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#11,557 All-time worldwide
#169 1986 releases

Movie profile

Night of the Creeps

1986 · 88 min · Tri Star Pictures

Horror Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $591,366
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget -$4.4M
ROI 0.12x

Domestic gross

$283,856

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$307,510

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$122,058

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Night of the Creeps ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,557 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #169 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #90 Tri Star Pictures of 96 titles Position inside the mapped Tri Star Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,124 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,554 Satan's Blood 1978 · $594,947 #11,555 Estoy en crisis 1982 · $591,902 #11,556 The Hot Girl Juliet 1981 · $591,696 #11,558 Last Night 1998 · $591,165 #11,559 City of the Living Dead 1980 · $591,067 #11,560 Prefontaine 1997 · $589,304

Quick answer

How did Night of the Creeps (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Night of the Creeps (1986) earned a reported $591.4K worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.12x. In this database it currently ranks #11,557 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #169 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$591,366
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,408,634
ROI
0.12x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze 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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 21, 1986
Production
TriStar Pictures, Delphi V
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Night of the Creeps is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction title from TriStar Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $591,366, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.4M, ROI is 0.12x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,557 all-time in the current chart set and #169 among 1986 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.