Simply Perfect

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Zombies who regularly eat teenage brains are moodier than zombies who don't.However, it'll be hard to get a hold of the adolescent minds in this sci-fi thriller.When earth passes through the tail of a comet, all spectators are turned into a flesh-eating zombie. Promiscuous teen Reggie and her cheerleader sister Sam (Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney) awake the next day unchanged. Armed with an Uzi they blast their way through the undead to reach a group of scientists who want to dissect the sisters to find a cure.Considered to be the inspiration behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as a main contributor to the fledgling horror-comedy sub-genre, this 1984 cult classic was ahead of its time not only in terms of its jocular tone, but also in casting two strong female leads as the survivors.Unfortunately, sexist zombies are going to have a tough choice this election. Yellow Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Fantastic 80's apocalypse film. Its not a sci-fi that appears to have deeper levels, but is a great package of a film which makes it very remember-able. The characters and actors are appealing and believable. The atmosphere via filming, filters, background music is excellent and gives a great feeling of place, desolateness and the films own personality. Also the two main characters go and do exactly what any sane human would do in this situation too.(no spoilers) This film probably has many of the same ingredients that made Dawn of the Dead so good but with a more comedic side.A fantastic Saturday night film and easy entertainment.(its not too scary or gory although effective) One of my all-time favorites. Its a 10/10 for what it is.As for much of the films scenes and imagery, the films last scene and bad joke will for some reason stick in your mind.

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.

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