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Night of the Creeps

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6.7/10 • 523

1986-08-211h 28m

HorrorComedyScience Fiction

The good news is your date is here. The bad news is... he's dead.

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.

Directors
Fred Dekker
Writters
Fred Dekker
Editors
Fred Dekker, Michael N. Knue

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Jason Lively

    Jason Lively

    Christopher 'Chris' Romero

  2. Steve Marshall

    Steve Marshall

    James Carpenter 'J.C.' Hooper

  3. Jill Whitlow

    Jill Whitlow

    Cynthia 'Cindy' Cronenberg

  4. Tom Atkins

    Tom Atkins

    Det. Ray Cameron

  5. Wally Taylor

    Wally Taylor

    Detective Landis

  6. Allan Kayser

    Allan Kayser

    Brad

  7. Bruce Solomon

    Bruce Solomon

    Sgt. Raimi

  8. Vic Polizos

    Vic Polizos

    Coroner

  9. Dick Miller

    Dick Miller

    Walt

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John Chard

Oct 21, 2015

7/10

What is this? A homicide, or a bad B-movie? 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

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$5,000,000.00
Revenue
$591,366.00
Keywords
spacecraftmonsterexperimentpolicemorgueundeadalienmurdersororityserial killerzombiecorpsefraternityparasitesatiricalax