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
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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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Also starring Steve Marshall

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Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
mpaulso Space slugs that eat brains and turn humans into zombies on a college campus. Tom Atkins playing a weathered veteran detective with some great one liners. Sprinkle a ton of 80's all over this movie and you have Night of the Creeps.I have no clue how I have not seen this movie before. The way it combines zombie, slashers, alien invasion/body snatching movies along with some great humor was a blast. I can't remember having ever seen a science fiction/horror/comedy movie before and as odd as it sounds it works incredibly well.After checking it out on Shudder I will definitely be picking up the Blu-ray and revisiting this 80's nostalgia filled gem.
gavin6942 Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.So, in retrospect, it seems a bit cheesy to name characters Romero, Hooper, Raimi, and so on. The references are far too obvious. And this same thing would be repeated in "Dead Next Door" and probably other films. That can probably be excused. And, of course, there is the slightly less obvious reference of Dick Miller as "Walt", a nod to his character in "Bucket of Blood".There is a nice blend of fun, humor and horror here, and Tom Atkins is at his finest. Most probably think of him as the guy from "Halloween III", but this is the movie where he shines. Well, this and "Lethal Weapon".
Spikeopath Not exactly what you would call an unknown horror comedy, but there is the distinct feeling that it should be better known. As its cult fan base will attest, this is blast of a movie, a homage to the "B" schlockers of lore. Directed by Fred Dekker, the premise sees some alien beings eject a flask of alien slugs down to earth, which lands at a fraternity campus, something which cause mayhem some years later when a frozen body is disturbed at the medical lab and the slugs are unleashed. Cue infestation that turns people into zombies!The pic plays up to the clichés of fraternity based movies, with nerds and nudity on tap, all smothered in a gooey horror comedy sauce. One-liners are ripe, the characterisations also, the latter of which fronted by a glorious Tom Atkins as a hard drinking hard - boiled detective with issues and quips ready to be poured out. It's not genius film making, but given the low budget it deserves its cult status, because it never pauses for breath and it's very aware of what it wants to be - and crucially who its target audience is. 7/10
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.