The Comet is Coming!!!!

Personally I didn't see what the fuss was about regarding this film when I saw it

I think it's the cheerleader outfit!

Don't think I've seen this since it was released on VHS back in the day, I'm looking forward to see how well the film has held up over a decade and half.

Hey Kurt,

I know you are local so here's a heads-up, SCREAM shows this movie alot, I fucking love it, I remember signing an online petition to get this on DVD.

But I agree, Night of the Creeps should be next, both classics in my heart.

Nord

I'm a pretty avid follower of home entertainment and recently interned in the field. My educated answer would be that Night of the Creeps is has little chance in hell of coming out on DVD. The rights currently fall under Sony and they have next to zero interest in releasing anything older than the past decade, which is actually an edict from upper management. This is precisely why MGM left Sony to hook up with Fox Home Entertainment and why you're currently seeing a release of Night of the Comet. Maybe soon we'll even see those restored versions of The Witchfinder General and From Beyond. But as one fan of Night of the Creeps to another, you really shouldn't get your hopes up of buying an official copy.

People don't exactly love this movie. They love their memories of watching this movie when they were kids in the 80ies. They love their nostalgic memories associated with it. Same with flicks like MONSTER SQUAD and NIGHT OF THE CREEPS. They will all be very disappointed and depressed when they finally get to catch up to their old favorites on DVD but by then the studio will have mande a bundle.

WOLFMAN HAS NARDS!!!!!!

Caterpillar, I'm afraid you're making too much of an assumption on this one. Night of the Creeps has been in steady rotation on cable networks for the better part of 20 years now, which is where I first saw it during the late 90's. I even taped the cable version, which I was surprisingly discovered later was slightly cut from it's home vid/theatrical incarnation. I only recently showed it to a friend of mine for the first time who also enjoyed it for it's 80's cheese.

As for Monster Squad, it's actually one of the rare cases of which I only grew to appreciate it moreso with age. The ending with the army was one of the most blatantly post-modern, reflexive sequences I had been exposed to as a child and it completely went over my head at the time. Now that I've had the chance to go back and appreciate the 50's monster films and understand a child's unquestionable ability to summon a military force in the face of impossible fantasy, I'm simply stunned that they got away with filming what is an obviously an afront to the so-called reality of the story.

As the film was co-written by Shane "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" Black, it's only that more obvious that was exactly the point the writers were trying to achieve. His good friend and co-writer, Fred Dekker, was also the writer/director of Night of the Creeps. If you pay close attention to that film, having seen Bang, you'll even find that both this movie and Kiss Kiss hold some of the same character behaviors and dialogue! Now while I don't think Night of the Creeps is as good as Monster Squad, it still has many of it's own wonderful merits which is even further enhanced if you can track down the director's original, intended ending with the lead-in to a zombie army and UFO appearance.

You may not put much stock into these films, but they have a very interesting and deserving place in the history of both horror and action films. There are a good number of people who still hold onto their barely surviving 80's and 90's VHS/laserdisc transfers and have just been waiting for the studios to catch up. If you still really believe all this about people being disappointed and depressed, I simply ask that you keep your eyes and ears open around the time of the actual releases (Squad is coming!!!). I think you'll be mighty surprised at the new and returning fans these films bring about.

I completely agree with Drew. Night of the Creeps is one of the most clever well written horror comedy that I've seen. Also the most misunderstood. I always call it Scream "10 years before" because it plays with genres and conventions and is littered with horror movie nods and homage’s and does it much better than Scream ever did. Dekker clearly has much love for the genre but it obviously went over the head of the viewers in those days.
The same goes with Monster Squad. It's extremely well written, with its tongue firmly in cheek and doesn't talk down to its core audience. It's the monster version of The Goonies which is still my favourite kids film ever. I watch them regularly and for me at least they've aged well and are still great films.
I don't understand Sony for not letting other companies sublet their older titles if they don't want to waste money on releasing them.

I saw all these back in the 80's and NIGHT OF THE CREEPS still holds up well. James Gunn liked it so much he practically remade it with SLITHER. I think even the guy in the tux/prom outfit in FROSTBITEN might be a visual nod because that film definitely has an 80's fell to it.

But Caterpillar has a point. I loved NIGHT OF THE COMET back then, mainly because it was a zombie movie and Kelli Maroney was so friggin cute but I saw it again a few years ago and it wasn't quite as great as I remembered it being.

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS I would pick up today. Kelli Maroney in her cheerleader outfit is a guilty pleasure but I'd pass on NIGHT OF THE COMET.

Yea he is right up to a point. Many of my favorite childhood films have been ruind by watching them again. Krull is one of those films. What a complete piece of crap that is and I thought it was the cat's pajamas back in the day. But some manage to live on and be as fun and entertaining as they were when I first saw them. The thing about Creeps and Squad, and Goonies for that matter, is that they are well made films, well written and directed and that is the key to make a lasting piece of work.

heh. Anyone pick up their "Gymkata" DVD yet?

Oh God. That movie sucked even when I saw it as a kid. But I'm sure I could get a big laugh out of it with a couple of gallons of beer in me.

Yessir. Gymkata is one of the ultimate get the boys together and geek out making fun of a movie type movie. the fact that there is no MST3K version with Mike or Joel and the Bots is a real tragedy.

Well Mike Nelson has a website called rifftrax.com and you can give him suggestions about what he should take on. Gymkata should be released like MGM released Showgirls and Roadhouse recently. Where they know they have a turkey on their hands and make fun of it.