The Dark Side of the Moon (1990 film)
The Dark Side of the Moon is a 1990 direct-to-video science fiction horror film. It was directed by D. J. Webster from the screenplay by brothers Chad and Carey Hayes.
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| Directed by | D.J. Webster |
| Produced by | Keith Walley D.J. Webster |
| Written by | Carey Hayes Chad Hayes |
| Starring | Robert Sampson Will Bledsoe Joe Turkel Camilla More John Diehl Wendy MacDonald Alan Blumenfeld |
| Music by | Philip Davies Mark Ryder |
| Distributed by | Trimark Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
In the near future, a maintenance vehicle is orbiting the Earth on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites. Suddenly, the crew experiences a mysterious, inexplicable power failure that cannot be accounted for. As the ship grows colder, they find themselves drifting toward the dark side of the Moon. An old NASA shuttle, the Discovery, drifts toward them, although NASA has not been operating for 30 years. Two of the crew members board the ship and find a dead body. The mission records of the crew's own ship indicate that the shuttle they have found disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle many years before. So what is it doing in space? As they attempt to solve this mystery, it quickly becomes apparent that a malevolent force has been waiting on the NASA shuttle, using the aforesaid dead body as its host and it now begins to stalk the crew members one at a time.
Cast
- Robert Sampson...Flynn Harding
- Will Bledsoe...Giles Stewart
- Joe Turkel...Paxton Warner
- Camilla More...Lesli
- John Diehl...Philip Jennings
- Wendy MacDonald...Alex McInny
- Alan Blumenfeld...Dreyfus Steiner
Release
The film was released on VHS by Vidmark Entertainment on May 30, 1990.
Connections in popular culture
The film's title is a reference to the 1973 Pink Floyd album of the same name
German black metal band Nargaroth uses samples of spoken word (albeit dubbed in German) of the film in their homonymous track of the 2004 album Prosatanica Shooting Angels.
Swedish death metal band Crypt of Kerberos utilizes samples from the film in their 1991 track "Devastator."