Night of the Creeps
“The good news is your date is here. The bad news is...He's dead.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 68, rated by 1 admin.
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A fraternity prank releases alien parasites into a college campus, where the undead prove remarkably poor party guests. Tom Atkins supplies hard-boiled attitude while the film raids several decades of monster-movie imagery. The clichés are not always transformed into fresh jokes, but the ingredients are excellent company.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 4/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“The fraternity's recruitment drive has attracted the wrong species.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 68
Synopsis and movie facts
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
- Released
- 1986
- Directed by
- Fred Dekker
- Running time
- 88 min
Starring
- Jason Lively as Christopher 'Chris' Romero
- Steve Marshall as James Carpenter 'J.C.' Hooper
- Jill Whitlow as Cynthia 'Cindy' Cronenberg
- Tom Atkins as Det. Ray Cameron
- Wally Taylor as Detective Landis
- Allan Kayser as Brad
- Bruce Solomon as Sgt. Raimi
- Vic Polizos as Coroner
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Night of the Creeps (1986), directed by Fred Dekker. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · avclub.com
The A.V. Club's director's-cut review praises the premise and Atkins's charisma but argues that the film too often repeats rather than reinvents familiar horror devices. Full review text retained from earlier catalogue research and consulted again on 2026-11-10; no claim of a fresh page download.
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