Although the eponymous creeper does not offer many lasting frights, the true monster of this film is much more chilling. Director/writer Victor Salva, a convicted sex offender, pled guilty in 1988 to the horrendous sexual abuse of a child actor. He later went on to be hired by big studios and producers including Disney and Francis Ford Coppola. Even if this movie was our generation's Citizen Kane (let's be clear, it is not) we cannot separate the monster from the art. And we don't need to. We also aren't hanging any of Hitler's paintings on our walls.
