.seo-fallback{max-width:46rem;margin:0 auto;padding:2.5rem 1.25rem 4rem; font:16px/1.6 Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#EDE9F5;background:#0E0A1B} .seo-fallback a{color:#FFCA3A} .seo-fallback h1{font-size:1.75rem;line-height:1.2;margin:.5rem 0 1rem} .seo-fallback h2{font-size:1.05rem;margin:2rem 0 .5rem;color:#9C93B8; text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.08em} .seo-fallback ul{padding-left:1.1rem;margin:.5rem 0} .seo-fallback li{margin:.3rem 0} .seo-fallback .seo-meta{color:#9C93B8;font-size:.9rem} .seo-fallback .seo-note{margin-top:2.5rem;color:#9C93B8;font-size:.85rem; border-top:1px solid #2A2340;padding-top:1rem}

FilmSkool — a free film school

Dark Star (1974)

Name: Dark Star
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: drama film, comedy film, adventure film
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 6.1

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.

Directed by John Carpenter · Shot by Douglas Knapp · Cut by Dan O'Bannon · Music by John Carpenter · 83 min

Behind the scenes

Dark Star: How John Carpenter’s First Movie Led to ALIEN | Making Alien — CinemaTyler · 24 min

Elsewhere

More by John Carpenter

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts — 1962
Terror from Space — 1963
Captain Voyeur — 1969
Assault on Precinct 13 — 1976
Halloween — 1978
Someone's Watching Me! — 1978
Elvis — 1979
The Fog — 1980
Escape from New York — 1981
Halloween: Extended Edition — 1981
The Thing — 1982
Christine — 1983
Starman — 1984
Big Trouble in Little China — 1986
Prince of Darkness — 1987
They Live — 1988
Memoirs of an Invisible Man — 1992
Body Bags — 1993
In the Mouth of Madness — 1995
Village of the Damned — 1995
Escape from L.A. — 1996
Vampires — 1998
Ghosts of Mars — 2001
The Ward — 2010

This is the plain index, shown because JavaScript is off. Every lesson here is a free video published by the channel credited on it and plays through that channel's own embed — FilmSkool hosts nothing.