Tubi Thursday: The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

 The Moon is all over the News now.  It is huge!

Specifically, the Dark Side of it.

So why am I just now hearing about it when we went there in 1990...

In the Year 2022, the Crew of a ship goes to repair a Nuclear Sattelite.

You all remember those, right?

Everything on the ship starts to break down and stop working as they get to the Dark Side of the Moon.
Hey, that's the Title!

Their AI is Lesli, who is a hot lady who kind of just sits in a chair doing nothing.
Why do we have GROK and not this?!?

While they float in space and their orbit decays, a ship appears!

It is a Space Shuttle that crashed in the Ocean (after the mission ended) back in the 1990s!

Naturally, they go on board.

That goes poorly.
You don't say!

The Crew who goes onto the Ship gets infected or killed by an unseen force.

It turns out to pure evil!

Something about the Bermuda Triangle's coordinates being (sort of) 666 means that every ship that vanishes in there appears on the Dark Side of the Moon!

It's all sorts of silly, but at least we get The Bartender from The Shining as The Devil.

The End.

It sure wanted to be an Event, but I can't see a return on the Horizon.

Yeah, it's the obvious reference.
You found The Devil in Space- it's Event Horizon!

Comparisons aside, the Film suffers from the same issues that most of these cheapie Space Films did.
The Ship is 5 hallways that look the same.  The lights almost never work.
Everything looks...off.

They do a decent job of showing the growing paranoia of the crew as members die off and the Devil does some freaky stuff.

If I want an evil trickster in Space though, I'll stick with Leprechaun 4: In Space.
If I want to see a bunch of military guys getting paranoid in the middle of nowhere, I'll watch John Carpenter's The Thing.

It's not bad, but everything they have to show you is kind of derivative...

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