Dark Star

“Bombed Out in Space with a Spaced Out Bomb!”

6.0(662)19741h 23m

ComedyScience Fiction

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Director

John Carpenter

Budget

$0.1M

Why This $1000 Student Film Changed Sci-Fi Forever | Dark Star (1974)

Featurette

Cast

Brian Narelle

Lt. Doolittle

Cal Kuniholm

Boiler

Dan O'Bannon

Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge

Dre Pahich

Talby

Adam Beckenbaugh

Bomb #20 (voice)

Nick Castle

Alien

Joe Saunders

Commander Powell (voice)

Cookie Knapp

Muttercomputer (voice)

Alan Sheretz

Bomb #19 (voice)

John Carpenter

Talby Voice

Miles Watkins

Watkins - Mission Control

News and articles

Reviews

2 reviews

Geronimo1967

1y ago

6.0

There was always a dearth of sci-fi movies on the television as I was growing up, and this one used to appear rather regularly - and rather disappointingly too. It's supposed to be funny, but somehow the humour is just too contrived to make for much to remember as a group of astronauts start their twenty-year mission into outer space tasked with destroying unstable planets. Over time, though, the ...

JJJ222cool

3y ago

10.0

Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it