The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

• Year: 1990
• Released: 30 May 1990
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_side_of_the_moon
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery
• Runtime: 87 min
• Writer: Carey W. Hayes, Chad Hayes
• Director: D.J. Webster
• Cast: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel
• Keywords: space marine, sattelite,

4.9/10

The Dark Side of the Moon Storyline

“The Dark Side of The Moon” takes place in 2022 as the crew of a spaceship is forced to land on the entitled dark side of the moon, because of an obscure system failure. Unexpectedly a decades-old NASA shuttle, which went missing in action, appears and drifts toward them. They board the space-wreck in hope of finding some supplies or oxygen stored, not knowing that the ship originally vanished in the spooky Bermuda Triangle, and neither is any of them aware of the fact that Satan itself is waiting on the ship, quite eager to bloodily snatch the souls of all crew members as part of a scheme by which Satan may rightfully return to Heaven.

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Comedic Gold!

A 2022 six person space crew experience some malfunctions aboard their spaceship while on a space mission to fix satellites (or something) . Their ship is running out of air so of course they come across an abandoned lifeless spaceship that looks like the old spaceships from 1980. They board the ghost spaceship & someone remarks that it smells like sulfur & is very hot for a ship with no power. That was my clue one that the ghost ship would have some link to hell as the cause of its demise (ripoff Event Horizon much).

They find one dead guy, bring him aboard their ship & put his body in the med bay. The doctor examines the body & they discover that his belly is ripped open exposing his guts (ripoff Alien much).

The captain is seeking answers about the ghost ship & goes to the onboard computer for answers. Oh yeah, the onboard computer is a full sized anatomically correct woman that sits in an office chair in a broom closet & never gets up once during the entire movie. She tells the captain about the ghost ship & how it’s from 30 years ago & it crashed out of space into the ocean & was lost. Blah blah blah & 30 seconds later, the captain miraculously links the ghost spaceship to the Bermuda Triangle. That’s right, you heard me correctly – the Bermuda Triangle.

Apparently there’s a portal/black hole/stairway to heaven that goes directly from the ocean through the air to space & then to hell (which conveniently is located on the dark side of the moon). Any object that gets caught in this portal/path is transported to hell aka the dark side of the moon.

The dead guy comes alive & the crew begin getting bumped off by Satan himself who takes over the body of whomever he kills & then goes off to kill the next one. Seems a bit petty of Satan to have to collect souls 1 by 1 like this but I guess the bad economy caused him to cutback on the Armageddon type big showcase gloom & doom everyone at once.

Aboard the ghost ship once again, a crew member falls into a room filled with water. It’s seawater with algae & stuff. They wanted to make sure you understood that the spaceship had been in the ocean so that’s how it got caught up in the Bermuda Triangle & transported back into space to hell aka the dark side of the moon.

After 3 crew members are killed, the remaining 3 crew members detach from & then blow up the ghost spaceship. Two kills later & it’s down to just the captain who decides that he’ll just blow up himself & Satan who’s now taken over the last other crew member.

Boom bam boom! The End.

As end credits roll, you’re given a glimpse of all the spaceships, boats, pirate boats, rockets, planes, trains, & automobiles that have fallen into the Bermuda space portal beam zone & ended up in hell aka the dark side of the moon. I think I even saw an ice cream truck surrounded by dinosaurs up there too.

Production Quality is Horrific: The spaceship’s dining hall is literally the conference room of the film makers office. All the crew are sitting around what is clearly the table read table. The ship’s bridge/control room is the size of the broom closet of the same building. The props & sets look exactly like painted styrofoam pieces.

I think they were going for an Alien, Event Horizon, Ghost Ship, Leviathan type movie but what they ended up with was comedic gold.

The Bermuda Triangle Meets Outer Space

It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon…

While this is by no means one of the great science fiction films of our generation, it is unfortunately not easily obtained (although it is on Netflix). Some concepts here are rather clever, most notably the idea of bringing together the Bermuda Triangle and space travel… and then, even throwing in Satanic references, and still having it all make some kind of sense.

The gore was also quite good, though I was confused by the robot (Lesli). I understand she is sort of like the ship’s computer and there to answer questions, and I think that makes sense (it sure seems to be common enough in science fiction). But I was confused why she had to be humanoid rather than just built in to the ship. If all she does is sit and talk, why have legs or arms, or even a face?

Nifty sci-fi/horror winner

2022. A spaceship repair crew find themselves stranded on the dark side of the moon in the wake of a mysterious systems failure. The spaceship crew discover an old abandoned space shuttle as well as run afoul of a lethal supernatural force that threatens them all.

Director D. J. Webster relates the compelling story at a steady pace, ably crafts a supremely spooky and sinister atmosphere, builds a good deal of claustrophobic tension, and delivers a few cool bits of gore. The clever script by Chad and Carey W. Hayes offers a neat and inspired blend of horror and science fiction elements, with an especially fresh and enjoyable spin on the Bermuda Triangle premise. The solid acting by the capable cast keeps this picture humming: Will Bledsoe as skeptical take-charge guy Giles Stewart, Robert Sampson as hard-nosed captain Flynn Harding, Alan Blumenfeld as amiable physician Dreyfus Steiner, Joe Turkel as uptight science officer Paxton Warner, John Diehl as the scruffy Philip Jennings, Wendy McDonald as the spunky Alex McInny, and Camilla More as chilly, but sexy humanoid computer Lesli. The special effects are quite good and convincing considering the modest budget. Both Russ T. Alsobrook’s shadowy cinematography and the shivery score by Phil Davies and Mark Ryder further enhance the overall eerie tone. The final shot is a doozy. An on the money movie.