#Zombie night terror brainless invasion movie#
The alien subplot finished, we’re now smack dab in the midst of a black and white monster movie starring guys with crew cuts, girls that say dreamy, and brain-eating space slugs. Inevitably, the research is jettisoned, and makes its way toward Earth-Sorority Row, 1959, America to be precise. Via subtitles that are rendered in both English and in the alien language, we learn that the ship is transporting a dangerous biological experiment, and that an unexplained enemy agent is attempting to eject said experiment into the dark vacuum of space. Inexplicably, however, we begin, not on the quad, but in outer space, with several unclothed, homuncular aliens running around a spaceship firing laser guns at each other. Even when a joke falls flat or a bit of dialogue is especially painful, the frenetic pace, occasional hilarity, and solid horror set pieces overcome the letdown, and pull us irresistibly deeper into this manic tale of cops and coeds fighting to kick the ever-increasing numbers of undead permanently off campus. An unapologetic amalgam of sci-fi monster schlock, college campus comedy, and, of course, gory zombie horror, Creeps avoids the hazards of genre mingling by pitting its heroes against a believable undead threat, and not allowing its audience many uneventful moments to dwell on the film’s inanity. When adventurous zombie filmgoers stumble across a film that advertises itself as a horror-comedy, or, worse still, a horror-comedy with a sci-fi twist, they are generally best advised to stay away.īut of course, if such advice were followed, no one would watch Night of the Creeps, and that would be a tragedy. In countless examples of such storytelling crossbreeding (which, owing to a dearth of zombie originality, blossomed during the mid-’80s), the undead terror is insipid and the comedy is lame-the latter often centered on uninspired spoofs of successful films, and lots of camera winking during hackneyed horror setups.
Cinematic hybrids are always a risky proposition, particularly when zombie horror and comedy are the genres being melded.
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