The Robert Cains brewery in Liverpool brews Cains Double Bock beer at 8 % abv, and the Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, produce a 5. 6 % abv Maibock.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

The popularity of Star Wars-themed WADs is rumored to have been the factor that prompted LucasArts to create their first-person shooter Dark Forces.

Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:

* The Dark Star, a 1919 film starring Marion Davies

* Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant

* Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers

* Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster

* Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst

* Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

* Dark Star ( band ), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998 – 2001

* Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band

* Rappers Rapp Group, later known as Dark Star, an American hip hop group

* Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996

* Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991

* Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993

* The Dark Star, by Volsoc, 2004

* " Dark Star " ( song ), by the Grateful Dead

* " Dark Star ", by Beck from The Information

* " Dark Star ", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ

* " Dark Star ", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN

* " Dark Star ", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions

* " Dark Star ", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay

It was eventually followed by another sequel, The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), which serves as a conclusion to Nolan's film series.

In October 2010, Love and Michael Mouris created an animated short film detailing Love's " kooky " fashion sense, titled The Dark Night of the Soul.

The chupacabras has been featured in films such as Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico and in independent film productions including: Chupacabra: Dark Seas, starring John Rhys-Davies, Guns of El Chupacabra, starring Scott Shaw, El Chupacabras and Vuelve el Chupacabras.

" The Dark Knight Rises is the first film to use the new logo as seen in the final trailer.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

Bogart and Bacall in Dark Passage ( film ) | Dark Passage ( 1947 ), the third of four films they made together

He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

) In this film, a movie director played by Ichikawa is shooting Kuroi Hyaku-ichi-nin no Onna ( a hundred and one dark women ), a parody of Ten Dark Women.

Other film credits include Dark Blue, Sugar Hill, Menace II Society, House Party 3, There's Something About Mary, Rain, Poetic Justice, and the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It, where she portrayed an Ikette.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

He was given only three months to compose a large amount of music for the film, whilst at the same time scoring We Are Not Alone, Dark Victory and Four Wives for Warner.

In the film noir Dark Passage, the protagonist has plastic surgery, and when his bandages are removed, he is revealed to be Humphrey Bogart.

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

* Terminator II ( 1990 film ) ( also known as Shocking Dark, Alienators and Contaminator ), an unofficial sequel to the original Terminator film by Bruno Mattei

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.