Genre: | Comedy Fantasy Horror |
Director: | Joshua White |
Starring: | Lynn Redgrave Rodger Bumpass Peter Elbling |
Music: | Alice Playten Walter E. Sear |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Tony Hendra Matty Simmons |
Cinematography: | Tony Foresta |
Editor: | Lenny Davidowitz |
Runtime: | 51 minutes |
Company: | National Lampoon |
Network: | HBO |
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.
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.