Ohh well hey there die hard DEH fans!! Thanks for joining us on yet another day of cult horror awesomeness! Today I'll be telling you about a movie called Night of the Comet (1984). It was written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. It has several diverse genres such as science fiction, horror, zombie apocalypse, and even comedy and a dash of romance thrown in. And here's something you may not know, Night of the Comet was voted number 10 in Bloody Disgusting's top 10 doomsday Horror Films in 2009. Yay! Now go ahead and let me tell you a little about it.
The Earth is getting ready to pass through the tail of a rogue comet, something that had not happened in 65 million years, and the residents of Southern California are getting ready to celebrate. But not 18 year old Regina "Reggie" Belmont. She decides stay in the projection room of the theatre where she works and spend the night with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, her younger sister Samantha is stuck at their home where their stepmother Doris. Doris decides to throw a party for the neighborhood to celebrate the comet, but after a fight with Doris, Samantha runs away and spends the night in a metal yard shed. The following morning, a reddish haze covers the city, and there's no one in sight, only piles of dust. Regina wakes up, not yet knowing what has happened outside. Her boyfriend leaves and she goes looking for him, only to find him being eaten by a zombie. Regina narrowly escapes being attacked by the zombie and hurries home to find her sister and see if she's ok.
The Earth is getting ready to pass through the tail of a rogue comet, something that had not happened in 65 million years, and the residents of Southern California are getting ready to celebrate. But not 18 year old Regina "Reggie" Belmont. She decides stay in the projection room of the theatre where she works and spend the night with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, her younger sister Samantha is stuck at their home where their stepmother Doris. Doris decides to throw a party for the neighborhood to celebrate the comet, but after a fight with Doris, Samantha runs away and spends the night in a metal yard shed. The following morning, a reddish haze covers the city, and there's no one in sight, only piles of dust. Regina wakes up, not yet knowing what has happened outside. Her boyfriend leaves and she goes looking for him, only to find him being eaten by a zombie. Regina narrowly escapes being attacked by the zombie and hurries home to find her sister and see if she's ok.
After Regina and Samantha finally realize what happened, they hear a local disc jockey, and race to the radio station, only to find it was an automated recording. They run into a man named Hector, who spent the night in his truck. Samantha interrupts the pre-recorded show to make an announcement, and the broadcast is heard by a team of government researchers in an underground think tank. The researchers call the station and tell the survivors that a rescue team is on the way. Reggie and Sam decide to go to the local mall to pass time when they are captured by zombie stock boys, but are soon rescued by the research team.
Regina is immediately taken back to the think tank, while Sam is thought to be infected and was ordered to be killed. A disillusioned scientist named Audrey pretends to kill Sam and then after meeting Hector and telling him how to save Reggie, she kills herself. Regina realizes what the researchers are doing with all of the people they have on life support machines- they are being kept alive so the researches can harvest their blood and create a serum to save themselves. It's up to Hector to save Reggie and for them to stop the researchers from killing innocent people.
BRRRRRRRAINS!! ZOMBIES!!! Ahh! I saw zombies. That was awesome. Anyway, now about the movie. It really wasn't that bad. I kinda liked it actually. And it definitely takes you on a trip back to the 80's. The acting was ok, but that Samantha girl got on my nerves...ughh. The special effects aren't anything to get excited over though, and some parts of the movie were kind of slow. But if you like low-budget B-horror films, this is a decent film to watch. One thing that I didn't really like was the fact that played really irritating music pretty much throughout the entire movie, whether it was related to the scene or not. TOO MUCH MUSIC!
And I think that were maybe like...3 zombies in the entire movie...or a few more..whatever. This movie needed more zombies! Overall I'd give Night of the Comet a 2 out of 5. I will say that this movie is pretty forgetable, even it's a cult classic. I probably won't remember much of it to be honest.The acting was not good...in fact, it was downright annoying. Ughh. But I won't say that I wasted 95 minutes of my life, because the film was slightly entertaining. As far as me ever watching it again?? Good question. Maybe...maybe not. Don't forget to check out what Zane's got going on, and as always, thanks for stopping by Dead End Horror!
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