![]() ![]() Screen shot of the monster from the 1964 film The Creeping Terror. In 1964, Nelson set out to make a monster movie, the result of which would become the obscure and poorly made film The Creeping Terror, a film that owns a cult following and arguably the title of “worst film ever made.” Nelson was a con man, who among his many other methods of scheming, stealing and cheating, made filmmaking an art of illegitimate business. Perhaps the most well-known purveyor of the worst films we love is Ed Wood, but a lesser known auteur of the awful was a man named Art Nelson, aka Vic Savage. Even further, if you count the more suspenseful stylings of William Castle. The sub-genre of so-bad-they’re-good films featuring killer animals and crappy creatures goes back to the grandaddy of the art, Roger Corman. The trend of laughably bad but entertaining giant animal attack films has definitely become popular in recent years, but this sort of low-budget sci-fi and horror schlock is nothing new. The Creep Behind the Camera (2014) was a fascinating documentary about the making of the film and the story of Art J.
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