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Slug zombies

FilmOtherA parasite1968 to 1999

Night of the Creeps is a B-movie homage in which extraterrestrial slugs enter people through the mouth and turn them into zombies. It mixes zombie, alien-invasion and slasher elements. It failed at the box office and found its audience later.12

Battle it
First appeared
1986
Released 1986
Source work
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Fred Dekker
Age rating
R
Made in
USA
What causes it
A parasite
Alien slugs from a canister that fell to Earth in 1959 nest in human brains.
How you become one
A slug enters through the mouth, incubates in the brain and later bursts out of the head to spread.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • heat
  • fire

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1986

Released 1986

field notes

What the sources say

1

Flamethrowers and a gasoline fire finish the infestation12

2

The film exists with two different endings12

3

A flop on release that built a cult following12

4

Dekker won a first-film award at the 1987 Paris fantasy film festival12

5

The slugs are susceptible to heat12

Sources

  1. Night of the Creeps - Wikipedia
  2. Night of the Creeps - Rotten Tomatoes

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