I have been meaning to track this down for years. I can remember seeing it briefly on TV when I was a child, and loving the red-sky and general claustrophobia of the film. The zombies terrified me. I got around to watching it again, and I was very disappointed. I think people who rate this highly are more so rating it for the time and place, and for their personal and special memories that go with it, than they are the movie itself.
A pair of sisters find themselves the only few survivors after an apocalyptic event involving a comet. They roam the streets of LA, fighting the zombies and a mad group of scientists out to capture the few survivors.
My main gripe with "Night of the Comet" is that it is simply boring, and that is down to the poor script and directing. It is very clear that they did not know what direction to take this film in. They had one good idea, and one good image that they worked on - and produced well - the red sky and empty streets of LA. But that was it. After that, they struggled to fill the runtime, and it felt like the scientists coming after the survivors was a last-minute throw of the dice to add some action and excitement to the film. It failed.
A pair of sisters find themselves the only few survivors after an apocalyptic event involving a comet. They roam the streets of LA, fighting the zombies and a mad group of scientists out to capture the few survivors.
My main gripe with "Night of the Comet" is that it is simply boring, and that is down to the poor script and directing. It is very clear that they did not know what direction to take this film in. They had one good idea, and one good image that they worked on - and produced well - the red sky and empty streets of LA. But that was it. After that, they struggled to fill the runtime, and it felt like the scientists coming after the survivors was a last-minute throw of the dice to add some action and excitement to the film. It failed.