| Having
made several shorts, John Carpenter tackled his first feature, taking
over three years to finish it. With a shoestring budget, starring four
friends (including Dan O’Bannon, future storywriter of Alien)
and a single set, Dark Star (also known in Spain as Aluniza
como puedas) is a crazy, hilarious movie set in outer space about
astronauts on a mission to destroy unstable planets with their intelligent
bombs that talk and think about their work. Carpenter’s debut will
always be remembered for the scene of the fight between a member of the
spaceship crew and an alien in the shape of a… beach ball. |
