Creep, Creeps, CREEP, or Creeping may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Creeps'' (film), a 1956 short starring the Three Stooges * ''The Creeps'' (film), a 1997 film directed by Charles Band * ''Creep'' (2004 film), a 2004 British-German horror film * ''Creep'' (2014 film), an American found-footage horror film ** ''

Creep 2 ''Creep 2'' is a 2017 American found footage psychological horror film directed by Patrick Brice and written by Brice and Mark Duplass. It is a sequel to Brice's 2014 film '' Creep'', and the second installment in the franchise of the same nam ...

'', a 2017 American found-footage horror film; sequel to the 2014 film

Gaming

* "Creep", a carpet of bio-matter

Zerg The Zerg are a fictional race of insectoid aliens obsessed with assimilating other races into their swarm in pursuit of genetic perfection, and the overriding antagonists for much of the ''StarCraft'' franchise. Unlike the fictional universe's ...

colonies produce in the ''StarCraft'' video game franchise * '' The Creeps!'', a 2008 tower defense video game

Literature

* ''Creeps'' (novel), a 2013 young adult novel by Darren Hynes * ''

The Creeping ''The Creeping'' is a 2015 young adult suspense thriller and the debut novel of Alexandra Sirowy. It was released on August 18, 2015, through Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in hardback and e-book formats. Synopsis Twelve years ago ...

'', a 2015 young adult novel by Alexandra Sirowy

Music

Groups

Creep (band) ''Creep'' (stylized as ''CREƎP'') is a Brooklyn based electronic music duo formed in 2009. The duo consists of Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard.Macpherson, Alex (2013)Creep:Echoes - review, ''The Guardian'', November 14, 2013. Retrieved August ...

, an American electronic music band * The Creeps, a 1980s Swedish band that won the

Rockbjörnen Rockbjörnen (Swedish: ''the Rock Bear'') is a music prize in Sweden, divided into several categories, which is awarded annually by the newspaper ''Aftonbladet''. The prize was first awarded in 1979, and is mostly centered on pop and rock. In ...

prize in 1990 * The Creeps, a 1960s South African band featuring David Kramer

Albums

* ''Creeps'', 2015 album from

Indian Handcrafts Indian Handcrafts are a stoner metal band from Barrie, Ontario, Canada, consisting of members Brandyn James Aikins, Daniel Brandon Allen, and Leland Burmania. Biography Indian Handcrafts first formed in 2010 while Brandyn James Aikins and Dani ...

Songs

* "Creep" (Mobb Deep song) * "Creep" (Radiohead song) * "Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song) * "Creep" (TLC song) * "The Creep" (song), by the Lonely Island * "The Creeps" (Camille Jones song), remixed by, among others, Fedde le Grand * "

The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor) "The Creeps" is a song by London-based electronic dance music band Freaks. The original version, titled "The Creeps (You're Giving Me)", appeared on Freaks' 2003 album, ''The Man Who Lived Underground''. A set of remixes reached number 97 on t ...

", song by the Freaks * "Creeping" (song), a 2018 single by Lil Skies featuring Rich the Kid * "Creep", a song by Dannii Minogue on the album ''

Neon Nights ''Neon Nights'' is the fourth studio album by Australian singer Dannii Minogue. It was released through London Records on 17 March 2003. Spurred by her success with the 2001 single "Who Do You Love Now?", Minogue signed a new record contract and ...

'' * "C.R.E.E.P.", a song by the Fall * "The Creep", a 1950s instrumental by

Ken Mackintosh Kenneth Victor Mackintosh (4 August 1919 – 22 November 2005) was an English saxophonist, composer and bandleader. He accompanied singers such as Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro. Early life Mackintosh was born in Liversedge, Yorksh ...

Project management

Feature creep Feature creep is the excessive ongoing expansion or addition of new features in a product, especially in computer software, video games (where it should not be confused with power creep) and consumer and business electronics. These extra feature ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software *

Instruction creep Instruction creep or rule creep occurs when instructions or rules accumulate over time until they are unmanageable or inappropriate. It is a type of scope creep. The accumulation of bureaucratic requirements results in overly complex procedures ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions *

Mission creep Mission creep is the gradual or incremental expansion of an intervention, project or mission, beyond its original scope, focus or goals, a ratchet effect spawned by initial success. Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to how each ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission *

Scope creep Scope creep (also called requirement creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management is continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, generally experienced after the project begins. This can occur when the scope of a project i ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

Creep (deformation) In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress ...

, the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses * Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see

rail adhesion An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train, and is the most widespread and common type of railway in the world. Adhesion traction is the friction between the drive wheels and the steel rail. Since the vast majority of railw ...

Idle creep Idle creep, sometimes called idle speed or just creep is the default speed that a vehicle with an automatic transmission will move either forward or in reverse when the change lever is in D for drive or R for reverse and the foot is taken off the ...

, the tendency of a car with an automatic transmission to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral *

Aseismic creep In geology, aseismic creep or fault creep is measurable surface displacement along a fault in the absence of notable earthquakes. Aseismic creep may also occur as "after-slip" days to years after an earthquake. Notable examples of aseismic slip i ...

, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault *

Downhill creep Downhill creep, also known as soil creep or commonly just creep, is a type of creep characterized by the slow, downward progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope; it can also refer to slow deformation of such materials as a result of ...

, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope * Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems * Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see

Superfluidity Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy. When stirred, a superfluid forms vortices that continue to rotate indefinitely. Superfluidity occurs in two ...

Other

Creepiness Creepiness is the state of being creepy, or causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease to someone and/or something. Certain traits or hobbies may make people seem creepy to others; interest in horror or the macabre might come across as ' ...

, causing a feeling of unease *

Committee for the Re-Election of the President The Committee for the Re-election of the President (or the Committee to Re-elect the President, CRP, but often mocked by the acronym CREEP) was, officially, a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election ...

(CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, a fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign * "The Creeps", an episode of the TV series ''

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and co-produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn the Human, Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...