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what is this , a homicide or a bad b - movie ?
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that is the prophetic question asked by one of the leads in one of the early scenes of this movie .
let me clear things up for you cupcake ,
this is n't a bad b - movie , it 's a really bad b - movie .
so bad , it 's almost good .
almost , but not quite .
the movie starts off in the 1950 's with space aliens sending a botched experiment down to earth .
it is a bunch of slug - like creatures that kill people and take over their bodies .
the slugs ' first and only victim in the fifties is cryogenically frozen where he is of no danger to anybody .
that is , until two loser university students unfreeze him in 1986 .
he , and the slugs inside him , promptly begin wreaking havoc and turning more co - eds into slug zombies .
a slightly crazed cop ( tom atkins ) and the requisite girl with the face of an angel ( jill whitlow ) join these two geeky university students ( jason lively and steve marshall ) to do battle with the slugs .
it more or less falls on the four of them to make the world safe again from the evil slugs .
the acting is bad with a capital b .
the story is worse .
and the special effects are somewhere between an old rerun of star trek and what you see in a home movie .
the only saving grace was the requisite tit - shot courtesy of jill whitlow .
it had absolutely nothing to do with the story -- but i liked it .
actually , it was the high point of the movie for me .
of course , that is n't really saying much .
the story moves around in a hap hazard fashion .
which gives it a leg up on some other horror films .
unlike most movies of this genre , there actually is a story .
not a great one , but it is there .
this is one in a long line of movies from the 1980 's that were thrown together to capitalize off the success of the friday the 13th , halloween and nightmare on elm street movies .
you could randomly select a movie out of the horror section of you local video store and probably luck into something just as good if not better .
but night of the creeps might make a nice addition to a b - movie horror marathon .
just do n't be too upset if you ca n't find it .
you really wo n't be missing that much .
the story is worse . and the special effects are somewhere between an old rerun of star trek and what you see in a home movie moves around in a hap hazard fashion the acting is bad you really wo n't be missing that much this is n't a bad b - movie , it 's a really bad b - movie . so bad , it 's almost good . almost , but not quite