Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Prismark10 Night of the Comet is a cult science fiction film with elements of horror and comedy. It is low budget film set in Los Angeles with a very 1980s synth soundtrack.The plot is inspired by the novel The Day of the Triffids and the film Dawn of the Dead. Its female protagonists in turn was an inspiration for Buffy The Vampire Slayer.A comet approaching the earth causes an extinction level catastrophe. People are turned to dust and those who were only partially exposed to the comet's rays are slowly zombified.Eighteen year old Reg (Catherine Mary Stewart) and her younger sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney) survived as they were separately in a steel reinforced room. They head for a radio station that is still transmitting and come across Hector Gomez (Robert Beltran) another survivor drawn to the radio station.The girls later go off to a mall and encounter zombie stock boys who try to shoot them. They are later rescued by a group of scientists who have a secret plan to use their blood and develop a serum as the scientists themselves became infected.The film has a lot of time lapse photography and use of coloured filters to make the sky look pink and give it a strange effect. The film loses focus too many times as it becomes slow and boring. If it was a homage to the 1950s science fiction B films then it should had been more tighter and sharper.Like a lot of similar genre film of the mid 1980s, the film has a post apocalyptic punk setting. Unusually the film has a pair of kick ass females as heroines who are also easy on the eye. Proof that strong women characters are not a recent invention. One in the eye for those who rant on film forums on the internet about the rise of Femi-Nazis and the pussification of males in movies or other such nonsense.The film has several cult actors such as Mary Woronov and Chris Pederson. It also features the late Geoffrey Lewis who was one of the best supporting actors around.

gilligan1965 Horror movies like this are what attracted so many teen boys, like myself, to the Dusk-Till-Dawn Drive-Ins back in the 1980s. Most of these movies were out-right awful; many were so-so; but, others, including this one, were actually very good and memorable.I really loved the drive-in movies when I was a teen (too bad for the teens nowadays!?!?). Studios were producing B-Movies ten-at-a-time to flood the drive-ins, and, we teens loved it! These movies, no matter how good or bad, are what we went to see...all night and into the morning.The drive-in, like the mall, the video arcade, and, the recreational center, was a social institution, and, YOU HAD TO BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!This is a really good movie that I saw at the Riverdale Drive-In in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1984 with my friends in my 1974 Datsun B-210...hee-hee!Even the cheesy 1980s music in this movie is good! Compared to most of the garbage played in movies now...it's great! It almost all sounds like Sammy Hagar, Patty Smyth, and/or Journey, and, brings back a lot of good memories.And...last, but, certainly not least, these movies always had hot chicks (usually called 'Scream Queens' back in the day) who teenage boys lusted after. This movie has "Cindy the Cheerleader" (Kelli Maroney) from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982); and, the ever-and-still-beautiful Catherine Mary Stewart.I love how it's said in this movie, about one hour in, by the glasses-wearing dork-freak who's in control of all of this disaster (like in "Wayward Pines")..."It's ironic! Of all the great minds of the world, all the great intellects, who should survive!?!?" His meaning being - two idiot hot chicks!?!? And, it's a government cover-up like in "The Crazies" (2010)...and, how many other books and movies!?!? Only here, the hot chicks, survive (The Meek).I had a very happy life as a child and a teen, and, these movies are a big part of my happiness. As a teen, I loved these 'Dime-A-Dozen' B-Movies...and, I guess I still do...or, I'm having a mid-life crisis!?!? Nope! I doubt it! These movies should all be brought back to drive-ins (if there are any left) so that my own teenage Son (and, the Sons of guys my age) can see them all night and into the morning with his friends, just as his Daddy did when he was a teen! The drive-in movies were a great time in America during the 1980s; just as they were in the 1950s, 1960s, and, 1970s! :)I give this movie seven stars because it's a movie that I once liked...and, seeing it again after 31 years, brought me back to a time in my life when all I had to worry about in the world was having enough money for gasoline for my car so I could bring my girlfriend out on a date...likely to a drive-in movie!MEMORIES - are all we have when we're old!GOOD MEMORIES - are sometimes hard to come by!DRIVE-IN MOVIE MEMORIES - are the best for someone who was a teenage boy in the 1980s!

Bill Slocum A B-movie cheapie that found its audience on cable television, "Night Of The Comet" not only survives but thrives both as an amiable genre mash-up as well as testament to the fact that cinematic smarts can trump a low budget, especially when combined with a sense of humor.The end of the world has come in the form of a mysterious comet that turns people either into red dust or nasty walking corpses (zombie- ish, if not actual zombies), depending on their level of exposure. Army-brat sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) are apparent lone survivors left to fend for themselves in a deserted and dangerous Los Angeles.One doesn't expect much from a film like this going in, one of "Night Of The Comet's" secret weapons. Another is the genre- twisting: Consider it "Planet Terror" meets "Thelma And Louise" with a John Hughes rewrite in there somewhere. Director Thom Eberhardt employs a formula exemplified by a graffito we see in an alley during an early brawl: "Entertainment Or Death." There's a lot of death in this movie, an entire city's population at the very least, yet it's entertainingly delivered, with tongue always in cheek. Yes, you have a good deal of suspense, and some scares, but mostly you have mordant moments like when Regina is trying to tell Samantha what happened to their wicked stepmother by shaking a dusty blouse she scoops off the lawn:"I'll show you Doris! Here's Doris!"If you can't laugh at something like that, you are watching the wrong movie.Both Stewart and Maroney are superb in giving you a rooting interest. Reg is the older, hyper-competitive teen, who can't bear the idea of someone else cutting into her list of top video game scores. Sam is a Valley Girl who still wears her pep-club togs and cuts a dance move after knocking down an armed adversary. While Robert Beltran is first-billed for contractual reasons, he actually plays a character more interesting for the rivalry he prompts in Reg and Sam as the last man on Earth than what he brings to the table himself. (He does have a funny scene trying to outrun a kid who has been turned feral by the comet.)Great support is given by Geoffrey Lewis as a menacing scientist and Mary Woronov as his conscience-ridden assistant. My favorite character is a leering ex-stock boy named Willy (Ivan E. Roth) who takes over a mall with his goons and sees the comet as his ticket to the capitalist dream: "Now we own the store! The American way!"The movie suffers from a weak resolution of the scientist situation, the only time the plot seems labored. One also wishes at times for more chances for Reg and Sam to use their automatic weapons, especially when Sam squints like Clint Eastwood discharging her MAC- 10. There are times L. A. seems a little too desolate. But overall, the film makes the right choices keeping things light.There's a wonderful visual style to the movie that marks "Night Of The Comet" as a product of the 1980s, but in a very fun way, with bright pastels and neons in evidence. I even love the light-pop score, which exudes a kind of cheerful counterpoint to the stalkings and standoffs.Some reviewers here call "Night Of The Comet" cheesy, and perhaps it is, as long as you are thinking Brie and not Velveeta. At least for me, it brightened many nights on cable back in the 1980s, and still works today.

tomgillespie2002 18 year-old Reggie (Catherine Mary Stewart), is a Valley girl working in the local movie theatre when the rest of the world are out partying, waiting for the arrival of a passing comet. Reggie has a party of her own with goofy projectionist Larry (Breaking Bad's Michael Bowen) and ends up missing the event entirely. After Larry is attacked by a zombie- like creature and dragged away, Reggie emerges into the world the next morning to find everyone vanished. All that remains are piles of clothes and red dust. She travels home to pick up her adorable sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney), and heads to a local radio station in search for fellow survivors, only to find lovable idiot Hector (Robert Beltran).What is clearly aiming for pastiche of 1950's apocalyptic sci-fi movies, is actually an uneasy mix of many things. With the early introduction of the 'zombies', who can talk and use weapons, we are in horror territory. But this seems quickly forgotten once Hector goes to search for his mother and the girls head out for some very 80's retail therapy, even dancing around to Cyndi Lauper. Then it feels like we are in a John Hughes movie, with light humour and a cheesy soundtrack replacing the end-of-the-world atmosphere. It then switches again when the survivors are tracked down by a group of researchers who may or may not be up to any good. We are then in kiddie-friendly sci-fi mode, with men in white suits and big buttons that make science-y sounds.Night of the Comet really isn't that bad, it just suffers from a disarming lack of follow-through that withhold's the film's potential, and shifts between genres too gleefully. The result is a film that's isn't funny enough to be labelled an out-and-out comedy, too bloodless to be called a horror, and takes too long to get to the shady scientist types that it would be misleading to name it science fiction. The performances are all decent, especially Star Trek: Voyager's Beltran and Chopping Mall's (1986) Maroney, who both would have benefited the film by having more screen-time. Geoffrey Lewis also shows up near the end as the big-bad head of the shady researchers, but it's too little, too late, and Night of the Comet is tame and messy when it should be spunky and fun.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com