The director borrowed about $20,000 to make this movie. During filming in Florida someone stole the monster and the dialog tapes. Thus the narration and cheap monster. The movie was so bad, the investors wanted their money back. But no. The director went into hiding for about 30 years. Hilarious. I especially got a kick at how slow the monster had to move. The victims literally had to wait to be eaten. Some were so impatient that they even crawled on in. Bad luck and low budget had a big influence on this movie. But, that being said, if you are used to less than great movies and like to watch with the volume down. You may enjoy this. I would suggest following it with the naked monster.

When I watched this movie for the first and only time I didn't realize it was made in 1964, I thought it had to be from the 50's. I mean you have a narrator for goodness sakes and it is in black and white. The creeping terror is so slow moving I can't see why anything, let alone a human, would end up as prey, well snail or a turtle maybe. Plus there is the factor of alien biology and chemical compatibility between the two species. This monster looks like a precursor to the Swiffer at it's bottom. The alien who drags it out looks like a very bad Sponge Bob Square Pants. Also if you are a space faring race why are you transporting monsters? To a zoo or some park? zi mean why are these kind of movies even made?????

You really can't fully appreciate the teeth-grinding awfulness of "The Creeping Terror" without knowing the jaw-dropping insanity behind how it was made, which is at least as amazing as the movie itself. The story's recounted in Harry Medved's "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time" (or maybe Walichinsky's "The Golden Turkeys". Not sure.) "Vic Savage", the producer/director/star wasn't quite an out-and-out con man, but he was close. A man with a vision, he showed up Lake Tahoe, CA with the female lead "Shannon O'Neil" in tow (variously reported as his wife or girlfriend, but generally also assumed to be underage) and managed to convince various citizens that he was a great producer and about to make the defining outer space monster flick of all time, and offering to sell parts in the movie to all who might want to be part of film history.There was no shortage of takers, and Vic was able to raise enough money for his venture to start filming, but not, as is readily apparent, enough money for much of anything else. The monster was put together from carpet scraps and radiator hose and manned by students from some nearby college who worked for beer. Vic did most of the shooting himself, using junked cars and school gyms. The music was composed by high school band director Frederick Kopp (and is not to be missed: an ensemble of organ, piano, snare drum, and trumpet!) The scientist is played by a hack actor named William Thourlby, who would go on to win fame as Richard Nixon's wardrobe adviser and as author of the best- selling book, "Dress For Success". The script itself was written by the brother of famed screenwriter Sterling Silliphant.When shooting concluded, Vic then lost the entire soundtrack! (But not, thankfully, Dr. Kopp's stirring music) Gone! With no money for a re- recording, Vic hit on the brilliant idea of having the whole film narrated by some big-voiced announcer, so that there's not a line of spoken dialog in the entire film, just people's lips moving while the announcer tells us what they're saying.The film actually opened, but about that time Vic Savage and Shannon O'Neil just disappeared and were never heard from since.

I have heard somewhere that an important rule in film making is "show, don't tell" but the people who made this seems to have gotten it backwards because this i a clear case of tell, don't show, so much so that the narrator is even telling us the dialog of the characters. I barely consider this to be a film, its is more akin to an audio book, with some moving pictures in the background. What makes it even worse is that the narrator explains more or less all the things that could be inferred from the action or said in dialog, but does not explain some things that are less than self evident.Other than that, the movie is slow paced, poorly executed and rather silly, just like many other monster movies from the 60's. Normally, a movie like that would at least end up in the so-bad-it's-funny category but the overuse of narration makes this thing thoroughly frustrating to watch.