Night of the Creeps (1986)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1986
Running Times: 88 mins
Format: black and white / colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Delphi V Productions / Tri Star
Executive Producer: Bill Finnegan
Producer: Charles Gordon
Associate Producer: Donna Smith
Production Supervisor: Vahan Moosekian
Production Manager: Donna Smith

SCRIPT
Script: Fred Dekker

DIRECTION
Director: Fred Dekker
2nd Unit Director: Steve Miner
1st Assistant Director: Mark Allan
2nd Assistant Directors: Phillip Christon, Erica Fox

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert C. New

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Michael N. Knue

MUSIC
Music: Barry De Vorzon
Songs: Stan Ridgway (Big Heat; Drive She Said)
Music Editor: Jim Weidman

SOUND
Boom Operator: Stephen Halbert

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Eileen Kennedy
Assistant Costumer: Sara Markowitz

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Make Up Effects and Creeps Design: David B. Miller
Make Up Effects: Charles Lutkus, Bruce Zahlava, Earl Ellis, Mark Maitre, Shawn McEnroe, Tim Lawrence, Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman
Creeps Supervisor: Ted Rae

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Roger George

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: David Stipes Productions
Visual Effects Supervisor: David Stipes
Dimensional Animation Effects: Tony Laudati, Todd Masters, Anton Rupprecht, Diana Williams
Motion Control Operator: Michael Karp
Stop-Motion Puppet Fabricator: Michael Burnett
Title Designer: Ernest D. Farino

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: George Costello
Art Director: Maria Rebman Caso
Set Designer: Kevin Scott Mack
Set Decorator: Maria Rebman Caso
Set Dresser: Linda L. Rebman
Assistant Property Master: David E. Harshbarger

CASTING
Casting: Ilene Starger

CAST
Jason Lively (Chris)
Steve Marshall (J.C.)
Jill Whitlow (Cynthia Cronenberg)
Tom Atkins (Detective Ray Cameron)
Wally Taylor (Detective Landis)
Bruce Solomon (Sergeant Raimi)
Vic Polizos (coroner)
Allan Kayser (Brad)
Ken Heron (Johnny)
Alice Cadogan (Pam)
June Harris (Karen)
David Paymer (young scientist)
David Oliver (Steve)
Evelyne Smith (house mother)
Ivan E. Roth (psycho zombie)
Daniel Frishman (alien zombie)
Kevin Thompson, Joseph S. Griffo (alien pursuers)
Katherine Britton (sorority girl on phone)
Leslie Ryan (sorority girl with hairbrush)
Dave Alan Johnson (young Roy Cameron)
Suzanne Snyder (Lisa)
Jay Wakeman (Judy)
Elizabeth Cox (Kathy)
Emily Fiola (Jennifer)
Lori Lively (Lori)
Melanie Manos (Blair)
Russell Moss (Bill)
Richard DeHaven (Dick)
John J. York (Todd)
Jim Townsend (Chett)
Tex Donaldson (cop outside sorority)
Jay Arlen Jones (cop at police station)
Craig Schaefer (cop at cryogenics lab)
Richard Sassin (cop at murder scene)
Robert Kerman (patrolman with searchlight)
Jack Lightsy (patrol car driver)
Elizabeth Alda (cop in alley)
David B. Miller, Earl Ellis, Arick Stillwagon, Robert Kurtzman, Ted Rae, Keith Werle, Howard Berger, Beal Carrotes (Beta zombies)
Robert Kino (Mr Miner)
Todd Bryant (informative student)
Dawn Schroder (sorority girl at squad car)
Chris Dekker, Brian MacGregor (dormies)
Dick Miller (police armorer)

PLOT SUMMARY

In 1959, a frat boy is infected by an alien experiment that crashes to Earth in a small American town. The body is frozen but reanimated in the 1980s and the alien parasites it contains start to run riot through the campus, turning students into zombies.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributors: TriStar Pictures
Video Distributors: HBO Home Video
Laserdisc Distributors: HBO Video (TVL 9959); Image Entertainment Inc

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: M

Finland
Rating: K-18

Norway
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

West Germany
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

1986
August
22: USA – theatrical release

1987
April
16: West Germany – theatrical release

1988
April
29: Finland – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

If you scream... you're dead.

The good news is your date is here! The bad news is he's dead!

It'll be the night of your life... death

They don't bother to knock

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Dimensione terrore - Italian title
Homecoming Night - working title
Lötköjen yö - Finnish title
Die Nacht der Creeps - West German title
Noc pelzaczy - Polish title
El terror llama a su puerta - Spanish title

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

SEE ALSO
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Scream 3 (2000)
Shivers (1975)
The Thing (1982)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Deep Red no.1 p.43 (USA)

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.261
credits, review

KEYWORDS

aliens, axe murders, colleges, cryogenics, decapitation, exploding heads, flame throwers, monsters, paraplegics, parasites, police, slugs, zombies

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009