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Released
1986 · FILM

Night of the Creeps

Two college geeks must halt a wave of alien parasites that turn their campus into flesh‑eating zombies after they accidentally thaw a frozen experiment, racing against a rapidly spreading infection before everyone is consumed.

“The good news is your date is here. The bad news is...He's dead.”

Directed by
Fred Dekker
Written by
Fred Dekker
Runtime
88 min
ComedyHorrorSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to Earth and infects a fraternity member. The group freezes 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 scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael N KnueShot by Robert C NewScored by Barry De VorzonDesigned by George Costello

Box Office

1986 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$591K

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$591K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $221K — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $304K — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 70 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Nacht der Creepsde
  • Night of the Creepsde
  • El terror llama a su puertaes
  • Extra Sangsuesfr
  • Dimensione terroreit

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