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Night of the Comet is a 1984 science fiction comedy horror zombie film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney.

Plot
Eighteen-year-old Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) is annoyed to find her high score on the arcade game Tempest has been beaten by someone with the initials DMK. The situation only gets worse when the Earth passes through the tail of a comet, thus dooming all human and animal life and bringing civilization to an end. Only those who happened to be completely enclosed inside metal containers survive (for example, the three main protagonists spend the night in a metal shed, a steel-lined projection room, and an 18-wheeler's trailer). Unprotected people and animals quickly dehydrate and turn into piles of red dust. Those only partially exposed first gradually degenerate into cannibalistic zombies for a few hours or days before succumbing. It is indicated that this is what wiped out the dinosaurs, as the last time it passed by Earth was 65 million years ago when they went extinct (it is implied that mammals, smaller reptiles and birds were protected inside caves and holes in the Earth).