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" what is this , a homicide or a bad b-movie ? "
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that is the prophetic question asked by one of the leads in one of the early scenes of this movie .
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let me clear things up for you cupcake , this isn't a bad b-movie , it's a really bad b-movie .
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so bad , it's almost good .
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almost , but not quite .
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the movie starts off in the 1950's with space aliens sending a botched experiment down to earth .
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it is a bunch of slug-like creatures that kill people and take over their bodies .
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the slugs' first and only victim in the fifties is cryogenically frozen where he is of no danger to anybody .
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that is , until two loser university students unfreeze him in 1986 .
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he , and the slugs inside him , promptly begin wreaking havoc and turning more co-eds into slug zombies .
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a slightly crazed cop ( tom atkins ) and the requisite girl with the face of an angel ( jill whitlow ) join these two geeky university students ( jason lively and steve marshall ) to do battle with the slugs .
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it more or less falls on the four of them to make the world safe again from the evil slugs .
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the acting is bad with a capital b . the story is worse .
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and the special effects are somewhere between an old rerun of star trek and what you see in a home movie .
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the only saving grace was the requisite tit-shot courtesy of jill whitlow .
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it had absolutely nothing to do with the story -- but i liked it .
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actually , it was the high point of the movie for me .
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of course , that isn't really saying much .
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the story moves around in a hap hazard fashion .
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which gives it a leg up on some other horror films .
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unlike most movies of this genre , there actually is a story .
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not a great one , but it is there .
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this is one in a long line of movies from the 1980's that were thrown together to capitalize off the success of the friday the 13th , halloween and nightmare on elm street movies .
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you could randomly select a movie out of the horror section of you local video store and probably luck into something just as good if not better .
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but night of the creeps might make a nice addition to a b-movie horror marathon .
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just don't be too upset if you can't find it .
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you really won't be missing that much .
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