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Creep isn't all that Creepy

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Creep (2014) Being the horror fan that I am, it wasn't long before I noticed constant recommendations on various film blogs and horror sites for a horror film called Creep. I was told that it was frightening, shocking, and in some cases even disturbing (which is a word I don't take lightly when applied to movies, if someone calls a film disturbing I expect to walk away disturbed and unable to sleep that night). Unfortunately, none of those words apply. Perhaps, somewhat interesting, or sort of unnerving in two scenes, might work better. Creep  is a found footage film (because horror doesn't have enough of those) in which a videographer named Aaron meets Josef, a man who posted a Craigslist ad explaining that he wanted someone to film him for a day so he might leave something for his unborn son, who will most likely never get to meet his father because of the brain tumor which is killing him. Then, Josef does creep y things throughout the course of the film, and jum...