Night of the Comet

Can a couple of valley girls survive an apocalypse scenario? Let’s find out!

The Scores

Interest: 6.5/10

Acting: 7/10

Storyline: 5/10

Intensity: 6/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 7/10

Nudity: 1/10

Director Score: 4/10

Musical Score: 7.5/10

Dialogue: 7/10

Logic In The Film: 6/10

Night of The Comet is a 1984 film. The genres are it uses mostly are comedy horror, and sci-fi. Its run time is one hour and thirty-five minutes. The three main stars of this film are Robert Beltran (Known for Star Trek Voyager, Night of the Comet, Nixon, and Lone Wolf McQuade), Catherine Mary Stewart (Known for The Last Starfighter, Night of the Comet, Weekend at Bernie’s, and The Apple), and Kelli Maroney(Known for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night of the Comet, Ryan’s Hope, and True Blood) The director is Thom Eberhardt (Best known for Without a Clue, Ratz, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, and Night of the Comet) A quick summary of the film is “ A comet comes crashing into Earth, killing most life on it. This leaves two valley girls trying to survive against cannibalistic zombies and an evil group of scientists.” Let's take a look at the categories!

Interest: The film was strange in the interest department. It never grabbed me and begged me to finish, but wasn’t so bad that I wanted to turn it off. It was almost as the film just existed, The idea was decent, that acting and dialogue was good, it just didn’t grab me in any particular way.

Acting: The acting in the film is pretty solid. Everyone plays their characters well and seem at least moderately accurate. I do have an honest bone to pick with the acting thought which is that everyone ends up disappearing in the world besides the last couple dozen of people, and you see all the clothes of people on the ground, cars on but no one in them and even it being Saturday morning and no kids outside playing, what do you do? I’m going to guess you freak out, not just cruise by, go shopping, not be almost joyous. Now you do get some zombies, and some people that have just gone crazy but it seems very unlikely for the main characters are so okay with the situation.

Storyline: The story was alright. A comet came from space and turns most people to dust, and you just need to survive. The way the film goes about it is incredibly lighthearted (no need to find food or water, nothing wrong with the air or atmosphere) it didn’t have a solid sustained feel. What I told you was most of the story, then just throw some B grade Mad Max in there and a zombie or two and you have the movie.

Intensity: The movie didn’t feel very intense at all, not to say that it didn’t have its moments, but as a whole, it was truly lacking. The parts that were intense made you think the film was going to go with a much darker tone, only to be a fake out later. It really was as if we were on a coasting amount of intensity, which was on the low setting.

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: Gun Fights happen a few times, as well as a couple of other fist fight style fights. Nothing really many verbal lashings, and while I’d assume that you’d have some sort of mental problems, PTSD, something but this seems to be nearly wiped clear as well. There a couple of gun fights, one which is okay, and the other is trying to show off a spectacle, which is fine, but it there is no real violence, one person dies and that’s with Uzi's, shotguns, pistols, and even televisions falling.

The fist fights aren’t much better than being a quick combo and it being over with.

Nudity: There is no nudity in the film at all, almost, but not nearly enough to make a real dent into things. The movie is PG-13 so I didn’t expect any but the movie while trying to be unique and exciting is just muted in every way imaginable. This could have spiced it up even for just the sake of boobs.

Director Score:Thom Eberhardt to most of you is a complete unheard of name unless you watched Honey I Blew Up the Kid, but even then, you’d think his work is probably hot garbage, and you’d be right, this is one of his higher rated films, and it’s not fantastic. The world looks gorgeous, but the characters aren’t realistic and very shallow, The stuff they wear was modern for the time. I’m not sure about the rest of his films, but I feel like it is more of the same.

Musical Score: The music in the film is decent, nothing stereotypical for a horror movie or anything, most of the time just using music from the time by playing “Girls Just wanna have fun”. So while there is music, it isn’t for ambiance, it is more meant for if the world had ended on that day.

Dialogue: The dialogue is solid I think in the film. While I know I ripped on the film earlier for people not freaking out, in a dialogue sense, it is varied and helps to make us care about the characters more. On the other hand the film isn’t dark or worried about surviving which is a strange thing to me for everyone and animals just turned into dust. I figured there would be a lot more talking about that than wanting to go shopping or something else no trivial.

Logic in the Film: I think you can see where I’m going to harp on the film, which is about surviving. They just don’t even mention it. Otherwise, the laws of physics have been obeyed (presumably), and everything else seems to work out just fine logically.

Did I enjoy the movie? It was honestly a wash to me. Do I suggest it? No not really, it wasn’t that interesting, doesn’t worry about survival, and everything else seems weird and out of place since they aren’t worried about surviving. And while you can rip and rag on the film, it is at least shot competently, and seems like a decent film minus one or two strange graphical problems that the film has. I rate this film a 57% and I think it’s about where it needs to be, its an okay film, but it just isn’t realistic for what it is. Until Next Time!