Rish's Reviews
I have loved this one for over a decade now. I remember once that my dad called this movie "garbage" and was quite angry at me for watching it. Very few people are familiar with the film, so it's been only endeared to me over the past years. Unfortunately, because I had so praised it, I was afraid tyranist wouldn't enjoy it, our friendship would suffer because of it, and I'd have to try to kill him again, so I dragged my feet at seeing it again. I shouldn't have worried.
If anything, Night of the Creeps was BETTER in 2001 than it was in '87 (and again in 2003, when I realized that it was time for me to dust off my highest gift of praise: "I could never write something this good."). I was able to notice little things, subtle details, hilarious moments, that I simply couldn't comprehend as a boy. I enjoyed the character names (Raimi, Cronenberg, Landis, Carpenter). I noticed neat period songs I had mostly forgotten about (like Jane Weidlin's "Blue Kiss" and TWO Stan Ridgeway songs). There was a surprisingly moving moment involving the buddy character, J.C., and dialogue that didn't NEED to be as good as it was. I love the feel of my favourite decade, which permeates this flick--part Campus Comedy, part Cop Drama, part Sci-Fi, and part old-fashioned Monster Movie. The non-Horror scenes are just as enjoyable as the scary ones. The special effects were somewhat cheap, but very effective. The "screaming like banshees" scene alone makes this movie worth seeing. The cast (with old, reliable Tom Atkins from a scad of horror films and even older, reliable Dick Miller) is good--but very few of them had much of a movie career (which is too bad, as a part of me is still in love with Jill Whitlow).
Gratuitous nudity, cool gore, great dialogue! This is as close to a perfect B-Horror film as you can get.
Fred Dekker, who wrote and directed this, also wrote the story for House (another 80's favourite of mine), and is a genuinely nice guy in person. But he doesn't seem to have done anything of note since then and I wonder why. If you run into the guy, ask him for me, and see if you can get him to come back and do something new.

The tyranist's thoughts
I have to admit that I had never seen this movie. Oh how sorry I am that I haven't been enjoying it for all these years.
There are a lot of horror movies centered around college kids and fraternities/sororities. There are a lot of zombie movies (which is what I would classify this as in spite of the fact that we listed the threat as space slugs). I've never seen one that was so genuinely funny and creative and just plain entertaining. Sure Return of the Living Dead is a great movie, but it lacks the heart that this one has. This was so obviously a loving effort by a man who loved horror movies. The character names. Dick Miller. Plan 9 from Outer Space. He has to be a fan.
I appreciated this movie much more than I thought I would (and more than Rish thought I would) so I have to urge anyone who hasn't made the effort to see this one to run out and rent it. Definitely worth it.