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First off, I apologize about my last review about Silent Hill...I was just a big fan of it and I was repulsed by the film...but now I'll be taking it firmly as a professional horror movie reviewer.
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)
Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins.
Written and Directed by: Fred Dekker
I believe I watched some parts of this at my grandmother's, since she had HBO and all those other channels, and became very interested in it, it was one of those hardcore '80s horror movies that just had the right atmosphere, color, music, especially effects and story and blood, which is one thing that completely influences me into going into underground filmmaking myself. Anyways, I finally found it on an on-demand channel and watched it over, hoping it would be even better when I watch it from start to finish...I couldn't believe how right I was.
Night of the Creeps starts out with space aliens trying to stop a rogue alien from unleashing a little experiment that'll soon become one f***ed up mess on Earth, but they were too late and the rogue alien shoots the experiment out into space where it would soon land on Earth. In 1959, a couple on a hill sees a meteorite fly over them into the woods up the road and they decide to find it and check it out, though the girlfriend realizing at the last moment there's an escaped axe-murderer on the loose, and is tragically hacked up while the boyfriend was in the woods finding the "meteorite" finding it to be a tube that had a bizzare slug in it that shot into his mouth, killing him instantly. If you thought that was f***ed up, just you wait.
Now in 1986, two teenagers try to get into a fraturnity by going into the underground science lab of their faculty and to take a dead body and put it on a step somewhere for a prank, and they just so happen to unfreeze a corpse that was kept in cyanogenic suspension since...1959! Yep, it's the corpse of the boyfriend who was killed while looking for the "meteorite". So the pledge-prank fails and guess what? The slug the boyfriend swallowed up had multiplied and eventually escapes his body (it looked like a "severe headache" to me), and they crawl around to find more hosts to inhabit into their brains and turn them into homicidal zombies around campus...now it's up to the two teenagers, a teenager's girlfriend he impresses overtime, and a cop who really likes to kick some ass, say "Thrill Me" a lot, and who has a strange connection to the boyfriend from 1959 played by one of the most coolest '80s pop-culture icons, Tom Atkins!
As an '80s b-movie lover (in which everyone calls it cheese, but hey I don't care!) and a guy who's interested in stories like this that involve zombies, 80s music and atmosphere, and all of it overall, I really enjoyed this flick. Some will be upset because the zombies aren't flesh-eating, though they're still badass of how sinister they can become and what a nightmare they can bring to any little town or campus for that matter. The effects were major cheese, though I thought they were enjoyable in terms of ghoulish creativity and gore like every b-movie I watch, trust me I've seen worse. The acting's spot-on, dialouge is okay though some lines I thought were a bit iffy but when used to pull a good connection between two buddies I suppose it's a nice humor on things especially on other scenes with the new meaning of it, or other stuffs.
OVERALL
I really loved this '80s sci-fi zombie flick, it had good potential and was spot-on in every corner of this masterpiece. Some places were iffy with dialouge and some effects, but it still remains my favorite, and I love the ending they chose for it, actually both of the endings were great...maybe they should've put in both. If you see this flick lying around some where, be sure to get your hands on it, order a pizza and enjoy the show...but make sure there's no slugs in your order.
8/10
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Nice review great flick
