What was the last movie you've seen?

[Hobie-wan]

It should be required viewing in health class to show kids how fucked up your life can become because of drugs.

College health class? Kids can go through their lives without seeing double dildo action.

Well, I'd obviously support a little bit of editing there in this case. When my 9th grade English teacher showed the 60s Romeo and Juliet she jumped up and stood in front of the TV while she fast forwarded past the half second blur of Juliet's bare breast as she rolled out of bed.

[Luke]

Your English teachers stinks.

Mine said "Please act like adults" and we got boobies.

[Retrodude]

Same here. In fact, I watched the 60s movie in preperation to play Lord Capulet in my class's production of the play. This was when I was in 3rd grade. My teachers were awesome.

[REPO Man]

What could I say that hasn't been said before? I recommend it, and it's streaming on NetFlix, as is the 2005 remake, which I plan on seeing just because.

I first heard about this on Time Out New York's website, where it got a great review.

[Michi]

Night of the Creeps


I’m really bummed to have missed this one on TCM the night they aired it. Unfortunately they started the Underground late that night (well after 3am) and I didn’t feel like staying up until 5 that morning. One has to build up energy for thrift store shopping, you know. It’s a pity I missed it then, but I’m glad I recorded it. This one was a hoot.

Night of the Creeps throws you off at first by starting off in space where two fat, naked little aliens are chasing another fat, naked little alien through a corridor.


Pictured: Not the first thing I was expecting to see when the movie started.

The lone alien the other two are chasing then expels a capsule out into the vastness of space, where it eventually finds itself in drab 1950’s America. How do we know it’s the 1950’s? Because everything is in black and white.


Because everyone knows color wasn’t invented until hippies came along.

The two lovebirds pictured above watch the little capsule enter the earths atmosphere and land (In spectacular fashion, I might add), and go to check it out. Or, I should say, the boyfriend goes to check it out, leaving the girlfriend in the car, which she’s none to happy about. Oh, did I mention there’s a maniac with axe wandering around and that there’s some sort of alien experiment inside the capsule?

So, to recap: Boyfriend leaves girl alone in car to go poke at an unknown alien thingy in a capsule while an escaped mental patient is wandering around, armed with an axe. Can anyone see this ending well?


The answer to that question should be: no.

The movie then skips ahead to the 80’s (now filmed in Technicolor and rocking some 80’s themed music) and introduces us to these two awkward, not too bright, but for the most part loveable fellows:


“Do we have a line?”
“Hell if I know.”

That’s young, whinny Chris on the right and he’s bummed out that he doesn’t have a girlfriend. He finds a potential candidate soon enough in sorority girl, Cynthia. But of course, Cynthia already has a boyfriend, a testosterone filled frat boy so stereotypical they gave him the most cliché bully name ever: Brad.

In an effort to impress Cynthia, Chris and his buddy JC try to join Brad’s frat, but first they have to pass a test. And by test I mean they have to commit multiple felonies and city ordinances by leaving a corpse on a competing frat’s front lawn.

While trying to pull of this stupid endeavor, they come across the cryogenically frozen body of the dumb 50’s boyfriend from the beginning of the movie who is, for some reason, being held in a building on campus grounds.


Oh thank GOD he has underwear on.

The two nitwits manage to get the guy out of the freezer, but bail when he wakes up and grabs one of their arms. This lets the ‘supposed to be dead’, alien experiment laden, 1950’s frat boy loose on campus and ultimately culminates in what has to be one of the most bad-ass dates ever.


Any date that involves a flamethrower, but does not involve it being pointed at you = awesome.

The best thing Night of the Creeps has got going for it is the special effects. The comet/falling experiment scene mentioned above is quite striking by itself. But it’s in the makeup where the effects really shine. Those real-life special effects give the movie a disturbing yet charming edge that similar CGI elements can’t hope to compete with.




This is why you shouldn't let the cat out at night

The acting leaves something to be desired, but with a movie that obviously drew so much from B-movies in general, serious dramatic acting would have seemed out of place.

It also would have made it harder to believe the shear number of dimwits who keep missing the fact that there’s a freaking zombie standing 3 feet away from them. But maybe zombified behavior is normal on college campuses.


”Where is my brain—I mean, date?”


Night of the Creeps is a real treat. It’s filled with a bunch of sci-fi, horror and even a bit of romance B-movie elements, but blends them together in a fun, witty, and well-paced film. It’s a romantic sci-fi/horror gumbo, if you will. It’s the kind of movie perfect for those who like a little humor in their horror and are willing to not take their films so seriously. It’s a great little horror film and I’m just sad that it took me so long to watch it.

[noiseredux]

Glad you saw that finally Michi. Night of the Creeps is excellent.

[Nintendork666]

Night of the Creeps rules. So does what I watched:



Blankman (1994)

[Retrodude]

I've heard of that one but never seen it. Is it anything like Kick Ass?

[Luke]

I've heard of that one but never seen it. Is it anything like Kick Ass?

No. Not the slightest.

Had plans on going to Raleigh last night, but the boss said she wanted to leave Saturday morning (woo-hoo!) so we had friends over and watched

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

With a drinking game. Drink every time Jack Burton asks a question. The ladies quit at about 45 minutes in, the manly men stuck with it.

BTILC is timeless. I can't tell a big difference in quality on the Blu-Ray from the dvd, but it does look something great.

And so what do a few manly men watch after downing over eight beers a piece in 90 minutes?

CLUELESS

I still adore this movie. It's far fetched, yet it is dead on. I quote it all the time and will probably never get tired of watching it. "Look at Laurence's head", "It's the BOMB!" remains one of my favorite lines from the 90's.

I somehow had forgotten that Alicia smokes the pot at the big party. In fact, she almost demands it.

[stickem]

love btilc. never could understand what the deal is with jack's mindless ranting over the cb in the beginning. sounds stupid every time i watch it. and his overacting was so bad he was hilarious.