The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie tries it has some interesting elements but the movie comes together as a mess of elements that don't work to make a cohesive story and some elements are so outright dumb that unless you were under the influence of some potent controlled substances would make you question "who could have filmed this and thought this was good?" It was hammy and fun at points though, it had some good mindless violence. The ending and some of the more tedious dumb scenes (like the job the main character had at the car wash place) just made the movie longer for no reason. The movie could have benefited from some scene trimming. The ending attempted to be a twist ending but just ended up being dumb and weird.

Forced to take a job at a car wash or his welfare cheques will be stopped Campbell Jackson finds out that's difficult to get to work every morning so starts looking for a mode of transport . Being short of money his options are limited but finds an old white van which might the bill . Unknown to Campbell both the van and the owner have dark secrets Yet another obscure film I caught on the Horror Channel and yet another one that has that 1980s retro feel . One wonders with so many horror movies adopting this type of movie if it's actually deliberate , down to a lack of budget or merely low budget horror films all tend to look and feel the same ? Certainly CREEP VAN does share that dark , slightly camp look and feel of exploitation movies from the 1980s where grotesque and gruesome things happen and yet isn't mean spirited enough to shock . Many people have commentated that the film does contain tongue in cheek humour and it's impossible not to notice this as people get involved in sex and become victims of murder . It's all a bit sleazy but at the same possesses a nostalgic aurora for those of us old enough to remember the fodder you could rent from a 1980s video store . The murders themselves with the damage being wrought upon the human body might bend the laws of physics but the ingenious methods of murder are what sets it apart from other slasher movies . It also contains a larger than life unlikely character in the shape of Swami Ted and stuff like this doesn't stop the film being rubbish but does elevate it in to being very enjoyable rubbish

OK, so shoot me, but I liked it. Really! It's obvious that no-one here had the ambition or pretension to create some mind-blowing masterpiece and the low budget is even more obvious. But in spite of that I had a good time watching it: the movie has a good pace, there's plenty of gore, and best of all: it's very funny.Sure, the story is flimsier than flimsy (mysterious sadist uses his van as a killing device by stuffing it with deadly booby-traps; innocent guy sees his girlfriend abducted by the van and decides to hunt it down) and we're way in the first hour of the movie before anything like a coherent plot starts to unfold - until then the many killings are coming more or less out off the blue. The acting is… well, let's say: sympathetic, as if friends and family of the director decided to help him out. And the look of the images is a bit grainy, maybe that's a budget-thing too (although they might have intended it, to resemble the 70's and 80's B-horror-flicks which clearly were an inspiration).But the killings are absolutely worth-while: abundant, original and very graphically visualized. Taken the low budget into account they work amazingly well, so kudos to the make-up and the special effects department. As to the story: indeed very thin, yet not very predictable (as one might expect), for instance I was pleasantly surprised by the negative ending, which boldly defied the laws of the genre by letting the hero NOT rescue the girl and getting unjustly blamed and punished, while the maniac walks free. About the actors: apart from Collin Bernsen it's only Brian Kolodziej who stands out. To say that this is mainly due to his cute and forlorn-puppy like appearance would be selling him short: he really has acting potential and also a keen sense of timing in the many humorous scenes and dialogs. Which brings me to the biggest asset of this movie: it's SO funny!! The whole movie is filled with situations and conversations that are on the brink of absurd, but are dealt with in a priceless deadpan sort of humor, that totally worked for me. The examples are countless: the receptionist at the employment office. The pot-smoking, good-for-nothing co-workers in the car-wash. Campbell's boss, all the time putting weird sexual innuendo's in every conversation. Campbell's room-mate, who's into SM and has sex in a dog-bin. And best of all: Swami Ted, a total wacko who decides to help Campbell out. Collin Bernsens portrayal is perfect: a wonderful mix of weirdness, overblown ego, a pot-fogged mind and the heartfelt sympathy of a bro-in-arms. What a pity Swami didn't survive - which by the way was (in my humble opinion) a bit of a script-failure: Swami joining Campbell in the rescue didn't lead up to anything, since he was immediately killed at the first confrontation with the maniac, so the whole big go-to-the rescue-together scene leaves the impression of being totally unnecessary for the story. But thank god it was there, since it was so funny!Anyway, my compliments to writers and director, I had a great time!! I rank it 8 out-of 10.

If you like a some low-brow comedy to accompany your bloody B-rate slasher, then the Creep Van will deliver! *NOTE: The version found on Netflix is NOT the raunchier, uncut, extended version that I viewed online.*Despite a couple of shoddy performance moments and an unmistakably low-budget vibe, Creep Van manages very decent gore and a few laugh-out-loud moments. The humor is fairly original, as is the storyline. The characters and kills are curiously quirky. It is written nicely, and the film makes the most of its' budget by employing traditional stage effects and camera trickery rather than CGI tactics. The soundtrack and sound FX, though mostly absent, worked well enough and weren't a distraction.The pace is fine, however it's hard to keep track of time that passes within the film. Has a day passed, or a month? Contemplating this was a bother. In fact, there are a number of missing or incomplete components within the story that were slightly bothersome. They did not however, impede My overall enjoyment. I was glad to have watched it, and would watch it again. There are a number of topless scenes, hilariously bizarre sexuality, and other graphic moments that make this film inappropriate for those under 17 and for those with a big stick up their ultra-tight posterior.