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Creepozoids (1987)

★★ — Creepozoids (1987)

Creepozoids was shot in about a week on a reported budget of $75,000, which even by the bargain-basement standards of mid-1980s straight-to-video horror was remarkably lean. Director David DeCoteau was a prolific workhorse of the Empire Pictures stable, churning out low-budget genre films at a pace that would define his entire career (he has over a hundred credits to his name). Empire Pictures, the Charles Band operation responsible for a string of similarly scrappy genre releases throughout the 1980s, was beginning to show the financial strain that would eventually see it collapse in 1988. Linnea Quigley was at this point the reigning scream queen of the video nasty era, coming off Return of the Living Dead (1985) and lending whatever marquee value she could to productions like this one.

Utter grindhouse trash. Which isn't all bad. I do have to commend some of these 80s grindhouse movies. You can tell the budget was tiny and what they achieved with that was pretty impressive. That and the awesome 80s synth soundtrack. That's where it ends. Acting, scripting, special effects... they're all horrible lol I do have a soft spot for grindhouse films

Rating: ★★ | Year: 1987 | Watched: 2025-05-18

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