Dead of Night (species)

"'In all my years of being a god damn detective, I've never seen a shape-shifting person--creature--thing. God...god why...?' — Aglhasues"Based on the creature in The Thing, this species, appearing in 5 seperate films, has been categorized as one of the most dangerous things to exist in the RBM canon. It's traits include reproducing by cocooning another life form, killing instantly in mysterious ways, and most notably shape-shifting into the victims it's killed.

Appearance in the Films
So far, this species is the main conflict in all 4 Dead of Night films. While the Dead of Night movies focus on it's protagonist's attempts to stop this species from taking over a household, Juice Murderer 3 shows us a different, more vulnerable side to these creatures.

In Juice Murderer 3 the viewer sees through the eyes of what appears to be a normal group of people. Later on, however, it is revealed that these people were in fact aliens, hence why the Juice Murderer took it upon himself to kill them. Desite their alien likeliness, the aliens are seen as peaceful and odd, nowhere nearly as silent and terrifying as their Dead of Night counterparts. This could be due to many reasons, but canonically it's revealed to be differing personality traits.

Powers and Abilities
Little is known about these aliens. The three greatest powers they hold are shape-shifting, killing instantly, and cocooning their prey to grow more of their species. One common misconception is that these aliens must kill to obtain a new body to transform into. This is not true, however. The reasoning for the alien killed the people it was about to transform into in the Dead of Night series was simply the result of that specific alien being a sociopath with no moral compass.