Fred Dekker superfan and all around nice guy from Iceland, Omar Swarez (who designed that swanky one-sheet on the left, just for fun), suggested last year the 1980s genre mash-up Night of the Creeps, for an episode of the Movie Club Podcast (which you can find here). Combining the college nerd-movie with zombies, aliens, noir-ish cops and even 1950s nostalgia, the film is a beloved cult item which has been only around on aging laser discs, battered VHS tapes and various traded torrents and bootlegs. With the concept of alien slugs infecting and turning folks into zombies, this movie is surely inspiration behind the bigger budget cult comedy Slither (Tom Atkins vs. Nathan Fillion, go). The powers that be (that would be Sony Pictures, who produced Night of the Creeps as a studio picture originally under TriStar) are finally putting out a directors cut, with the original ending restored. The cut is being personally supervised by Dekker (who has been touring with a theatrical release print of the film for years, from Austin to Toronto), and it may even be out this October for Halloween. Fans of wacky 80s projects, rejoice!
The DVD is in the production stages right now, according to ‘special features production house’ Red Shirt Pictures. This will join the fabulously thorough Monster Squad DVD that was put out a few years earlier.
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Yay! My poster!
Congrats, very cool poster!
I saw this film in a theater. Its a really fun B film. I actually like the alternative ending which is the one they used to show when the film aired in syndication on channels like WPIX out of NY years ago. Hope its included on the DVD.
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YES!!! I’ve been waiting years for this to come out on dvd. Tom Atkins is the man.
It’s the director’s cut so yes it’s there. The dog ending will be there as an extra.
And AICN just ran a quote from Dekker saying that they are looking in to a Blu Ray release as well.