Talk:Creep (2014 film)

Exploiting "Tomatometer"

No sense in beating around the bush. This movie is awful. With my tin foil hat and everything, I think rottentomatoes and online content providers (iTunes in particular) are being manipulated to show this film in a better light than it otherwise deserves. For sales. Creep has a mere twelve critic reviews in RT as of 7/3/2015. A similar horror indie, What We Do in the Shadows, has 120 critic reviews, ten times as many. Is there a point where RT's tomatometer should be discarded? And I mean, pure statistics. Twelve reviews shouldn't be a beacon for a successful movie. In fact, almost the opposite is true. So few reviews with near universal praise indicate manipulation of the audience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.217.8.207 (talk) 03:18, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

A small sample size decreases the significance of the figures. This is why we generally include the number of reviews used to create the scores from Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, and this article previously failed to do that. The scores are not as important as the reviews, which is why it is important to include details from actual reviews, it all makes a lot more sense when you see a review that explains the film might appeal to mainstream viewers but not so much to existing horror fans. -- 109.77.223.237 (talk) 10:32, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Creep (2014 film)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 09:29, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments

• " independent found footage psychological horror " is a WP:SEAOFBLUE.  Done
• Brice mentioned three times in the opening sentence, re-word to avoid repetition.  Done
• "an ad" -> "advertisement" and for what?  Done
• Lead is slim, could use some commentary about the reception etc.  Done
• No mention throughout of any budget information? Not sure
• "ad for a gig" not encyclopedic in tone.  Done
• "Josef states to have an" Josef states that he has....  Done
• "Aarons concerns" Aaron's.  Done
• "stating the mask was a gift " probably "claiming" rather than repeat "state" again.  Done
• "a drink of whiskey" drink of is redundant.  Done
• " she was into " not encyclopedic tone. Done
• "leave but " leave once again but.  Done
• "his keys Aaron hears " comma after keys.  Done
• "that Josef regained consciousness" has regained.  Done
• " he knows of the truth" -> "he knows the truth about...?"  Done
• "as he knows nothing about Josef" well he knows where he lives....!!  Done
• "In the final movie, " On the final DVD?  Done
• " wouldn't " avoid contractions.  Done
• " South by Southwest Film Festival " just "South by Southwest" linked and "film festival" after.  Done
• "March 8, 2014 and " comma after 2014.  Done
• "on April 5, 2016 from" likewise after 2016.  Done
• "but that "Despite " sentence case within the quote.  Done
• (Same for "states, "A smart" above).  Done
• " at South by Southwest, Duplass" no need to relink the festival.  Done
• Sequel section needs some work, it was, after all, released in 2017.  Done
• Avoid SHOUTING in the ref titles.

That's all I have on a first pass, so it's on hold. Incidentally, I saw and enjoyed this movie a year or so back. So it was really nice to read more about it. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 19:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

If I don't receive any feedback from my comments by 12 April, I will fail the nomination. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 21:12, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• Sorry - work has been busy! I'll get on this! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

No worries. Happy to allow time as long as I know you're getting to it! Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 13:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Hey ReaderofthePack, hope you're well. Do you think you'll be getting to this soon? Cheers, The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 07:20, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

• The Rambling Man I'll work on this right now! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

• With the budget, I can't find anything definite - pretty much everything just describes it as "low budget" or "microbudget". ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:23, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
• With the capitalizations in the sourcing, I'm a little uncertain about changing the capitalization since that is how the source itself styled the title - the other thing is that this is also one of the way the title is styled (I added a note about this in the lead).

As far as the sequel section goes, what other information should I add? I can add some about the reception, but anything else? ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:46, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

• Shoot, if the missing stuff in the sequel section was a snake, I'd have been bitten. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:50, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

This is all good, and I'm happy to promote now. Good work. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 10:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)