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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Night of the CometIn the 80's, the resulting fallout of a passing comet caused every human in contact of it to turn into into a flesh eating zombie before bursting to oblivion. Meanwhile, few survivors were lucky to survive but are facing a new dilemma. A group of scientist is hunting these survivors to capture and turn into their very own source of energy.Night of the Comet is your average run-in-the-mill popcorn flick but churned with the right amount of sense and consistency that you could give it a second chance. Everything about it screamed mediocrity. Acting. Script. Visuals. But its own easy-breeziness and simplicity lifts its material from becoming into another forgettable 80s trash. Cute actress too. Wonder why they did not make it big? [3.5/5]

Although NIGHT OF THE COMET possesses a minor status as a cult zombie film, I'm sorry to say that it is totally unworthy of said respect. Truth be told, it's a dumb '80s teen comedy, with a couple of utterly irritating teenage girls as leads and not a great deal to recommend it whatsoever. The paucity of the film's budget is evident from the outset, as comet effects are achieved with flashlights and the sky turns a cheesy red colour for the rest of the movie. As for the plot, it's a direct rip-off of Day of the Triffids, as comets destroy everyone aside from a few people who weren't exposed to the radiation. And what of the zombies? Well, the director clearly loves the work of George Romero and feels it necessary to incorporate a few okay-ish zombie attacks into the film, but these takes up 5 minutes of the running time tops and half of those are padded dream sequences.Catherine Mary Stewart makes for an unlikely heroine, with a big mouth and even bigger attitude. She's matched by blonde bimbo Kelli Maroney, who character is hands down the worst thing in the movie; you'll be screaming for her death scene, but even that's a cheat. The lead is taken by Robert Beltran, later known for his starring role in STAR TREK: VOYAGER, but he doesn't really have anything to do in this film, just stand around and look dashing. Two cult movie fans appear in the flick: Mary Woronov and Geoffrey Lewis. Both are entertaining in their own right, but criminally underused.The film is slow moving and even the slim plot seems padded. It can't even use the lack of budget as an excuse, as Steve Barkett's THE AFTERMATH was done on about one tenth of this film's budget and was ten times better. The comedy is diabolical and halfway through things grind to a halt for an appalling shopping mall interlude clearly stolen from DAWN OF THE DEAD. Except this time, two obnoxious teenagers dress up to the 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' song. Words can't express how bad this is. Things do pick up for an eleventh day sub-plot about some ruthless scientists harvesting human blood to protect themselves from the radioactive ways, but it 's over quickly and without much to recommend it. Poor acting, plot, special effects, and barely any gore effects make this film one to avoid. The evil scientist plot is the only thing to stop it from being totally without merit.

A comet turns most of the life on Earth into red dust, leaving two young women to fight the wicked types who have survived.This off beat 80's scifi has a premise that harks back to The Last Man on Earth (1964) and it's tone is reminiscent of Lifeforce (1985) mixed with Dawn of the Dead (1978) and the Blob (1988 remake) to name a few. Director/writer Thom Eberhardt creates a visually eye-catching B- film with an eerie atmosphere on a neon-primary coloured backdrop. It has tongue-in-cheek humour and zombie-like effects spread throughout.The two female leads, cheerleader kitted Samantha (Kelli Maroney) and Regina "Reggie" Belmont (Catherine Mary Stewart) assisted by survivor Hector (Robert Beltran) take on nomads, dodgy scientists and alien infected zombies.The notable Stewart as Reggie keeps the energy high and Eberhardt throws in a consumerism subtext for good measure. Night of the Comet while not as pacy as it could be has enough going on including 1980's fashion to keep it entertaining.

I saw Night Of The Comet way back in 1985, on a bad Betamax copy. I remember liking it back then. Now I got my hands on the newly released Bluray edition and well, the movie has dated a bit. Sure, Night Of The Comet was has a bit of tongue in cheek and it kind of never takes itself too seriously, but even at that, it does contain some truly creepy moments. The movie deals with a comet passing near Earth's orbit and scientists predicting a dazzling spectacle of lights and a meteor shower. SInce it's a once in a lifetime event, most of the residents in L.A. gather outside the streets to catch a perfect view of this comet passing by. It later appears that all that were exposed to the comet's radiation disintegrate, turning humans into dusty red clay. Only two girls seem to survive, Regina and Sammantha, both of them were miraculously hidden from the radiation. When they become aware that everybody around them is dead, they desperately try to communicate with other possible survivors. The empty streets of L.A., the automatic gardening devices, clocks, street lights, etc., seem to function normally, giving us a glimpse that machines can go on their own without humans. It is these scenes that I found the creepiest, reminding me of movies like The Omegan Man and 28 Days Later, which I think borrowed heavily from this picture.The girls then find and befriend a truck driver and for a moment it appears that they are the only survivors. One thing that is never fully explained is that, some of the people that didn't die, turned into Zombies. Unlike the Zombies in George Romero films (slow and dumb) or in 28 Days Later (fast and furious), these zombies actually speak and think. It is never specified why they didn't disintegrate and why they necessarily have to turn into zombies. To make matters worse, a team of scientists also survive, but they too have been exposed to the comet and need contaminated free survivors in order to make a serum that can save them. Maybe if the movie had a more serious tone (like those scenes of empty LA, that are truly creepy)it would've been a far more interesting movie, yet Night Of The Comet manages to entertain. Those of us who grew up during the 80's will surely find the soundtrack of electronic and new wave music very appealing (yet it also severely dates the movie).I enjoyed Night Of The Comet, but I'll be the first to admit it's not Oscar material.