Creepozoids
Creepozoids
R | 02 October 1987 (USA)
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Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

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Platypuschow

When you go into a movie called Creepozoids you only have yourself to blame and I take full responsibility for the torment I put upon myself.This 80's sci-fi B-movie tells the story of a world torn apart by nuclear explosions where the few survivors hide from mutants and acid rain. The movie follows such a group who break into a mysterious lab and come under attack from a mysterious creature.The lack of budget devastates the movie as the generic 80's monster lives in the shadows and is hardly seen. The story is wafer thin, it all looks terrible and scream queen horror legend Linnea Quigley in all her glory couldn't even turn this around.From the awful monster, savage giant rat and weird unexplained fetus creature the thing would have worked better as a comedy, played seriously it's pitiful.The Good: They didn't make a sequelThe Bad:Monster looks terribleLack of budget clearly showsLittle to no character developmentThings I Learnt From This Movie:Every scifi monster in the 80's looked the sameAt least half the script is screamsMonster or no monster, watching a baby getting strangled with its umbilical cord is very unsettling

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chris-w-king

Does the film have gore. Some. Does it have nudity? well it has Linna Quigley. Does the film have long unnecessary dialogue with little happening for the opening 20 mins? Hell yes! Creepozoids appeared more mediocre than i'd hoped. Iwas wrong. It turned out to be highly entertaining, just not really a gem either.So if you choose to watch this what do you get? A group of quite uninteresting characters haul up in a containment facility. The nerd starts thinking this is not a great place to hide and salvage. He climbs through a little vent under a computer desk and finally after 20 mins some alien stuff begins. after an attack he returns acting normal, till like alien he completely ruins supper time by exploding blood and having some serious mangled hand problems. They decide its not the cuisine they ate but that vent so in they venture... From here its zombie crew-mates that dribble blood, with an alien guy in a rubber suit attacks, A killer baby and giant rodents?!? The alien is quite a cool suit, and the rodents provide necessary amusement as do their toy bodies being shot, stamped on etc. I couldn't help but think if they left that vent alone, all would have been fine.The film is quite pacey after the opening 20 mins, so skip that and watch a 50 min short. you'll figure out who's who soon enough. Then they die anyway

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lost-in-limbo

I'm not going to go out of my way to furiously bash it, but you can tell that I didn't care for director David DeCoteau's dragging quick-buck, direct-to-video post-apocalyptic sci-fi / horror film it at all. Everyone brings it up and deservedly so, the infamously steamy shower scene of its big draw-card Linnea Quigley. It's quite short, but transfixing. Even the schlock special effects and make-up FX are conceived with excessively grisly (gooey blood-leaking), tasteless and shonky details, but don't look all that bad for such a bottom-barrel budget (oh with the horrendous exception of the rubbery creature … or whatever?). Although for such a small running time and having a slight premise, it felt rather padded out and pointless. The opening sequence is laughably ridiculous. Some purposeless, unexplained things crop up (like large vicious rodent attacks and an aggressive new-born), but that's were the little excitement came from. It really does dawdle along and uses up commonly dull devices. I don't know how many times I could take seeing these folks run down the same corridor over and over again. DeCoteau had a chance to strike up some claustrophobic tension from these tightly limited (if disposable cardboard) sets, but never did he executed it well enough. Instead he favoured cheap, predictable shocks that were flatly handled. The fidgety synthesizer score is systematic across the board, and in passages the dark, hazy camera-work didn't help out matters.

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Claudio Carvalho

In 1990, during the World War III, five deserters of the army escape to an abandoned research facility, supplied with water and provisions. They decide to temporarily lodge in the place, and find that scientists were researching amino acids to reduce the need of food. But sooner they find that the place is inhabited by fierce and giant rats, a monster and a mutant baby. They are attacked and fight to survive.The most difficult summary that I have written in IMDb is this one, since "Creepzoids" does not have a reasonable story. I first believed that Creepozoid was the monster, but then I realized that there is only one, and the title is plural. So I deduced that Creepozoids are the giant rats, but I am not sure. Ed Wood is probably shaking in his grave with the competition of the awful David DeCoteau. The cast is terrible, but fortunately it seems that Richard L. Hawkins (the worst) quit the career. He could be successful in running, since the cast was very well-trained spending the whole movie running in a corridor. The best scene of the movie is the sexy Linnea Quigley showering; the rest is absolutely forgettable. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Creepozoids"

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