Night of the Comet is a movie I thought I'd seen years ago, alas I was mixing it up with the superior Night of the Creeps (1986).

It tells the story of a comet that goes by earth and somehow turns almost the entire worlds population to dust. Those not vaporized are either okay or psychotic deformed cannibals!

Now I'll be honest I loved this concept, I love the idea of waking up and everyone is gone with an element of danger in the form of these mutants. I was very excited to see what they did with it and for the first half I was very engaged.

After the halfway point however it quickly becomes apparent that the writer had run out of ideas because it got really quite mediocre. Gone was the mystery, gone was the gimmick altogether to be fair and we were instead facing a generic 80's sci-fi.

Starring Robert "Voyager" Beltran and industry veteran Geoffrey Lewis the cast do their best but when the half way point is reached sadly there was really nothing that they could do.

I'm anti-remakes/reboots but this is one of those rare exceptions. I'd love to see someone remake this, however the second half would need re-writing into something less generic and quite honestly pathetic.

Watchable stuff but it should have been considerably better.

The Good:

Fantastic concept

Some decent visuals

Suitable soundtrack

Geoffrey Lewis and Kelli Maroney

The Bad:

Trails off hard

Potential wasted