Mini-Review: A kind of slapstick horror, Three Stooges surrealism, much better than most 'comic horror' films - more imaginative with its tiny budget, and with Campbell, who turns out to be a fine physical comedian.

Mini-Review: A new, unrecognised, rare genre - not horror-science fiction - though the competence/success of this film helped to recreate that genre - but the reverse-parody, the serious version of a comedic film, the 'straight' account which exists in some relation to its satirical precursor - in this case the earlier 'Dark Star', co-written by and starring the writer of 'Alien'. A relationship rarely noted - parodies highlight their connections, what do reverse-(self-)parodies do? If we make another...