... stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney as survivors of a comet that has turned most people into either dust or zombies. Night of the Comet grossed $14.4 million in the US on a $700,000 budget.

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 33 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Valley Girl culture satire Night of the Comet gets lots of mileage out of its slapstick sci-fi zombie approach."[4] On Metacritic, it has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 10 critic reviews, which indicates "mixed or average" reviews.[5]

Variety wrote that Eberhardt "creates a visually arresting B-picture in the neon-primary colors of the cult hit Liquid Sky", as well as pointing out similarities with Five, The Day of the Triffids, The Omega Man, Dawn of the Dead and Last Woman on Earth. They described the film as "a successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality."[6] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "a good-natured, end-of-the-world B-movie" whose "humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama".

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Night of the Comet developed a cult following in the years after its release.[15] Keith Phipps of The Dissolve wrote that the film's cult following comes from how matter-of-factly it treats its weird premise.[16] The film was voted number 10 in Bloody Disgusting's Top 10 Doomsday Horror Films in 2009.[17] Maroney's character was an influence on Joss Whedon when he created Buffy Summers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Comet

Night of the Comet (1984) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Sept 13 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/432267/night-of-the-comet
• archive: https://archive.org/details/night.-of.-the.-comet.-1984
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/night-of-the-comet
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14061