DARK STAR 1974
Bored travellers on the eponymous spacecraft bicker, bomb unstable planets and fend off a beachball alien in this bluecollar, stoner riposte to the solemnity of Kubrick's 2001. Carpenter and co-writer Dan O'Bannon padded out their USC graduation short to make it feature length.
THE FOG 1980
A campfire tale of shipwrecked‘s eerie atmosphere is punctuated by highly effective, gory set-pieces. Make-up maestro Rob Bottin plays lead ghost Blake – he'd soon deliver ‘s ground-shattering effects.
