Night of the Comet
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
- Director: Thom Eberhardt
- Genre:Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Runtime:95 minutes
Cast
Robert Beltran .: Hector
Catherine Mary Stewart : Regina
Kelli Maroney : Samantha
Sharon Farrell : Doris
Mary Woronov : Audrey
The Earth is expected to pass through the tail of a rogue comet—an event which has not occurred in 65 million years, the last time coinciding with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. On the night of the comet’s impending mid-December passage, large crowds gather to celebrate the event.
Eighteen-year-old Regina Belmont (Catherine Mary Stewart) is an employee at a movie theater in southern California. Annoyed to find her high score on the arcade game Tempest has been beaten by someone with the initials “DMK”, she then sleeps with her boyfriend, the movie theater projectionist, in the steel lined projection booth at the theater. Meanwhile, back at Regina’s house, her sixteen-year-old sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney) argues with their stepmother, and Sam is punched in the face.
The next morning, a reddish haze covers everything, and there are no people, animals or other signs of life, only small piles of red dust and empty clothes where people stood and watched the comet’s passage. Regina and her boyfriend wake up, unaware that anything strange has happened. The boyfriend steps out into the alley behind the theater and is immediately killed by a zombie-like creature. When Regina comes looking for her missing boyfriend, she encounters the zombie in the act of eating something. The zombie tries to attack her, but she escapes. Finding herself in the newly-empty world, she goes home and finds her sister. Sam had spent the night in a metal yard shed after the fight with her stepmother.
After figuring out what has happened, they hear a disc jockey on the radio and head to the station, only to find that it is just a recording. However, they do meet another survivor there, Hector Gomez (Robert Beltran), who spent the night in the back of his steel semi truck. When Sam speaks on air, the broadcast is heard by government researchers in an underground think tank. They call and notify her that a rescue team is on its way. The scientists note that the zombies, though less exposed to the comet, will soon disintegrate into dust themselves. Reggie tells Hector that, as military brats, she and Sam were taught self-defense techniques and how to use firearms by their father. Hector then leaves to see if any of his family survived. In true Valley Girl fashion, Reggie and Sam go shopping at a local mall. After a surprise firefight with some zombie ex-stock boys, the girls are taken prisoner, but are saved by the rescue team from the think tank. Read more
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