A terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory.
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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Reviews for Night of the Comet
A glorious B-movie that requires a certain amount of appreciation of the genre if you're really going to enjoy it.
Campy end of the world movie. Funny in places, but I'd rather see a serious "comet" movie.
his endearingly hokey low-budget B-movie comes with a high nostalgia factor from the Reagan era
A successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality.
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.
Suspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.
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