The most amazing part of this film is that while it was intended as a type of exploration science fiction, it ultimately succeeds as a type of horror in a way, the silence and lack of life on board the starship Cygnus, along with the eventual revealed truths, add up to nightmare fuel, without the gore of a slasher film. The music composed by John Barry helps it even more.
Goodness! I saw this in theatres in 1979 with my father. It made such a huge impression on me. I begged for the toys too! I was relentless over the action figures! LOL! Thank you for the video summary. It brings back such memories. Oh! And you have a new subscriber. 😊👍❤
This movie is 35 years older than Interstellar, but it is the same fictional fluff once you pass the event horizon. Because even if our technology advances for a hundred thousand years, or millions of years, we won't be any closer to knowing what the singularity actually is. We can calculate, we can simulate, we can theorize, but we will never actually know. That makes them truly the most terrifying type of object in the universe.
When the Cygnus reactor blew up because of whatever caused it to runaway and blow up like an overspun wind turbine, I wonder how they filmed that, practical effects or cgi
No way, you just uploaded this 3 days ago! I was just thinking about this movie, Reinhart in hell always blew my young mind away! IN THROUGH AND BEYOND (no, its not To Infinity and Beyond)!!!!
If only he had not given that command, the Cygnus may have survived. The meteor storm was over mere moments later, yet the overloaded reactor and structural stresses from the engines running at maximum power after all the damage sustained spelled the demise of his ship.
@@mikemoore2791 Considering what happened to the Probe Ship, in the universe this movie inhabits (which is obviously not real life) the Cygnus would have emerged on the other side the same way
I've always held that the Inferno sequence was what McCrae was imagining- or wishing- was happening to Reinhardt in payback for his deeds. And to judge by the star patterns in that last shot, with the Little Dipper low on the left, the probe must have popped out into normal space well into cislunar space, probably right around Earth's Clarke Belt. Just imagine their first call to Traffic Control; "Houston, this is Palomino, over." "Roger, Palomino, receiving you. How did you get here so soon, you weren't due back for another six months, over?" "Houston, you're not gonna believe this..."
Except they weren't in the "Palomino" at the end of the movie. They were in Reinhardt's Probe ship. The Palomino was destroyed by Reinhardt when Harry Booth tried to escape in it by himself, just before the Cygnus actually entered the black hole. Also supposedly, the "Angel" at the end was Dr. McCrae using her psychic ability (which they barely touched upon in the movie) to lead them through and home. Remember in the movie she used it to communicate with V.I.N.C.E.N.T. a couple of times. The book adaptation of the movie has a wealth of explanations in it and I also saw the movie three times the first week it came out. (and many multiple times since then) 👍 😁
I see it another way, the black hole is basically a allegory spiritual awakening for the crew of the Palimino , they went through the black hole which is a portal to go back home but they had to go through hell to see the light which is why you see a angelic being guiding them through the black hole .
@@godstomper I understood that angel figure to be dr Reinhard. My interpretation was that he got a glimpse of hell before he was ultimately sent to heaven.
I saw thia movie in 1990 and i intepreted the end as maximilian got into one hellish alternate dimensión and the crew into a heavinly alternate dimensión thru the hole, being the intention or mindset of the person the key to go to one realm or another.....
I used to build a model of the Cygnus with Legos as a kid....then watch the movie and destroy my model in step with the Cygnus being ripped apart as it descend in the black hole. Then build it again and do it all over!
Happy 45th Anniversary Alien and The Black Hole (1979-2024) I can't believe that Alien and The Black Hole are both 45 years old now in 2024. I love Alien by Ridley as one of my absolute favorite films, Alien had great stuff like the Jerry Goldsmith music score and Sigourney Weaver's performance as Ripley, and The Black Hole is a very underappreciated and good sci-fi Disney film. I really like The Black Hole way more better than Moonraker with Roger Moore. The John Barry music score along with Dr. Hans Reinhardt and Maximilian the Robot were always my favorite things about The Black Hole, Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt was a much better villain than Hugo Drax from Moonraker, and Moonraker was a Star Wars rehash of The Spy Who Loved Me.
The novelisation explained how the Cygnus defied the effects of the collapsar and Reinhardt explained this during the dining room sequence , which was omitted from the film, strangely.
I was around 10 as I saw this movie in german theatre. For me , this movie was so awesome to see the space and the effects. It was also partly funny, but sometimes it makes me confuse. Especially the end-scene and when Max killed Durant. As a 10-years-old-kid, I invented the 3 letters "W.T.F." :-) I asked myself: WTF is going on? Is this really a Walt-Disney-Movie?
We don’t know. All we know is that they came somewhere else in space, literally accomplishing what Reinhardt was thinking of, only Reinhardt ended up in Hell
The scene in Hell. Those hooded figures were not the crew. They were just souls that had been cast down to Hell. The crew would have been released from their suffering and made it to Heaven. Also, I always thought that the final scene also implied the the black hole was also a passage way to Heaven and Hell.
Always thought of that sequence as Dr. Reinhardt's journey through the realms between/beyond time and space as we know it. Reinhardt was a religious man, a man who believed in God, but acted devilishly in his selfish pursuit of attaining his ultimate goal. The sequence begins with the camera focusing into the eyes of the only psychic character in the film. She witnesses him adrift in the tempests of broken matter for some ungodly amount of time, his hair whitened by the time he runs into Maximilian, who then takes possession of him within him to his own hell where Maximilian is now lord, and over the broken flaming remains of the Cygnus and the damned souls that live there, leaving him trapped and helpless to observe the horror beyond the prison of his own creation. Eventually, after an unknown time, he finds freedom, either at the merciful hands of the God he once worshiped, or because he finally relented all that was keeping him there and was finally free, his spirit flying into the true beyond and finally beyond the black hole. Also, the background to the film was that these spaceships were sent out to find another habitable world for humanity as Earth was either not enough or could no longer sustain life indefinitely. So them finding an earth-like world at the end was the completion of their mission and of all those other ships out there, including the Cygnus. Either through chance or maybe because a repentant Reinhardt helped guide their vessel at the end. Just an interpretation.
The Guy thought of everything. By design, Maximilian had a pod for rescue built in. Wasn't design for permanent faculty. And of course the ship didn't make it. Was all smashed up going in. Their ship well it was alright and by luck made it. Lol what are the odds....
Karma and reincarnation work hand in hand The more one takes fron others the kess ond has in their next life(a worse lifd in terms of personal circunstances foe all intentd a sort of semi bareable literal living hell
Heaven or Hell, we are all going through death, unless exempted by the Rapture. Where you spend eternity is where your heart is when you die, with Jesus, or not? As an aside, Disney ended up buying Star Wars. I guess, perhaps, payback could be inferred. This was a brilliant film, with epic music.
It was a representation of what the soul witnessed & experienced while the body was traveling through the black hole's crushing reality-warping singularity, but I totally get how that would have flown over people's heads & made them laugh heh, poor guys.
Just like the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey ... people left the theater wondering what they just saw. And it was meant to leave one thinking, not answer any age old questions. Also, the movie was never meant to be scientifically accurate, it was based on the general knowledge that the public had about Black Holes back in the 70's. It was meant to be Entertaining, not Educational. At the time, it was quite impressive to most movie-goers. (including myself)
@@David_B_Dornburg When a black hole was referred to as a quasar in the 1970s[There is a black hole behind every quasar, but not every black hole is a quasar.]. Some ask why the flyby of Pluto wasn't a slow down and orbit. And in 2021 some ask why, can't we have a 'clearer pic' of the accretion disk. People in the 80s and 90s weren't about to watch B&W Olympic satellite video bounced from a Telstar. This layperson is still unpacking Interstellar's visual representation. Or what Michael Caine's character, Professor Brand, is half owning up to about through the blubbering. People don't get the Calculus right away. I've lost it again. And Mathematica use doesn't magically reel it back in.
The most amazing part of this film is that while it was intended as a type of exploration science fiction, it ultimately succeeds as a type of horror in a way, the silence and lack of life on board the starship Cygnus, along with the eventual revealed truths, add up to nightmare fuel, without the gore of a slasher film. The music composed by John Barry helps it even more.
Absolutely. It had that 2001 feel to it...maybe more so.
My favourite Disney movie. What a score by JB.
Goodness! I saw this in theatres in 1979 with my father. It made such a huge impression on me. I begged for the toys too! I was relentless over the action figures! LOL! Thank you for the video summary. It brings back such memories. Oh! And you have a new subscriber. 😊👍❤
Visually it's good and the main villains good.
I'll give this very flawed gem, some credit where credit is due.
This film has some genuine tension, tragedy, and a very dark tone!
Turns out the afterlife is beyond the event horizon. Interesting, that Space/Time has a moral code.
I wouldn't bet against it.
Its called karma
@@louisanthes Actually no, Event Horizon also featured the idea that Hell was inside the Black Hole. But that was Paramount instead of Disney.
Have you seen my eyes.???
@@bartleygerba In Disney’s Black Hole, you don’t need eyes or a brain to live…
Well done! Nice blending of John Barry's soundtrack the the visuals!!
Maximilian Schell saved by Maximilian's shell.
D'oh!
@@augusthawks6576 That kill's me every time I read it.
God that's good
R.i.p. herr Shell
I never thought of it like that. Good one, dude.
Who ever did the editing did a great job.
This movie is 35 years older than Interstellar, but it is the same fictional fluff once you pass the event horizon. Because even if our technology advances for a hundred thousand years, or millions of years, we won't be any closer to knowing what the singularity actually is. We can calculate, we can simulate, we can theorize, but we will never actually know. That makes them truly the most terrifying type of object in the universe.
Bro didn’t you watch the video? You end up as a robot in hell. Hello?
@@billyb4790Duh!
I loved this as a kid. Saw it when I was just 7 years old. Now, Upon rewatching it as an adult I can't believe it didn't scare the crap out of me lol
Disney's take on Sci-Fi horror
I can't believe this was made the same year as Alien. Few films can stand "the Alien probe" though.
Who is evil there ?
If Satan was a robot, he'd be Maximillian.
a new original painting of Max was just released at the EPCOT gallery.
For-better-or-worse!
There is no Disney film quite like this!
No real sci-fi film quite like this
When the Cygnus reactor blew up because of whatever caused it to runaway and blow up like an overspun wind turbine, I wonder how they filmed that, practical effects or cgi
No way, you just uploaded this 3 days ago! I was just thinking about this movie, Reinhart in hell always blew my young mind away! IN THROUGH AND BEYOND (no, its not To Infinity and Beyond)!!!!
I love it when that kind of stuff happens lol!
Still chills me up
Really nice edit, can't believe this only has 406 likes!
I love the way he shouts "INCREASE POWER TO MAXIMUM...WE ARE GOING THROUGH!"
Yess!!! Such superb acting. What powerful delivery & characterization!!
If only he had not given that command, the Cygnus may have survived. The meteor storm was over mere moments later, yet the overloaded reactor and structural stresses from the engines running at maximum power after all the damage sustained spelled the demise of his ship.
Er... nothing coulda stopped that. Ya do realise how a blackhole behaves, right.
@@mikemoore2791 Considering what happened to the Probe Ship, in the universe this movie inhabits (which is obviously not real life) the Cygnus would have emerged on the other side the same way
@@mikemoore2791 Like a giant whirlpool in space!
I've always held that the Inferno sequence was what McCrae was imagining- or wishing- was happening to Reinhardt in payback for his deeds.
And to judge by the star patterns in that last shot, with the Little Dipper low on the left, the probe must have popped out into normal space well into cislunar space, probably right around Earth's Clarke Belt. Just imagine their first call to Traffic Control;
"Houston, this is Palomino, over."
"Roger, Palomino, receiving you. How did you get here so soon, you weren't due back for another six months, over?"
"Houston, you're not gonna believe this..."
I too imagined as a kid that the survivors made it back to Earth thanks to the angel.
Except they weren't in the "Palomino" at the end of the movie.
They were in Reinhardt's Probe ship.
The Palomino was destroyed by Reinhardt when Harry Booth tried to escape in it by himself, just before the Cygnus actually entered the black hole.
Also supposedly, the "Angel" at the end was Dr. McCrae using her psychic ability (which they barely touched upon in the movie) to lead them through and home.
Remember in the movie she used it to communicate with V.I.N.C.E.N.T. a couple of times.
The book adaptation of the movie has a wealth of explanations in it and I also saw the movie three times the first week it came out. (and many multiple times since then) 👍 😁
I see it another way, the black hole is basically a allegory spiritual awakening for the crew of the Palimino , they went through the black hole which is a portal to go back home but they had to go through hell to see the light which is why you see a angelic being guiding them through the black hole .
@@godstomper I understood that angel figure to be dr Reinhard. My interpretation was that he got a glimpse of hell before he was ultimately sent to heaven.
I saw thia movie in 1990 and i intepreted the end as maximilian got into one hellish alternate dimensión and the crew into a heavinly alternate dimensión thru the hole, being the intention or mindset of the person the key to go to one realm or another.....
I used to build a model of the Cygnus with Legos as a kid....then watch the movie and destroy my model in step with the Cygnus being ripped apart as it descend in the black hole. Then build it again and do it all over!
Happy 45th Anniversary Alien and The Black Hole (1979-2024)
I can't believe that Alien and The Black Hole are both 45 years old now in 2024. I love Alien by Ridley as one of my absolute favorite films, Alien had great stuff like the Jerry Goldsmith music score and Sigourney Weaver's performance as Ripley, and The Black Hole is a very underappreciated and good sci-fi Disney film. I really like The Black Hole way more better than Moonraker with Roger Moore. The John Barry music score along with Dr. Hans Reinhardt and Maximilian the Robot were always my favorite things about The Black Hole, Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt was a much better villain than Hugo Drax from Moonraker, and Moonraker was a Star Wars rehash of The Spy Who Loved Me.
The recent pic of the black hole isn't entirely different from what this movie projected it to be. How creepy is that? Like foretelling it.
THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DISNEY'S THE BLACK HOLE 1979-2019.
The novelisation explained how the Cygnus defied the effects of the collapsar and Reinhardt explained this during the dining room sequence , which was omitted from the film, strangely.
If I could give points for using the term "Collapsar" I would. Was that Asimov or Sagan's term?
Awesome tribute
Great movie but that ending is a real head trip.
The black hole in the window looks so dope!
I was around 10 as I saw this movie in german theatre.
For me , this movie was so awesome to see the space and the effects. It was also partly funny, but sometimes it makes me confuse. Especially the end-scene and when Max killed Durant.
As a 10-years-old-kid, I invented the 3 letters "W.T.F." :-)
I asked myself: WTF is going on? Is this really a Walt-Disney-Movie?
I imagine this is a normal weekend for one of my managers at work. She must get weekdays off from this place.
2:07 They find love at last!
This is what happens to the bad guys at the end of the film Ghost!
What is the eclipse at the ending? The sun eclispsed by Earth?
We don’t know. All we know is that they came somewhere else in space, literally accomplishing what Reinhardt was thinking of, only Reinhardt ended up in Hell
Kinda postulates that black holes could be wormholes or dimensional portals.
Paradise lost in space.
The black hole is a portal through hell to heaven .
Flying into a solar event is not advisable , it's like hanging out inside the engin itself , ie , light enginry
The scene in Hell. Those hooded figures were not the crew. They were just souls that had been cast down to Hell. The crew would have been released from their suffering and made it to Heaven. Also, I always thought that the final scene also implied the the black hole was also a passage way to Heaven and Hell.
Always thought of that sequence as Dr. Reinhardt's journey through the realms between/beyond time and space as we know it. Reinhardt was a religious man, a man who believed in God, but acted devilishly in his selfish pursuit of attaining his ultimate goal. The sequence begins with the camera focusing into the eyes of the only psychic character in the film. She witnesses him adrift in the tempests of broken matter for some ungodly amount of time, his hair whitened by the time he runs into Maximilian, who then takes possession of him within him to his own hell where Maximilian is now lord, and over the broken flaming remains of the Cygnus and the damned souls that live there, leaving him trapped and helpless to observe the horror beyond the prison of his own creation. Eventually, after an unknown time, he finds freedom, either at the merciful hands of the God he once worshiped, or because he finally relented all that was keeping him there and was finally free, his spirit flying into the true beyond and finally beyond the black hole.
Also, the background to the film was that these spaceships were sent out to find another habitable world for humanity as Earth was either not enough or could no longer sustain life indefinitely. So them finding an earth-like world at the end was the completion of their mission and of all those other ships out there, including the Cygnus. Either through chance or maybe because a repentant Reinhardt helped guide their vessel at the end. Just an interpretation.
@@Yeet_Tsavo Interesting.
The Guy thought of everything. By design, Maximilian had a pod for rescue built in. Wasn't design for permanent faculty. And of course the ship didn't make it. Was all smashed up going in.
Their ship well it was alright and by luck made it. Lol what are the odds....
In! Through! And I get beyond intimate with Maximillian in hell followed by crystal gates of heaven to make everyone feel better about it sort of!
a timelss classic
Why would he proceed into the Black hole when the wad half battered and partially destroyed by the meteor storm?
This was a freaky movie for kids to watch.
they don't make them like they used too
I loved this movie as a kid, bought the sound track with story book. Now it looks so cheesy to me, LOL!!
Sphagettification
True story
Still a better film than Event Horizon.
Was it literally heaven and hell
Stranger Things
Karma and reincarnation work hand in hand
The more one takes fron others the kess ond has in their next life(a worse lifd in terms of personal circunstances foe all intentd a sort of semi bareable literal living hell
Heaven or Hell, we are all going through death, unless exempted by the Rapture. Where you spend eternity is where your heart is when you die, with Jesus, or not? As an aside, Disney ended up buying Star Wars. I guess, perhaps, payback could be inferred. This was a brilliant film, with epic music.
That cornball ending drew laffs in the theater, when I saw it. A great collapsing star....sure as hell isn't a "church".
It was a representation of what the soul witnessed & experienced while the body was traveling through the black hole's crushing reality-warping singularity, but I totally get how that would have flown over people's heads & made them laugh heh, poor guys.
@@tubefan10 ......it was a stupid ending, just tacked on, because they had written themselves into a corner....the whole theater was laffing at it.
Laughing at seeing a whole crew of people burning in hell... wow, what a good group of people in the theater that day....
Just like the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey ... people left the theater wondering what they just saw.
And it was meant to leave one thinking, not answer any age old questions.
Also, the movie was never meant to be scientifically accurate, it was based on the general knowledge that the public had about Black Holes back in the 70's.
It was meant to be Entertaining, not Educational.
At the time, it was quite impressive to most movie-goers.
(including myself)
@@David_B_Dornburg When a black hole was referred to as a quasar in the 1970s[There is a black hole behind every quasar, but not every black hole is a quasar.]. Some ask why the flyby of Pluto wasn't a slow down and orbit. And in 2021 some ask why, can't we have a 'clearer pic' of the accretion disk. People in the 80s and 90s weren't about to watch B&W Olympic satellite video bounced from a Telstar. This layperson is still unpacking Interstellar's visual representation. Or what Michael Caine's character, Professor Brand, is half owning up to about through the blubbering. People don't get the Calculus right away. I've lost it again. And Mathematica use doesn't magically reel it back in.
A movie with the scientific accuracy of Star Wars and the action packed excitement of The Martian.
Truly, a steaming pile of sci-fi crap.
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