Night of the Creeps

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Night of the Creeps

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Released Aug 22, 1986

1h 25m

Horror

Comedy

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Fraternity pledges (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall) pull a prank with a frozen body and let sluglike creatures loose on campus.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Fred Dekker's ode to '50s sci-fi schlock has such an enormous heart that you'd be forgiven for forgetting the fact that you're watching a movie about parasitic alien slugs.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 9, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Filled with creepy crawlies and even slimier elitist fratboys, Night of the Creeps plays genre mix-n-match with dizzying ambition.

Rated: 3.5/4

Feb 17, 2022

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...a decent (if somewhat lackluster) homage/throwback from filmmaker Dekker.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 29, 2020

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

It's a great mix of wit, character work, genre-blending and, perhaps most importantly, it has a great sense of timing and pacing.

Feb 22, 2020

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Tyler Smith

Battleship Pretension

If the film falls well short of greatness, it is due to the director's inability to step outside himself as a horror fan and deliver a film that is effective on its own terms, rather than simply trading on the past greatness of the classics.

Nov 1, 2019

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Patrick King

Cultured Vultures

Night of the Creeps lacks the cynicism of a typical 80s horror flick, and it's almost wholesome as far as movies about nerds pursuing a hot girl out of their league go.

Rated: 8.5

Aug 16, 2019

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Daniel C. M

A very fun and surprisingly light-hearted and wholesome homage to old 50s Sci-Fi Horror movies, which ironically enough, has it's main features being all kinds of things: Slasher with a psychopathic killer, parasitic-worm-from-space controlled zombies, steriotypical fratboy university rivarly and cryo-frozen bodies. It's comedy moments still hold up and aged perfectly; it's main characters are very sympathetic and relatable; it's story introduces many different plot points and arcs which, also surprisingly, are all well-developed and never feel randomly throwed in the script or unfinished; and it's action and effects are great and also still hold up to this day.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/20/25

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Anton H

Here’s a real diamond in the rough. Great body-horror and a heartfelt parody / tribute to 1950s cheese, treat yourself to a wildly fun and rewarding horror-comedy that has much more quality than its surface elements imply.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/08/24

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Justin T

This could have been a brilliant, funny and gory zombie comedy but it came out a bit boring. For the most part of the movie I was bored waiting for something to happen. It seemed tame and tacky. Then there were some funny bits and finally quite a gory ending (compared to what I was expecting given how little happens throughout most of the film). It could have been a lot better and is not to be compared to Braindead (1992) in any way. I was also a little disappointed by the lack of aliens except those little ones which reminded me of the far superior ones in Slither (2006). Anyways this is not really worth watching except for style research and occasional laughs. If you ignore the painfully slow start and dodgy eighties style then this is alright.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/01/24

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Raiodesol S

This movie has surprisingly great character development, really good makeup and a very interesting story. I can't quite believe it's a B movie, even with its weird and homage-full plot. This movie only suffers from not letting mayhem break loose, something Killer Klowns does really well, but maybe that's due to its budget.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/30/23

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Steve D

Absolutely none of it worked for me.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/30/23

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Joseph P

Some of the best 80's horror fun you can have!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/26/23

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Synopsis

Fraternity pledges (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall) pull a prank with a frozen body and let sluglike creatures loose on campus.

Director: Fred Dekker
Producer: Charles Gordon
Screenwriter: Fred Dekker
Distributor: TriStar Pictures
Production Co: TriStar Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 22, 1986, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $562.8K
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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