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Night of the Comet

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Night of the Comet (1984)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:15

Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: When a comet hits Earth, nearly everyone is outside to witness the spectacle and celebrate its arrival. Unfortunately, the comet possesses deadly rays that turn all the onlookers to dust. However,... When a comet hits Earth, nearly everyone is outside to witness the spectacle and celebrate its arrival. Unfortunately, the comet possesses deadly rays that turn all the onlookers to dust. However, teenager Regina and her Valley Girl sister Samantha survive, having been indoors when the comet struck. But the world has become a dangerous place, populated by monstrous zombies, created by the comet's rays. The girls try to escape the creatures and find safety. They seek refuge at a radio station, having been lured there by a (taped) radio transmission. There they meet Hector, another survivor. Meanwhile, scientists from an underground compound find they've been affected by the comet, and need the blood of healthy humans to create a vaccine. They kidnap Samantha to use her for their cure, forcing Regina and Hector to set out and save her -- for the sisters are Earth's only hope for re-populating the planet... [More]

Starring: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell

Starring: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell

Director: Thom Eberhardt

Director: Thom Eberhardt

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A successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality.

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06/06/07
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A terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory.

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06/06/07
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his endearingly hokey low-budget B-movie comes with a high nostalgia factor from the Reagan era

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03/13/07
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine

Suspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.

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11/12/04
Thomas Delapa
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Boulder Weekly

Excellent and tasty B-movie psuedo-zombie goodness.

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Jon Niccum
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Lawrence Journal-World

A glorious B-movie that requires a certain amount of appreciation of the genre if you're really going to enjoy it.

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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film

A good-natured, end-of- the-world B-movie, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, a new film maker whose sense of humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
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Campy end of the world movie. Funny in places, but I'd rather see a serious "comet" movie.

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
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03/03/03
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Tony Toscano
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Entertaining little exploitation flick

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07/30/02
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