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Night of the Creeps
*Blood* *Violence* *Some Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations* *Not Particularly Gory*
1986/Color/89 Min./HBO Cannon Video & The Finnegan Company &
Tri-Star Pictures, Inc./Rated R
Director...........Fred Dekker
Screenplay.....Fred Dekker
Music..............Barry DeVorzon
Producer.........Charles Gordon
Executive Producer.....William Finnegan
Make-up and Creeps by David B. Miller
Dramatis Personae
Detective Cameron..Tom Atkins (The Fog)
Chris..............Jason Lively
J.C................Steve Marshall
Cindy..............Jill Whitlow (Twice Dead)
Detective Landis...Wally Taylor
Sgt. Raimi.........Bruce Solomon
Coronor............Vic Polizos
Brad...............Allan J. Kayser
Pam................Alice Cadogan
Young Scientist....David Paymer
Johnny.............Ken Heron
Karen..............June Harris
Steve..............David Oliver
Psycho Zombie......Ivan E. Roth
Police Armorer.....Dick Miller
Critique: The dialog and pace of this movie surprised us with their effectiveness as we committed a cardinal sin of renting horror movies; we were turned off completely by the cheap looking package.
Plot Summary: An experiment by aliens goes awry when an infected specimem jettisons itself toward earth in a shuttle capsule. Sorority row 1959 Institute for the criminally insane Pam dumps her cop boyfriend Ray no future for a dreamy frat guy, Johnny. Lovers Lane is not a good place to be on the night when 35 year old escapee from the Crestwick Mental Institute kills four orderlys and heads for the university area with a fire axe where the insane asylum escapee and the alien experiment get together. The capsule lands near Lover's Lane and Johnny goes to investigate and something blasts out of the capsule and into his mouth. Meanwhile the other trouble maker is axing his girlfriend. Pledge Week 1986. J.C.(handicapped) and Chris don't appear to have a chance with all the Beta studs around. Cindy. While becoming Betas might help, they'll have to perform an act of devotion; steal a corpse from the morgue. However, they manage only to let the body with the alien in it out of cryogenic storage. The cop who witnessed the axe murder is haunted by visions of that night, when he is called to the morgue to find a missing corpse and a dead grad student. Cindy dumps her Nazi Beta, due to his cruelty, for Chris. As happy as this would otherwise have made Chris, her tale of a zombie cat and a zombie with an exploding head make him wonder. Alien slugs
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