the film CREEP completely rips this off

"A film called creep (released 2004) is a virtual remake of this film but theres only one killer!

If I was the producers I'd sue because so many film directors blatently copy others and get away with it."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------



Agree there are similarities, and "Death Line" is an excellent film - "Creep" on the other hand had the potential to be a very good horror flick, and started very off well, but became a bit of a mess.

The only thing is, contrary to popular belief, "Creep" was not an intentional rip-off of "Death Line" (the correct name of the film "Raw Meat" in the UK, where Chris Smith, who made "Creep" comes from), as supposed by many people.

Chris Smith has admitted that he was inspired by the film "An American Werewolf in London" when he made "Creep"; however, in a 2006 interview (i.e., two whole years after "Creep" came out, and over three years after he started work on it) where he was discussing production of his second film "Severance", when asked about whether he borrowed from "Death Line" at all to make "Creep" he confirmed that he had never even heard of "Death Line" up until that point, let alone seen it, so there was no way he could have intentionally ripped it off. "Creep" was actually inspired by a journey he took on the tube the night after he'd watched "An American Werewolf in London" for the first time, and had nothing at all to do with "Death Line".

Some people are quick to cry "rip-off", but in the case of CREEP/"Death Line", the similarities are entirely coincidental. And the storylines are not actually carbon copy between the two films anyway, there are differences - the only similarity they share beyond a killer lurking in the depths (like a great number of other horror films) is that they are set in the underground.

And let's face it, there's simply no originality left in the horror genre anymore, it's all already been done, and there's no new ground left to break.