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Night of The Comet (1984)

Rated R

Directed by Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, Gross Anatomy, pilot of Parker Lewis Can't Lose)

Budget - $3,000,000

Box Office - $14,418,922



Reasons that it's a Frank Movie:

1.  Generationally definitive.

The girl from The Last Starfighter and the cheerleader from Fast Times are sisters, and, possibly the last people on Earth, as a comet has wiped out the rest of humanity, or turned those exposed into zombies.  There is simply nothing more defining of the 1980's than Kelli Maroney in a cheerleading outfit firing a mac-10 in the middle of downtown LA.  Totally awesome, like, to the max.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5lJ0LL29I

2.  The best zombie movie ever.

Like... zombies are not frightening.  They're slow.  They're mindless carnivores.  They have no personality.  And then there's Willy, king of the stockboys.  Now that's a personality.  And, if you're going to have a fight between valley girls and zombies, it should be in the mall.  Duh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZa8EXSX0Xk

3.  Soundtrack.

Very underappreciated soundtrack, including "Learn to Love Again" by Amy Holland and Chris Farren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8X7liJB6go


Variety did a great review.  You can read it here:

http://www.nightofthecomet.info/memorabilia/magazines/variety.html



Runner-up:  Never Say Never Again (1983)

Directed by Irvin Kershner

Reasons that it's a Frank Movie:

1.  I'm not a Bond guy, so it makes sense that the Bond movie that Bond refuse to recognize in the canon is the only one that I like.  I mean, I like Walken in "A View To a Kill", but that's really it.  Anyway, this movie has the best Bond girl - 1983 Kim Basinger.  It has the best Bond temptress in Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera), and the best Blofield (Max Von Sydow - for God's sake).  As always, there's a great car chase set in The Bahamas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgx8zVVTyoA

2.  The game of "Domination".  Shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhk0US4i-I



Honorable Mentions:  (Nine and a Half Weeks (1986), No Way Out (1987), A Night in The Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)).