Night of the Creeps

The sad thing about this film is that while yes, it's directed by Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad & House), yes it's produced by Charles Gordon (Waterworld) and yes, it's a homage to the b-movies of the 50's, it is, in fact, crap. Shame that, it had so much potential.

Plot: Beginning with giant, alien baby folk losing their prized zombie experiment, we then jump to Earth, circa 1959; a couple snogging in their car see a comet passing over head and decide to check it out. Fools. The capsule carrying the experiment unleashes big slugs that take over the fella's mind and kills him, all the while, an escaped mental patient with a fire axe goes on a rampage and slaughters our sorority girl. Leap forward to 1986, same university town and a prank to steal a cadaver from the university labs goes array, loosing the cryogenically frozen young man from 1959 and his dormant slug buddies.

Sadly, while trying to cater to all the sub-genres of the b-movie, this film fails to capitilize on any of them, to the point that you never really care about it. There's a freaky cat and a dodgy dog, there's also an appearance from   Dick Miller (Mr Futterman in Gremlins). Make sure you watch the alternate ending if you do in fact see this film, it's so much better than the original  ending.

Budget: $5,000,000

Gross: $591,366

Fun Fact: All the characters are named for cult film favourites, James Cameron, George A.Romero, Sam Raimi, etc. A sequel, Zombietown was released in Germany, a pale follow up by all accounts.