Star Crash Movie Trailer
The Pitch: Apparently in 1979, New World Pictures producer Roger Corman picked up the film to see if the market was viable for a low budget space opera. The result is a ridiculous Star Wars rip-off titled Star Crash, featuring a lightsaber battle featuring David Hasselhoff (seen below). The movie also features Christopher Plummer as The Emperor (I kid you not). Director Lewis Coates went on to direct the 1983 film Hercules starring Lou Ferrigno.
Thanks to /Film reader Jonny for submitting this video.
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May 11th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Re-release this today and market it as old school (ala GRINDHOUSE) and they might make a pretty penny. Entertaining retro trailer. Some indie filmmakers today would kill to get this level of ‘retro’ into their work.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:20 am
LOL I like the numerous bikini clad girls….
There’re a lot of good cheddar there, but it’s not as foul as I thought it’d be.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:22 am
This looks better than the SW prequels
May 11th, 2008 at 3:14 am
lol that robot is using a pirate sword against a light saber..
May 11th, 2008 at 3:28 am
If you come to Rome, you can meet Lewis Coates, whose real name is Luigi Cozzi, director of Star Crash and the Hercules movies with Lou Ferrigno at Profondo Rosso, the shop he manages and co-owns with his friend Dario Argento. He sells overpriced SF and horror DVDs and cheap latex masks… His career died with the use of stop-motion in film making.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:32 am
i thought this said “Snow Crash trailer” at first glance and was filled with excitement and apprehension at the same time
May 11th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Please tell me this is on DVD!
May 11th, 2008 at 7:02 am
that first starship looks a lot like the earth ships in Stargate SG-1. i wonder if the guys from that show were fans of this movie back in the day
May 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am
You know what is really amazing? this STILL Looks better then 90% of the movies the Asylum puts out…. now that is a statement :)
May 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
A Classic! This makes Battle Beyond the Stars, with Robert Vaughn & Richard Thomas, look like freaking Shakespeare!!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
And another thing, wouldn’t the lightsabre cut through the steel sword? And the guy with the blonde hair kind of looks like William Kaat, The Greatest American Hero.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:49 am
He’s fighting an erector set
May 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Holy smokes! I’d buy that DVD in a heartbeat!
May 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I don’t think david hasselhoff has enough foundation and blush
May 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
oh and on the “metal sword vs lightsaber”, it might work. look at grevious’ bodyguards in ROTS. they had those metal bo weapons which had some shield like electric effects at the tips.
maybe IG-88 junior over in that movie had a similiar thing going on with his scimitar. use your imagination people!
May 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I probably will not enjoy that much this film now, but then…. when I was a kid… I would have gone crazy about it, it looks great. Pity I didn’t know about it.
And about the metal sword vs. lightsaber… it could be that the metal sword has an invisible shield around it, I can’t believe that nobody thought about it… :)
May 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
for those of you that have seen The Mighty Boosh, at 2.04 that guy looks a lot like a silver Tony Harrison.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Three words: Caroline Munro, baby.
Wait, that’s three words. No matter, she’s still the mallard’s testicles here.