Review: 'Creep' Is Like An Unholy Mix Of 'What About Bob?' And 'Fatal Attraction'

Producer Jason Blum has made a name for himself (and built a very successful company) from the success of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise, a series of films largely built around grainy home video footage of doors slowly opening and closing. A number of his films that followed "Paranormal Activity" adapted this formula, with varying degrees of success. The found footage genre has a ceiling, one that Blum and his confederates constantly bump up against. But with his newest found footage concoction "Creep," he seems to be going for something altogether different and far stranger — a funny/sad horror comedy that feels like the unholy union of "What About Bob" and "Fatal Attraction." Blum has broken through that ceiling and has found something very weird on the other side.

Like most found footage horror movies, it starts out innocently enough: cheery but down-on-his-luck filmmaker Aaron (Patrick Brice, who also co-wrote...