A lot of good horror movies start with Night of the.. and this is one of them. It has Tom Atkins, slugs from space and axe wielding zombies. Almost made for the perfect drive-in horror experience. If you haven't seen it for a couple of decades you might be surprised how much you have forgotten. There is a directors cut out now that has a different ending.

In 1959, an alien throws an experiment from his spaceship to the space and the capsule crashes on Earth. The college students Pam (Alice Cadogan) and Johnny (Ken Heron) are dating in a parking area nearby the location and believe it is a falling star. Steve decides to investigate, but they are warned by Pam's former boyfriend, the police officer Ray Cameron, that a maniac is killing people in that area with an ax. However Steve leaves Pam and walks in the woods looking for the star and a slug-like creature jumps into his mouth.In 1986, the college students Chris (Jason Lively) and the disabled J.C. (Steve Marshall) are best friends and Chris has a crush on Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow), who is the girlfriend of the cocky Brad (Allan J. Kayser). They decide to join Brad's fraternity to impress Cynthia and Brad tells that they need to bring a corpse and leave in front of another fraternity. They go to the Med School Laboratory of the Corman University and find Johnny's body in a cryogenic chamber. They remove the corpse from the chamber but get scared and leave the body on the floor. However, Johnny leaves the laboratory and releases slugs that transform people into zombies. Detective Ray Cameron (Tom Atkins) is in charge of the investigation and initially believes that it is a prank. But soon he realizes that the campus is crowded of zombies. "Night of the Creeps" is a cult-movie by Fred Dekker with a funny story of aliens, slugs and zombies. This movie is a sort of comedy and tribute to the zombie, slasher and sci-fi genres. There are good performances, the make-up is great and the lead actress Jill Whitlow is cute. This film follows the formula of B-movie inclusive with many beautiful legs and breasts in the sorority house. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Noite dos Arrepios" ("The Night of the Creeps")

The 80's for the horror genre was vital. It essentially gave birth to the slasher genre, low budget film making, gore and campy fun. There are as many classics as there are horribly done knock offs. Night of The Creeps is generally considered one of those campy classics so I eagerly decided to watch it. All I can say is...womp womp...there was very little likable about this. I can handle campy, I love a good classic campy film but this was just dumb. Its part zombie, part monster and part downright ridiculous. The characters are completely empty and forgettable and you never feel like the heroes are heroes at all. The romance is ridiculous and does nothing to further the story. It just doesn't make you feel anything. The special effects are okay and the story is certainly simple enough. Maybe part of the problem is that we have seen this premise before and so much better.Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow are our three "heroes." I'm not sure I blame them on really bad performances or just the empty writing of their characters. They aren't likable at all and they have no chemistry with each other. I suppose Lively is redeemable as the geeky, reluctant hero but barely. The one character that they could have done something with was Ray Cameron played by Tom Atkins. He's the tough as nails, grizzled cop type that could have been focused on as the hero but he is played as a joke and too campy so he is wasted in the story.Fred Dekker seems to have some sort of cult following due to this film and Monster Squad but outside of that and basically making the worst Robocop film he doesn't seem to have a whole lot of experience of vision as a director. I think this was an opportunity for them to make a violent, goofy, zombie/monster flick for next to nothing and turn a profit. I really had to push myself to get through this and with the exception of a few, a very very few watchable moments, this was barely acceptable. Definitely wouldn't bother with this when there is so much better 80's Horror fare out there. 3/10

I seen this movie. Thank you Netflix? I guess it's better than any of the Maniac Cop movies, have you seen any of those they are terrible. Editing is important, know what you are going to say before you start writing a review. Take it from me. Don't use up space recommending other movies like Full Metal Jacket or Hamlet 2 or The Exorcist. Night Of The Creeps is still on, I should change the channel or maybe I should get up and do some exercises, I hear fitness is important. Maybe that's what I'll do, I'll get up off the couch and DO something, I don't know I don't own a bike, I could walk, walking is good for you and it's free, just looked up and saw I'm only 21 minutes into the movie, Jesus.