Night of the Creeps

Name: Night of the Creeps
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
Released: August 22, 1986
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Alice Cadogan, Allan Kayser, Bruce Solomon, Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow

1986

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: August 22, 1986 | R

Starring: Alice Cadogan, Allan Kayser, Bruce Solomon, Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Ken Heron, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins, Vic Polizos, Wally Taylor

Summary: Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.

Director: Fred Dekker

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 88 min

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Odie Henderson

Night of the Creeps is the “I Love the ‘80s” of moviemaking. It has every element and cliché ever put into a film made in the greatest decade. Read full review

Christopher Machell

A faultlessly fun genre picture. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A clever debut film from writer-director Fred Dekker that combines science fiction, horror, and comedy into a fairly entertaining package. Read full review

Nina Darnton

Beyond it's obviously derivative inspiration, the film shows a fair ability to create suspense, build tension and achieve respectable performances. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Neither Dekker's sloppy direction nor the cheapo make-up and effects do justice to the hand-me-down but sporadically lively script. Not the most sophisticated or scary horror film of the year, perhaps, but enjoyable enough in a ramshackle sort of way. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Night Of The Creeps has all the ingredients of a top-notch cult movie, yet Dekker too often ends up recycling clichés rather than subverting or spoofing them. Read full review

Tom Shales

Unfortunately, the film's stalking hordes of zombies aren't the only lifeless things about it. [03 Nov 1986, p.B2]

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Deanomite

May 25, 2020

This is a very underrated movie. First of all, the photography is very sharp and beautiful, about as good as it gets. The script is really very well done, the performances and editing, This is in my top 5 80s movies.

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MattBrady99

Jul 13, 2021

"Screaming like, Banshees!!"

'Night of the Creeps' is a silly zombie comedy/horror movie that went under people's radar for nearly 30 years. The effects are good and there's plenty of gore for horror fans to enjoy. Over the years I wasn't familiar with the movie, but I was familiar with"Screaming like, Banshees!!"

'Night of the Creeps' is a silly zombie comedy/horror movie that went under people's radar for nearly 30 years. The effects are good and there's plenty of gore for horror fans to enjoy.

Over the years I wasn't familiar with the movie, but I was familiar with the poster as I have seen it everywhere. And I do mean everywhere, on different movie related website and even on a shelf of an old Blockbuster. Now finally I got to see what the poster, that interested me for years, had to offer.

A bittersweet homage to 1950s Sci-Fi horror and George Romero’s zombie craze with a little bit of 1980s slasher movies throw into the mix!… Expand

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