Comments on: Night of the Creeps on DVD? Not so fast!

By: Retroman DC

Retroman DC — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:51:37 +0000

Nah give me the old days of early Cable and Monstervision on TNT. yes it was edited with commericals but Joe Bob’s commentary segments made it worth it. The sci-fi channel actually used to be about 50% horror but then they went all Star-gate on me. I no longer have cable. I find Netflix is my best deal to get the movies I want to see.

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:54:13 +0000

God damn it! I’ve heard about Drive-In Classics and Scream and I’d kill for both of them! We’ve been teased down here in the states for literally years about dedicated horror cable channels but they never seem to materialize. Advertisers won’t buy time on a network that doesn’t cut their movies for nudity and violence and fans won’t watch a network that has ads and cut movies. No-ad cable networks never seem to get off the ground since TV broadcasting is expensive business.

The Horror Channel spent years telling fans that they were going to deliver the goods and when they finally did show up, it was a blip on the radar as a soft-launch with some men’s channel (like Spike), after hours for only a few hours in a select few markets.

I have a cable channel that comes with my monthly cable package called Fear Net but it never shows anything worth watching unless you’re into Witchboard and Ghoulies sequels.

By: Khaz

Khaz — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:44:09 +0000

I hear ya Josh, scream TV, Drive in classics and IFC are the only 3 channels that get serious playtime on my tv. I caught this movie on there too, didn’t know it had a different ending than the dog one.. Now I hafta see if I can find the alternate ending..

By: JC4President

JC4President — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:58:53 +0000

Electric Dreams!!!!!!!! Was that the movie where the computer comes alive and falls in love with the owner (some bachelor guy)? Good movie, i remember that from the 80s

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:37:29 +0000

I live in toronto, and so I suscribe to Scream Television, it’s a horror channel that plays some wicked cool stuff. One of which is Night of the creeps, I have it recorded on my PVR and watch it often. The dog was in that one.

By: Wannabegafapasta

Wannabegafapasta — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:36:16 +0000

In Spain (and I presume that in Europe was so) this film was only released with the dog’s ending…

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:32:45 +0000

Actually, the ending with the dog sounds very familiar now. Maybe I have seen it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:23:33 +0000

The ending you’ve seen (with Atkins) is not the original theatrical ending. That ending sees Chris and Cynthia outside the sorority house after the explosion. The dog from the sorority mother’s house comes walking up and the slug jumps out of its mouth, presumably towards Cynthia’s mouth. The Atkins/spaceship ending was tacked onto the cable and TV versions, but I’m pretty sure the original videotape has the original, theatrical ending. I’ve heard that an official DVD release was in the works but perhaps that’s not the case. Too bad. With FROM BEYOND finally out on DVD (and just as great as I’d remembered) CREEPS immediately jumps to the top of my Wish List.

By: Daria

Daria — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:09:10 +0000

It’s so sad when these films just get shelved and tied-up in red tape. I’m just glad “From Beyond” finally saw the light of day!

I think my next wishlist DVD release now is “Electric Dreams”…with commentary, of course!

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:10:20 +0000

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen that second ending. Also, I never thought Cameron was a zombie in the end, I figured he just barely escaped with his life.

Then again, I also like to think that neither Childs nor MacReady were The Thing at the end of THAT movie.