{"id":991,"date":"2015-04-02T05:57:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:30:38","slug":"night-of-the-comet-just-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Night Of The Comet Just The Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Since before recorded time, it had swung through the universe in an elliptical orbit so large that its very existence remained a secret of time and space. But now, in the last few years of the twentieth-century, the visitor was returning. The citizens of Earth would get an extra Christmas present this year, as their planet orbited through the tail of the comet. Scientists predicted a light show of stellar proportions. Something not seen on Earth for 65 million years. Indeed, not since the time that the dinosaurs disappeared, virtually overnight.”<\/p>\n

After the tail of a passing comet has turned everyone directly exposed to its radiation into red carbon dust, two teenage sisters awake the following morning to discover that they are two of the last people on Earth. In addition, those who were inside, and therefore not directly exposed, are disintegrating slower, becoming flesh-eating zombies in the process.<\/p>\n

The girls travel to a local radio station where they meet another survivor, Hector, a truck driver who was lured to the station, like them, in the belief that the transmission was live. It isn\u2019t, but the girls use the station in an attempt to attract help.They attract the attention of a group of scientists, who, realising that the last time the comet passed Earth, the dinosaurs disappeared, had locked themselves away in their underground facility until it passed.<\/p>\n

Hector leaves the girls to fend for themselves while he goes back home to see if any of his family have survived the comet. But can they survive in the zombie infested world until he returns?<\/p>\n

Runtime: 94 min 51 sec – the running time of this film was calculated from the measured length of 8538+5 (feet + frames) [5 reels].
\nCountry: USA
\nLanguage: English
\nColor: Color
\nSound Mix: Stereo
\nFormat: 35mm
\nBudget: Director Thom Eberhardt quotes approx $700,000; the IMDB quotes $3,000,000 (estimated) – by comparrison, The Terminator (also released in 1984) had a budget of $6,400,000.
\nDistributor: Atlantic Releasing Corp
\nUS Theatrical Release: 16 November, 1984
\nUK Theatrical Release: 8 May, 1985<\/p>\n

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