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Starcrash (1978)

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 6
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Release Date: Mar 9, 1979 Wide

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Italian schlock-master Luigi Cozzi (billed as Lewis Coates here) directed this low-budget Star Wars rip-off in 1978, right when the sci-fi craze was hitting audiences on a world-wide scale. The story begins familiarly enough, with a huge spaceship tracking through an extremely colorful space scene while under attack by some kind of unknown and deadly force resembling a lava lamp. Being no match for the '60s acid-flashback rays, they manage to jettison a few escape pods just before being blown to

PG, 1 hr. 32 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Luigi Cozzi

In Theaters: Mar 9, 1979 Wide

On DVD: May 31, 2005

New World Pictures

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Cast

Marjoe Gortner
Akton
Caroline Munro
Stella Star
Christopher Plummer
The Emperor
David Hasselhoff
Prince Simon
Robert Tessier
Thor
Nadia Cassini
Queen of the Amazon
Judd Hamilton
Elle/Jiakta
Hamilton Camp
Elle
Joe Spinell
Count Zarth Arn

Critic Reviews for Starcrash

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The single greatest sci-fi camp fest ever put on celluloid. This film boasts the perfect blend of goofy cheese and unhinged imagination.

October 14, 2010 Full Review Source: IGN DVD

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R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

... both the most ridiculous and the most irresistible of all the Star Wars knock-offs of the late seventies and eighties.

September 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Parallax View

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Sean Axmaker

Parallax View

This isn't a bad movie like The Switch or Grown Ups, where even once is too much; this is the type to be savored again and again, like a patented Ed Wood mess-terpiece.

September 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Long ago, in a low-rent Italian galaxy far, far away...

May 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Phil Hall

Film Threat

Sexy Caroline Munro is the only reason to watch.

October 4, 2002 Comment

Gerry Shamray

Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

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One of the worst sci-fi movies of the decade, it stars actors who aren't usually in sci-fi movies anyway, the story is less than average, and the style is obviously taken directly from Star Wars. I'd say stay away from this one.

September 6, 2010

AJ Verser

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So this is probably one of the worst sci-fi films made haha and I don't think it was suppose to be with a cast including Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff. Sure they weren't big stars back then, well Plummer may have been known, but this is suppose to be a reasonably serious flick, an equal or challenge to the

December 21, 2010