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Dark Star

Year:1974
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Science Fiction, Cult
IMDB:IMDB Page
Rating:7.6  Rate
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Community: 19 Have Seen


DirectorJohn Carpenter
Selected CastBrian Narelle as Lt. Doolittle
 Cal Kuniholm as Boiler
 Dre Pahich as Talby
 Dan O'Bannon as Pinback
ProducerJohn Carpenter
 Dan O'Bannon
WriterJohn Carpenter
SoundtrackJohn Carpenter


On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Dark Star - VCI Home Video - USA (1999)
DVD

Dark Star - Fabulous Films - UK (2004)
Blu-ray

Dark Star - Fabulous Films - UK (2012)
DVD

Dark Star - Prism Leisure - UK (2005)
VHS

Dark Star - Force Video - Australia
VHS

Dark Star - Castle Hendring - UK
VHS

Dark Star - House Of Horror - Sweden (2000)


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Comments and Reviews
 
Magic Marmalade
24th Feb 2024
 Rated 7/10
You don't have to be stoned to enjoy this pocket-change budgeted movie... but it helps! :)

3 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?
 

 
jaimeeduardo
10th Nov 2020
 
 

 
zabadak
16th May 2015
 Pinback: Do you think we'll find any real intelligent lif out there?

Other man: Who cares!

This is sampled for the ending of the Human League track Introducing, the otherwise instrumental B-side of their Empire State Human single. :thumbsup:
 

 
BiggieTembo
15th May 2015
 Originally John Carpenters' student film project. His first directed feature, co-written with Dan O'Bannon, future screenwriter of Alien and the first Total Recall. In fact, the scene in Dark Star where Sgt. Pinback has to "feed the alien" inspired the story of Alien.

This film is just great. A bunch of space hippies on a long voyage, going around space destroying unstable stars. Their captain is kept barely alive (frozen in the bowels of the ship) after an accident with his seat, and they consult him for advice, getting Stephen Hawking-like electronic voices in return. Sgt. Pinback, played by O'Bannon himself, has to be the most annoying man in space, but he's also very funny. Talby keeps himself to the upper part of the ship, never mixes with the others, and dreams of becoming one with the Crab Nebula. Doolittle, the second-in-command, misses his surfboard like hell. Boiler, is just like some kind of slob.

To cap it all off there's the female-voiced ships' computer (inspiration for Mother in Alien), a giant beach ball-like alien mascot, no toilet paper and a talking bomb!
 

 
Dr Doom SUBS
19th Apr 2015
 
 


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