The Dark Side of the Moon

Director: D.J. Webster D.J. Webster

Overview

The crew of a spaceship awakens a terrifying extraterrestrial force when they journey to the dark side of the moon in this sci-fi horror film. They soon discover that the alien beast feeds on human souls and frantically attempt to find a way to defeat the creature and escape.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/11/2019
UPC:	0760137240990
Original Release:	1990
Source:	Unearthed Records
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	44,605

Special Features

Commentary with exec producer Paul White and Stephen Biro; Interview with Alan Blumenfeld; Interview with FX artist R. Christopher Biggs; Vintage audio track; Trailers; Photo gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Will Bledsoe	Giles Stewart
Alan Blumenfeld	Dreyfus Steiner
John Diehl	Philip Jennings
Robert Sampson	Capt. Flynn
Wendy MacDonald	Alex McInny
Camilla More	Lesli
Joe Turkel	Paxton Warner
Kenneth R. Lesco	Actor
Billy DaMota	Actor
Kenneth Lesco	Michael Gotier
Wendy McDonald	Alex
Phil Davies	Composer
Mark Ryder	Composer

Technical Credits

Chad Hayes

D.J. Webster	Director
Christopher Biggs	Special Effects,Special Effects
John Fante	Special Effects
Keith Walley	Producer
Paul White	Producer,Executive Producer
Chad Hayes	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Billy DaMota	Casting
Masahiro Nishizawa	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

This interesting genre-jumping sci-fi/horror film plays much like a low-budget derivative of Alien and The Thing with a clever occult twist. The story takes place in lunar orbit, where a maintenance spaceship becomes marooned after a mysterious accident. Cut off from Earth contact and rapidly losing power, they encounter another derelict craft and its dead, mutilated occupant. They board the other ship to draw on its power plant, taking the corpse aboard for study, and soon discover that the ship was part of the U.S. Discovery program, reported lost after splashdown in the Bermuda Triangle -- at a point in direct line with the moon's dark side. Unfortunately for the crew, the significance of this correlation is discovered too late, as the evil force residing within the dead spaceman's body emerges to take possession of the crew's souls. This leads to a confusing game of "musical souls" as the paranoid survivors turn on each other, never sure which of them is acting under demonic influence. Although not particularly an original concept, this is still a very tense, nightmarish film, with high production values, claustrophobic atmosphere and some nail-biting moments. The filmmakers' attempts to communicate the crew's increasing confusion and paranoia are quite effective, though things go a bit overboard at the climax.