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?

Full Review | Dec 25, 2024

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.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2020

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 6, 2020

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

Full Review | Jan 29, 2019

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.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2019

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

Full Review | Jan 3, 2018

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

The irreverence at the perceived end of the world constitutes Night of the Comet's biggest selling point: borrowing some of the cheekiness that George A. Romero used so well, and making it the main dish rather than the garnish.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2014

[UPDATED 2024 BLU-RAY REVIEW] There's no question this was made in the 1980s, and that's a positive for people who have enjoyed similarly silly sci-fi flicks like Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, and other airy efforts from that decade.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2014

crap that is fondly remembered and best left at that.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 3, 2014

When most of the people of the Earth are dehydrated into pink dust, will girls still just want to have fun? 'Night of the Comet' answers that question in the affirmative, with a flourish of candy colors, short skirts, MTV beats & 'teenage comet zombies.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2014

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2013

Night of the Comet is that rare movie that's effective as both a science-fiction movie and a parody of a science-fiction movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 4, 2013

A superb apocalyptic tale that's surpassed its decade trappings.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2013

Parodies the 1950's sci-fi zombie flicks.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 6, 2013

What really makes Night Of The Comet such a joy isn't the nostalgia rush it provides, but the two central characters. These girls just get on with it, dealing with the apocalypse with resourcefulness, crackerjack wit, and machine guns.

Full Review | Aug 31, 2010

An ingenious, rather enchanting Reagan-era museum piece

Full Review | Mar 14, 2010

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

Full Review | Jun 6, 2007

A terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2007

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2007