Movie Details
| Title: | Night of the Comet | |
| Director: | Thom Eberhardt | |
| Year: | 1984 | |
| Genre: | Apocalypse | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 05.24.07 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 05.24.07 | Terror Thursday | The passing of a comet turns everyone not protected by steel into dust and those only partially exposed into evil sort-of zombies. Kinda like the first half of 28 Days Later if it took place in 80s LA and starred a couple teenage girls. I have my college buddy Trapper to thank for seeing this for the first time. I remember he rented a double feature of Larry Cohen's The Stuff and Night of the Comet and I didn't particularly like either one (although I later suggested The Stuff as a cheese-a-thon entry tro smashing success (which is where I saw Troll 2 for the first time (it's all connected!))) but since then I'd say it's safe to say that both my viewing tastes and how I appreciate movies in general has changed a tremendous amount (i.e. I moved out of my fakey film school snobbery), so I was excited to see this again. So excited in fact that I made up lyrics to a Night of the Comet punk song. Since a few of the people I shared them with goaded me into singing the song but I couldn't remember my own lyrics (yeah, I'll never be a singer in a band ever), I'm pasting them at the end of this note for posterity's sake. Be warned though, the lyrics are © me, bitches... so no stealing. Before that though... I wanted to say that it was better than I remember it being! It still gets bogged down a bit in the underground base third act and I wish there was more exploration of the newly-empty world... but it was much less slower than I remember (some of that might've been helped by seeing it in a theater with a pretty full house) and there were definitely some funny moments. I can't believe how 80s this movie is. I remember the red filters and really angular fashion but I forgot all about how the radio station is basically a tribute to all things neon. There is so much neon in this movie, it's crazy. And since a lot of the movie takes place in an automated radio station, there's bland 80s pop rock filling the background ad nauseum. It certainly was a time... I also want to note that Suburbia's Jack Diddly himself Chris Pedersen has a small small role in this. I thought it was him at first but then he said his one line and it sounded just like him so ah HAH! trainspot'd! Night of the Comet (to be yelled loud) NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! I WAKE UP AND EVERYONE'S DUST! PRETTY POISON TURNED TO RUST! THE SKY'S RED AND THUNDER STRUCK! MY FAMILY'S DEAD AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! DIRTY ZOMBIES IN THE STREETS! FASHION SENSE JUST CAN'T BE BEAT! SHOULD WE DO SOME HEAD CHOPPING!? I SAY FUCK 'EM, LET'S GO SHOPPING! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! THE VALLEY'S TOAST, THE FUTURE'S FUCKED! BUT I DON'T CARE CUZ MY JEANS ARE TUCKED! I JUST WANT SOME PIECE OF MIND! CANNIBALISTIC DAILY GRIND! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NIGHT OF THE COMET! NO LAW! NO LAW!! NO LAW!!! NO LAW!!!! CHEERS! |
