Night of the Comet

Director: Thom E. Eberhardt
Cast: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell Mary Woronoy, Geoffrey Lewis
Genre: Comedy/Horror/Sci-fi 1984
Running time: 95 mins.
Rating:★


It's the first comet to buzz the planet in 65 million years, and everyone seems to be celebrating its imminent arrival! Everyone, that is, except for Regina Belmont (Catherine Mary Stewart), and her younger sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney). Two Valley gals who care more about meteoric fashion trends than celestial phenomena. But upon daybreak, when the girls discover that they're the only residents of Los Angeles whom the comet hasn't either disintegrated or turned into a zombie, they..well, they go shopping! But when their day of malling threatens to become a day of "the mauling", these two val gals flee with both killer zombies and blood-seeking scientists in hot pursuit!

A perfect example of why the eighties wasn't all that "fab." Poor scriptwriting, poorly casted, and "special effects" that make you want to gag. Oh this comet comes and then all you see are clothes lying around the city with red Kool-Aid dust where the head and limbs should be. It seems to me that there wasn't an evil alien comet disintegrating all these people, someone must have spiked the Kool-Aid and everyone decided to go streaking! What a load of crap! You don't understand why the two girls are in the locations as this going on! The film sort of explains, but not enough for the audience to care. Both Catherine Mary Stewart's and Kelli Marony's performances make Kristen Stewart seem like an Oscar winning actress!