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John Allman

If you’ve ever wandered the aisles at the video store or surfed the DVR pay-per-view options and seen a bunch of movies that you’ve never heard of, chances are John has watched them. Why? He loves movies. All kinds of movies. Good, bad, so-bad-they’re good, even the truly unwatchable ones. He mostly loves horror and science-fiction and drive-in exploitation movies that most upstanding model citizens wouldn’t dare watch. Then he writes up his thoughts so you can decide - watch, don’t watch or avoid at all costs. Sometimes he even gets to talk to the cool folks who make some of your favorite films.

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Coffin Classics: Night of the Creeps - Director’s Cut

Posted Nov 1, 2009 by John Allman

Updated Nov 1, 2009 at 01:26 PM

Night of the Creeps – Director’s Cut
Genre: Horror/Zombie
Directed by: Fred Dekker
Run time: 90 minutes
Rating: Unrated
Format: Blu-Ray

The Lowdown: Fred Dekker’s 1986 cult classic has a large following and for good reason.

Of all the cheesy 1980 monster movies that were released in multiplexes, “Night of the Creeps” has an enduring popularity because of its fun nature, its gross effects and its sweet, clichéd nerdy boy meets girl story that gets goosed by an invasion of parasitic alien worms from outer space.

Released in high-definition for the first-time, the director’s cut includes Dekker’s original ending, which teased a second story focusing on the alien efforts to retrieve and kill the worms, and makes for a fun game of what-could-have-been.

“Night of the Creeps” is best enjoyed as pure 80s cheese. It’s not memorable for producing good, grab your girlfriend’s hand scares like “Fright Night” or “Night of the Demons,” but it features venerable B-movie God Tom Atkins (I still love you in “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” regardless of what everyone else says) and enough face-exploding parasite worm attacks to keep gorehounds happy.

This is definitely one for collector’s and for diehard horror fans to add to their shelf. It’s a great lazy day, pop it in the player and nap intermittently movie.

The Stuff You Care About:
Hot chicks – Hot enough.
Nudity – Brief.
Gore – Yes.
Drug use – No.
Bad Guys/Killers – Zombie-making space worms.
Buy/Rent – Buy it.
Blu-Ray Bonus Features – Director and cast commentary; original theatrical ending; deleted scenes; multilple featurettes, “Birth of the Creeps,” “Cast of the Creeps,” “Creating the Creeps,” “Escape of the Creeps,” “Legend of the Creeps”; a short feature on B-movie legend Tom Atkins, “Man of Action”; trivia track; original theatrical trailer.
Release Date – Oct. 27, 2009