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- 1984
- PG-13
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
Directed By: Thom Eberhardt
Written By: Thom Eberhardt
- 1984
- PG-13
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
Night of the Comet
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6.9
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Summary A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
Directed By: Thom Eberhardt
Written By: Thom Eberhardt
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
While it would be unduly dismissive to write off Night of the Comet as a cult film merely by association, a good bit of its ancillary charm is obviously owing to its resonant casting choices: Reuniting Beltran and Woronov in the wake of Paul Bartel’s blistering black comedy Eating Raoul adds extra spice to the one longish scene they share.
Night of the Comet is a successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality.
User Score
Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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A good-natured, end-of- the-world B-movie, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, a new film maker whose sense of humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama.
B-movies are the great anchor of American film. They're what we do best. And Night of the Comet, like Blood Beach and The Howling before it, honors the form even as it fails to transcend it. Things go bump in the night, characters exchange improbable dialogue and a good time is had by all even as the world comes to an end. [28 Nov 1994, p.B6]
Eberhardt's hand isn't sure and Night of the Comet wobbles in its orbit. [16 Nov 1984, p.21]
A cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting.
This is a movie which makes its viewers feel ripped-off just for expending a snicker. Camp, satire, sci-fi all have their own rules, rigorous ones at that, but Night of the Comet violates even the codes of trash. Point of view shots point to the wrong views, the cutting is as blunt as stone and the way Eberhardt bleeds the sex appeal out of the sex is the film's only real vision of the end of the world. [16 Nov 1984]
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
