The 80's for the horror genre was vital. It essentially gave birth to the slasher genre, low budget film making, gore and campy fun. There are as many classics as there are horribly done knock offs. Night of The Creeps is generally considered one of those campy classics so I eagerly decided to watch it. All I can say is...womp womp...there was very little likable about this. I can handle campy, I love a good classic campy film but this was just dumb. Its part zombie, part monster and part downright ridiculous. The characters are completely empty and forgettable and you never feel like the heroes are heroes at all. The romance is ridiculous and does nothing to further the story. It just doesn't make you feel anything. The special effects are okay and the story is certainly simple enough. Maybe part of the problem is that we have seen this premise before and so much better.
Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow are our three "heroes." I'm not sure I blame them on really bad performances or just the empty writing of their characters. They aren't likable at all and they have no chemistry with each other. I suppose Lively is redeemable as the geeky, reluctant hero but barely. The one character that they could have done something with was Ray Cameron played by Tom Atkins. He's the tough as nails, grizzled cop type that could have been focused on as the hero but he is played as a joke and too campy so he is wasted in the story.
Fred Dekker seems to have some sort of cult following due to this film and Monster Squad but outside of that and basically making the worst Robocop film he doesn't seem to have a whole lot of experience of vision as a director. I think this was an opportunity for them to make a violent, goofy, zombie/monster flick for next to nothing and turn a profit. I really had to push myself to get through this and with the exception of a few, a very very few watchable moments, this was barely acceptable. Definitely wouldn't bother with this when there is so much better 80's Horror fare out there. 3/10
Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow are our three "heroes." I'm not sure I blame them on really bad performances or just the empty writing of their characters. They aren't likable at all and they have no chemistry with each other. I suppose Lively is redeemable as the geeky, reluctant hero but barely. The one character that they could have done something with was Ray Cameron played by Tom Atkins. He's the tough as nails, grizzled cop type that could have been focused on as the hero but he is played as a joke and too campy so he is wasted in the story.
Fred Dekker seems to have some sort of cult following due to this film and Monster Squad but outside of that and basically making the worst Robocop film he doesn't seem to have a whole lot of experience of vision as a director. I think this was an opportunity for them to make a violent, goofy, zombie/monster flick for next to nothing and turn a profit. I really had to push myself to get through this and with the exception of a few, a very very few watchable moments, this was barely acceptable. Definitely wouldn't bother with this when there is so much better 80's Horror fare out there. 3/10