Night of the Creeps (1986)
"The good news is: your dates are here. The bad news? They're dead." This flick is awesome. Writer/director Fred Dekker set out to pay homage to old school horror and he wrote this little film that not only succeeds in delighting horrorfans with all the references, but also works as an entertaining horrorfilm for those looking for creepy thrills. That it is also funny is just the bloody icing on the cake. Oh, and the dialogue? Quotable to a T. In fact, many a line resonates within anyone who has a love for horror. The film wastes no time in setting the tone, when on board a spaceship some bizarre aliens are chasing one another. One ejects a canister of some sort of experiment and this lands in 1957. It is discovered by a teenager who gets infected, but at the same time his girlfriend is chopped to pieces by an escaped maniac with an axe. Talk about an opening sequence! Then fast forward to 1986. Two friends, Chris and JC, are something of outsiders on college campus. ...
