Originally made as a 72-minute student film at USC, John Carpenter's sci-fi satire Dark Star was expanded with an extra 15 minutes and released into cinemas in 1974. Carpenter's debut has now been newly restored in 4K with a 4K UHD release set for November 10th from Fabulous Films.
The release features two cuts of the film, and is packed with brand new and archive extras (including a feature length documentary), along with repro stills and posters, and a Limited Edition online exclusive clamshell/o-card package with a collectable Dark Star patch.
Check out the new trailer and artwork below.
The official synopsis reads:
Four bored astronauts are assigned to destroy unstable planets — but end up filling their time with sun-lamp tanning, playing with a mischievously plastic-looking alien mascot, and conversing with their ship’s increasingly erratic AI. As the mission unravels, a rogue "smart bomb" gains self-awareness and starts questioning its existence, believing itself to be a god. With catastrophe looming, only one crew member—an ex-surfer—finds an unorthodox way to return to Earth: riding a piece of debris back home like a cosmic surfboard.
