Night of the Comet

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Night of the Comet

PG-13,

1984,

1h 33m,

Sci-Fi/

Comedy/

Horror

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79%

34 Reviews

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58%

5,000+ Ratings

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34 Reviews

58%

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5,000+ Ratings

After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another survivor, Hector (Robert Beltran), but as they try to avoid the zombies, they're sought by scientists who want to experiment on their bodies in the hope of finding an antidote. Dodging both the doctors and the undead, they keep moving in the hope that they can continue to stay alive.

Critics Consensus

Valley Girl culture satire Night of the Comet gets lots of mileage out of its slapstick sci-fi zombie approach.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

Dec 25, 2024

For all this film’s Valley girl aesthetics, being reminded of what could happen if we don’t listen to science but do take one another for granted seems fairly essential. Bitchin’, isn’t it?

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Jennifer K. Stuller

Bitch Media

Dec 22, 2020

Night of the Comet is not really symbolic of anything quite so real world perilous, but it serves as a rare example of smart, resourceful and snarky butt-kicking women in film of that decade.

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Paul Attanasio

Washington Post

Jan 3, 2018

... a cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jan 1, 2026

3/4

There's no question this was made in the 1980s, and that's a positive for people who have enjoyed similarly silly sci-fi flicks like Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, and other airy efforts from that decade.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Sep 6, 2020

6/10

There's a sense of fun amidst the semi-sincere peril, even when a juvenile, girlish dress-up montage segues into a machine gun shootout with sadistic, anarchic stockboys.

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Amanda Greever

The Daily Times (Tennessee)

Jan 29, 2019

[Night of the Comet] is boring, unamusing and nearly as convoluted as Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

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Mar 8, 2019

Hidden classic. If you like a campy zombie 80s movie, check this one out. It is great!

Hagrid W

Feb 7, 2019

This mediocre film has a lot of good music in the background. By a word, not that bad considering...

Hermione R

Nov 29, 2018

If the premise excites you- and why shouldn't it, two valley girls are left on earth after a comet hits the planet, oh, and the only surviving creatures are cannibal zombies, then watching this film will be even better. Its well- acted and beautifully photographed (the earlier empty streets with that orange tinge reminiscence of a nuclear winter are amazing) and moves at a brisk pace. Give Night of the Comet a shot to remind yourself why the 80s were such an awesome time for B movie lovers.

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Kylo W

Nov 11, 2018

In a flash the end of the world comes and in the wreckage all that remains are a couple of valley girl cheerleaders and a horny trucker to carry on the burden of human civilization-and honestly, things could be worse. Sparsely made, stylishly filmed, and with its tongue firmly in cheek, the movie fuses standard B-movie schlock with a bright neon 80s aesthetic to ironic effect reflective of its era, flipping gender stereotypes and pulling the rug out from underneath anthropocentric self-seriousness. Besides the titular tail of the comet, our big-haired heroines must survive grotesque mutant not-quite-dead-yet pseudo-zombies, teenage male anarchists, and humorously mad scientists, yet the film never loses its zany irreverence or sense of humor: Girls just wanna have fun after all.

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Hermione R

Oct 26, 2018

This movie was absolutely entertaining- funny, witty, you name it! It felt like how someone might REALLY react to this situation as opposed to some other "end of the world" type movies.

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Anakin W

Sep 16, 2018

One of my favorite parody movies

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Thom Eberhardt

Director

Catherine Mary Stewart

Regina

Kelli Maroney

Samantha

Robert Beltran

Hector

Geoffrey Lewis

Carter

Mary Woronov

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Synopsis

After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another survivor, Hector (Robert Beltran), but as they try to avoid the zombies, they're sought by scientists who want to experiment on their bodies in the hope of finding an antidote. Dodging both the doctors and the undead, they keep moving in the hope that they can continue to stay alive.

Director: Thom Eberhardt
Producer: Andrew Lane, Wayne Crawford
Screenwriter: Thom Eberhardt
Production Co: Thomas Coleman and Michael Rosenblatt Productions
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 16, 1984, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 19, 2017
Runtime: 1h 33m

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