Night of the Creeps (1986)
Directed by Fred Dekker
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
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The biggest surprise is that Gunn appears to have seen and liked Night of the Creeps, and that, like that film, Slither does what it does without sacrificing too much of its good-natured, self-deprecating sense of humour along the way.
A basic remake of “Night of the Creeps”, James Gunn’s “Slither” strives to be its own entity, and in many respects he succeeds in attempting such an endeavor.
The fact is, for anyone looking for logical links between past and present efforts, films like Night of the Creeps, Robot Holocaust and Bad Taste provide far more credible creative starting points.
Using humor and gore as his lethal weapons, Black — who co-wrote the screenplay with veteran genre junkie Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps) — kicks his film off like the first movie as an alien spaceship crashes in the middle of the jungle, right when a U.S. military sniper, McKenna (Holbrook), is trying to take out a gang of narcos.
So much in The Predator that springs from the imaginations of Black and his co-writer Fred Dekker (Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps) feels like the work of people who put genuine thought into every cool and fun possibility the predator aliens can offer.
Sin embargo, la empresa no es solamente suya, ya que colabora en el libreto Fred Dekker, que escribió películas como Night of the Creeps y varios episodios de Tales from the Crypt.