Night of the Comet

1984

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

48
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 26644 26.6K

california post-apocalyptic future comet mad scientist end of the world zombie

Plot summary

After a comet wipes out most of life on Earth, two Valley Girls find themselves fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.

Director

Thom Eberhardt Photo
Thom Eberhardt

Top cast

Kelli Maroney Photo
Kelli Maroney as Samantha Belmont
Sharon Farrell Photo
Sharon Farrell as Doris Belmont
Catherine Mary Stewart Photo
Catherine Mary Stewart as Regina Belmont
Robert Beltran Photo
Robert Beltran as Hector Gomez
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875.99 MB
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
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776.71 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
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English 5.1
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1 hr 35 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 35 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by erosen 7 / 10

Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.

All of you who said this movie was dumb, unrealistic, or not scary, that is the point of a B-movie, as others have pointed out. What made this movie great was that it knew it was cheesy. A valley-girl cheerleader and her movie-theater-employee sister running around with machine guns, raiding the mall and saving the world while hiding out as radio DJ's, is not supposed to be taken seriously. Of course it is ridiculous that people would be instantly incinerated, yet plant life, clothes, and the electric company would be untouched. A lot of Academy-Award winning movies are not realistic either. This is supposed to be entertaining, and make you think about what you would do if you were one of the few people left in the world. This film was a classic 80's comedy. And I for one found the zombies pretty creepy, except for the junior zombie that breaks into Hector's mom's house, that was just hilarious. Catherine Mary Stewart (Regina) is great as the older sister, I was always surprised that she didn't become a bigger star after this one. If you grew up in the 80's, and you never saw this movie, see it now! It is an 80's classic! To this day I can't jaywalk without hearing the line, "The future of civilization is on us, we do not CROSS against the LIGHT!!"
Reviewed by Platypuschow 6 / 10

Night of the Comet: Misses greatness

Night of the Comet is a movie I thought I'd seen years ago, alas I was mixing it up with the superior Night of the Creeps (1986).It tells the story of a comet that goes by earth and somehow turns almost the entire worlds population to dust. Those not vaporized are either okay or psychotic deformed cannibals!Now I'll be honest I loved this concept, I love the idea of waking up and everyone is gone with an element of danger in the form of these mutants. I was very excited to see what they did with it and for the first half I was very engaged.After the halfway point however it quickly becomes apparent that the writer had run out of ideas because it got really quite mediocre. Gone was the mystery, gone was the gimmick altogether to be fair and we were instead facing a generic 80's sci-fi.Starring Robert "Voyager" Beltran and industry veteran Geoffrey Lewis the cast do their best but when the half way point is reached sadly there was really nothing that they could do.I'm anti-remakes/reboots but this is one of those rare exceptions. I'd love to see someone remake this, however the second half would need re-writing into something less generic and quite honestly pathetic.Watchable stuff but it should have been considerably better.The Good:Fantastic conceptSome decent visualsSuitable soundtrackGeoffrey Lewis and Kelli MaroneyThe Bad:Trails off hardPotential wasted
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