Fluffy the Crate Beast

Fluffy the Crate Beast is a man-eating Arctic monster in the 1982 Stephen King horror anthology film Creepshow, in the segment entitled "The Crate". He was played by Darryl Ferrucci.

Biography
A janitor named Mike Latimer, who worked at Horlicks University was cleaning there at the zoology department at Amberson Hall, flipped a coin to decide whether to wash the hall or buff the lab windows, drops the coin and rolls underneath the stairs, discovers a crate and on the crate it has writing on it about the Arctic Expedition on June 19, 1834. Mike calls Professor Dexter Stanley about it. Professor Stanley comes over to Amberson Hall and he and Mike the janitor move the crate from under the stairs and take it to the lab. When they open the crate, they discover that the crate contains an ape-like monster which devours Mike the janitor in front of the horrified professor who runs for help. A student named Charlie Gereson, whom he runs to is Fluffy's next victim and the professor once again runs for help.

Another professor, Henry Northrup, suspects that his friend's story may be a way for him to be rid of his shrewish wife, Wilma Northrup, which happens when Fluffy devours her. Afterwards, Henry chains the crate and takes the crate to Ryder's Quarry and dumps it into the lake with Fluffy in it. As the two men are assuming that Fluffy is dead, Fluffy has proven to have survived and breaks out of the crate to wreak more havoc on shore.

Behavior
As one would expect, the beast does not speak or attempt to communicate in any way. It can seemingly never be calmed or pacified in any sense when its prey is nearby, and simply kills and feeds at any chance it gets without hesitation. Given that it was discovered and captured some time in the 1800s, it was stored away in a university without making any sound or drawing attention to itself, also surviving without the need to feed for an unfathomably long time.

Whether the beast was hibernating in some way or showing unrealistic amounts of patience is unknown, but either way, the creature didn't show any emaciation or loss of strength during any time the viewer watches the beast attack. The one and only time the beast seemed to back down was when Henry Northrup managed to carefully place a lock around the crate's chains to contain it. At this moment, Fluffy tried to break free but couldn't, then slid his claws back into the crate, making a defeated whimpering sound, and remained quiet until the end of the segment.

A common act of Fluffy is that it never attempts to leave its crate. It carries its prey back to its crate, and has even moved the crate itself back to where it found and stays there. It is possible that the creature only attacks in self-defense, as the viewer never sees Fluffy make an escape, no matter how open that chance may be. Furthermore, it is only at the end of the segment that Fluffy breaks out of its crate, with its future actions unknown.

Trivia

 * Fluffy the Crate Beast is based on the cryptid Yeti that is presumed to live in the Himalayan mountains.
 * It's unclear of how Fluffy the Crate Beast was imprisoned in the first place, who imprisoned him and if he is seeking revenge after being thrown off the cliff.