The Dark Planet

Jan 1, 1989

1h 33m

★ 3.3

Overview

Unearthly terror stalks the creatures of The Dark Planet. An anthology, including tentacled horror from the Tower of Blood, a primitive challenges a beast to avenge a murdered mate and a space jockey confronts a master computer. Mostly wordless sci-fi anthology directed by fantasy and comic book artist Richard Corben (Heavy Metal).

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Fantasy

Animation

Mystery

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Cast

Bruce Jones

Karen Gilbertson

Richard Corben

Stan Dresser

Herb Arnold

Simon Revelstroke

Saundra Marks

Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes from Mahiro Maeda's classic anime, to Kazuto Nakazawa's intricate urban sketches, Shinya Ohira's bedlam of color and Tatsuyuki Tanaka's animated cyberpunk. And as if that wasn't enough, Koji Morimoto, the studio big boss, is charge of putting the icing on the cake with fantafabulous piece of abstract poetry that would make a VJ die of ecstasy. The party of the year.

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0.0

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4.7

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5.1

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4.9

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The Dark Planet

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