150 Words About . . .NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)

By James Newman

Night of the Creeps knows exactly what it is, and it never aspires to be more:  a B-movie roller-coaster ride full of aliens, zombies, and oh-so-quotable dialogue.  When the students of a small college are infected by brain-eating slugs from outer space that get in through your mouth, the powers-that-be have a lot more to fret about than keg parties and plummeting GPA’s!  Enter a grizzled detective with a dark past (genre legend Tom Atkins, whose presence alone makes this one worth watching again and again), and you’ve got all the ingredients of a classic horror-comedy.  Its tagline might be the coolest from any horror film ever:  “The good news is, your dates are here.  The bad news is . . . they’re dead.”

Turn your brain off (or give it to the slugs) and you’re guaranteed to have a blast.  ‘Creeps is one of the best of the ‘80s.