“It
didn’t occur to me on any kind of conscious level, but what this guy [a
psychologist] was saying was that Night of the Comet was like a
reflection of where teenagers are in their personality development. At that point, they’re still extremely egocentric. They believe the world orbits around them,
and that their concerns are the only ones that matter. They have little concern for anybody or
anything around them. He said that Night
of the Comet is a visual representation of that stage. There are these
two girls and nothing else matters. I
wasn’t doing that on a conscious level, but it makes a lot of sense. I had no illusions when I did it that this
was anything more than a drive-in movie.”
- Writer-director
Thom Eberhardt discusses with me the psychological underpinnings of Night
of the Comet (1984). From Horror Films of the 1980s, page 402.
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