NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)

Some icky slug creatures from outer space land on Earth near a college and start jumping into people's mouths and turning them into zombies...right in time for the big formal dance.  "The good news is your dates are here."  "What's the bad news?"  "They're dead." 

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS should have made a buttload of money, since it's a highly entertaining and fun 80's alien invasion/zombie movie, but for whatever stupid reason, it only opened in a handful of screens (Box Office Mojo says 70) on a brutal weekend where it went head-to-head against ALIENS, THE FLY, STAND BY ME, TOP GUN, TCM2, THE KARATE KID II, BACK TO SCHOOL, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF and more!  It never had a chance, but luckily for us horror nerds it managed to avoid falling into obscurity and nowadays we can enjoy this clever 80's classic whenever we want.

Steady pace, imaginative and engaging story, likeable characters and a bad guy (the Bradster) who's really not so dislikable, good special effects, Dick Miller, funny script, a few topless scenes, a flamethrower, Stryper graffiti, MONSTER SQUAD graffiti, attractive girls all over the place, but none as attractive as Jill Whitlow.  Holy skydiving sloth testicles she was ridiculously hot in this film.  Quite possibly the hottest chick in any 80' horror movie ever!

Modern audiences will probably find the whole thing dated, but fans of 80's horror will enjoy it.  Recommended.

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

BLUE SUNSHINE (1978)

Uhhhh, yeah.  I didn't care for this movie.  The story - random people who took a special type of LSD (Blue Sunshine) 10 years ago are now suddenly losing their hair before going on a murderous rampage - is a great idea for a film, but the execution is boring.

A dude is chilling at a party when another dude goes all Party Pooper level 1,000 and starts stuffing people into the fireplace.  Needless to say, the party is over and the original dude ends up fighting the other guy to the death and then running away.  Now on the run and blamed for four brutal murders, he starts investigating exactly why that dude suddenly went bonkers.  (If the police really wanted to catch him all they would have to do is tail his girlfriend, because he's constantly meeting her and another doctor friend of his.)  Anyway, the dude eventually learns about the LSD and how it's connected to a up-and-coming politician who used to be a drug dealer.  In my head, I was thinking the finale of the film would be the politician going ape shit during a big campaign rally and yanking off his hair on live TV before killing people in front of the whole world, but...no.  Instead, the real ending is so anti-climactic that I was actually surprised that that really was The End!  It was laughable.

Anyway, BLUE SUNSHINE is a interesting time capsule into late-70's low-budget horror, but honestly it was pretty boring. I'd love to see a violent and demented as fook remake. Somebody give me some cash and I'll write it.