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::I figured it was released earlier than 1990. With a movie like that they must have been banking on rental sales which makes the comment about the studio taking the advantage of the video market seem more relevant. One change I made about a week back was that I deleted the part written about how "VHS tapes sold for $100 so it might not have made much back" or something along those lines. It's true that VHS tapes would sell for that much, but only for one to three months before the consumer edition came out. Films were available to rent well before they were available to purchase.
::Good clean-up on the summary, btw, looks much nicer.[[User:Fermentor|Fermentor]] 09:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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==Analysis==
''Night of the Comet'' was both a [[comedy|comedic]] film, such as the ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'' series of films, and a commentary on modernized culture. For example, despite the comet wiping out nearly all of the population of a major urban area, the automated functions of the city are still working and give the impression that nothing is out of place. The voice of a radio station DJ, who at first appears as a sign of life to the survivors, is revealed to be a set of pre-recorded tapes running on an automated loop; in an effort to give the impression of employing a live DJ, the recordings featured the DJ reading letters from listeners and complaining about "being trapped in a booth all day."
This film can also be associated with two developing trends in cinema from the early to mid 1980's: a cultural obsession with the re-appearance of [[Comet Halley|Halley's Comet]] (which returned in 1986), touched upon in other films of the period including Tobe Hooper's ''[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]]''; and the profitability of low-budget 'horror/slasher' flicks which were extremely popular with teenage audiences in the early to mid 1980's. The emerging home video rental market also increased the chances of a low-budget film making a profit, as some money could be made back in the rental market.
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