Synopsis
"Begun as a USC student project by director
John Carpenter and writer
Dan O’Bannon,
Dark Star was then expanded to feature length, along with a corresponding increase of the budget, from $14 to $39. Four miserable men fly around the universe fulfilling an inexplicable bureaucratic assignment, to blow up certain uninhabited planets. Sadly, after nineteen successful bomb runs, the crew turns on one another, the 'alien' breaks loose, the toilet paper runs out, and bomb number 20 develops an attitude and refuses to follow orders." – Harvard Film Archive
