Director: Fred Dekker
Starring: Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow
My Rating: Loved It!
Budget: $5 Million
Box Office: $591 K (USA) (according to wikipedia)
How in hell is Night of the Creeps not more popular? It's top shelf horror/comedy b-movie deliciousness. And if you're into 21st century horror, it's pretty easy to tell that Creeps paved the way for a bunch of movies. Most notably Slither, the fantastic 2006 James Gunn horror/comedy starring Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks. These movies go in different ways but the base story is practically the same.
Night of the Creeps is full of great, cheesy pre-cgi gore, and full of equally cheesy and hilarious one-liners... "blader dude." Classic. The most surprising part of this movie to me is that the cinematography is incredibly on point and focused, to the point that it doesn't really feel like a b-movie at all. Plain and simple: I loved this movie and it deserves more love. I can now add Night of the Creeps to my list of great 80's films!