If you haven’t seen Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps, you should get on that immediately. It’s a super-fun and completely over-the-top undead fest that combines classic ‘50s sci-fi elements and ‘80s gore - including aliens, evil slugs, zombies, sororities, and Tom Atkins. While the different plot points might seem at odds in the hands of another filmmaker, Dekker combines them perfectly into a film that is, much like his later films The Monster Squad and yes, Robocop 3, a love letter to his favorite movies.
The story follows Chris Romero and his best-friend J.C. as they attempt to win the attention of Chris’s crush, Cynthia Cronenberg, but instead end up re-animating a slug-filled corpse and spreading a zombie slug plague around campus. I can’t get into the finer points of the plot, because I can spend hours on the zombie cat, and I really...
The story follows Chris Romero and his best-friend J.C. as they attempt to win the attention of Chris’s crush, Cynthia Cronenberg, but instead end up re-animating a slug-filled corpse and spreading a zombie slug plague around campus. I can’t get into the finer points of the plot, because I can spend hours on the zombie cat, and I really...
- 3/18/2013
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
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