Night of the Comet

For all this film’s Valley girl aesthetics, being reminded of what could happen if we don’t listen to science but do take one another for granted seems fairly essential. Bitchin’, isn’t it?

Night of the Comet is not really symbolic of anything quite so real world perilous, but it serves as a rare example of smart, resourceful and snarky butt-kicking women in film of that decade.

... a cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting.

It feels like an homage to everything, as its likable heroines slowly wander through a movie wasteland filled with familiar landmarks

A successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality.

his endearingly hokey low-budget B-movie comes with a high nostalgia factor from the Reagan era

There's a sense of fun amidst the semi-sincere peril, even when a juvenile, girlish dress-up montage segues into a machine gun shootout with sadistic, anarchic stockboys.

[Night of the Comet] is boring, unamusing and nearly as convoluted as Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

The bastard offspring of an entire drive-in era, Night of the Comet is one of the most unique motion pictures from any age, and it's a wonder that more modern filmmakers haven't used it as a cinematic template.

I think it's the film's ability to embrace its own zaniness that has cemented Night of the Comet's legacy in modern horror as by far one of the most inventive cult classics to have been spawned during the 80's.