I love this movie so much

Absolutely Brilliant!

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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.

This 1984 sci-fi/horror film stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney, Mary Woronov and Geoffrey Lewis. This takes place in California where a mysterious comet arrives and wipes out the residents along with most of the world's population. Stewart (The Last Starfighter, Weekend at Bernie's) plays adventurous teen, Regina, Maroney (Chopping Mall) plays her spunky sister, Samantha who are the only survivors along with trucker, Hector (Beltran) uniting and fighting against zombie-infected hosts. Woronov (Chopping Mall) and Lewis (Tango & Cash) play scientists, Audrey and Carter. This is a pretty good 80's flick paying tribute and poking fun at sci-fi, horror & B-movies. It features a good cast and great make-up effects by David Miller. I recommend this.

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.

When most of humanity is turned into a pile of dust and laundry from a comet, the blissfully unaware valley girl Regina spent the night hooking up in a cinema projection booth and playing arcade games. It doesn't take long before she's attacked by a zombie and joins her sister, who spent the night in a metal shed (whatever works, I guess) at a radio station where they assume there will be help. They meet up with another survivor and hit the empty streets of southern California. They make a few stops to try on clothes and run around the mall. Really, what else is there to do during the apocalypse? It's the main character's nonchalant attitude toward humanity's end that gives this film its charm. Red gradient filters on the camera lens to make the sky red, add to the hokey feel. A last act with evil scientists spoil much of the fun and never fully works, but what preceded it is one of the more entertaining horror comedy entries of the 80s.