Night of the Creeps

1986 "The good news is your date is here. The bad news is... he's dead."
6.7| 1h28m| R| en| More Info
Released: 21 August 1986 Released
Producted By: TriStar Pictures
Country: United States of America
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In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

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Jason Voorhees A lot of good horror movies start with Night of the.. and this is one of them. It has Tom Atkins, slugs from space and axe wielding zombies. Almost made for the perfect drive-in horror experience. If you haven't seen it for a couple of decades you might be surprised how much you have forgotten. There is a directors cut out now that has a different ending.
GL84 Pulling a prank for pledge night, a pair of wannabe fraternity members sneak into a cryogenic lab and attempt to bring a corpse back to campus and learn the body contained an alien parasite that is infesting the school and must race to stop them from spreading.This here is one of the more enjoyable and entertaining efforts of the genre. A lot of what works here is the fact fact that the film is quite goofy and silly yet has plenty of fun with itself during that time. The sarcastic-ness of many people in this film was a very nice touch towards this, treating the situation as gravelly serious as to the repercussions and intentions of the creatures yet still have situations where people were moronic and someone insults them to put them in their place. It was good to see this happening instead of the usual jokes about the corniness of the situation comparing it all to a classic horror movie like what usually be expected in such a situation. There's still the other fun action scenes here that play up the inherently silly premise here, from the original flashback at the start showing the aliens landing on Earth and the eventual encounter with the teens, the early scenes of the creatures getting loose and engaging in their zombie-like shuffling around campus to the inconspicuous others around them and the incredibly fun set-ups that come into play here for the finale as the different groups led into the attack are given their conversion and prepare for the overall suspenseful final that is much higher than expected for a movie like this. Once all the creatures come out of the woodwork, there are jumps piled up on top of jumps in tons of great scenes from the two trapped inside the tool-shed, the fight inside the sorority house's main living room and the fights that go on outside holding them off. Taking the goofy level out of the film in exchange for full-on action is a great ploy that still overall features them fighting off mutant slugs emerging from zombified bodies and it's a lot of fun. Coupled with the great gore here in addition to the usual bodily mutilations, but we also see different stages of after- effects as we also get to see some very well done human heads exploding and several bodies that have been decayed and rotting moving around and the great make-up for the creatures, there's plenty to like about this one while there's only a few minor flaws. The main problem here is that the opening of the film, which was filmed in black & white, was a total irritation. It never really made the film scarier, except for one scene with the high suspense. It was nice and fresh approach to film the scene like that, but it never served the film much importance. There's also the small fact that the slugs were a little too obviously fake, as they really did look like they were small puppets being pulled around on strings, but at least the strings were hard to see on film which was a plus. As well, the film's long beginning to get the creatures loose tends to get a little meandering with a lot of build-up before they get released and it's a long stretch before something happens so the pacing is a little off. Otherwise, this one had a lot of really enjoyable elements.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Nudity, and the after effects of violence towards animals.
Adam Peters (58%) A bright and breezy horror comedy that is largely, and rather sadly, almost entirely forgotten about. This is a more ambitious movie than most 80's gore flicks, and the opening with funny little aliens basting a pod onto 1950's America is handled really well as it has a sense that almost anything could happen. The movie settles down after that and becomes a largely typical college set teen movie, but the characters a likable, and there still is plenty more fun to be had. The zombie frozen in a tube is similar to the one in "Return of the living dead", only here is makes little sense why a college would have a man frozen on campus for 27 years, but once the slug monsters start leaping into peoples (as well as cats and dogs) mouths and all hell breaks loose it really doesn't matter. So it may make little logical sense, but it's well worth tracking down, especially for zombie comedy fans.
Horror_Metal A vessel containing an intergalactic experiment from an alien spaceship arrives on Earth. Meanwhile, a young couple is making out in their car near where it lands. The guy, after hearing the strange noise it made, goes to investigate. The girl stays behind and is killed by an escaped mental patient with an axe. The guy finds the vessel, which opens up and frees an alien slug. The slug then enters his body through the mouth and takes control of his brain. Thirty years later, Chris (Jason Lively) and J.C. (Steve Marshall) are two college students who, while trying to impress a beautiful young co-ed named Cynthia (Jill Whitlow), are hazed into leaving a dead body on the sorority house doorstep. They only get as far as the morgue where they find a frozen corpse, actually the young man from before, and accidentally thaw him out along with the parasite in his brain. Soon the alien slugs multiply and start taking control of all the students around campus, resulting in a terrifying zombie crisis. Chris and J.C. join forces with the one liner spitting Detective Ray Cameron (Tom Atkins) and must now fight to put an end to this threat from beyond the stars! This is one of the greatest horror films I've ever seen and it sickens me how little known it is. This movie has all the right ingredients for B-movie greatness and is one you will want to watch over and over again. All the characters here really fleshed out and three dimensional. Ray Cameron, played by the always great Tom Atkins, is hilarious and steals every scene he's in. He's easily one of my favorite horror protagonists ever. I just loved him! Jason Lively as Chris makes for a great hero as well and gave a very grounded and credible performance. I could go on and on about the acting but what really makes this movie so perfect is the intricate premise of alien slugs taking over human bodies and making them into mindless zombies. It's like a clever tribute to the sci-fi monster movies of the 50's but with an 80's twist. Another cool treat for horror fans like myself is that most of the characters are named after great horror directors (such as Carpenter, Raimi, Cronenberg, etc.). Night of the Creeps was definitely made for people who love this sort of thing and I applaud the filmmakers for that. I could write an entire novel about what makes this film so great but I'll go ahead and conclude this review by telling you to check it out immediately. You will not be disappointed!