Directed by Nick Castle ... "One of my early ideas was to set it in a trailer park, to isolate the main character to make his life more difficult than if he was in the suburbs.

Nick Castle’s side career of being a part-time horror-movie icon comes down to a whim from 40 years ago. All he really wanted to do was hang out with his old USC film-school classmate ...

The battle scenes are competently realized by director Nick Castle, but they are not particularly enthralling. Where The Last Starfighter soars is in its humor, in its view of life in the trailer ...