LITERAL REMAINS

Prepare for fun.  Night of the Creeps has freshly escaped to DVD.  We can all live life a better now.  I’ve only seen this movie one time, uncut, and that was on IFC or something.  The only other times I had seen it was years ago on some syndication channels; that was after its little mad dash through its brief theater release.

In 1959, an alien crashes on Earth.  It is carrying a little slug like creature that turns people into zombies.  The alien is quickly apprehended, the incident covered up, and the truth sealed tight.

Flash forward to 1986.  Two lowly fraternity pledges, steal a body from the university medical facility.  They find one that is being preserved in suspended animation.  They free it, but before they can make away with it, it comes alive.  Scared witless, they flee.  The body is, of course, host to the zombie-inducing parasite and it escapes.  Before you can blink an eye, the little slugs are squirming their way into every available human body, and it’s fun watching the sorority girls getting all slugged.

The great Tom Atkins is the in charge of solving the case of the missing body from the lab.  He is quite mad.  Bonkers.  He also knows this case ties into the homicidesfrom ‘59.  Soon, he and the frat pledges are fighting off zombies and killing extra-terrestrial leeches.

Night of the Creeps was written and directed by Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad) and it’s one of the best horror/comedies you’ll ever be blessed enough to see.  It’s fast and funny, and should have been on DVD a lot sooner, but it arrives just in time for Halloween.  It’s a great Halloween this year, ain’t it?  It’s all sweet treats.

I suggest buying it.  Watching it once is fine; watching it several times reveals some of the jokes you missed the first time.  This should be in every video collection.

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