Let us tell you about how much we love Tom Atkins. Tom Atkins is daddy. Tom Atkins is irradiated with camp masculinity. Tom Atkins is butchness personified. NIGHT OF THE CREEPS is a perfect horror comedy film and a cult classic that was misunderstood upon initial release. Chris Romero (Jason Lively) and his "good buddy" JC Hooper (Steve Marshell) are dorks (dorks who are in love) attending Corman University and trying their best to hook up with girls (even though they're clearly in love) When Chris spots the beautiful Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow) he decides he'll do whatever it takes to get her to notice him, even steal a corpse from the morgue to satisfy a fraternity pledge prank. ENTER THE CREEPS. Turns out alien slugs that turn people into zombies crash-landed near the college in the 1950s and this corpse is riddled with slugs. Aw man, that blows. Don't worry, beleaguered alcoholic Detective Ray Cameron (Tom motherfucking Atkins) is on the case and it's not the first time this suicidal man of action has tangled with these creeps. Can Chris, JC, and Cynthia survive the night and eventually become a cute bisexual polycule? Or will the creeps get to them first? Chaos, coeds, and corpses ensue as NIGHT OF THE CREEPS explodes onto the silver screen. Writer/director Fred Dekker (THE MONSTER SQUAD) stuffs as many B-movie cliches as he possibly can into this pastiche party and it's a sloppy slithery great time at the movies. Wait, did we forget to mention the tiny naked alien scientist and a black-and-white '50s intro? NIGHT OF THE CREEPS really does it all, y'all. (Micheal Foulk)
35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures
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35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures
Let us tell you about how much we love Tom Atkins. Tom Atkins is daddy. Tom Atkins is irradiated with camp masculinity. Tom Atkins is butchness personified. NIGHT OF THE CREEPS is a perfect horror comedy film and a cult classic that was misunderstood upon initial release. Chris Romero (Jason Lively) and his "good buddy" JC Hooper (Steve Marshell) are dorks (dorks who are in love) attending Corman University and trying their best to hook up with girls (even though they're clearly in love) When Chris spots the beautiful Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow) he decides he'll do whatever it takes to get her to notice him, even steal a corpse from the morgue to satisfy a fraternity pledge prank. ENTER THE CREEPS. Turns out alien slugs that turn people into zombies crash-landed near the college in the 1950s and this corpse is riddled with slugs. Aw man, that blows. Don't worry, beleaguered alcoholic Detective Ray Cameron (Tom motherfucking Atkins) is on the case and it's not the first time this suicidal man of action has tangled with these creeps. Can Chris, JC, and Cynthia survive the night and eventually become a cute bisexual polycule? Or will the creeps get to them first? Chaos, coeds, and corpses ensue as NIGHT OF THE CREEPS explodes onto the silver screen. Writer/director Fred Dekker (THE MONSTER SQUAD) stuffs as many B-movie cliches as he possibly can into this pastiche party and it's a sloppy slithery great time at the movies. Wait, did we forget to mention the tiny naked alien scientist and a black-and-white '50s intro? NIGHT OF THE CREEPS really does it all, y'all. (Micheal Foulk)
35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures
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35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures
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