Review of Night of the Creeps (1986) by Richard O — 02 Feb 2011
Back in the 50s some aliens are attempting to stop another alien escaping with a metal cylinder. The cylinder ends up being ejected from their ship, lands on earth, and is dicovered by a frat boy on a date.
(His date ends up being killed with an axe by a escaped mental patient that same night.) In present-time, some frat pledges are challenged with stealing a corpse from the med center, but it re-animates before they can get it anywhere.
The corpse ends up being the frat boy from the 50s who was infected by the alien slug from the found cylinder. Alien slugs spread from the corpse once it escapes the med center turning people into violent walking corpses (including the axe-murder for decades prior).
As expected, people run, hide, fight, and try to figure a way to defeat them. Great, believable dialoge, especially between the two male leads (which is so rare in these type of movies). Aspects of 80s teen romance comedy and zombie, slasher, and alien invasion horror in this mix-genre winner.
In some respects this could be seen as a direct tribute to 50s flicks, especially Plan 9 (which is shown playing in a scene). Genre nerds will love the host of references to the most well-known horror directors active in the 80s.
Also for the nerds, comedy-horror regular Dick Miller (The Burbs, Bucket of Blood, Gremlins, Demon Knight, Piranah, Little Shop of Horrors, I could go on...) makes an appearance in this. The alternative ending was far superior and played up the sci-fi aspects a bit more.
This review of Night of the Creeps (1986) was written by Richard O on 02 Feb 2011.
Night of the Creeps has generally received positive reviews.
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