Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 horror film written and directed by Fred Dekker. The film is notable as both an earnest attempt at a B-movie as well as a spoof of the genre. While the main plot of the film is related to zombies (its title is a play on Night of the Living Dead), the film also mixes in takes on slashers and alien invasion films.

Endings

There are two versions of the film's ending. The version tagged onto the theatric and subsequent VHS release ends with Chris and Cynthia watching the sorority house burn down when the dead dog returns. The scene ends when the dog opens its mouth and a slug jumps out at the camera.

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This was not what Dekker inteaded, however. The ending he wanted: the scene of Chris and Cynthia standing in front of the burning sorority house moves to the street where cop cars race down the street. We then see the charred and zombified Cameron shuffling down the street when he suddenly stops and falls to the ground where the slugs scamper out and head into a cemetery. But before any chaos can ensue, the alien space ship from the beginning of the film comes back and retrieves their experiment.

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The latter ending wound up never making it when Dekker made the admitted mistake of showing it to the studio before the effects were done. Not impressed with what they saw, they requested a different ending that became a cheap scare. Dekker's original ending has been seen in some television broadcast versions of the film, and is available on bootleg DVD copies being sold on eBay.

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