Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Fred Dekker
Written by	Fred Dekker
Produced by	Charles Gordon
Starring	Jason Lively Steve Marshall Jill Whitlow Tom Atkins
Cinematography	Robert C. New
Edited by	Michael N. Knue
Music by	Barry De Vorzon
Distributed by	Tri-Star Pictures
Release date	August 22, 1986 (1986-08-22)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$591,366 (US)[1]

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker in his feature directorial debut, starring Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, and Tom Atkins. The film is an earnest attempt at a B movie and an homage to the genre. While the main plot of the film is related to zombies, the film also mixes in takes on slashers and alien invasion films. Night of the Creeps did not perform well at the box office, but it developed a cult following.^[2]

In the film, a college student and his best friend steal a cadaver from a cryogenics lab, as part of an initiation rite in a local fraternity. The "corpse" is an undead body from the late 1950s, and is under the control of an extraterrestrial organism. Soon, several other people are infected with these alien slugs.