Night of the Creeps

This blog is called Awesome and Awesomely Bad Movies for a reason, so here you go, an awesomely bad movie. It's one of those movies that's so bad its good. Well, entertaining at least. Night of the Creeps' story begins with aliens (yes aliens) running through a ship, one is carry a metal rube about the same size as he is. The others are chasing the first, shooting at it. He runs to a hatch and ejects the tube from the ship. Now it's 1959 on sorority row, Pam and new boyfriend Johnny head to the Point to spend alittle time together. While there, a police officer (Pam's old boyfriend) comes along and tells them to move it. There's an escaped lunatic on the loose. (Bah. What does he know?) Then (hey look!) they see a meteor go over head and Johnny wants to find where it landed, so they head off into the woods to find it. Johnny goes off by himself leaving Pam in the car all on her own. Sitting there alone listening to the radio, she hears the breaking news. A madman has broken out of the local asylum, killing four people with an axe and he's thought to be headed towards Corman College down Route 66. Hmmm. Pam turns on the headlights. (Oh look a road sign!) Guess who's on Route 66 and Corman College is only 3 miles away? (Pam is!) Now where the hell is Johnny? He's found the "meteor", (it's actually the metal tube we saw earlier in the alien's ship, duh.) and there's something coming out of it. Whatever it is, it dives down his throat. Meanwhile Pam's still in the car and she's freaking out. Rightly so. There's a nutjob with a axe coming up behind her.

Cut to the present (well, at the time, 1986) it's rush week,  JC and Chris are looking for something to do. That's when Chris spots his dream girl (in classic 80's movie style everything slows down), but then she heads into the Beta House. (Oh noes!) Chris hates the Betas. They follow her in regardless. JC approaches her on behalf of Chris, to find out what he can (her name's Cindy and she has a boyfriend) before the brickhead she was talking to comes back. He uses his disability as an out (to keep from having his face pounded in), JC leaves a few details out when he relays his gathered information to his BFF  (like the boyfriend part). Chris determines the only way to get Cindy is to become a Beta. (Abit of a leap, yes?) The head of the Beta House (aka Brad the Boyfriend) says he'll let them in if they collect a cadaver and leave it on the steps of the Gamma House. So our heroes head to the university's med center, (obviously the best place to steal a corpse) there they find a electronically locked door. Wonder what's in there? Why it's a frozen dead guy! Whoo! Problem solved. So JC opens the freezer and out pops the corpse-sicle. Holy crap his eyes opened! And then they run like hell! The labtech goes into investigate and the dead guy offs him.

We see an older guy sitting on the beach, next he's in uniform watching the nutjob (from earlier) whacking the hell outta Pam with an axe. The nutcase turns and he's a walking carcass. The detective Cameron jerks awake when the phone rings, he's called to the scene on campus. There were two bodies, now there's only one. How did that happen? No ones really sure. The dead guy is out wandering the streets and he's found his way to the sorority house. He scares the living crap out of Pam, then his head splits open and out pours a bunch a slugs. (Slither anyone?) And just like that he's just another dead body lying on the Kappa's front steps. The Betas think JC and Chris put him there and they're pretty pissed. Brad shows his true jerkface colors and trips JC in front of Cindy, so she dumps him on the spot. It's about then that the police pick the boys up. The night janitor recognized them, called them out for running away from the lab "screaming like banshees". But they were empty handed, not toting a dead guy, so clearly they didn't dump the body. So who did? This week just gets better and better for our dear Detective. He's called to yet another scene on campus, the labtech's body was found and it wasn't in the morgue where the police had left him. All of this weirdness is seriously freaking Cindy out, she needs to talk to someone. Should she talk to one of her friends? Nah. She'll talk to JC and Chris, who she's known all of 15 minutes. Being the best friend a guy could hope for JC sees this as an opportunity for Chris and Cindy to spend a little alone time together. So while they're taking a stroll around the quad, he ducks out to use the little boys room. Cindy then tells Chris about the body coming to her window, how she didn't tell the cops because she was sure they would think she was crazy. Poor Chris, he's just realized his dream girl is a total nutbar. (Eh. Whatever. She's still hot. Right Chris?)

A very zombiefied janitor shambles into the mens' room while JC sits scribbling graffiti on the stall wall (behind his head someone's written STRYPER RULES, which totally made my day) when he hears a strange noise. He opens the door to see what it was. There's a dead man lying on the floor with his head split open, no big deal. Wait a minute! Holy balls! Dead man! Creepy slug things coming out of his head! (Which apparently are highly flammable.) One of those things go up JC's pant leg, while he's crawling for all he's worth (at some point he lost his crutches) but there's an alien slug just in front of him! Then we're back with Cindy and Chris she asks him to go to the formal with her, nevermind her boyfriend/ex-boyfriend (?) Brad the Beta (I'm sure he won't be an issue). Chris is on cloud nine until he turns around and realizes that Cameron has been following him this whole time. They head back to his office. It's sharing time. Hey, kid, did I ever tell you about the time that I found my murdered ex-girlfriend? Cameron was still a rookie when he found her hacked to pieces and went (crazy!) on the hunt to find whoever did it. He tracked the guy down on his off hours, shot him in the chest with his shotgun, then put his body in a couple of garbage bags and buried him. In a vacant lot. Right behind the Kappa sorority house. (Ah, memories) See it's not a vacant lot anymore, its the sorority's house mother's cottage.

Holy crap there's something coming through the floor of the house mother's cottage! It's a dead maniac with an axe! (Good job burying him with is weapon of choice, Detective.) The poor house mother, she seemed like such a sweet old lady. The search is on! There's a psychopath on the loose. Even worse he's a zombie! A pair of uniforms track him to a dead end street. They call for immediate back up, Detective Cameron and a number of others draw down on him but he won't drop his weapon. They shoot the shit out of him. Cameron takes the final shot, blows his head clear off. No one bothers to shoot the slugs that fall from his head. The next day all seems right again. No more dead people walking around and the zombie axeman is gone. Chris needs to get ready for his date! Oh, has anyone seen JC? He didn't come home last night. Hmmm. Whats this? A note that says listen with an arrow pointing to a tape recorder sitting right on my desk? Could this be a clue? It's JC! Man, he sounds terrible. He tells Chris that one of things has gotten inside of him, that he can feel it in his brain and that he no longer has a pulse (he can walk now on his own, that's a plus right!). Then he tells him about killing one with a lit match. He says good bye then, he's going to throw himself into the furnace in the basement because he knows that the heat will kill them. Chris hauls ass down to the furnace room. JC didn't quite make it into the furnace but (luckily) the floor close to the furnace was hot enough to do the job. (This is so not what Chris needed just before the formal!) Time to talk to Cameron. They head to the station to pick up a flamethrower. (That's normal right?) Oh good, and now there's a busload of dead guys recently zombifed, thanks  to an evil alien-infected dog. Looks like it's all of the Betas, including Brad, and  they've come to pick up the Kappas for the formal. "I've good news and bad news, girls. The good news is, your dates are here." "What's the bad news?" "They're dead." Cindy has the flamethrower for some reason now, but she knows how to use it. (That's lucky!) Now the only remaining slugs are in the basement with one of the girl's science project. I'm not really sure what her project was but the slugs really like it. Cameron beats them to the basement, he's down there was a full gas can and a bad attitude. He's going to burn that mother down! Chris and Cindy better get the hells out of there! You think that's the end? Well, yeah sorta. But not really. We see a deep fried Cameron walking away from the flames... he's headed to the local loony bin. And wouldn't you know it, his head splits open and out pops a bunch of slugs! Oh. And the aliens come back. They have a giant search light, it seems they're looking for something.  The End.

This is definitely a movie to watch when you want to have a bad horror movie night. Or when you're just feeling kind of retro. It kinda has that 1950's scifi flick feel. Either way (in my opinion) it's a movie totally worth watching. Even if it's just a one time deal.