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Night of the Comet (1984)
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A passing comet turns almost everyone in LA into piles of red dust. Survivors include a pair of cheerleaders who respond to the end of the world by shopping for disco clothes in a disco-free town. But these girls can handle the occasional zombie - another comet-related effect - with automatic weapons and karate moves. Meanwhile very camp scientists emerge from their low-budget bunker to reveal that the turn-to-dust thing is accelerating and they need to drain the blood of uncontaminated survivors. Suspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.Author: DO
Cast & crew
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Producer: Andrew Lane, Wayne Crawford
Cast: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Fox full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 95 mins
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