Star Wreck 5: Lost Contact
Produced by Samuli Torssonen; directed by Timo Vuorensola
Star Wreck is a series of Finnish Star Trek parody movies started by Samuli Torssonen in 1992. It is said to be produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances.
The first movie, simply named Star Wreck, was a Star Control-like animation with three ships shooting at each other, but later movies featured 3D CGI, animated characters, weird humour and in the latest films, live actors. Often Star Wreck is used to refer to the latest and most popular film Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning.
In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck movie series, made in 2005, and is the first of professional quality and feature length. It is a dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes. The film is available as an authorized and legal download on the Internet under a Creative Commons license. It is one of the first feature-length quality special-effects films ever to be released online for free.
Following is a preview of the film and one of the episodes.
Star Wreck, In The Pirkinning, Preview (3 minutes)
Star Wreck, In The Pirkinning, Part 2 (10 minutes)
