good film but with many flaws

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Pulling a prank for pledge night, a pair of wannabe fraternity members sneak into a cryogenic lab and attempt to bring a corpse back to campus and learn the body contained an alien parasite that is infesting the school and must race to stop them from spreading.This here is one of the more enjoyable and entertaining efforts of the genre. A lot of what works here is the fact fact that the film is quite goofy and silly yet has plenty of fun with itself during that time. The sarcastic-ness of many people in this film was a very nice touch towards this, treating the situation as gravelly serious as to the repercussions and intentions of the creatures yet still have situations where people were moronic and someone insults them to put them in their place. It was good to see this happening instead of the usual jokes about the corniness of the situation comparing it all to a classic horror movie like what usually be expected in such a situation. There's still the other fun action scenes here that play up the inherently silly premise here, from the original flashback at the start showing the aliens landing on Earth and the eventual encounter with the teens, the early scenes of the creatures getting loose and engaging in their zombie-like shuffling around campus to the inconspicuous others around them and the incredibly fun set-ups that come into play here for the finale as the different groups led into the attack are given their conversion and prepare for the overall suspenseful final that is much higher than expected for a movie like this. Once all the creatures come out of the woodwork, there are jumps piled up on top of jumps in tons of great scenes from the two trapped inside the tool-shed, the fight inside the sorority house's main living room and the fights that go on outside holding them off. Taking the goofy level out of the film in exchange for full-on action is a great ploy that still overall features them fighting off mutant slugs emerging from zombified bodies and it's a lot of fun. Coupled with the great gore here in addition to the usual bodily mutilations, but we also see different stages of after- effects as we also get to see some very well done human heads exploding and several bodies that have been decayed and rotting moving around and the great make-up for the creatures, there's plenty to like about this one while there's only a few minor flaws. The main problem here is that the opening of the film, which was filmed in black & white, was a total irritation. It never really made the film scarier, except for one scene with the high suspense. It was nice and fresh approach to film the scene like that, but it never served the film much importance. There's also the small fact that the slugs were a little too obviously fake, as they really did look like they were small puppets being pulled around on strings, but at least the strings were hard to see on film which was a plus. As well, the film's long beginning to get the creatures loose tends to get a little meandering with a lot of build-up before they get released and it's a long stretch before something happens so the pacing is a little off. Otherwise, this one had a lot of really enjoyable elements.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Nudity, and the after effects of violence towards animals.

This B-movie looks, feels and smells like the decade that spawned it, the 80's. A somewhat unknown film "Night of the Creeps" isn't a blockbuster or epic film by any stretch of the imagination, even as a B-movie it struggles at times to have an identity. It's not really until the last half an hour that the film really gets going. This is a bit of a pity as the opening 10/15 mins offers up so much tacky promise. Aliens unwittingly allow an alien spore loose on Earth, it lands in the middle of nowhere America and coincides with a lunatic escapee attacking people. After the police think they have brought the maniac down they assume the trouble is over but they don't account for the Alien spore which is incubating in the brain of the madman. Flash-forward to the 80's and some college kids unwittingly unleash the corpse of the lunatic (it's been locked up as an experiment) which reanimates due to the alien spore to make a zombie. Once loose the zombie and alien spore escape to wreak havoc around the college on the lead up to prom night. As the alien spore breeds it multiplies and gradually more and more of the college kids become zombies. Will the zombies bring down college and middle America or will somebody step up to the mark and fight? Do they have a shotgun and a flamethrower? Hopefully!With it being an 80's B-movie expect low budget effects, the aliens at the beginning will set expectations for this. The plot isn't that original as it's all been done before. The acting is pretty awful and that's saying something as it looked like it was meant to be serious for the most part. If you think you recognise the main star, Jason Lively, it's because he was Rusty Griswold in "national Lampoon's European Vacation". The pace of the film is pretty bad, for the first half an hour I had a conversation and I Still didn't miss anything, nothing really happens other than setting the scene for some loser college kids. I usually really like cheap and tacky B-Movies but this didn't do much for me. I'm going to give this 3 out of 10, I've watched it so you don't have to and I won't be in a rush to watch it again for a very long time. Oh my God, I've just learned that this "straight to VHS" trash got a sequel, please no!

In 1959, an alien throws an experiment from his spaceship to the space and the capsule crashes on Earth. The college students Pam (Alice Cadogan) and Johnny (Ken Heron) are dating in a parking area nearby the location and believe it is a falling star. Steve decides to investigate, but they are warned by Pam's former boyfriend, the police officer Ray Cameron, that a maniac is killing people in that area with an ax. However Steve leaves Pam and walks in the woods looking for the star and a slug-like creature jumps into his mouth.In 1986, the college students Chris (Jason Lively) and the disabled J.C. (Steve Marshall) are best friends and Chris has a crush on Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow), who is the girlfriend of the cocky Brad (Allan J. Kayser). They decide to join Brad's fraternity to impress Cynthia and Brad tells that they need to bring a corpse and leave in front of another fraternity. They go to the Med School Laboratory of the Corman University and find Johnny's body in a cryogenic chamber. They remove the corpse from the chamber but get scared and leave the body on the floor. However, Johnny leaves the laboratory and releases slugs that transform people into zombies. Detective Ray Cameron (Tom Atkins) is in charge of the investigation and initially believes that it is a prank. But soon he realizes that the campus is crowded of zombies. "Night of the Creeps" is a cult-movie by Fred Dekker with a funny story of aliens, slugs and zombies. This movie is a sort of comedy and tribute to the zombie, slasher and sci-fi genres. There are good performances, the make-up is great and the lead actress Jill Whitlow is cute. This film follows the formula of B-movie inclusive with many beautiful legs and breasts in the sorority house. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Noite dos Arrepios" ("The Night of the Creeps")

In the year of 1959, an alien experiment of some kind crashes to earth, and infects a fraternity guy. If that's not enough, a madman that has escaped kills his date with an Axe. They freeze the body of the fraternity member. Years later in 1986, two geeks want to join a fraternity club. Chris (Jason Lively) falls in love at first sight with Cynthia (Jill Whitlow) but the leader Brad is dating her, so Chris agrees to an initiation test. They inadvertently let the corpse loose from a cryogenic state, and people start getting infected all over the place. With the help of detective Ray Cameron (Tom Atkins) it's up to Chris to stop it.If you wanna know why I love the 80's, it's fantastic camp like this. They simply don't create movies like this anymore. Ever since the found footage craze commenced, I've found myself bored with horror films. There isn't much originality these days, aside from movies that wind up surprising me, and there have been quite a few, but you couldn't create a movie like this at this day in age. This movie combines the genres of Horror & Comedy, and it doesn't seem out of place in the slightest. Director Fred Dekker knows how to properly balance the two genres, and the result is one of the best horror/comedy films you may ever see. The opening is so cool. It's a terrific tribute to the 50's. I loved how the opening entwines with events later on in the movie. It was very skillfully done. It's not a gore fest, but it's decent. We get heads blown off by a shotgun, other shotgun blasts, nasty walking corpses, creepy slugs, an Axe in the face, and more. It has just enough for the gore hounds. The acting is a lot of fun. Jason Lively has this lovable way about him that makes for the perfect, reluctant hero. Not only does he have a couple of great one-liners, but his friendship with Steve Marshall (J.C) was precious, and sadly short-lived. It's my only complaint about this movie. Steve Marshall was really cool, and his screen time is tragically short. Jill Whitlow is a cutie. Her romance with Jason Lively is believable, and heartwarming. It's refreshing that Dekker went the unconventional route by making Whitlow courageous in scenes, in lieu of the whiny broad that you tend to see a lot. Tom Atkins is utterly fabulous as the emotionally beaten detective, who is haunted by his past. His anti-hero persona made him so endearing, and he fires off the one-liners like a champ. His favorite quote in this movie is "Thrill me" well, Tom. You certainly did, just that. The finale is one of the best action packed finale's I've seen in a horror film. I could never forget about that humongous pile of creepy slugs *Brrrrr*Final Thoughts: If you're looking to settle down for an evening, and have a blast with a fun 80's horror film, look no further. Put your worries aside, crack open some beer, soda, water, whatever it is you drink, and thank me later. 8/10