The black hole 1979 a 1950s adventure film tricked out with cuttingedge seventies effects, disneys first pgrated film updates 20,000 leagues under the sea as a deepspace dance with. All the stars in the universe uncut when i coproduced the firstever official bluraydvd release of the cult favorite scifi fantasy flick starcrash, i wrote a long essay for inclusion in the liner of the package which was cut by almost half its original length. Starcrash was a low budget italian film made to cash in on star wars. She looks like every barbie in a goodwill toy bundle. Starcrash is a 1978 american space opera film directed by luigi cozzi and written by cozzi. The main story is that stella star, akton and elle, under the orders of the emperor, set off to find count zarth arn secret weapon on a hidden planet and to find the. Luigi cozzis fan favorite starcrash finds a home on dvd for the 1st time. See more ideas about sci fi movies, caroline munro and sci fi. And the star of the movie is the gorgeous caroline munro.
Trailer for a fanfilm tribute to the classic 70s space adventure, soon to appear on you tube. New york muslim charity donates food to homeless during ramadan in lockdown. One of the things that helped to raise the film above its obvious limitations was the soundtrack. Starcrash isnt a good movie by any means but at the end of the day its just a generic star wars rip off with bmovie actors and low budget effects, the likes of which were a. They are offered clemency if they help find two more missing escape pods as well as the mothership, one of which may contain the. According to, this movie was nominated for something called a saturn award in 1980 for best foreign film. Thats enough whimsy for me i think, so lets talk starcrash, or as its known in some circles the adventures of stella star, following on the success of star wars every studio with more than half a nickel wanted in on the science fiction money bonanza that. Two former space smugglers are given the task to investigate the haunted stars for an evil counts battlestation. In a distant galaxy, aboard a space station, princess belle star sherry buchanan approaches her father king. Starcrash is a 1979 american space opera film directed by luigi cozzi and written by cozzi and nat wachsberger.
Women take over the universe, as the galaxies collide, but do they handle power differently. Pg, 1 hr 32 min tell us where you are looking for movie tickets. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing starcrash near you. Did you know that before david hasselhoff was the knight rider, he was a lean, mean lightsaberfighting machine in the movie starcrash.
Disc 2 also includes the screenplay in pdf format, complete with storyboards and early conceptual art. John barry only agreed to write it after watching a rough cut of the film, which he thought was fun. Escape from galaxy 3 original title giochi erotici nella terza galassia also known as starcrash ii is an italian 1981 science fiction film. John barry starcrash original motion picture soundtrack. Epic action in outer space when the good guys set out to. The dialogue and special effects are so bad that its laugh out loud funny from time to time. Ahhh italian science fiction, a breath of fresh and confusing air in an otherwise stagnant year.
Starcrash is halfway between that movie and an exploitation movie. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and. Audio commentary by writer and starcrash expert stephen romano a look at the films special effects with special effects director armando valcauda including unused footage, rare. Directed by luigi cozzi special fx by armando valcauda music by john barry. Italian schlockmaster luigi cozzi billed as lewis coates here directed this lowbudget star wars ripoff in 1978, right when the scifi craze was hitting audiences on a worldwide scale. It got star trek the far superior of the two franchises back into business, with the curiously terrific star trek. Factory serves up firstrun feature films, original, contemporary, and classic tv series. An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the emperor of the galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil count zarth arn.
Starcrash soundtrack from 1979, composed by john barry. Tbonz on may 6 mcneill and wang trying to revive captain proton. Marjoe gortner and caroline munro are a pair of space smugglers recruited to rescue the emperor of the galaxys son and discover the secret weapon of the evil count zarth arn joe spinnell in the italian star wars ripoff starcrash 1978. Caroline munro in starcrash 1978 nadia cassini and judd hamilton in. Read famous quotes from starcrash, 1979, directed by luigi cozzi, with marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer. After that success, gortner embarked on a brief acting career, with roles in the film earthquake 1974, the 1973 pilot for the tv detective. The making of the special effects of starcrash, a film by fx director, armando valcauda his other wellknown credit is the humanoid 1979, a film that benefits from eurosleaze babe, corrine clery, which includes some surprisingly good. The other inspiration of starcrash is only slightly less obvious, and that is barbarella, what with the weapons that all look like objets dart and the onedamnedthingafteranother plot. Movies like red zone cuba and manos are about as close to genuinely unwatchable as films get. Released by bsx records in 2008 bsxcd 8846 containing music from starcrash 1978. None of the season 12 episodes really deserve to occupy a sole.
There is always so much potential for the series and i wish that the series would ponyup money for at least one of episode of the series so we got a bigger movie like they did with mst3k. The film is notorious for using stock footage from starcrash for all its model scenes. I guess every member of that panel is blind and deaf. Now, for the first time on bluray, the film is presented in a deluxe twodisc. Financial analysis of starcrash 1979 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Starcrash official trailer cheaply made sciencefiction film in which munro plays an expert pilot called upon by the master of the universe to stop the evil doings of spinnell. With marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer, david hasselhoff. This articles plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In part four of a gauntlet sixmovie binge, jonah and the bots take on the 1979 film the day time ended. Starcrash shrine the 1979 spaghetti scifi smash starring caroline munro as stella starr with marjoe gortner, david hasselhoff, robert tessier, judd hamilton, nadia cassini, christopher plummer and joe spinell. Caroline munro in leather bikini fighting other women in leather. Its a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril. Starcrash represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on the black hole, disneys attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of star wars and moonraker, that years entry in the james bond series, which featured many science fiction elements. She doesnt strip, but caroline spends a lot of the movie in a space bikini that shows off her chest rockets and rear thrusters.