Recommendations of the Editorial team
“Star Crash” is beautiful, it is magical, really splendid. At least when you close your eyes and listen to the soundtrack John Barrys. At the height of his romantic phase in 1978, he wrote Lounge pop (“Launch Adrift”) and classic fanfares (“Space War”). Barry was known for his principle, always without a scene to compose music without a scene, i.e. without coordination with the pictures.
Trash charm and involuntary comedy
Had he just looked at it. Because not only among the zombies, Italian filmmakers in the 1970s were able to react to American trends at lightning speed and counteract with scrap. This was also possible with science fiction. This “Star Wars” rip-off offers a sensationally collected line-up around Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff (in his first leading role), Caroline Munro and the 33-year-old Marjoe Gortner, who was recognized by the state at the age of four (four!) As the youngest American priest of the revival movement. They all fight in Luigi Cozzi’s stripes against the galactic empire and for the freedom of space peoples.
“Star Crash” is an incredibly bad film. Bad effects, nobody plays well, every scene follows another dramaturgy. But he is also incredibly entertaining. So somehow good. Why? The license plate of an excellent trash film is that he is not wanted, but involuntarily funny. A failed representation of Gravitas, Grimm and Pathos. There must be a fall height between intention, presentation and effect. The serious seriousness must be an embarrassment without the subject not recognizing it.
Trash means strut up the head raised in a garbage dump without realizing it. And this is the case here, in this film, which takes very important. (Pidax Film Media Ltd.)