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(1986) |
o you enjoy a good Comic Horror film? If so jump on this wagon because Night of the Creeps is one of the better ones. Just sit back and you will see what I am talking about. This movie is from the Director of Monster Squad, and as in that movie this has an old 50's way about it, and Dekker shows great skill in this art.
Scene one... An alien spacecraft. An experiment has gone horribly wrong, and now two aliens must fight to try to save the universe (and our planet) from some parasitic brain incubating space slugs. Will they save the day, of course not. We wouldn't have a film otherwise.
Scene two... 1959 Sorority Row...Pam has just broken up with her cop boyfriend Ray. Now she needs a little excitement. Enter Johnny, your average everyday jock, and watch the sparks fly.
Now the only problems are that an axe-murdering psycho has just escaped and Johnny wants to investigate a comet that has just landed near the road where the psycho is headed. Like any classic horror film Johnny finds the alien slugs and of course Pam finds out why it is not good to be left alone with an axe-murdering psycho.
Now for the real Movie, fast forward to pledge week 1986. Our main characters are Chris and his buddy buddy J.C. Chris has just found the perfect girl, but to get Cindy he thinks that he must join a fraternity. With J.C. as a tag along. As Pledges Chris and J.C. must do something bad, real bad...
What's so bad do you say? Well they have to steal a body, and they find the perfect one. Johnny, the guy from scene two, cryogenically frozen in '59. Now the slugs and their Zombie hosts come into play...Will Chris and J.C. make it through the night? Will Chris get Cindy? Or will Chris and J.C. become just another host for the alien slugs, and of course the perfect Date for the Dance.
Only you can find out... and remember, If you scream... You die!
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| | | |  Dekker is an excellent Director and writer. He wrote the screenplay for the movie house. He directed Monster Squad and Robocop 3, and he wrote and directed this Movie. He is in my view a master at making a movie feel like a classic Horror film. He has a great wit about him, and that can be seen in the lines from Night of the Creeps. It would have been nice if he continued to do this genre of movies. Who knows how big he would be today?
As for Night of the Creeps, I can watch it over and over again. It stays together well even though it is a collage of Sci-fi and Horror films...
My hat's off to Dekker for this superb film.
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All the main characters are named after horror film directors.
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When actor Anthony Michael Hall quit playing the character of Rusty Griswald after the first 'National Lampoon's Vacation' movie, the part went to "Night of the Creeps" lead actor Jason Lively. -Thanks to Phatpants
"Corman University," where events for Night of the Creeps take place, is named after director/producer Roger Corman.
Original working title was "Homecoming Night." -Thanks to Travis Graham
There is grafitti on the wall of the men's room where J.C. is trying to escape the slugs. It reads, "Go Monster Squad!" Reference to "The Monster Squad" (1987) which was also directed by Fred Dekker.
In one scene in the movie at the sorority house we see a cameo by Suzanne Snyder, who played Anthony Michael Hall's girlfriend in Weird Science, a movie which Jill Whitlow was also in, playing the perfume girl at the mall. -Thanks to Bryan Woolley
Jill Whitlow and Jason Lively later co-starred in the kiddy horror flick "Ghost Chase". -Thanks to Stefan Andrews
On the opening day of the movie, the first 200 or so people to see it were issued "anti-scream" masks to prevent the slugs from entering your mouth (merely surgical masks with the Night of The Creeps logo/font on it) much like a William Castle movie gimmick. -Thanks to Jaison Schuler
Brad, Allan Kayser, is the same guy who played BUBBA in "Moma's Family" another 80's tv show. -Thanks to Mat
Tom Atkins, who plays detective Cameron, utters the line, "Dead guys who have been on ice for 27 years do not get up and walk away by themselves." This line is almost identical to the line, "2000 year old dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves" which was spoken by actor Stephen Macht in the other Fred Dekker movie "The Monster Squad" -Self homage?
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| | | | Cindy puts the phone to her ear twice when she is called by Brad her jocky x-boyfriend.
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| | | Night of the Creeps was filmed at locations in Los Angeles, S. California.
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|  | | | | | I can not find a listing for this soundtrack. As with many 80's films I do not think one was made...
Too bad it is rather creepy, and has some great 80's songs.
The first 4 songs by Intimate Strangers on their album "Charm" where used in the movie. [Thanks to Chad Wichterman]
I believe that some of the music from the movie was originated by John Carpenter, the scene that I noticed is where the ax-murdering corpse is cornered in the alley-way; I could be wrong. -Thanks to Chance Wiliams
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