Star Portal

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Star Portal
Directed byJon Purdy
Written byJon Purdy
Mark Hanna
Based on
Not of This Earth
by
  • Mark Hanna
  • Charles B. Griffith
Produced by Mary Ann Fisher
StarringSteven Bauer
Production
company
New Concorde
Distributed by Concorde Pictures
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
78 mins
CountriesUnited States
Ireland
LanguageEnglish

Star Portal is a 1997 American film starring Steven Bauer directed by Jon Purdey. It was released by Roger Corman's Concorde Films. [1] The film was a remake of Corman's 1957 film, Not of this Earth which had previously been remade in 1988 and 1995. [2] (The film has also been described as a sequel to Not of this Earth. [3] )

Contents

Premise

An alien comes to Earth to get blood to help her dying race. [4]

Cast

Production

At one stage the film was called Quad-rena and Not of this Earth 2. [5] [6]

The movie was shot at Roger Corman's studio at Connemara, in County Galway, Ireland. [7] Steven Bauer later called it "a not very good movie... It was a space vampire movie so we were shooting a lot at night. It was April and I remember it was very chilly and very wet. I don’t know how I found myself talked into doing it. It was a low point in my life. But I really enjoyed Galway.” [8]

Reception

Psychtronic Media reported " Some of the music is semi punk or heavy metal and outer space footage is from an earlier Corman production. Odd accents and all the Fionas and Liams in the credits point to the fact that this was filmed in Ireland." [9]

References

  1. "New on video". The Sacramento Bee. 15 May 1998. p. 13.
  2. Pitts, Michael R (2011). Allied Artists horror, science fiction and fantasy films. p. 134.
  3. Schiff, Laura (March 1998). "Attactions fatale". Femme Fatales. Vol. 6, no. 9. p. 4. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  4. "New releases". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 7 May 1998. p. 78.
  5. "Attraction fetale". Femme Fetale. Vol. 5, no. 5. November 1996. p. 6. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  6. Kinkade, Amelia (January 1997). "Portrait of a rising star". Femme Fatales. Vol. 5, no. 7. p. 43. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  7. Brian Reddin (3 May 2017). Roger Corman i gConamara [Roger Corman in Connemara] (TV documentary) (in Irish and English). Ireland: TG4 . Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  8. "Hot Press meets Steven Bauer". Hot Press. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  9. "Star Portal". Psychotronic Video. No. 31. 1999. p. 73.