Night of The Creeps Review

Movie: The Night Of The Creeps
Director: Fred Dekker
Year Of release: 1986
Cast: Jason Lively
Steve Marshall
Jill Whitlow
Tom Atkins

A very enjoyable movie. I enjoyed this movie so much I would be willing to put it in my "Best zombie movies I have ever seen" category.

The movie is about a badly dressed pink Alien that sends an experiment to earth. It hits the earth, a macho dude goes in search of what he thinks is a fallen asteroid, mean while his girlfriend just hears that a psycho killer with an axe has just escaped a local asylum. And guess what? He is on the road that they are, the boyfriend finds the object that crashed to earth, but it is not an asteroid, but a tube object that has something squirming inside. The thing inside bursts from the tube and enters the dude’s mouth. While all this is happening the psycho axe murder finds our lovely blonde. Well the rest is as you say "history". Then about twenty or so years later two dudes stumble upon the frozen corpse of the "infected" dude mentioned earlier. They remove the corpse in a fraternity prank and then the corpse comes to life, they two dudes escape, and the newly born zombie kills a scientist and wonders to a frat house. Where he finds a girl, scares her, his head explodes and about 6 more alien zombie slug things bust out and scatter around the school.

This is a very comical and original zombie movie. The zombies’ look really good, especially after a bus had ploughed into a car and all occupant of the bus died. The slugs reach the bus by means of an infected dog. The zombies begin to emerge from the bus, all torn and bruised, some of them even missing limbs and bleeding profusely. The zombies do not actually eat human flesh but crave their bodies for their brains, in which more slugs can be sent and eggs can be laid. And it is not just the dead that become infected, normal living people become infected and all injuries and disabilities become vanquished, but eventually their heads explode and more slugs emerge.

I loved this movie so much that it definitely scores an 8/10 on my meter. Some of the acting was terrible and at times most unbelievable, but the ending battle between living and dead, human and alien left me very satisfied. I suggest that you watch this movie first chance that you get. Most enjoyable.

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