Synopsis
Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous "think tank," karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.
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Cast
- Catherine Mary StewartRegina
- Robert BeltranHector
- Kelli MaroneySamantha
- Sharon FarrellDoris
- Mary WoronovAudrey
- Geoffrey LewisCarter
- Peter FoxWilson
- Michael BowenLarry
- John AchornOscar
- Devon EricsonMinder
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
This is a terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory. All the performers are excellent, especially Maroney, who can veer from petulant to heroic in the blink of an eye. - 75
Slant Magazine
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. - 70
The Dissolve
Night Of The Comet borrows freely from everything from The Omega Man to Romero’s zombie films to Repo Man, but it never borrows so heavily as to feel like a rip-off of anything. - 70
The New York Times
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. - 70
Variety
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. - 63
Miami Herald
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] - 50
Washington Post
A cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting. - 50
Time Out
Suspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.
