Blog: WFMU's Beware of the Blog

Night of the Comet doesn't have any right to be as doggone enjoyable as it is. For one thing, it's an overly simple pitch: The Omega Man with Valley Girls. Instead of disease, we've got a different end of the world event - a Haley's-type comet that turns everyone to red dust - which leaves only a few survivors and a plague of pesky zombies. And unlike Richard Matheson's I Am Legend , the survivors don't hole up and go slightly mental - they go to the mall in a "Girls Just Want To Have [...]

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