Classic Friday : Dark Star (1974) 7/10

Starring : Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O’Bannon
Director : John Carpenter
Running Time : 83 mins

Four astronauts, charged with the duty of destroying unstable planets in potential colony star systems, find themselves faced with a runaway alien beachball with a mischievous side and a smart bomb that has decided that it is God.

Basically if it wasn’t for this movie there would have been no Alien movies! This showed Dan O’Bannon, writer of the original Alien movie, taking his first stab at making a truly suspenseful space movie. This, due to the low budget, is more of a tongue in cheek homage to 2001 : A Space Odyssey than the horror it would eventually become, but any true fan of the Alien saga should not be without this classic in their collection.

You’ll like this if you liked : Alien