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Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film produced, scored and directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets.
"Dark Star" is one of the damnedest science fiction movies I've ever seen, a berserk combination of space opera, intelligent bombs, and beach balls from other worlds. It has a checkered history.
Apr 3, 2024 · Made for $60,000 (£47,581) by film school students, horror maestro John Carpenter's directorial debut Dark Star is now regarded as a sci-fi cult classic.
A satiric look at the problems experienced by a crew of bumbling astronauts on a mission to destroy rogue planets.
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A dark star is a hypothetical type of star that may have existed early in the universe before conventional stars were able to form and thrive.
Dark Star. In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong. 1,253 IMDb 6.2 1 h 22 min 1975. X-Ray G. Horror · Comedy · Outlandish · Strange. Subscribe to Shout! Factory TV or Fandor, or rent or buy. Watch with Shout! Factory TV. Start your 7-day free trial. Rent.
Jan 17, 1975 · Dark Star: Directed by John Carpenter. With Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon. In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
Dark Star is a limp parody of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that warrants attention only for some remarkably believable special effects achieved with very little money. The dim comedy consists of sophomoric notations and mistimed one-liners.
Famed horror director John Carpenter’s early spaced-out odyssey about a crew in space starting to have hilarious mishaps after 20 years in orbit. Subtitles: English. Starring: Dan O'Bannon Dre Pahich Brian Narelle Cal Kuniholm. Directed by: John Carpenter.
The crew of the Dark Star are on a 20 year mission to clear a path in space by destroying planets that are in the way of navigation routes. After a series of mishaps Mother, the ship's computer, can no longer persuade Bomb not to detonate.
