 Hello and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten. And what are we drinking today, my dear friend? We're drinking Shockwaves, a German Rogan beer. Today we are going to be talking about 1986's Night of the Creeps. We were requested to do it by our friend Ron Moore, who is kind enough to have us on his podcast called the Manitoba Money Shot. Yeah, the Money Shot is not what you think. There'll be a link to the podcast in the description below. It is written and directed by Fred Decker. He also did Monster Squad. It stars Jason Lively, and he of course is in European Vacation. He plays Rusty, one of the many Rustys. And aside him is the living legend, the B-movie master, Tom Atkins. The movie starts out completely out of left field with these little aliens and they're shooting at this one alien who's holding this great big canister, shoots this canister out of the hold of the ship, and it floats towards Earth. It's 1959, while they're driving to this lover's lane on the radio. They hear that there's an escaped mental patient, so he's on the loose. He's still on the loose! There's a cop that's kind of patrolling this lover's lane and he comes up to this couple and he tells him to get moving, right? Because this guy's on the loose. He's on the loose! He's on the loose! Fireball comes through the sky, he goes searching for it and he finds this canister that's been driven into the ground. While he's looking at this canister, the woman sitting in the car, there's the mental patient behind her. It fast-forwards to the 80s. Party night at the university or college. One main character to one that Jason Lively plays, he's Chris and he's got the hots for this one chick. She belongs to a fraternity. He wants to join this fraternity. Preppy, like, asshole, jock guys. Yeah, these fraternity guys. Cook up this scheme. They have to go steal a corpse. Leave it on the front step of the other dorms. So while they're trying to find this corpse, they uncover this priogenic room or whatever. It's with all these, like, computer consoles and there's this one solid tube with this guy in it. Press a bunch of buttons and stuff and release them. Scares the shit out of them and they take off. This one guy who's in City Slickers 2. He stumbles upon this corpse that had been thawed now and he gets a tube. Thrill me. So Ray Cameron gets to the scene. Cameron's confused. He was told there was two corpses. Where is the second corpse? And no one can really answer him. We find out that Cameron is actually the cop from the flashback. In the meantime, this corpse, which is missing from the crime scene, is on the loose. Still on the loose. And shows up at the fraternity where the girls are staying. The head explodes and these leeches come out, takes over a different body. The creeps, as we'll call them. Cynthia sees this happen. His head exploded and these things came out and they're zombies. Okay. Maybe I better take you home. And it's funny that the fact that when he finally gets the girl he loves, she sounds like a complete nutcase. In the meantime, J.C. is gone by himself to take a shit. One of the infected comes in, screaming like a banshee. And it's a great scene because he's gotten over to go. Chris gets back to his dorm and J.C. is in order to be found. But he finds a tape machine, plays it back, and it's basically J.C. saying he's been infected. Doesn't have much longer to live, but he found out a way to kill him. So now Tom Atkins, Mr. Cameron, and Chris are out to go get the creeps. And who has the guns? The same guy is in Terminator. Rest in peace, Dick Miller. That's a good gun. Cameron and Chris show up at the dorm. Ladies, good news and bad news. Good news is your dates are here. Bad news is they're dead. And that's where we're gonna end it with Tom Atkins defending and warding off a bunch of zombie-ridden creep corpses. So if you wanna see how it ends, watch Night of the Creeps. If you haven't seen it, it's an 80s B-movie camp classic. Yeah, masterpiece. One of the best things about this movie is the camp. It starts off from the get go. If it didn't have that scene with the aliens in the beginning, you'd take this movie a lot more serious. Yeah, exact. But because it starts off with the scene with the aliens, you're like, ah, this is camp, it's silly. Then you're prepared for the rest and knows what it is. And it purposely went out to be that, too. The dialogue and everything plays into that. Like the movie was written very well. The flow is quite good in this movie. The opening black and white flashback scene is done so well. Yeah, it pays a lot of homage to the old movies from the 50s. A lot of the names, a lot of the last names are paying homage to directors. Romero, Carpenter. Yeah, Cronenberg, right? Totally a love letter to Sy Thine in horror movies. And there's a difference between a rip-off and an homage. And this is so blatantly an homage and not a rip-off. Because in a way, it's very original. Huge budget for this, too. Five million bucks. Which didn't make back. Not a tenth that it made back. It's so visually pleasing. And it's very colorful. Everything, all the effects in this movie are top notch. Like literally top notch. Speaking of the effects, it's kind of neat where it's one of the few movies where the whole effects crew is in the movie. The busload of asshole guys, that's the effects crew. And they all play their own zombies. Yeah, it's Night of the Creeps, slugs and shit. But it's also Night of the Creeps. These guys are creeps. Creepy dudes. They're shitty 80s and mustaches and everything. Then they look like a bunch of douchebags. Tom Atkins. This could be his best performance, depth to it. And he has that one speech reliving the whole scenario that happened back in the 50s, back to Chris. And it is actually, I think, Tom Atkins' best performance that retelling. And he really is haunted by it. Exactly what this movie is about for him is the past coming back to haunt you and having to get past that. Fun as hell. If you want a good just 80s party movie, feel like Night of the Comet. Return of the Living Dead. Right up the alley for you. You've got to watch Night of the Creeps. It doesn't look like a B movie, but it pretends to be a B movie. That's the magic of it. One of the best 80s horror comedies of all time. Yep. Keep drinking.