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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.
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.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- John Carpenter
- 1975-01-17
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.
- Natasha Tripney
Feb 19, 2018 · www.screenbound.co.ukDark Star [1974]John Carpenter directs this Sci-Fi cult classic, spoofing Kubrick’s 2001. Four bored astronauts wandering space destroyi...
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The new commander, Talby (Dre Pahich; voiced by John Carpenter), sits in a bubble on top of the ship, falls asleep... dreaming about the Phoenix asteroid which circles the universe every 1.23 trillion years.
"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. It began as a student project by John Carpenter (later to direct " Halloween ") and Dan O'Bannon (later to write " Alien "), and grew over a period of ...
Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, the scout ship DARK STAR travels out on the very rim of the known universe, far in advance of colony ships, prowling the unstable planets. Meanwhile the crew of Doolittle, Pinback, Boiler and Talby perform their jobs in a state of abject boredom.
