IC's B Movie Reviews

Night of the Creeps (1986)

OK, it's 1959. A guy's out on a date with his girlfriend on some deserted stretch of California Highway. Uh oh, a spaceship crashes in the woods and the guy goes to investigate. Well, he gets infected with an alien parasite that looks suspiciously like a leech. It jumps in his mouth and he becomes a bloodthirsty zombie. He mauls his girlfriend, but is eventually caught and for some reason, cryogenically frozen.

Next, we're in the present day at some college in California. Well, Chris and his friend J.C. are scoping out the women at a party. Chris wants to date the prettiest girl there who's seeing the quarterback of the football team (surprise?). To impress her, he and J.C. (his sidekick who's injured and has to use crutches) attempt to join the fraternity the football player is in. As their initiation, they have to steal a dead body from the morgue. Wackiness ensues as they sneak into a top secret lab and thaw out the killer zombie from 1959. J.C. actually uses the word 'Corpse-icle' in real dialogue, so that gives this movie credit with the IC staff.

Anyway, the leeches explode out of the thawed guy's head and hop into the mouth of the scientist who was supposedly watching him. The creeps turn the scientist into a killer zombie and much mayhem results as the scientist infects someone else and eventually there's a horde of killer zombies in town. They even infect a mini-dog and cat and turn them into killer zombies.

Well, a group of the survivors start fighting the creeps and you'll laugh as you see 'Stryper Rules' written on the bathroom stall while J.C. is attacked by creeps. There's an axe-wielding corpse, a continually regenerating corpse, a cameo by the cryptkeeper (or someone who looks like him), midgets in alien suits, slow-motion zombies, and tons of blood. There was even a 'Graphic Special Effects Warning' before the last 15 minutes on the Sci-Fi channel, where we watched this one! A classic 80's soundtrack with bands that sound like RATT and plenty of synthesizers. There were also plenty of good one-liners. Here are some of them:

JC: 'How about getting the willies scared outta you by a creepy scary dead guy in a refrigerator?'
JC: 'If you weren't such a yazoo, even girls might like you.'
Police Officer (answering phone): 'Thrill me.'
Police Officer: 'If we used a different stretcher for every piece, we'd be here all night.'
Police Officer: 'You suck. It's Miller Time.'

Corpse Count: 7, plus a whole school bus.

Now, to the ratings

Ratings

W -
- Most of the time this one's OK, but every once in a while it gets annoying.
HA -
- Some of the better one-liners around in B-Movie land.
UC -
- Well, the whole idea of the movie makes it kinda unintentionally funny. The midgets in alien suits at the beginning, although confusing, are hilarious.
C -
- Killer zombies are nothing new. But scuttling leeches jumping in your mouth and making you a killer zombie is. Zombie mini-dogs and cats are definitely great new material.

This movie is best watched on TV, where it is broken into 15 minute morsels. Otherwise, you may go insane screaming at the characters. We snagged it on the Sci Fi Channel, look for it there late in the evening.

B MOVIE MAYHEM