In Night Of The Creeps, an alien experiment crash lands on earth in 1959. A couple head to the site of the crash. One of them is brutally murdered by an ax-wielding maniac, the other is attacked by a mysterious alien life-form. In 1986 a pair of nerdy college boys lament there lack of love and plot to join the Beta frat to impress a girl. They are charged with the task of stealing a corpse form a local lab and leaving it on a rival frat’s doorstep. During the course of carrying out their prank they unfreeze the cryogenically frozen man from the afore mentioned couple letting him loose, and the alien life form inside him, upon the town. Together with a curmudgeon of a detective they must stop figure out and stop the alien life-forms from infecting the whole town and turning them all into zombies.

Night Of The Creeps has everything you’d expect from an 80’s movie set on a college campus: white elitist jocks, their beautiful, virtuous dates that don’t yet know that they would be better off with nerds and charming nerds that lust after beautiful women that date elitist jocks. Aside from that, it’s also a suspenseful horror film.

The zombie is Night Of The Creeps look pretty cool. They have whitened eyes and prosthetic face pieces to give them that evil sunken eye look. Some of the special effects work leaves something to be desired, but it’s all pretty on par for 1986.

Night Of The Creeps is pretty enjoyable as an eighties college romp and as a zombie movie. It has a certain amount of comedy to it which balances out with the horror aspect and makes a fairly well rounded film. It’s no Gone With The Wind or even Night Of The Living Dead, but a good watch with a bucket of popcorn or a six-pack and friends.

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