Harmless fun, typical low budget eighties horror.

What I love about Night of the Creeps is that it's pure cinema. It opens on weird aliens who look like giant babies jettisoning a dangerous experiment from their ship. We won't see these guys again, it's just a crazy opener. The test tube falls into a 1950s B-movie, and a quite well realized one, shot just like the better examples of the genre (despite the Ed Wood references, it's not amateurish like that). Alien parasites are released, but they won't become a problem until contemporary 1986, which is ALSO a movie reality - a Porky's/Revenge of the Nerds-style frat comedy full of partying teens looking to get killed and possessed by the gross alien worms. And as the bodies pile up, a hard-nosed, catchphrase-talkin' detective (Tom Atkins) clearly from another type of '80s movie, starts taking an interest. It's a big, fun movie mish-mash with a lot of texture and comedy, an evident love of low-brow films (the characters' names are all obvious homages too), and some lovely (so to speak) creature effects. I feel like sometimes people avoid movies with trashy titles, and it's probably the case with this one. It should have been as well-known as the movies it spoofs.

Has a good cult following and is an enjoyable movie, but I was slightly underwhelmed by it.