Night of the Creeps * (1986, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Wally Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 12,791

The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they’re dead.’ The idiotic 1986 sci-fi horror comedy film Night of the Creeps stars Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow and Tom Atkins. It flopped but now has a cult following.

‘The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is… they’re dead.’

Writer/ director Fred Dekker’s idiotically hokey 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film Night of the Creeps stars Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins and Wally Taylor. Ah, yes, Dekker’s script was written in a week.

A college frat house is menaced by an insane axe murderer and alien ghouls intent on turning the students into zombies.

Night of the Creeps is a lively but cheap looking, relentlessly dumb and derivative Eighties horror flick, mainly for its target audience of zombified students only.

It was a box office flop, but time has been inexplicably kind to it and it has a cult following.

It is Fred Dekker’s feature directorial debut,

Also in the cast are Bruce Solomon, Vic Polizos, Allan J Kayser, Ken Heron, Alice Cadogan, June Harris, David Paymer, and David Oliver.

Night of the Creeps is directed by Fred Dekker, runs 88 minutes, is made by Delphi V and Tri-Star, is released by Tri-Star Pictures, is written by Fred Dekker, is shot in colour and black and white by Robert C New, is produced by Charles Gordon, and scored by Barry De Vorzon.

The main characters’ last names are based on famous horror and sci-fi directors: George A Romero (Chris Romero), John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper (James Carpenter Hooper), David Cronenberg (Cynthia Cronenberg), James Cameron (Detective Ray Cameron), John Landis (Detective Landis), Sam Raimi (Sgt Raimi) and Steve Miner (Mr Miner The Janitor). But, like the film, so what?

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