Great Film overall

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

I saw Night Of The Comet way back in 1985, on a bad Betamax copy. I remember liking it back then. Now I got my hands on the newly released Bluray edition and well, the movie has dated a bit. Sure, Night Of The Comet was has a bit of tongue in cheek and it kind of never takes itself too seriously, but even at that, it does contain some truly creepy moments. The movie deals with a comet passing near Earth's orbit and scientists predicting a dazzling spectacle of lights and a meteor shower. SInce it's a once in a lifetime event, most of the residents in L.A. gather outside the streets to catch a perfect view of this comet passing by. It later appears that all that were exposed to the comet's radiation disintegrate, turning humans into dusty red clay. Only two girls seem to survive, Regina and Sammantha, both of them were miraculously hidden from the radiation. When they become aware that everybody around them is dead, they desperately try to communicate with other possible survivors. The empty streets of L.A., the automatic gardening devices, clocks, street lights, etc., seem to function normally, giving us a glimpse that machines can go on their own without humans. It is these scenes that I found the creepiest, reminding me of movies like The Omegan Man and 28 Days Later, which I think borrowed heavily from this picture.The girls then find and befriend a truck driver and for a moment it appears that they are the only survivors. One thing that is never fully explained is that, some of the people that didn't die, turned into Zombies. Unlike the Zombies in George Romero films (slow and dumb) or in 28 Days Later (fast and furious), these zombies actually speak and think. It is never specified why they didn't disintegrate and why they necessarily have to turn into zombies. To make matters worse, a team of scientists also survive, but they too have been exposed to the comet and need contaminated free survivors in order to make a serum that can save them. Maybe if the movie had a more serious tone (like those scenes of empty LA, that are truly creepy)it would've been a far more interesting movie, yet Night Of The Comet manages to entertain. Those of us who grew up during the 80's will surely find the soundtrack of electronic and new wave music very appealing (yet it also severely dates the movie).I enjoyed Night Of The Comet, but I'll be the first to admit it's not Oscar material.

What if. A Comet came bringing death with it ? and those who it didn't kill outright were turned into zombie like creatures Creatures with a taste or a craving for human blood What if you were behind steel walls and you and four other people were the last normal people on earth as far as you know ? And the comet zombies are hunting you for your blood. The Night of the Comet gave us those questions and answered them with a style and a flair for the comedy. Kelli maroney stole the show with her portrayal of Samantha a not too bright yet spirited teenager. Cathrine Mary Stewert shines as Reggie Sam's big sister. Both are deadly having been trained from an early age by their Green Beret father to handle themselves. Geofferey Lewis a gem who shines no matter what he plays in. Not only steals his scenes but chews the scenery with a glee. The movie was one of those movies that I watched over and over again as a Teen. And now having discovered it again. I find it one of the most fun movies to watch. Comet never takes itself too seriously. Which explains it's enduring charm. Watch it and you'll find a new film that you might watch again.

18 year-old Reggie (Catherine Mary Stewart), is a Valley girl working in the local movie theatre when the rest of the world are out partying, waiting for the arrival of a passing comet. Reggie has a party of her own with goofy projectionist Larry (Breaking Bad's Michael Bowen) and ends up missing the event entirely. After Larry is attacked by a zombie- like creature and dragged away, Reggie emerges into the world the next morning to find everyone vanished. All that remains are piles of clothes and red dust. She travels home to pick up her adorable sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney), and heads to a local radio station in search for fellow survivors, only to find lovable idiot Hector (Robert Beltran).What is clearly aiming for pastiche of 1950's apocalyptic sci-fi movies, is actually an uneasy mix of many things. With the early introduction of the 'zombies', who can talk and use weapons, we are in horror territory. But this seems quickly forgotten once Hector goes to search for his mother and the girls head out for some very 80's retail therapy, even dancing around to Cyndi Lauper. Then it feels like we are in a John Hughes movie, with light humour and a cheesy soundtrack replacing the end-of-the-world atmosphere. It then switches again when the survivors are tracked down by a group of researchers who may or may not be up to any good. We are then in kiddie-friendly sci-fi mode, with men in white suits and big buttons that make science-y sounds.Night of the Comet really isn't that bad, it just suffers from a disarming lack of follow-through that withhold's the film's potential, and shifts between genres too gleefully. The result is a film that's isn't funny enough to be labelled an out-and-out comedy, too bloodless to be called a horror, and takes too long to get to the shady scientist types that it would be misleading to name it science fiction. The performances are all decent, especially Star Trek: Voyager's Beltran and Chopping Mall's (1986) Maroney, who both would have benefited the film by having more screen-time. Geoffrey Lewis also shows up near the end as the big-bad head of the shady researchers, but it's too little, too late, and Night of the Comet is tame and messy when it should be spunky and fun.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com