Underplayed Gems

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Night of the Creeps poster
Directed by
Fred Dekker
Genre
comedy film, science fiction film, zombie comedy, comedy horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 590 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A college student and his friend steal a corpse from a lab for a fraternity prank. The body is controlled by an alien slug that starts infecting people. The friends must stop the creatures before they take over the town.

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What happens

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker in his feature directorial debut, starring Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, and Tom Atkins. The film is an earnest attempt at a B movie and an homage to the genre. While the main plot of the film is related to zombies, the film also mixes in takes on slashers and alien invasion films. Night of the Creeps did not perform well at the box office, but it developed a cult following. In the film, a college student and his best friend steal a cadaver from a cryogenics lab, as part of an initiation rite in a local fraternity. The "corpse" is an undead body from the late 1950s, and is under the control of an extraterrestrial organism. Soon, several other people are infected with these alien slugs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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