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Dennis Fischer, Horror Film Directors, - , McFarland & Company
UNITED STATES · 1931
Dennis Fischer, Horror Film Directors, - , McFarland & Company
Classical Hollywood
space exploration
existential crisis
military science fiction
human isolation
technological malfunction
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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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