Disco Beaver from Outer Space
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Genre | Comedy Fantasy Horror |
Written by | Peter Elbling Jeff Greenfield |
Directed by | Joshua White |
Starring | Lynn Redgrave Rodger Bumpass Peter Elbling |
Music by | Alice Playten Walter E. Sear |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Producers | Tony Hendra Matty Simmons |
Cinematography | Tony Foresta |
Editor | Lenny Davidowitz |
Running time | 51 minutes |
Production company | National Lampoon |
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Network | HBO |
Release | February 23, 1979 (1979-02-23) |
Disco Beaver from Outer Space is a 1979 American science fiction fantasy comedy television film. It is an early production by National Lampoon, and was made for HBO.
The short film is a collection of comedy sketches, contained within the main story which is centered on two characters: the protagonist, an extraterrestrial in the form of a human sized (and bipedal) beaver; and the antagonist, a gay vampire called "Dragula". Among the various side gags (which arise as the "viewer" channel-surfs) is a short concert by a stereotyped band of Irish singers called "The Spud Brothers" (potato-shaped puppets).
Tagline: National Lampoon's mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.
Plot
The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.
Cast
- Lynn Redgrave - Dr. Van Helsing
- Rodger Bumpass
- Peter Elbling - Dragula, Queen of Darkness
- Gilbert Gottfried - Construction Worker
- James Widdoes - Construction Worker
- Alice Playten
- Lee Wilkof
- Michael Simmons
- Sarah Durkee
See also
External links
- Disco Beaver from Outer Space at IMDb
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