Dark Star
Screening on Film
Directed by John Carpenter.
With Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle.
US, 1974, 35mm, color, 83 min.
With Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle.
US, 1974, 35mm, color, 83 min.
John Carpenter’s notoriously irreverent sci-fi satire revolves around a deep space crew of slackers, a bomb with a brain, and a ship’s computer provocatively named Mother. The bored crew has been stranded in space for over twenty years on a mission to destroy planets that could pose a threat to Earth. To pass the time, they muse philosophically on their mission while janitor-turned-astronaut Pinback clowns around with his alien sidekick.