cast, the shock of the disclosure and its unexpected finale.

| Apr 6, 2019

Creepy suffers from an inconsistent tone and unbelievable plot developments.

| Feb 13, 2019

Creepy is worth checking out for those looking for a creepy (sorry) good time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Part psychological crime procedural and part domestic drama, Creepy marks another reinvention for Kurosawa as a filmmaker, delivering his best film in years.

| Original Score: 4.8/5 | Aug 28, 2018

One of the best horror films of the year and probably the best serial killer film of the last decade, Creepy is Kurosawa's greatest achievement and Japanese genre cinema at its finest.

| Aug 25, 2018

"Creepy" peels back social conventions to reveal the uncanny that lays under the placid fact that we all live among strangers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2017

[Director Kiyoshi] Kurosawa's approach to horror - quiet, calm, collected scenes of quotidian normality laced by that lingering feeling of something wicked this way coming - feels refreshingly out of touch.

| Aug 28, 2017

Little that happens in Creepy is surprising, but even less is unsatisfying.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2017

Weaving together two narratives which gradually converge, Kurosawa keeps turning the screws, aided by a deliciously unsettling performance from Kagawa.

| Original Score: B | Feb 23, 2017

A film full of suspense with an absorbing narration and that goes far in its macabre fantasy of corpses. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 25, 2017

This is a film that successfully balances its pulpier genre trappings with a haunting meditation on the nature of 21st century relationships-with our neighbors, our friends, our spouses, and ourselves-and dares us to interrogate what we find.

| Jan 2, 2017