StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Leofwine_draca "The good news is your dates are here...the bad news is they're dead!" And so, with the above quote, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS is well-remembered by B-movie aficionados as one of the most fun, campy zombie flicks to be released during the 1980s, and with good reason. This is a fondly-made movie, an affectionate tribute to the kind of drive-in movies popular in the '50s and '60s, and that reverence shines through in every frame. Director Fred Dekker, who made the similarly fun THE MONSTER SQUAD, delights in his source material, throwing in plenty of movie references that fans will enjoy and in the process making a delightful B-movie in his own right. With characters named after top horror directors of the time, aliens, zombies, killer slugs, and wonderful effects, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS is one of the funniest and entertaining films I've seen in a while.Things kick off with a nice black and white tribute to '50s sci fi flicks, with rampaging aliens, a homicidal axe murderer, two teens in lover's lane and a BLOB-style meteorite fall. After that we're in the era of '80s teen cinema, as a couple of geeks do their best to fit in with the "in" crowd but accidentally end up reviving a cryogenically frozen body hiding a sinister alien parasite. The aliens spread, zombies are made and the film becomes a humans vs. the dead battle for survival in a small sorority house.NIGHT OF THE CREEPS displays everything that's 'good' about the '80s: smart one liners, silly fashions, crazy hairdos and teenagers everywhere. The movie is presented with tongue firmly in cheek and there are plenty of humorous moments which move it along nicely. It has the same kind of campy atmosphere as the similarly excellent RE-ANIMATOR. The strong storyline takes a while to play out, but the zombie onslaught at the climax is only the more effective because of this – there's actually a well-developed reason for them to exist, and the film's internal logic is spot on. Meanwhile, the alien slug menace is also effectively handled – think THE HIDDEN – and on the whole the special effects in the movie are very good indeed.Kudos for the casting of a pair of unusual leads – Jason Lively as the 'normal' neighbourhood kid, Steve Marshall as his disabled buddy – who do very well with the material. However, supporting actor Tom Atkins steals all of his scenes as the investigating detective. Atkins is also well-regarded for appearing in a ton of decent '80s horror productions and this may well be his best role: every line is a one-liner, he's tough, extremely bad ass and watching him tackle a ton of the undead at the climax is very entertaining. I can't imagine a role better-suited to the actor and he looks to be having a ball, making him the real hero of the piece. My favourite scene is the one in which he goes after a long-dead axe murderer, seeking revenge. Kick ass!

levent-taskan There is a usual level of unintended cheesy humor that has become associated by re-watching 80ies science-fiction/horror/comedy films and if you look at some of 'Night of the Creeps's contemporaries they don't tend to age well. After a couple of decades you tend to laugh at how bad the effects are instead of what the filmmakers intended as humor. To it's credit the humor in 'Night of the Creeps' is quite intentional and exceeds most in the genre and keeps the movie quite fresh after three decades. The plot isn't particularly original, the pace is quite slow in places and some of the acting is way too cheesy even for this kind of film but the dialogue is snappy enough to make you not give an ounce of a dingo's kidneys about any of that. Overall the film feels like it was made with a lightness of heart that elevates it most of the time and was made not for frights (of which there are quite a few) but for fun and it admirably succeeds.

utgard14 College freshmen Chris and J.C. (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall) are trying to join a fraternity and are given the initiation challenge of stealing a body from the morgue. In attempting to do this, they unfreeze a cryogenically-frozen body that was inhabited by parasitic alien slugs in 1959. Now the alien slugs are free and attacking the college campus, turning people into zombies. After his friend is killed, Chris tries to stop the slugs & zombies with the help of a detective (Tom Atkins) whose tragic backstory ties into the alien attack in 1959.This terrific '80s horror comedy from Fred Dekker is one of the most underrated movies from that decade. Steve Marshall is great fun as the handicapped best friend of 'the hero.' He gets many of the movie's best lines. Jason Lively and beautiful Jill Whitlow are both good. Allan Kayser (Bubba from "Mama's Family") is the Zabka-esque jock villain. The movie's highlight is Tom Atkins, who gives a memorable performance as the tough and sarcastic detective. The movie's filled with in-jokes and references that genre fans will enjoy. The movie itself is a sort of homage to classic B sci-fi/horror flicks of the '50s. By the way, in one scene Jill Whitlow is making cookies or something in the kitchen with her sorority sisters. She drops a wooden spoon and kicks it under the refrigerator. Then she picks it up and proceeds to put it right back in the bowl. Eww, how gross is that? That made me want to vomit far more than any of the movie's special effects! Give it a shot and I'm sure you'll agree it's great fun and years ahead of its time. Any movie with a Dick Miller cameo can't be that bad.

SnoopyStyle Back in 1959, fratboy Johnny gets infected by an alien experimental brain parasite that turns people into zombies. There is also a serial killer with axe who kills the girl. Then in modern times, Chris Romeo and his talkative sidekick James Carpenter Hooper ask to pledge a fraternity to get close to cute sorority girl Cynthia Cronenberg. They go looking for a corpse in the morgue for the fraternity initiation. They accidentally get into a science lab and releases Johnny who had been frozen. Police detective Ray Cameron is called in to investigate. He is still haunted by the events in 1959.This is full-on horror camp. The first ten minutes of movie has silly aliens, brain parasites, serial axe murderer, and sorority row. I like that the movie is so camp that it knows that it is camp. However I wish the two young amateur actors could be much better. The problem is that one is bland and the other is annoying. The girl doesn't have much charisma either. It is probably too much to ask the young actors to be good but sometimes these B-movies get lucky. There's no such luck in this one. The campy jokes don't really work probably due to the amateurish acting. All the horror names for the characters buy a little bit of good will. This is a reasonable B-movie horror but it is not more than that.