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I'm impressed by this wonderful post by Phantom. it's great review with terrific screen grabs to jazz it up.


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Dark Star (1975)

This was the lower half of a drive-in double feature. We went to see the upper half and to this day I don't remember what it was.

Everyone wanted to see it again. Unfortunately, it was the last show of the night and the drive-in manager couldn't be persuaded at the point of a gun (which we didn't have, anyway)

Never forgot it. For me, Benson Arizona is as iconic a theme song as Beware the Blob.

Snapped up the dvd as soon as it became available.


The crew in their quarters, the food locker, after their sleeping compartment was destroyed in an electrical storm (or something like that). I'm guessing the sleeping quarters in Conquest of Space didn't look like this. An image of the duality of man; soaring through space in an advanced technological era and looking like they are barely out of the stone age.




The imagery they achieved on a budget of about $1.50 is amazing. The movie, begun as a student project, put Carpenter and O'Bannon on the road to far more ambitious projects.









Their former commander in a cryogenic chamber. They can't raise the dead, but they can talk to them. It's too bad he's "forgotten so many things," but Doolittle's visit was certainly entertaining.




Doolittle's conversation with a philosophical bomb whose one purpose is to explode is even less successful and leads to a line that raised the hair on my head all those years ago.


Let there be light.





The ship destroyed, Doolittle's choice of death is to become a falling star. A touch of the poetic after all the madness.





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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)