One thing about furloughs and isolation and social distancing, it gives creative people plenty of time for those off-the-wall projects they'd never thought they'd get around to. Even a dumb idea has plenty of time to blossom, like ranking movies that have little in common besides a few title words. K. Thor Jensen did it.
One night, I was thinking about how weird it was to wander the empty streets during the pandemic, which made me think about the 1984 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie Night of the Comet, which made me think of other movies that use “Night of the” in the title. Then some guy on Twitter said I should rank them. I said I would.
This was a foolish choice. There are a lot of movies that use “Night of the” in the title, even if you cut out short films and TV movies. But hey, I’m in lockdown.
He found 82 such movies! Of course, you thought of Night of the Living Dead, and probably Night of the Lepus, but have you ever heard of Night of the Wererooster? It came in dead last. In fact, if you were to throw a random word out, there has probably been a movie named Night of the (Random Word). They include horror, comedies, drama, porn, and science fiction. Try to guess the top ones and then see the clip-filled list at Polygon. -via Metafilter