"They came. They shopped. They saved the world!"
1984 - Color - 95 minutes - PG13 - Director: Thom Eberhardt
"A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive."
This film straddles the line between horror and comedy very well. It doesn't take itself too seriously and its not so over-top silly its annoying. Surprisingly, this movie contains no pitfall comedic gags, I don't even think there's an obligatory fake scare scene. Its a couple of dingbats living in a post-apocalyptic world (Los Angeles after a comet passing through the atmosphere turns into a nuclear wastoid landscape) and somewhat unaffected by their new life and surroundings. Aside from a mini-breakdown by the youngest early in the film. Their biggest concerns are the lack of parents dragging them down, no cute boys to 'make it with' and nuclear zombies!!
Once the horror stuff kicks in its a nice change of pace. Anyone left on earth, if not obliterated or kept safe from the nuclear madness, have turned into corpse faced nuclear fall out trash. There aren't plagues of them, just an unwanted annoyance to the bum out of the world technically being over. And if that wasn't bad enough there are evil scientists (a corporation?) harvesting the blood of unaffected survivors for a cure.
I got the joy of seeing this as part of a double bill about 6 years ago in Hollywood thanks to the mind behind Cinefamily's Heavy Hitter Midnights. I figured it was worth a rewatch and it certainly held up in my memory, although I enjoyed it much more the second time around. Not a gore fest by all means but worth a watch for some decent sci-fi movie action.
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