This was a fun movie. Robert Beltran is always likable (would rather have seen him as the Captain on 'Voyager'). Catherine Mary Stewart is cute and tough as the protagonist, and has awesome 80s hair. Kelli Maroney, while not as cute, is entertaining and gets to spout some of the funnier dialogue. She would later get to be the heroine of 'Chopping Mall', complete with a villain-vanquishing one-liner at the end. This could have been more entertaining with an R rating and more zombies, along with accompanying gore and T&A. It's still fairly entertaining, and there's e nice pay-off in the very last shot that helps to round things out.

Although NIGHT OF THE COMET possesses a minor status as a cult zombie film, I'm sorry to say that it is totally unworthy of said respect. Truth be told, it's a dumb '80s teen comedy, with a couple of utterly irritating teenage girls as leads and not a great deal to recommend it whatsoever. The paucity of the film's budget is evident from the outset, as comet effects are achieved with flashlights and the sky turns a cheesy red colour for the rest of the movie. As for the plot, it's a direct rip-off of Day of the Triffids, as comets destroy everyone aside from a few people who weren't exposed to the radiation. And what of the zombies? Well, the director clearly loves the work of George Romero and feels it necessary to incorporate a few okay-ish zombie attacks into the film, but these takes up 5 minutes of the running time tops and half of those are padded dream sequences.Catherine Mary Stewart makes for an unlikely heroine, with a big mouth and even bigger attitude. She's matched by blonde bimbo Kelli Maroney, who character is hands down the worst thing in the movie; you'll be screaming for her death scene, but even that's a cheat. The lead is taken by Robert Beltran, later known for his starring role in STAR TREK: VOYAGER, but he doesn't really have anything to do in this film, just stand around and look dashing. Two cult movie fans appear in the flick: Mary Woronov and Geoffrey Lewis. Both are entertaining in their own right, but criminally underused.The film is slow moving and even the slim plot seems padded. It can't even use the lack of budget as an excuse, as Steve Barkett's THE AFTERMATH was done on about one tenth of this film's budget and was ten times better. The comedy is diabolical and halfway through things grind to a halt for an appalling shopping mall interlude clearly stolen from DAWN OF THE DEAD. Except this time, two obnoxious teenagers dress up to the 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' song. Words can't express how bad this is. Things do pick up for an eleventh day sub-plot about some ruthless scientists harvesting human blood to protect themselves from the radioactive ways, but it 's over quickly and without much to recommend it. Poor acting, plot, special effects, and barely any gore effects make this film one to avoid. The evil scientist plot is the only thing to stop it from being totally without merit.

Night of the Comet is a cult science fiction film with elements of horror and comedy. It is low budget film set in Los Angeles with a very 1980s synth soundtrack.The plot is inspired by the novel The Day of the Triffids and the film Dawn of the Dead. Its female protagonists in turn was an inspiration for Buffy The Vampire Slayer.A comet approaching the earth causes an extinction level catastrophe. People are turned to dust and those who were only partially exposed to the comet's rays are slowly zombified.Eighteen year old Reg (Catherine Mary Stewart) and her younger sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney) survived as they were separately in a steel reinforced room. They head for a radio station that is still transmitting and come across Hector Gomez (Robert Beltran) another survivor drawn to the radio station.The girls later go off to a mall and encounter zombie stock boys who try to shoot them. They are later rescued by a group of scientists who have a secret plan to use their blood and develop a serum as the scientists themselves became infected.The film has a lot of time lapse photography and use of coloured filters to make the sky look pink and give it a strange effect. The film loses focus too many times as it becomes slow and boring. If it was a homage to the 1950s science fiction B films then it should had been more tighter and sharper.Like a lot of similar genre film of the mid 1980s, the film has a post apocalyptic punk setting. Unusually the film has a pair of kick ass females as heroines who are also easy on the eye. Proof that strong women characters are not a recent invention. One in the eye for those who rant on film forums on the internet about the rise of Femi-Nazis and the pussification of males in movies or other such nonsense.The film has several cult actors such as Mary Woronov and Chris Pederson. It also features the late Geoffrey Lewis who was one of the best supporting actors around.

Been on an 80s horror kick as of late and actually watched this on my computer the other night. Never saw it in the 80s, so it was a nice surprise and fit right in with the stuff I've been injecting directly into my eyeballs lately.Love the concept. World's excited for a comet, comet comes and kills them all. That's not a spoiler by the way, that's just the beginning. The survivors have their run of the town. First are scared, then have fun. Then get scared again when the bad stuff starts a-happening.First half is definitely better than the second half and the concept definitely is much more fun than the full execution of said concept, but overall this flick's pretty fun and definitely worth a watch for anyone who loves those B-horror movies like me.I will say if ever there was a horror film from the 80s that deserved a remake, this could be the one. There are areas that could be improved-- specifically what the survivors do and who the enemies are-- and would make this a pretty damn good current horror flick.