Leofwine_draca CREEP VAN is a very, very low budget slasher flick, barely more expensive than your average Troma movie although it's a lot more serious in tone. Saying that, there is a Lloyd Kaufman cameo to hammer home the similarities, along with a couple of entirely goofy sex scenes that are played for laughs and have absolutely nothing to do with the central thrust of the storyline.The creep van of the title is used by a sinister serial killer to butcher his usually female victims, and it takes a couple of no-good characters to team up and go after him. The plot is very light and pretty much an excuse for a string of gory deaths, which are the best thing about the film. The special effects are surprisingly decent for what is a low budget, even if they're completely laughable at the same time. Still, it takes more than gore to make a decent movie, and this is anything but; just another ultra-low budget piece of trash no different from all the rest.

Woodyanders Down on his luck misfit Campbell Jackson (a fine and likable performance by Brian Kolodzeij) runs afoul of a vicious and mysterious roving psycho (a creepy portrayal by Mike Butler) who drives around in a beat-up old 70's van. Campbell joins forces with amiable hippie conman Swami Ted (a hilarious and engaging turn by Collin Bernsen) to prevent both himself and his sweet newfound girlfriend Amy (winningly played by the pretty and appealing Amy Wehrell) from becoming the wacko's next victims. Director Scott W. McKinlay and writer Jim Bartoo concoct a delightfully eccentric and entertaining affair that unfolds at a brisk pace, makes the most out of an amusing sense of quirky humor, delivers the gruesome goods with several inventively nasty murder set pieces, manages to build some tension for the suspenseful climax, and even comes through with a nice smattering of tasty gratuitous female nudity as well as a dab of kinky sex. Moreover, it's acted with zest by an enthusiastic cast: Kolodzeij and Wehrell display a charming chemistry in the leads, the luscious Veronica Adkinson bitches it up well as the snarky Danni, Gerald Emerick is a riot as Campbell's hearty boss Mr. Kaufman, Lloyd Kaufman contributes a funny bit as a disgruntled man, and hot blonde Tonya Kay has a stand-out small role as a sassy gal who beats up a jerk mechanic. The surprise bummer ending packs a startling punch. Kudos are also in order for Michael J. Walker's sharp cinematography, the gnarly practical make-up, and Dennis Dreith's cool bluesy rock score. An inspired and idiosyncratic hoot.

johannes2000-1 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.

hi_im_manic 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.