‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star | Science fiction and fantasy films

John Carpenter, writer and director

In 1970, I partnered with Dan O’Bannon, a classmate at the University of Southern California, on a senior student project. We wanted to make a science fiction movie inspired by Dr Strangelove and 2001. We had…

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