PRESENTED ON 35MM!
This Christmas, join Dumpster Raccoon Cinema as it celebrates the reason for the season – the return of the comet that killed the dinosaurs and has turned all the adults into zombies, leaving the valley girls to inherit the hearth!!
It is Christmas 1984, and Regina “Reggie” Belmont has a lame job, a crummy boyfriend, and an ultra-annoying family – until a comet evaporates most of the Earth’s population right before the holiday season and leaves the rest a zombified horde! Now she and her bratty little sister Sam will have to survive brain-hungry undead, roving gangs of survivors – and scientists with dark ulterior motives. All while defending her high score at the arcade, raiding the mall for an ultra-rad makeover, and wandering the desolate wasteland to find some cute boys to date!
Capturing the cultural zeitgeist obsession with 80s So-Cal with goofy charm and gleeful pastiche, Night of the Comet relentlessly skewers the zombie genre even as it turns horror gender norms on their head, insisting that a ditzy blonde protagonist needn’t be first-act zombie chow – she might just be the toughest girl on Earth! Carefully culled from interviews with real teen girls working with director Thom Eberhart on PBS Specials, Night of the Comet has become an enduring cult classic, cited as a key influence on work like Buffy the Vampire Slayer – and, decked out in tinsel and found family wholesomeness, the perfect Christmas movie!
With video preshow, host Anthony Oliveira, live performance, and cocktails by the Shameful Tiki Room – sponsored by Bay Street Video!