His “In the Tall Grass” starts out like the book: Laysla De Oliveira plays the pregnant, unwed Becky Demuth, who along with her brother Cal (Avery Whitted) is driving across the country when they hear a boy shouting for his parents in a field across from “the Church of the Black Rock of the Redeemer.” When they enter the field to help, they get lost - although they do keep running into the boy, the mother, the father and a mysterious rune-covered black boulder. Along the way, Mike and the bots toss some good zingers, but with action sequences that grind practically to a halt.
Even the cheapest porn or industrial films of the era had better technique than this. Natali doesn’t do as well though at making those dangers feel … well, dangerous. Practically all of THE CREEPING TERROR was narrated by a local radio announcer, and the film has very few sound effects or synchronous dialog. He has some experience with staging an entire feature film in a largely featureless location, and his adaptation of “In the Tall Grass” has real visual flair, treating an endless expanse of swaying green vegetation as a kind of eerie fog, hiding unimaginable dangers. Director Jim Mallon (host segments) Writers Joel Hodgson Michael J. This is obvious a deep dipped cheese flick, but there’s a lot of charm despite the obvious shortcomings involved. The Creeping Terror Episode aired TV-14 1 h 32 m IMDb RATING 8.1 /10 550 YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Sci-Fi Mike and the 'bots watch The Creeping Terror (1964), with its infamous walking-carpet monster, and parody Love, American Style (1969).
Writer-director Vincenzo Natali is best-known for the 1997 cult movie “Cube,” about a stark maze filled with invisible death traps. This is an odd approach and it makes an already silly movie even more offbeat.
The 2012 Stephen King and Joe Hill novella “In the Tall Grass” spins creeping terror from a simple idea: What if a brother and sister go looking for a crying child in a vast field in the middle of nowhere, then can’t find their way out?
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