Detective Cameron: " I've got good news and bad news. The good news is there's a new Brendon Tenold video on TH-cam today. Sorority Girl: "What's the bad news?" Detective Cameron: "It's been flagged by TOHO."
Also used in Big Trouble In Little China. It seemed to have a different meaning in each movie it was mentioned. I always figured it must be from a commercial or something.
It's Miller time,so where's the beef,i've fallen and i cant getup due to a headache thiiiiis big and its screaming for Excedrin......COWABUNGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@zetetick395 He's so good, Weyoun from DS9 was only supposed to be a one off character who died at the end of the episode, but producers liked him so much they created the entire Vorta being clones just so they could bring him back.
Living in the 80s, it was 60s nostalgia we were about. Vietnam War movies and reviving the music careers of The Grateful Dead and The Beach Boys. That 50s nostalgia was in the 70s with stuff like Happy Days and Grease.
it's not irony, it's a lack of creativity on hollyweird's part and trying to capitalize on an entire decade's worth of classic IPs that today's hacks are pathetically incapable of matching. those of us who were around then aren't the ones going to see reboots/remakes, we've learned our lesson well on that one, so they fail even on a nostalgia level.
Fun fact, this movie has an alternate ending. After the detective sacrifices himself and blows up the sorority house, a dog walks up to Chris and Cynthia. Cynthia bends down to pet it, but it turns out the dog has been taken over and it shoots an alien slug out at her.
uk here, we rented this when i was about 10 on vhs. i saw that ending. was speaking to the youtuber films comics explained, he was on about a movie that ripped this off. told him to watch this and he thought this was done better. still scared the crap out of me lol..
The dog ending was also seen on Cinemax showtime HBO etc basically the premium channels but on the cable channel the detective ending is the one shown that's the ending I seen.i didn't know the dog ending existed til years later.
J.C.: "Go for it! I mean, the girl has misplaced her marble collection, but go for it!" J.C.: "Cynthia, my time is limited -- much like the intellect of Steve." J.C.: "So you want to meet her?" Chris: "I want to MARRY her!" J.C.: "Afraid you're gonna have to meet her first. I know it's rough, but I don't make the rules."
As far as my friend and I are concerned, Tom Atkins did play the same character in Halloween 3. We called him Dr. Badass in Halloween 3 and Detective Badass in Night Of The Creeps.
“What is this, a homicide or a bad B-movie?” To quote Horror Guru, _“Oh, shit! Alpha ‘Stache is self-aware! I repeat, Alpha ‘Stache is self-aware!”_ In all seriousness, though, great review, Brandon!
@@RetroFan2.0 Because back in the mid 80's, "It's Miller Time" meant "Let's Party" or "Let's rock and roll". The same way nowadays people might say "Let's get it" or "Let's go!". You see, in the late 70's and 80's "It's Miller Time" was the catchphrase for Miller beer but then the saying became synonymous with wild n' out. It was in commercials and promotional posters and was in the lexicon of many Americans. Just go with it.
It astounds me when people ask simple questions on TH-cam when they could just look it up themselves by doing a three-second search and getting an answer RIGHT AWAY. Instead, they ask "how so" and then have to wait hours, days, weeks, months, years, or maybe NEVER for a reply when they could just look it up themselves. I did a search of "It's MIller time" and in literally a few seconds it told me everything I needed to know. Like I said, truly astounding how lazy some people are... lol
@@christopherwalkinalloverya5824 Funny, I thought Miller Time meant to get drunk to the point that you would get a literal splitting headache, like the one he provides the zombies with.
I met Fred Dekker last week at a horror convention in Manchester UK. He was a lovely guy and spoke lovingly about this movie and the monster squad. They don't make em like this anymore.
Sadly, it's probably due to them being cult classics. Emphasis on the cult part. Dekker seemed cursed to have movies flop on him, which is pretty damn sad considering. Not a huge fan of House, but Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps are two of my all-time favorites.
This was back when the name Fred Dekker meant something. How can you not love a film that has zombies, killer slugs, aliens, axe murderer, likeable characters named after horror directors and Tom Atkins, who is ready to kick ass. You will have a fun time and once it's over, you will be screaming like banshees. Plus American Horror Story: The Coven clearly took a lot from this movie. So get your popcorn ready, sit back and enjoy because it's Miller time!
"It's Miller time" goes back to the 70's as a Miller Beer ad campaign slogan. It was still a pretty common saying when I was a kid in the mid-late 80's, usually meaning it was time to party, relax, etc... with that context, it really wasn't a random, out of place pop culture reference.
I once shook John Landis’ hand, and told him I liked his movies. But I had to resist the urge to tell him I live in the town where that helicopter decapitated Vic Morrow and those kids.
I got to meet Will Patton once, since i Actually liked "The Postman" and he played General Bethlehem, i greeted him with "you spelt tyranny wrong" he seemed surprised i liked the movie, bullshitted with him for about 45min on the clock, gave him advice on travelling through the passes on I-5, seemed like a pretty nice guy
I didn't care for 3 as much, that's the point the people working on them stopped caring and just started ripping off Romero. Still, its way better than "Necropolis" and "Rave to the Grave". How the hell do you shoot two movies at once and still end up with two movies that have almost nothing in common?
@@LibraGamesUnlimited When they basically had Borg in Necropolis I gave up caring and went in to mindless entertainment mode. I couldn't do that with Rave though, it was just too bad for even that low bar. But I think their plan had been to do what 1 and 2 did with the same cast but as different characters. It wasn't the best thing to try again, given that it was something in 2 that people didn't care much for. 3 is special to me I guess, it is the first one I saw and made me a big fan of Melinda Clarke. It felt more psychological with it having the parallel with depression and self harm. Temporary relief from the real problem, but it lasts less and less time the more it is done. Maybe I'm just reading too much in to it, I just thought her character was really well done. There's a pretty good documentary about them if you haven't it, called More Brains. They only do talk about the first 3.
Hey, once you get past the whole Robocop sequel dismay, it's actually a laughably enjoyable movie! \🤖/ (it took me *years* to forgive it for being so crap-tastic compared with the fabulous parts 1 and 2, but once I did we had a ton of fun re-watching that hilarious trainwreck)
I've always assumed that "Miller time" was just referencing the Miller Lite slogan and the fact the zombies were frat bros. The requests this year have been stellar too. Night of the Creeps deserves as much attention as possible
😂 thought the same thing when I rewatched it with the fam. I was like wait this isn’t how it ended. My wife was saying some psych babble about memory when I backed out of the movie and it read something like “special edition” or something. Then I grinned at the misses in victory......very proud of that moment.
He knows what Miller is and even made a joke of it when reviewing Bordello of Blood. He's just confused because that scene had nothing to do with Miller. And he also didn't wanna make a joke about beer for him since he preferred to reference Dick Miller.
Freakin love this movie! Seeing this cult film actually did get me to answer my cell phone with "Thrill Me" for a week. I only stopped because people kept asking me what I was talking about.
I love when a movie can get in the most fun bits of horror but still be funny. reminds me of tucker and dale Vs evil which pulls off the same trick, that's a movie you have to review some time.
The whole 'nasty alien thing from a crash-landed meteor' is a classic 50s B Movie trope, looooads of 'em start out that way. (in another 80's b movie you see it in _Killer Klowns from Outer Space_ (1988) as well)
@@zetetick395 well in Killer Klowns people thought it was a meteor but the ship had landed deliberately and then moved to the town itself before the climax.
3:50 that comment was so disgusting. Bad Brendon! Bad! (continues to watch video...) 10:50 wow! There’s so many zingers in this video Hostess might have to file a copyright strike. 18:39 Miller is like Coors: a cheap beer with a great tag line, which is what he says
Okay one thing, the reason why at the beginning the two aliens were chasing the one with the canister was because he was infected, you can see his eyes were white Just thought I point that out, always thought it was a cool detail
That was the studio-approved ending that was shown in theaters because the executives, having NO clue how to sell the film, wanted to put a jump scare scene at the end. Knowing the film's narrative, it doesn't work.
Yeah, that's the ending I got the first time I saw this back in -86. It was the ending on VHS rental here in Finland. Was surprised later on, when I re-watched it on DVD and it had that other ending.
Yup, studio fired Tim Miller after he refused to cut his two hour film down to ninety minutes then the studio hired a new director to make the edits & change the original ending but, Tim got the last laugh because the studio never bothered to secure the TV distribution rights so Tim bought them, and Tim was given the footage cut from his original version of the film because the studio saw it as garbage. So Tim took the footage the studio gave him, painstakingly restored his cut of the film AT HIS OWN HOUSE, because he had the TV distribution rights Tim made sure his version was the one that aired on basic cable and there wasn't a damn thing the Studio could do about it.
Pretty sure Gordon the cat is named for Stuart Gordon and the black cat was chosen for being the first animal Herbert West reanimated after returning to the U.S..
You're damn right one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 16 years old when it came out. I rented it many times. Still love it. My daughters having grown up in the CG era thought the effects were bad CG . I told them. Girls that's how real scary movies are done.
I'm thrilled. (After this Review) By the way: Only now I noticed that the naked clubhead alien, which had blown the creeps into space at the beginning, had cloudy eyes (i.e. was already infested by the creatures themselves).
They thought they could escape. But they were tracked. And now those aliens are going to rid those creeps from existence, or capture them and rid them from our planet, for good. Hopefully that’s what they did anyway.🤞..
I recently found out that a Detective Cameron action figure once existed. Unfortunately I don’t think it has a pull-string that allows it to say, “Thrill me!” and “It’s Miller Time!” Lol.
Did the film end with the detective all burned up and the cemetery, or with the girl bending down to pet the zombie dog and getting a slug shot at the camera for a jump scare ending? I've only seen the dog ending, so this was new to me.
@@Zafocaine The ending on this video was what the director originally wanted, but the studio replaced it with the dog shooting out a slug at Cynthia. Until the Blu Ray was released, the only way you could see the director's preferred ending was to catch the TV version, which also included a deleted scene of Cynthia and some sorority sisters making cookies, oblivious to slugs scampering around.
I love this movies! You and the patreon supporter have made my day 😁 My favorite character was JC and it was one of those movies I would rent the most because of him and the cop lol I hadnt seen anyone tackling this movie yet. So... Thrill me 😎
To be fair, I think the guy working in the morgue / research facility had entered in like 90% of the code before the phone rang, and J.C. just happened to punch in the right number to finish it. It's still a pretty contrived way to get them into a secure area so they can get their corpse-sicle, though. Also, I thought the "I love you" part was J.C. knowing he was a goner and trying to explain how much he cared about his best friend. Though unrequited love works, too.
I just finished watching the In Search of Darkness-documentary before I saw this, and while there are plenty of great people being interviewed in that movie, Tom Atkins really left an impression of being a great guy next to being a great actor, talking about these roles with such joy that it really shows that he cared about them and horror-movies in general. A real class act.
this was an automatic thumbs up the moment i saw the thumbnail :P i love this movie like i love evil dead, monster squad, the blob, abominable dr. phibes, popcorn... laid back campy fun movies that know how to use laughs AND scares correctly. great choice Brandon.
Oh my gosh I was so excited to see this come up on my feed. I love this movie and watch it whenever I run across it. Big dose of nostalgia for me on this one.
wearing the Thrill Me shirt now! whenever I wear it outside people, especially cashiers, always look concerned because he is holding a shotgun on the front.
I saw this movie as a kid. I've spent over 30 years trying to find it again. The slugs piled in the corner is the one scene I always remembered. Thank you for this. I finally found a long lost memory.
I remember years ago when James Rolfe Angry Video Game Nerd had Monster Madness and he always highlighted how irrelevant the Its Miller Time oneliner is. It makes no sense, but he says it with such confidence you say, I'll take it, approved cut print.
There is an alternate ending where Cynthia goes to pet the dog in front of the burning house and the dog spits out a slug. They don't show the aliens searching in the cemetery.
Brandon reviewed the restored/director-cut version. The original theatrical/VHS cut has the infected dog ending. I don't think the original cut is even available for sale now.
'Killers" is a good album. Gotta luv Eddie, always nice to see him at their concerts back in the day, and the Iron maiden Album art was killer too. Sad the loss of vinyl album art, now.
Surprised you didn't mention that the ending with burnt Tom Atkins and the Aliens in the cemetery was the Director's Cut ending. The theatrical version ending had the dog coming back and infecting Cynthia. Love this movie and this review. It's a favorite of mine to watch on Halloween.
Let's not forget the film's original theatrical ending (the UFO ending was added later to home video releases). The movie originally ends when the dog who caused the bus accident returns and approaches Cynthia. As Cynthia bends down toward it, the dog opens its mouth and a slug jumps out toward her.
You're kidding right? You really don't get the "Miller Time" reference? Man, you are young. Gather around children and let Uncle Killer B tell you about one of the worst beers America ever brewed. It was sold on TV with the commercials showing manly men doing manly things and at the end, declaring, "It's Miller Time" as they punished themselves by drinking what the Brits describe as "love-making in a canoe beer" ("F***ing Close to Water"). Thus, the "Miller Time" is a play on words with the character's name and an almost universally known tag line. I say, "almost universally" because clearly, Brandon had never heard it... ;-)
I remember "Its Miller Time" from Ghostbusters. The ending that you have here is the original ending, but it wasn't the ending to the theatrical release.
1:25 ... dude. c'mon! season 3 of stranger things WAS night of the creeps. it was very obvious that's what they were referencing through the whole season.
Season 3 of Stranger Things was definitely inspired by this movie. And how cool would it be if Tom Atkins got to guest star on ST as Jim Hopper's dad? If Ash vs. Evil Dead can get Lee Majors to play Ash Williams's dad, I'm sure ST can do the same.
Thrill me!
This video has been flagged by Detective Cameron.
...creepy instant like, pal... 👹
Could you review pumpkin head?
The Heavenly Kid from 1985, it aint a horror but I'd love to see you review it
Maybe you can also review Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars.
Detective Cameron: " I've got good news and bad news. The good news is there's a new Brendon Tenold video on TH-cam today.
Sorority Girl: "What's the bad news?"
Detective Cameron: "It's been flagged by TOHO."
@wistine79 --[Recieves Standing ovation from The Peanut Gallery] xD
Who's Brendan?
@@aarons1811meant to say Brandon
@@wstine79 I know. I was just being a smartarse 🙂 No offense meant.
You win the internet.
I love how every 70s and 80s horror movie ends with the heroes' efforts meaning nothing and everything still going to shit.
Like real life. 😞
Like modern horror movies as well, Midsommar, Kill List, etc.
@@fernandomaron87 I really wish the Killers would've won in the new Scream movie.
Most of John Carpenter's films and Phantasm really stands out to me on that note.
Great Googly Moogly
"It's Miller time" was in the 80s kinda like saying let's rock, or let's party. It was even used in Ghostbusters.
Also used in Big Trouble In Little China.
It seemed to have a different meaning in each movie it was mentioned. I always figured it must be from a commercial or something.
It's Miller time,so where's the beef,i've fallen and i cant getup due to a headache thiiiiis big and its screaming for Excedrin......COWABUNGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@randomguy2518 REAGANOMICS!!!
I know it because of Linkara 😁
@@RictusHolloweye it’s a reference from a Miller beer commercial from the 80’s
“He looks like a Tommy Hilfiger shirt that wished upon a star and became a real boy.” That may be the best line BT has ever had.
He has to be proud of that joke.
And followed almost immediately by the Landis line.
Funny...I think he looks like a guy who went to live with his beer-swilling grandmother after he got out of juvie.
@@OrangeElixir Brandon?
Haha came upon this comment just as he was saying it
FUN FACT:
Tom Atkins' highschool sweetheart from the movie is actually Jeffrey Combs' real-life wife.
Damn, pays to be creepy i guess, lucky dude.....
Combs is a wizard,
that guy can take ANY cruddy, dog-chewed script and make the lines sound fkn great!
He deserves ALL that good lovin'
@@zetetick395
Absolutely. Any movie or TV episode he's in automatically becomes more interesting and more epic 🤘
@@zetetick395 He's so good, Weyoun from DS9 was only supposed to be a one off character who died at the end of the episode, but producers liked him so much they created the entire Vorta being clones just so they could bring him back.
@@zetetick395 He literally was a wizard. Remember Dr. Mordrid?
You gotta love the irony that we're going through an extended 80's nostalgia boom and back in the 80's they had 50's nostalgia.
Living in the 80s, it was 60s nostalgia we were about. Vietnam War movies and reviving the music careers of The Grateful Dead and The Beach Boys. That 50s nostalgia was in the 70s with stuff like Happy Days and Grease.
@@neildennis7294 sorry, my friend, going to have to disagree with you as an 80's kid myself.
it's not irony, it's a lack of creativity on hollyweird's part and trying to capitalize on an entire decade's worth of classic IPs that today's hacks are pathetically incapable of matching. those of us who were around then aren't the ones going to see reboots/remakes, we've learned our lesson well on that one, so they fail even on a nostalgia level.
@@neildennis7294 but the horror movies in the 80's had a lot of 50's B-movie references in them...
The 80's were 40 years ago.... The 80's are rully immortal
Fun fact, this movie has an alternate ending. After the detective sacrifices himself and blows up the sorority house, a dog walks up to Chris and Cynthia. Cynthia bends down to pet it, but it turns out the dog has been taken over and it shoots an alien slug out at her.
This is the ending I saw when I was little !
@@rebirthmanga actually thst was the ending only shown in theaters. Really. The one here is the original ending.
uk here, we rented this when i was about 10 on vhs. i saw that ending. was speaking to the youtuber films comics explained, he was on about a movie that ripped this off. told him to watch this and he thought this was done better. still scared the crap out of me lol..
You mean Slither? They're both great!
The dog ending was also seen on Cinemax showtime HBO etc basically the premium channels but on the cable channel the detective ending is the one shown that's the ending I seen.i didn't know the dog ending existed til years later.
THRILL ME . Best catch phrase besides I'll be back. Good times the 80's. I thank you for bringing fond memories back.
J.C.: "Go for it! I mean, the girl has misplaced her marble collection, but go for it!"
J.C.: "Cynthia, my time is limited -- much like the intellect of Steve."
J.C.: "So you want to meet her?"
Chris: "I want to MARRY her!"
J.C.: "Afraid you're gonna have to meet her first. I know it's rough, but I don't make the rules."
As far as my friend and I are concerned, Tom Atkins did play the same character in Halloween 3. We called him Dr. Badass in Halloween 3 and Detective Badass in Night Of The Creeps.
“What is this, a homicide or a bad B-movie?”
To quote Horror Guru, _“Oh, shit! Alpha ‘Stache is self-aware! I repeat, Alpha ‘Stache is self-aware!”_
In all seriousness, though, great review, Brandon!
That's two movies also reviewed by Horror Guru. Brandon needs to catch up.
That Miller Time line made sense at the time. Trust me.
How so???
@@RetroFan2.0 Because back in the mid 80's, "It's Miller Time" meant "Let's Party" or "Let's rock and roll". The same way nowadays people might say "Let's get it" or "Let's go!". You see, in the late 70's and 80's "It's Miller Time" was the catchphrase for Miller beer but then the saying became synonymous with wild n' out. It was in commercials and promotional posters and was in the lexicon of many Americans. Just go with it.
It astounds me when people ask simple questions on TH-cam when they could just look it up themselves by doing a three-second search and getting an answer RIGHT AWAY. Instead, they ask "how so" and then have to wait hours, days, weeks, months, years, or maybe NEVER for a reply when they could just look it up themselves. I did a search of "It's MIller time" and in literally a few seconds it told me everything I needed to know. Like I said, truly astounding how lazy some people are... lol
@@christopherwalkinalloverya5824 Funny, I thought Miller Time meant to get drunk to the point that you would get a literal splitting headache, like the one he provides the zombies with.
I met Fred Dekker last week at a horror convention in Manchester UK. He was a lovely guy and spoke lovingly about this movie and the monster squad. They don't make em like this anymore.
Sadly, it's probably due to them being cult classics. Emphasis on the cult part. Dekker seemed cursed to have movies flop on him, which is pretty damn sad considering. Not a huge fan of House, but Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps are two of my all-time favorites.
I'll say. It's hard enough to even find a channel that will air "The Monster Squad".
Hollywood wants dollars straight away. Not cult classics that slow burn over the years. He was very proud of the films and so he should be.
@@johntumahab323 Movies TV Network has aired it.
@Nicky boy
What, whay convention? I'm 20 mins from Manchester, would love to have gone.
This was back when the name Fred Dekker meant something. How can you not love a film that has zombies, killer slugs, aliens, axe murderer, likeable characters named after horror directors and Tom Atkins, who is ready to kick ass. You will have a fun time and once it's over, you will be screaming like banshees. Plus American Horror Story: The Coven clearly took a lot from this movie. So get your popcorn ready, sit back and enjoy because it's Miller time!
8:38, Tom Atkins is awesome! This is one of his favorite films he's starred in.
"It's Miller time" is a reference to the Miller Light Beer I believe.
Thrill Me!
Didn't Dan aykroyd say that line in Ghostbusters as well?
@@phil7144 Wasn't it Bill Murray who said that?
@@ShadowSonic2 someone said it, im sure
"It's Miller time" goes back to the 70's as a Miller Beer ad campaign slogan. It was still a pretty common saying when I was a kid in the mid-late 80's, usually meaning it was time to party, relax, etc... with that context, it really wasn't a random, out of place pop culture reference.
It was definitely a "it's party time" reference.
I once shook John Landis’ hand, and told him I liked his movies. But I had to resist the urge to tell him I live in the town where that helicopter decapitated Vic Morrow and those kids.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got to meet Will Patton once, since i Actually liked "The Postman" and he played General Bethlehem, i greeted him with "you spelt tyranny wrong" he seemed surprised i liked the movie, bullshitted with him for about 45min on the clock, gave him advice on travelling through the passes on I-5, seemed like a pretty nice guy
Bruh
Man, as much as I like Landis's movies, I don't think I'd have that kind of restraint.
Makes me think this is what Slither got inspiration from.
That and Shivers from David Croenberg. ;)
Thrill me, Brandon.
“A horror movie version of Baby Geniuses”
So just Baby Geniuses in the way the original director didn’t intend, basically?
"Eddie from Iron Maiden" line was much appreciated! LMAO!
Had a great time with this movie. Tom Atkins one liners were probably some of the best delivered lines in a movie.
Now all we need for our Brandon Tenold 80's movie trifecta is either Return of the Living Dead (1985) or Street Trash (1987)
Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead, for sure.
Return of the Living Dead 1 and 3, definitely.
I didn't care for 3 as much, that's the point the people working on them stopped caring and just started ripping off Romero. Still, its way better than "Necropolis" and "Rave to the Grave". How the hell do you shoot two movies at once and still end up with two movies that have almost nothing in common?
@@LibraGamesUnlimited When they basically had Borg in Necropolis I gave up caring and went in to mindless entertainment mode. I couldn't do that with Rave though, it was just too bad for even that low bar. But I think their plan had been to do what 1 and 2 did with the same cast but as different characters. It wasn't the best thing to try again, given that it was something in 2 that people didn't care much for.
3 is special to me I guess, it is the first one I saw and made me a big fan of Melinda Clarke. It felt more psychological with it having the parallel with depression and self harm. Temporary relief from the real problem, but it lasts less and less time the more it is done. Maybe I'm just reading too much in to it, I just thought her character was really well done.
There's a pretty good documentary about them if you haven't it, called More Brains. They only do talk about the first 3.
The scariest part of this whole vid was being reminded that Robocop 3 exists...
* shudder *
It's one of my guilty pleasures, can't bring myself to hate it, lol.
Hey, once you get past the whole Robocop sequel dismay, it's actually a laughably enjoyable movie! \🤖/
(it took me *years* to forgive it for being so crap-tastic compared with the fabulous parts 1 and 2,
but once I did we had a ton of fun re-watching that hilarious trainwreck)
Absolutely can't blame Peter Weller for choosing Naked Lunch over that one.
"It's Miller time" cuz he's cracking one open
Night Of The Living Dead meets Alien
With a mix of Revenge of the Nerds.
With a dash of Critters.
You had me at "Alien"!
@@wstine79 Plus some loose connection with Weekend at Bernie's (corpse all over the place)? :P
No
"It's Miller time" is from a old comercial. Catch phrase for when it's time to play hard.
Night of the Creeps is basically the movie Slither but it takes place inside the 1980's
"It's family fun day!"
yea.. we watched the video.. did you?
i think you got that the wrong way around, pal.
Inside
@Kyros Droztamyr Are you saying Slither is garbage?
I've always assumed that "Miller time" was just referencing the Miller Lite slogan and the fact the zombies were frat bros. The requests this year have been stellar too. Night of the Creeps deserves as much attention as possible
When I saw the notification for this, I ran down the hall screaming like a banshee.
Screaming like banshees!
Last words from an epic janitor hero.
@@rafaeltrivino1790 I thought his last words were "AAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
😂 I giggled like a schoolgirl
@@StCerberusEngel And "Close enough, Spanky". This movie was known for its "catchphrases" and epic one-liners. :P
Brandon showing the youngster he is: doesn't get the "Miller time" reference and thinks that the alternate ending is the original one...
He's from Canada, so Miller probably isn't advertised there
😂 thought the same thing when I rewatched it with the fam. I was like wait this isn’t how it ended. My wife was saying some psych babble about memory when I backed out of the movie and it read something like “special edition” or something. Then I grinned at the misses in victory......very proud of that moment.
He knows what Miller is and even made a joke of it when reviewing Bordello of Blood. He's just confused because that scene had nothing to do with Miller. And he also didn't wanna make a joke about beer for him since he preferred to reference Dick Miller.
Freakin love this movie! Seeing this cult film actually did get me to answer my cell phone with "Thrill Me" for a week. I only stopped because people kept asking me what I was talking about.
Please, more 80's video store rentals! I'd absolutely die if you did the rollerskating vampire one from Fright Night 2!
"The wolfman's got nards" does that bring back some memories 😆
This is my favorite 80s horror comedy.It's a cult classic now.
That Asian guy killed me with his line.
"Screaming like banshee's"
Also....
"It's Miller time."
Dude! Thank you for doing my request! Fucking awesome! You're the man!
Loving all these classic video store staples. They... Thrill me :P XD
You never want to let them go?
Would love if there was a themed streaming show platform just for old obscure, B-movie horror, fantasy, exploitation and scifi vhs movies? ;)
12:56 "STRYPER RULES"
Gotta say I'm not disappointed.
This was a freaking amazing film.
"It's Miller time." Maybe what he meant by that was "pop the top".
Imagine Tom Adkins getting in bed with his wife wearing a suit, lighting a cigarette and saying "thrill me"
I love when a movie can get in the most fun bits of horror but still be funny. reminds me of tucker and dale Vs evil which pulls off the same trick, that's a movie you have to review some time.
The meteor landing was clearly a reference to The Blob.
Beware the blob. I hear it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
But mostly creeps. Mostly at night.
I was watching NOTC and there was a scene where a parade of police cars passed a diner that was the same one in the 1958 version of "The Blob".
The whole 'nasty alien thing from a crash-landed meteor' is a classic 50s B Movie trope, looooads of 'em start out that way.
(in another 80's b movie you see it in _Killer Klowns from Outer Space_ (1988) as well)
@@zetetick395 well in Killer Klowns people thought it was a meteor but the ship had landed deliberately and then moved to the town itself before the climax.
3:50 that comment was so disgusting. Bad Brendon! Bad!
(continues to watch video...)
10:50 wow! There’s so many zingers in this video Hostess might have to file a copyright strike.
18:39 Miller is like Coors: a cheap beer with a great tag line, which is what he says
Okay one thing, the reason why at the beginning the two aliens were chasing the one with the canister was because he was infected, you can see his eyes were white
Just thought I point that out, always thought it was a cool detail
*sees notification*
Thrill me.
I remember the other ending with the slug jumping out of the dog into the girlfriend!
Yeah that was the ending I saw when I rented this on tape back in the day.
That was the studio-approved ending that was shown in theaters because the executives, having NO clue how to sell the film, wanted to put a jump scare scene at the end. Knowing the film's narrative, it doesn't work.
Yeah, that's the ending I got the first time I saw this back in -86. It was the ending on VHS rental here in Finland. Was surprised later on, when I re-watched it on DVD and it had that other ending.
Yup, studio fired Tim Miller after he refused to cut his two hour film down to ninety minutes then the studio hired a new director to make the edits & change the original ending but, Tim got the last laugh because the studio never bothered to secure the TV distribution rights so Tim bought them, and Tim was given the footage cut from his original version of the film because the studio saw it as garbage. So Tim took the footage the studio gave him, painstakingly restored his cut of the film AT HIS OWN HOUSE, because he had the TV distribution rights Tim made sure his version was the one that aired on basic cable and there wasn't a damn thing the Studio could do about it.
@@Vamroc What was the movie?
Pretty sure Gordon the cat is named for Stuart Gordon and the black cat was chosen for being the first animal Herbert West reanimated after returning to the U.S..
I definitely remember seeing this movie at the local video store. Back when they had such a thing.
You're damn right one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 16 years old when it came out. I rented it many times. Still love it. My daughters having grown up in the CG era thought the effects were bad CG . I told them. Girls that's how real scary movies are done.
This is in my top 5 Zombie flicks. It's up there with Shaun of the Dead for it's rewatch ability.
You forgot to mention the janitor saying "Screaming like Banshees" lol
I'm thrilled. (After this Review)
By the way: Only now I noticed that the naked clubhead alien, which had blown the creeps into space at the beginning,
had cloudy eyes (i.e. was already infested by the creatures themselves).
They thought they could escape. But they were tracked. And now those aliens are going to rid those creeps from existence, or capture them and rid them from our planet, for good. Hopefully that’s what they did anyway.🤞..
Some TV versions I had seen left out the opening scene and left out the true ending so there was no clue where the slugs had came from.
One on the best and most atmospheric horror titles ever. Thank you for this nostalgic throwback!
I recently found out that a Detective Cameron action figure once existed. Unfortunately I don’t think it has a pull-string that allows it to say, “Thrill me!” and “It’s Miller Time!” Lol.
Heh. Saw this one in the theater opening night. Contributed my part to their half million box office take, at least. :)
And how much was a ticket that night? Like $1.50?
Did the film end with the detective all burned up and the cemetery, or with the girl bending down to pet the zombie dog and getting a slug shot at the camera for a jump scare ending? I've only seen the dog ending, so this was new to me.
@@Zafocaine The ending on this video was what the director originally wanted, but the studio replaced it with the dog shooting out a slug at Cynthia. Until the Blu Ray was released, the only way you could see the director's preferred ending was to catch the TV version, which also included a deleted scene of Cynthia and some sorority sisters making cookies, oblivious to slugs scampering around.
I love this movies! You and the patreon supporter have made my day 😁 My favorite character was JC and it was one of those movies I would rent the most because of him and the cop lol I hadnt seen anyone tackling this movie yet. So... Thrill me 😎
Fuck yeah! Day made!
That Baby Herman joke had me cracking up! I forgot how much I loved the effects in this movie
About time you did this gem!
To be fair, I think the guy working in the morgue / research facility had entered in like 90% of the code before the phone rang, and J.C. just happened to punch in the right number to finish it. It's still a pretty contrived way to get them into a secure area so they can get their corpse-sicle, though.
Also, I thought the "I love you" part was J.C. knowing he was a goner and trying to explain how much he cared about his best friend. Though unrequited love works, too.
I guess no one ever saw Mama's family because that's Allan Kaysar ( bubba) playing the fraternity house leader
So glad to see someone else noticed this!
I just finished watching the In Search of Darkness-documentary before I saw this, and while there are plenty of great people being interviewed in that movie, Tom Atkins really left an impression of being a great guy next to being a great actor, talking about these roles with such joy that it really shows that he cared about them and horror-movies in general. A real class act.
That one alien at the very start, yeah; he was infected and dead. You can tell by his glazed over, zombie-like eyes.
this was an automatic thumbs up the moment i saw the thumbnail :P i love this movie like i love evil dead, monster squad, the blob, abominable dr. phibes, popcorn... laid back campy fun movies that know how to use laughs AND scares correctly. great choice Brandon.
Omg that Tommy Hilfiger line had me dying! 😂😂
Oh my gosh I was so excited to see this come up on my feed. I love this movie and watch it whenever I run across it. Big dose of nostalgia for me on this one.
Well that settles it, from now on I will answer the phone with "Thrill me."
The nostalgia from re-watching these 80's scary movies is bittersweet. I really miss those days
Such a great movie that not enough people have seen
this is one of my favorite movies of the 80s. not just horror, one of my favorite movies
I managed to find this on blu ray and I love it. I have always really loved this movie for how cheesy it is and finding it on blu ray was wonderful.
Mormon don’t drink beer and still know that “it’s miller time” is a beer slogan for millers beer.
The guy playing Brad also played Bubba on "Mama's Family" one of my favs from the 80's! 😁👍
Thanks for doing this one! It's been one of my favs since i was a kid!
wearing the Thrill Me shirt now! whenever I wear it outside people, especially cashiers, always look concerned because he is holding a shotgun on the front.
Concerned because of a t shirt...ok then
You're Reviews are fantastic! I've watched a ton of great flicks thanks to your reviews.
“Johnny thought Pam was gonna be the one to swallow something slimy this evening.”
Ewwwwwww! 🤢🤮
Bwahahahahahaha
*Rimshot*
Haha, fellatio
I saw this movie as a kid. I've spent over 30 years trying to find it again. The slugs piled in the corner is the one scene I always remembered. Thank you for this. I finally found a long lost memory.
This movie includes my favorite Rusty Griswold, from European Vacation.
Jason Lively, my fave Rusty too
Aww come on what about Nick Pappageorgio. Luckiest guy on Earth
@@rogermazuca4582 true. He is my second favorite.
@@wstine79 yeah you're right, it could go either way. That line though...whoaa you look cool. I feel cool.
Same hes my favorite rusty!!!
I remember years ago when James Rolfe Angry Video Game Nerd had Monster Madness and he always highlighted how irrelevant the Its Miller Time oneliner is. It makes no sense, but he says it with such confidence you say, I'll take it, approved cut print.
You kind of forgot the alternate ending this movie has.
We do not talk about that ending.
“It's Miller Time" is a reference to Miller Beer and the Miller commercials of the 80s. “If you've got the time, we've got the beer. Miller Beer." 🍻
Wasted?
Oh no.
There was no better use of time imaginable.
I love these 80's cult movies grew up on them and a lot of them have a special place in my heart
There is an alternate ending where Cynthia goes to pet the dog in front of the burning house and the dog spits out a slug. They don't show the aliens searching in the cemetery.
Brandon reviewed the restored/director-cut version. The original theatrical/VHS cut has the infected dog ending. I don't think the original cut is even available for sale now.
@@superlive98 Ok thanks I did see in the theater then.
'Killers" is a good album. Gotta luv Eddie, always nice to see him at their concerts back in the day, and the Iron maiden Album art was killer too. Sad the loss of vinyl album art, now.
It popped up on my phone notifications as "Night of the..." so that was a lot of different movies it could've been
Night of the..Creeps, Living Dead, Hunter, Demons, Comet, Living Dummy, Twisters, Scarecrow, etc.
@@MegaIkedog lepus was another
Surprised you didn't mention that the ending with burnt Tom Atkins and the Aliens in the cemetery was the Director's Cut ending. The theatrical version ending had the dog coming back and infecting Cynthia.
Love this movie and this review. It's a favorite of mine to watch on Halloween.
YES! Holy crap, this is one of my favorites!
Let's not forget the film's original theatrical ending (the UFO ending was added later to home video releases). The movie originally ends when the dog who caused the bus accident returns and approaches Cynthia. As Cynthia bends down toward it, the dog opens its mouth and a slug jumps out toward her.
You're kidding right? You really don't get the "Miller Time" reference? Man, you are young. Gather around children and let Uncle Killer B tell you about one of the worst beers America ever brewed. It was sold on TV with the commercials showing manly men doing manly things and at the end, declaring, "It's Miller Time" as they punished themselves by drinking what the Brits describe as "love-making in a canoe beer" ("F***ing Close to Water"). Thus, the "Miller Time" is a play on words with the character's name and an almost universally known tag line. I say, "almost universally" because clearly, Brandon had never heard it... ;-)
I remember when this movie played on UHF in my local area in the 90s. One of my favorites.
Since this movie was a 50s movie homage, I’m surprised that they didn’t film it in black and white.
The prologue was B&W
I meant the whole movie.
@@nobertosanchez647 rest of the movie takes place in the 80s
They may have been paying homage to The Wizard of Oz with the b/w transferring to color.
Or just showing the 50s were waaaaaaay back then.
Two great things that this cult classic and Slither had in common- alien slug zombies and memorable wise-cracking authority figures.
A 1962 Ford Falcon in 1959?" McFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember "Its Miller Time" from Ghostbusters.
The ending that you have here is the original ending, but it wasn't the ending to the theatrical release.
1:25 ... dude. c'mon! season 3 of stranger things WAS night of the creeps. it was very obvious that's what they were referencing through the whole season.
Season 3 of Stranger Things was definitely inspired by this movie. And how cool would it be if Tom Atkins got to guest star on ST as Jim Hopper's dad? If Ash vs. Evil Dead can get Lee Majors to play Ash Williams's dad, I'm sure ST can do the same.