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UNITED STATES · 1931

Dennis Fischer, Horror Film Directors, - , McFarland & Company

John Carpenter
space exploration existential crisis military science fiction human isolation technological malfunction
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Synopsis

Dark Star is a 1974 American independent science fiction comedy film produced, scored and directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets. Beginning as a University of Southern California (USC) student film pr

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