Night Of the Creeps

IMDB 6.4/10



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Foreword: This movie is to B-movie fans what John Hughes flicks are to the 80's. It has every quality that you could possibly love in a bad movie. Complete with numerous homages to other B-movies, cheeky dialogue, and not to mention, it's just damn fun to watch. This one is in my top 5, with a bullet.

Sadly, this movie does not have an official DVD release yet. You can help though, go HERE and sign the petition to get this movie released. If we all do our part and blah blah hippie bullshit, this movie should get released pretty soon! In the meantime if you want this movie email me and I can hook you up.

This review will be done without too much mocking, I just like it too much to pick on it.

Short Version (that's what she said): An alien experiment goes wrong plummeting a mysterious tube to Earth. inside the tube is a life form resembling a large slug, that enters through the mouth of it victims. The slug then incubates in the brain, and eventually explodes creating more slugs. Meanwhile, a boy falls in love with the "it" girl and hi jinx ensues on the college campus. Lots of people get infected, a hilarious detective comes to save the day, boob shot, and gore galore follow. One of the best and most underrated movies of the 80's.

Long Version: We are welcomed to sorority row - 1959. It is black and white, a sorority girls asks her friend about the infamous B-Movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Up on lovers lane a couple are enjoying the view, a radio message declaring a murderer in the area is loose is casually ignored. A rookie cop shows up (Detective Cameron) and warns them away. Moments later a comet is seen crashing into the nearby wilderness (remind you of this?). The young couple goes off to look for the comet.

The guy *wisely* gets out of the car and searches for the comet in the woods, which he finds. The girl stays behind and is murdered by the escapee with an axe that was ever so casually ignored moments ago. Upon finding the comet a slug shoots into the mouth of the boyfriend. Cut to:

Present Day 1986. Chris Romero and James Carpenter Hooper, or J.C. are a couple of dorks. If they were any more stereotypical they would have actually appeared in a John Hughes flick. Chris falls in love with Cynthia Cronenberg, the "it" chick, after eyeing her just one time at the sorority house. He decides logically that to be with her he must join a fraternity, then he can talk to her. I've done crazier for women so I can't blame him here.

Brad (why are douche bags always named Brad?) is the president of the frat, a jerk, and alas, Cynthia's boyfriend. He sends Chris and J.C. out to perform an act of devotion as pledges. If they complete their task they might just become fraternal men.

Their mission as they chose to accept it; get a corpse and place it on the lawn of a rival frat, a seemingly incredibly difficult task. Good thing this is a movie, they wander into a secret facility, press "0" on a key pad and voila, a corpse in a cryo chamber appears. Press two more buttons and the corpse pops right onto the ground for them. How convenient!

The corpse though happens to be, bet you'll never guess, a ZOMBIE! AHH!!! The plot thickens...

The zombie heads over to the sorority and scares none other than Cynthia; moments before his head explodes littering more of those slugs on the ground. Slither totally ripped off this movie, but it was good too so they are forgiven.

Enter the greatest detective every portrayed on screen. Det. Ray "Thrill Me" Cameron. He steals every scene with his witty one-liners and no nonsense attitude.

Biggest Bad Ass Ever!

"What is this, a homicide or a bad B-Movie?" belts Det. Cameron upon learning one of the dead bodies is missing from the cryo chamber. Oh, how I love movies that don't take themselves seriously.

The plague spreads infecting people throughout the campus. Cynthia realizes that Brad is a jerk and asks Chris, much to his delight, to go to the formal with her. Poor J.C. gets infected but before he is too far gone he leaves a message for Chris explaining how they get inside you and how to kill them.

Chris meets up with Det. Cameron and in a quick montage they gather up a flamethrower and a trusty 12 gauge shotgun. Time to kick ass, and chew bubblegum, unfortunately for the zombies, they are fresh out of bubble gum.

A bus load of frat guys on their way to pick up the girls become infected. They head towards the sorority house with brains on their mind. :)

Brad, who is now a zombie makes his way over the sorority and in the funniest scene in the movie, Cynthia has a Dear John talk with him, not realizing he is a zombie. Chris shows up just in time, with the detective. Chris and Cynthia then team up and become an ass-kicking tandem.

Duo of Death!

Detective Cameron then once again steals a scene by telling the girls, "I have have good news and bad news ladies, good news, your dates are here, bad news ...they're dead!" A bunch of fighting ensues and eventually the Det. Cameron along with Cynthia and Chris end up in the basement of the sorority house, where they keep a a bunch of brains...logically.

The Detective sacrifices himself and blows up the house and *all* the alien slugs. Cynthia and Chris share a kiss. At this point I was rooting hard for them to hook up, they are just sooo cute!

There are two different endings to the movie. I will only talk about the one the director intended. A burnt Det. Cameron walks away from the house to a cemetery and his head explodes releasing slugs into the graveyard. The alien spaceship passes by presumably looking for their excrement gone wrong.

Interesting Tidbits
5 mins - Plan 9 reference
6 mins - Awkward ex-boyfriend moment
10 mins - Bestiality reference
25 mins - 80's melodrama moment
32 mins - Black cat aka cheap scare
56 mins - Plan 9 again

The Harold P. Warren Memorial Worst Line of Dialogue

The bad dialogue in the movie is intentional and hilarious.

"We are lameoids, my grandparents have more sex than me"- J.C.
"Get the 12 gauge out of my car!" - Det. Cameron

-Micah