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The Featured Threads start off today with a low-budget film that became a cult classic. The middle movie is a story about the dangers of camping when the wild animals go nuts because of ultraviolent light.

The last one is a movie so cheaply made that the scenes of the pretty girls in short dresses being “eaten” by the creature just look humorous and mildly erotic! Cool

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Dark Star (1974)



In the beginning there was an ambitious little film project, shot at the University of Southern California by future famous director John Carpenter ("The Thing", "Starman") and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon ("Alien").

Originally only 45 minutes long, the 16mm featurette was later blown up to 35mm and doubled in length, thanks to financial backing by Jack H. Harris. The expanded version was given a limited theatrical release and eventually established itself as a cult favorite.

The plot of this sci-fi black comedy involves the crew of a small starship whose mission is to cruise the galaxy in search of unstable stars, which they blow up with nuclear devices (a questionable concept, to say the least. Blow up a star because it's going to blow up? Okay, but . . . well, never mind).

The ship's computer malfunctions, causing problems for the crew and their beach-ball-shaped alien companion. The special effects are highly enjoyable if viewed as examples of creativity-on-a-shoestring-budget. Screenwriter O'Bannon appears as Pinback.
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Day of the Animals (1977)

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[Also released as: "Something is Out There"]

Director William Girdler took two of the stars from his 1976 film "Grizzly", put them into the same American wilderness situation, and unleashed a variety of murderous wildlife on them.

An unlucky group of backpackers are inexplicably attacked by the animals of the forest. The reason finally given for the animals' unusual behavior is the effects of unfiltered sunlight through an ozone-depleted atmosphere — which, of course, is mankind's fault.

It's a variation on the old atomic-radiation-creates-mutated-monsters theme. Not a very good variation, granted, but that's about the size of it.

The film contains little of interest except a cast with several sci-fi veterans: Leslie Nielson ("Forbidden Planet"), Paul Mantee ("Robinson Crusoe on Mars"), Richard Jaeckel ("The Green Slime"), Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Michael Ansara, Andrew Stevens, and Ruth Roman.

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The Creeping Terror (1964)

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[Also released as: "Dangerous Charter"]

Some of the best movies have mediocre poster art. Some of the worst movies have excellent poster art.

And some movies are so bad the producers didn't give a crap what the poster looked like. This is one of those movies.

This is a retched sci-fi cheapo that had to be narrated because the director actually lost the soundtrack after the film was completed. The story is supposed to be about two alien monsters that attack a group of swingin' teens at Lake Tahoe, but the feet of the people inside the shapeless "monsters" (which looks like squirming carpets) can be seen as they move it around.

The victims do an unconvincing job when they wiggle into the monsters' mouths, pretending to resist.

Directed by Art J. Nelson, aka Argyle Nelson, aka Vic Savage -- who is also the star of this epic!

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