Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Written by Thom Eberhardt
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I am not going to give this movie a very good rating, but I am also not going to flat-out bash it. It has its moments, but overall it is very ineffective.
Zombie films are perhaps my absolute favorite sub-genre of horror. What I really like about zombies is that they find strength in numbers. They are completely single-minded and stupid. All they want is to eat brains. Zombies are scary because they are overwhelming. The odds are always in their favor, but it is not impossible to overcome the odds with a little bit of cleverness and a badass weapon.
"Night of the Comet" is, in my opinion, technically not a zombie movie. There are some zombies in it--maybe 15, and that's being generous. There is no gore. Is there a shopping montage? You better believe it.
This is an 80s movie, and maybe it's a comedy. I'm not sure, because it's not funny. It is, at times, charming. Should a zombie movie be charming? Probably not. This movie is so close to being good, but it just can't pull it off. It might be the first movie to tackle the zombie/comedy (zombedy?), and it hits a lot of rough patches.
The plot: a comet shoots over the world (I guess) and vaporizes everybody. A few people have survived and even fewer have not been exposed to the comet. If you have been exposed, then you become a zombie, before ending up dust. A think tank accidentally got exposed and is trying to make a serum in order to heal themselves. Two sisters meet up with a dude named Hector at a radio station and they team up to fight the zombies, in theory.
Really, this has the makings of a good film, it just isn't pulled off correctly. It should be no surprise when you consider that the man who wrote and directed this picture is the same man who did the same for "Captain Ron."
I'm sure there's a group of people out there that love this movie. It's probably a cult classic in some circles. I found it to be disappointing. It had promise and did not deliver in laughs, terror, gore or zombies.

5/10