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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis is a terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory. All the performers are excellent, especially Maroney, who can veer from petulant to heroic in the blink of an eye.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineWhile it would be unduly dismissive to write off Night of the Comet as a cult film merely by association, a good bit of its ancillary charm is obviously owing to its resonant casting choices: Reuniting Beltran and Woronov in the wake of Paul Bartel’s blistering black comedy Eating Raoul adds extra spice to the one longish scene they share.
- 70The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsNight Of The Comet borrows freely from everything from The Omega Man to Romero’s zombie films to Repo Man, but it never borrows so heavily as to feel like a rip-off of anything.
- 70The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyA good-natured, end-of- the-world B-movie, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, a new film maker whose sense of humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama.
- 63Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordB-movies are the great anchor of American film. They're what we do best. And Night of the Comet, like Blood Beach and The Howling before it, honors the form even as it fails to transcend it. Things go bump in the night, characters exchange improbable dialogue and a good time is had by all even as the world comes to an end. [28 Nov 1994, p.B6]
- 50Washington PostPaul AttanasioWashington PostPaul AttanasioA cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting.
- 50Time OutTime OutSuspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.
- 50Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyEberhardt's hand isn't sure and Night of the Comet wobbles in its orbit. [16 Nov 1984, p.21]
- 38The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)This is a movie which makes its viewers feel ripped-off just for expending a snicker. Camp, satire, sci-fi all have their own rules, rigorous ones at that, but Night of the Comet violates even the codes of trash. Point of view shots point to the wrong views, the cutting is as blunt as stone and the way Eberhardt bleeds the sex appeal out of the sex is the film's only real vision of the end of the world. [16 Nov 1984]