‘Something is waiting’
The Dark Side of the Moon is a 1990 direct-to-video American science fiction/horror film. It was directed by D. J. Webster from the screenplay by brothers Chad and Carey Hayes. It features Joe Turkel (The Shining).
Plot teaser:
In the near future, a maintenance vehicle is orbiting the Earth on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites. Suddenly they experience a mysterious, inexplicable power failure that they cannot account for. As the ship grows increasingly colder, they find that they are drifting toward the dark side of the Moon.
An old NASA shuttle, the Discovery, drifts toward them, despite the fact that NASA has not been operating for 30 years. Two of the crew board the ship and find a dead body. The crew’s own ship records indicate that the shuttle they have happened across disappeared into 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 had been waiting on the NASA shuttle, and now it begins to stalk the crew one at a time…
Reviews:
” …they are so hellbent on copying Alien that the Devil is presented as a chest-burster type thing, and also can possess folks The Thing style, which keeps the FX work to a minimum. If you’ve ever wanted to see a movie where the devil was represented by random schmoes with filtered voices and contact lenses, this movie’s for you.” Horror Movie a Day
“The movie possesses a thick and very creepy atmosphere, thanks to all the spooky-looking claustrophobic spaceship-settings, all beautifully filmed by Russ T. Alsobrook (“Superbad”). Ok, the spaceship-technology looks highly outdated, doesn’t matter if aimed at the release date 1990, or 2022, the year it takes place. Yet, all the small screens and blinking lights gave me a wonderful retro-feeling, and some of the interiors look so gloriously Alien-like, for a moment you really start to wonder if this takes place on the Nostromo.” Maynard’s Horror Movie Diary
“This is a more-than-serviceable and very eerie outer space horror romp from a time where original ideas and genuinely good movies were hard to come by. However, it’s not one I’ll be finding myself re-watching a lot, so I can’t give it too much praise.” James Oxyer, Obscure Cinema 101
Choice dialogue:
“Time for candlelight and Courvoisier“
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
