Thanks for posting this song, loved it since I first heard it as a kid after renting this movie from a video store, BTW the vocalist on this song was the original voice for Daphne on Scooby Doo.
thanks for sharing the song. It's been about 30 years since I saw the trailer for this movie, they told the whole story including the final friendly turn of the alien, I remembered that he becomes good and that there was a nice song
born in 85, seen this movie as kid.. maybe 9 or 10 years old, cant say for sure. my mum was very open when it came to movies not suited for my age, but beeing in a theater group as a kid for a long time, beeing interested in film and film making, seeing tons of making ofs since i was interested in those, i could handle movies like this very well since i understood that its all made up and fake. ofc, alot of the adult themes went over my head, but in terms of monster, brutality and blood, i never had problems or nightmares. the 80s and 90s were special time for these kind of movies. throughout the 90s, my mum went to the video store every other weekend and would rent 2-3 movies for us to watch (and copy..). ive seen more movies between age 5 and 15, then i have between 16 and 38. and iam thankfull for that and that we had a video store within a 5 minute walk from us, that was rather big for the part of town we lived in and that had alot of B movie and direct to video offerings. Me and my mum always enjoyed our video weekends and had a lot of talks about the movies afterwards. I miss those days
actually it was, as I distinctively remember listening to this song as a kid growing up in the late 1980's!!!! but knowing UA-cam, they probably deleted the previous uploads. which is sad if you ask me, because this song use to make me cry as a kid growing up,, knowing that Gar was a sympathetic character in the film itself.
@@DrQuagmire1 agreed this film was very realistic. i mean think about it we meet an alien who probably won't speak our language. we make one wrong move and the alien will defend itself. only to realize later when it figures our language out its like....im so sorry!!! i thought you were trying to kill me
@@anthonywilliams2557 well to be fair, the human survivors also had legitimate means to defend themselves, hence the reason why we see Roger use that makeshift flamethrower when he's about to confront Gar about the deaths of his crew members
EDIT: Thanks to @bozo egg-turnip mayonnaise for help on deciphering the missing line and providing context to it. Please see our conversation in the replies to this post for more on it. I did my best to transcribe the lyrics in response to a request below. So more people can see them, I'm putting them as a comment on their own. The question marked line in the main verse I can't clearly make out, so I did not want to try making a guess that would be wildly wrong. In space with a stranger, we do what we believe in Safety or danger, there's no place left to hide We travel in time knowing no one lives forever Lost in our mind with the heavens as our guide Crystal of a star, traveler you are [Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun] Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Infinite lights move so safe outside my window Long endless nights sometimes feeling so alone Finally we're free to go sailing through the starfields Now I can see crystal's more than a stone Crystal of a star, traveler you are [Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun] Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Crystal of a star, traveler you are [Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun] Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Crystal of a star Crystal of a star You are the only one
@@illustriousrocket4476 saltwater and sun would make sense referring to processes of crystal formation. sage and cedar seems a little more of a stretch but would probably be referred to as incenses, which are used to cleanse the energy of healing crystals in new age/certain spiritual contexts. that imagery feels a little hippied out in contrast to the movie but the metaphors of cleansing and incense smoke rising as an image of "space travel " could have something to them. whatever this line might be, even if it's nonsense, this song is already way deeper and more figured out than the movie that is an accessory to it lol.
@@ghoulstonedafodil That makes a lot of sense, it definitely helps me put what I thought I heard into context. I think I was thrown by my initial thought that it was somehow referring to GAR's chemical composition since that gets attention called to it in the movie, but it didn't fully add up. That impression kept me from fully reaching the answer. Thank you! I will edit the post with this.
I did my best to transcribe them. There's one line in the main verse I can't clearly make out. In space with a stranger, we do what we believe in Safety or danger, there's no place left to hide We travel in time knowing no one lives forever Lost in our mind with the heavens as our guide Crystal of a star, traveler you are Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Infinite lights move so safe outside my window Long endless nights sometimes feeling so alone Finally we're free to go sailing through the starfields Now I can see crystal's more than a stone Crystal of a star, traveler you are Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Crystal of a star, traveler you are Crystal of a star, now you've come so far In all the world you are the only one Crystal of a star Crystal of a star You are the only one
Did this movie get a theatrical release or did it go direct to VHS? I haven't been able to narrow down details of its release beyond April of 1986. It seems direct-to-VHS to me, but sometimes you can be surprised.
@@DrQuagmire1 I would tend to agree with that assessment. There is the original poster that exists, the one that depicts the crew in stasis tubes and shows a GAR design that is *completely* false compared to the true one. I'm not sure if that was just for video store displays or a theatrical release, although since the VHS cover used for this video exists, I would think that by the time it hit video stores that VHS cover would have been used for the displays too. Like you said, perhaps it got released for a few showings in one or two cities, then moved to the VHS bargain bins where it made its impact. I have heard people talk about seeing it on cable in the late 80s, for what it's worth.
@@illustriousrocket4476 I remember my brother had rented this while he was visiting us during military leave, and I could almost tell that it hit the bargain bin rather quickly (but still managed to find its fans throughout the years)
@@DrQuagmire1 It's oddly fascinating for what it is. By all rights it should be just another one on the pile of obscure low-budget Alien ripoffs, but I think it displays just enough potential (albeit unrealized) that it stands a bit above the others. Like, there seems to be a much bigger world that exists outside the scope the movie itself covers, and the way GAR gets characterized instead of just being a Weird Killer Alien makes me want to know more about him. What's his planet actually like? Why was he sent in the egg? Where did the Star Crystal truly come from and what else can it do? The feel I got for the world the movie takes place in was a bleak and cold one. If its narrative was a bit more ambitious and focused, perhaps it could have better communicated the idea of GAR trying to communicate in a friendly manner with the crew, it going wrong (a classic "we have become the monsters" scenario) and GAR ultimately managing to leave behind the hope of a future where they find interpersonal bonds again.
@@illustriousrocket4476 the strange part I find about this movie, is why GAR killed that engineer lady ("Billy" I think her name was) when she wasn't doing anything to harm it. I can see why it killed Shelly in self-defense when she threw acid on him, and why it later chased down Cal (who shot at GAR) a few moments later, something which Gar himself later explained and apologized to Roger for killing his friend.
you take the gigs you can get. and when i read the script, knowing the song would be at the end, Icelandic storyteller in me let the lyric carry on into the realm of the cosmos 🧚♂️
If they would have put more thought into the movie it could have been quite good. Being a fan of the more esoteric fantasy and scifi from the 70s and 80s I don't mind the idea of religion, mysticism or philosophy in the storytelling, but they just screwed it up here. There were so many directions they could have taken with it that would work as a serious idea. But no, it was pulled straight from ass. Personally I think they should have totally done away with that spiritual concept and just kept it as a horror/sci-fi Alien clone. It would have been a much better movie. I can look past the bad acting for the idea that at least it was able to build actual atmosphere with its music and visual for most of the film and the blood effects I thought were quite good actually. Definitely could have been a better movie in the end if those last twenty minutes was different.
One of best "so bad, it's good" movies of the 80s
Didn't RLM do a Best of the Worst episode on this movie?
And Possum Reviews and Brandon Tennold! @@hanolodo
Beautiful song in every way sung by a beautiful woman who voiced in a beautiful cartoon
Thanks for posting this song, loved it since I first heard it as a kid after renting this movie from a video store, BTW the vocalist on this song was the original voice for Daphne on Scooby Doo.
i'm surprised this song wasn't nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", as I know they had such a category back in 1986
while the Music is Written by Doug Katsaros, the composer behind the Tick and Bucky O' Hare.
Who knew Daphne was a sci-fi nut too
Well, Scooby-Doo did have some sci-fi capers too.
I'd say she is.
@@cartooncritique6625 And of course we would all rather hear Daphne sing than (ahem) one known as Captain James T. Kirk. (I know I would)
Anyone here because of Brandon Tenold drop a fact of the original voice of Daphne singing this?
Yuh
Yes and no. I've seen his video, but I just like the song. 😄
yep
Hell yeah!
yeah
such a beautiful song, shame i never had a release
This is my jam
thanks for sharing the song. It's been about 30 years since I saw the trailer for this movie, they told the whole story including the final friendly turn of the alien, I remembered that he becomes good and that there was a nice song
Sing it Daphne
Woow, the Best from a bad film 1985, the song is really good. Thank you
talvez miro peliculas solo para encuentrar nuevas canciones que me gustan ajajaja
That and the few seconds that Emily Longstreth shows up!
I really love this song
Epic music , Epicccc!
born in 85, seen this movie as kid.. maybe 9 or 10 years old, cant say for sure. my mum was very open when it came to movies not suited for my age, but beeing in a theater group as a kid for a long time, beeing interested in film and film making, seeing tons of making ofs since i was interested in those, i could handle movies like this very well since i understood that its all made up and fake. ofc, alot of the adult themes went over my head, but in terms of monster, brutality and blood, i never had problems or nightmares.
the 80s and 90s were special time for these kind of movies. throughout the 90s, my mum went to the video store every other weekend and would rent 2-3 movies for us to watch (and copy..). ive seen more movies between age 5 and 15, then i have between 16 and 38. and iam thankfull for that and that we had a video store within a 5 minute walk from us, that was rather big for the part of town we lived in and that had alot of B movie and direct to video offerings. Me and my mum always enjoyed our video weekends and had a lot of talks about the movies afterwards. I miss those days
Thank you for uploading this video ! Very good quality! 😊
Wonderful Movie...
I'm surprised this wasn't up on YT already. I would have posted it a long time ago.
actually it was, as I distinctively remember listening to this song as a kid growing up in the late 1980's!!!! but knowing UA-cam, they probably deleted the previous uploads. which is sad if you ask me, because this song use to make me cry as a kid growing up,, knowing that Gar was a sympathetic character in the film itself.
@@DrQuagmire1 agreed this film was very realistic. i mean think about it we meet an alien who probably won't speak our language. we make one wrong move and the alien will defend itself. only to realize later when it figures our language out its like....im so sorry!!! i thought you were trying to kill me
@@anthonywilliams2557 well to be fair, the human survivors also had legitimate means to defend themselves, hence the reason why we see Roger use that makeshift flamethrower when he's about to confront Gar about the deaths of his crew members
EDIT: Thanks to @bozo egg-turnip mayonnaise for help on deciphering the missing line and providing context to it. Please see our conversation in the replies to this post for more on it.
I did my best to transcribe the lyrics in response to a request below. So more people can see them, I'm putting them as a comment on their own. The question marked line in the main verse I can't clearly make out, so I did not want to try making a guess that would be wildly wrong.
In space with a stranger, we do what we believe in
Safety or danger, there's no place left to hide
We travel in time knowing no one lives forever
Lost in our mind with the heavens as our guide
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
[Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun]
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Infinite lights move so safe outside my window
Long endless nights sometimes feeling so alone
Finally we're free to go sailing through the starfields
Now I can see crystal's more than a stone
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
[Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun]
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
[Sage and cedar, saltwater and sun]
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Crystal of a star
Crystal of a star
You are the only one
i think the ? bit goes "sage and cedar, saltwater and sun"
@@ghoulstonedafodil That was roughly what I thought I heard, but I wasn't sure how to contextualize it so I doubted if I was hearing it correctly.
@@illustriousrocket4476 saltwater and sun would make sense referring to processes of crystal formation. sage and cedar seems a little more of a stretch but would probably be referred to as incenses, which are used to cleanse the energy of healing crystals in new age/certain spiritual contexts. that imagery feels a little hippied out in contrast to the movie but the metaphors of cleansing and incense smoke rising as an image of "space travel " could have something to them. whatever this line might be, even if it's nonsense, this song is already way deeper and more figured out than the movie that is an accessory to it lol.
@@ghoulstonedafodil That makes a lot of sense, it definitely helps me put what I thought I heard into context. I think I was thrown by my initial thought that it was somehow referring to GAR's chemical composition since that gets attention called to it in the movie, but it didn't fully add up. That impression kept me from fully reaching the answer. Thank you! I will edit the post with this.
@@ghoulstonedafodil correct dear - Indira
anyone find this song kind of sad?
oui
@@karlk.6819 I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Indira actually ended up crying for real after recording this song
@@DrQuagmire1the melody is kind unusual and very sad indeed. I liked this song. It is other nice music from her out there?
yep T.T we miss you gar
@@OsperHolme this is one of those rare movies that's better as a "one off" that doesn't need a sequel
Sing it Daphne and Princess Dawn.
Could you also please post its lyrics ?
I did my best to transcribe them. There's one line in the main verse I can't clearly make out.
In space with a stranger, we do what we believe in
Safety or danger, there's no place left to hide
We travel in time knowing no one lives forever
Lost in our mind with the heavens as our guide
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Infinite lights move so safe outside my window
Long endless nights sometimes feeling so alone
Finally we're free to go sailing through the starfields
Now I can see crystal's more than a stone
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Crystal of a star, traveler you are
Crystal of a star, now you've come so far
In all the world you are the only one
Crystal of a star
Crystal of a star
You are the only one
I think he will end up with the kids
Did this movie get a theatrical release or did it go direct to VHS? I haven't been able to narrow down details of its release beyond April of 1986. It seems direct-to-VHS to me, but sometimes you can be surprised.
not sure dude, to be completely honest with you. but if it was released to theaters, it was veeeeeery brief and probably shown in only a few areas
@@DrQuagmire1 I would tend to agree with that assessment. There is the original poster that exists, the one that depicts the crew in stasis tubes and shows a GAR design that is *completely* false compared to the true one. I'm not sure if that was just for video store displays or a theatrical release, although since the VHS cover used for this video exists, I would think that by the time it hit video stores that VHS cover would have been used for the displays too.
Like you said, perhaps it got released for a few showings in one or two cities, then moved to the VHS bargain bins where it made its impact. I have heard people talk about seeing it on cable in the late 80s, for what it's worth.
@@illustriousrocket4476 I remember my brother had rented this while he was visiting us during military leave, and I could almost tell that it hit the bargain bin rather quickly (but still managed to find its fans throughout the years)
@@DrQuagmire1 It's oddly fascinating for what it is. By all rights it should be just another one on the pile of obscure low-budget Alien ripoffs, but I think it displays just enough potential (albeit unrealized) that it stands a bit above the others. Like, there seems to be a much bigger world that exists outside the scope the movie itself covers, and the way GAR gets characterized instead of just being a Weird Killer Alien makes me want to know more about him. What's his planet actually like? Why was he sent in the egg? Where did the Star Crystal truly come from and what else can it do?
The feel I got for the world the movie takes place in was a bleak and cold one. If its narrative was a bit more ambitious and focused, perhaps it could have better communicated the idea of GAR trying to communicate in a friendly manner with the crew, it going wrong (a classic "we have become the monsters" scenario) and GAR ultimately managing to leave behind the hope of a future where they find interpersonal bonds again.
@@illustriousrocket4476 the strange part I find about this movie, is why GAR killed that engineer lady ("Billy" I think her name was) when she wasn't doing anything to harm it. I can see why it killed Shelly in self-defense when she threw acid on him, and why it later chased down Cal (who shot at GAR) a few moments later, something which Gar himself later explained and apologized to Roger for killing his friend.
Such a beautiful song... how could it have ended up in such a bad film... ??? What a mystery and waste!
you take the gigs you can get. and when i read the script, knowing the song would be at the end, Icelandic storyteller in me let the lyric carry on into the realm of the cosmos 🧚♂️
If they would have put more thought into the movie it could have been quite good. Being a fan of the more esoteric fantasy and scifi from the 70s and 80s I don't mind the idea of religion, mysticism or philosophy in the storytelling, but they just screwed it up here. There were so many directions they could have taken with it that would work as a serious idea. But no, it was pulled straight from ass. Personally I think they should have totally done away with that spiritual concept and just kept it as a horror/sci-fi Alien clone. It would have been a much better movie. I can look past the bad acting for the idea that at least it was able to build actual atmosphere with its music and visual for most of the film and the blood effects I thought were quite good actually. Definitely could have been a better movie in the end if those last twenty minutes was different.