Creepozoids

Creepozoids (1987)

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If there’s one thing better than a good sci-fi horror, it’s a bad one. My love of B-Movies and exploitation flicks has probably rubbed plenty of people the wrong way down the years, but i’ll never apologise. There’s just something about these type of movies that keep me massively entertained, even when I know they aren’t good.

Creepozoids isn’t a good film, but there’s still plenty to enjoy about it. You know you’re in for a fun time when the movie is set in the dystopian nuclear post war future of 1998, less than ten years from when the film was actually made. Clearly they didn’t want to have to change too much from what they had available to them.

The movie follows five army deserters who hold up in an abandoned building when acid rain starts to fall, and they quickly discover there’s more to the building than they first thought, especially when one of the five’s face practically bursts at the dinner table (Remember that scene in Alien, it’s not that.)

Inside the building we get plenty of wooden acting, clunky dialogue, giant rubber rats, a creature which can only be described as a Xenomorph gone horribly horribly wrong, and the obligatory Linnea Quigley tit shot which all no budget horrors of the time required.

The film kind of went in circles with them crawling in and out of the same air duct for most of the movie, but they did try in places. There was a bigger story unravelling in the background about test subjects and the war, and relationships started to somewhat form amongst the team, but that never quite seemed as important as the girls running down the halls, or the guys acting macho. It knew its audience.

It’s the exact movie you expect from the time, budget, and title, but if you like this type of thing you’ll enjoy it, like I did. The ending went for wayyyy to long, but all the actiony bits before hand were fine, and the horror is what it is in these films. It isn’t a movie to recommend, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. I for one would watch it again, but that probably says more about me than the movie.