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Starcrash / Luigi Cozzi

  • Country and year: Italy / USA 1978
  • Rating: 12
  • Duration: 92 min
  • Director: Luigi Cozzi
  • Writer: Luigi Cozzi, Nat Wachsberger, R.A. Dillon
  • Producer(s): Nat Wachsberger, Patrick Wachsberger
  • Cinematographer: Paul Beeson, Roberto D’Ettorre Piazzoli
  • Music: John Barry
  • Cast: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell, Robert Tessier, Nadia Cassini, Judd Hamilton, Christopher Plummer
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
  • Format: 35 mm

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“10/10 — A great piece of cinema”
– R.L. Shaffer / IGN DVD

“Cozzi’s breakneck directio and the serial-like action are surprisingly appealing”
– Phil Hardy / The Aurum Film Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

“There are plenty of diversions to keep one amused”
– Phil Hall / Film Threat

“Deserves to be recognised as a classic of its kind”
– Jennie Kermode / Eye For Film

“A crazy mixture of scantily-clad women, multi-colored starscapes, and giant robots sword-fighting”
– Kyle Anderson / Nerdist


“The plot to Starcrash is submental – a ripoff of Star Wars, which was already a ripoff classic action serials. There’s a gender-swapped rescue mission (David Hasselhoff is Princess Leia) and a big laser beam shoot ’em up at the end. We visit an outer space hard labor prison, a Zardoz-like rocky planet riddled with troglodytes, a frozen realm where clouds zoom across the sky in surreal high speeds and then there’s the evil Count, Zarth Arn, who literally cackles after describing his plan to take over the universe. —

The visual pop of this movie is tremendous.” – Jordan Hoffman / The Guardian 13.4.2020

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