saw this in the theater's as a kid, loved it then, still one of my all time favorites now. i always get a kick when i hear a movie regarded as a 'cult favorite' where i was already a fan from when it 1st came out 😂
This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. Mom & Dad dropped me off at the theatre, since its Disney. And up to a certain point, it was a good kids, movie, then the final act kicked in, and I ran out of the theatre crying. The mirror masks that fell off, Maximillion drilling a hole through that guys chest.
I was 5 at the time, and while I wasn't scared shitless, Maximillian did give me the creeps for sure and I'll admit I did have a nightmare or two from the movie. But nothing that bad all things considering for what they showed in 1979 lol
The Black Hole was not PG-13. It didn’t exist in 1979 because Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom didn’t exist yet (1984) which shocked parents so much they got PG-13 implemented.
This movie is closer to 2001 S Space Oddysey and Event Horizon than Star Wars or anything of the sort. And then they were surprised families didn't go see it? That said, I'd love see Disney taking such risks again today. But instead they do almost exclusively embarrsing knock-offs of their own movies.
I will always enjoy The Black Hole for the special effects and different storyline. Fun Fact for anyone who doesn't know, director Tom McLoughlin, who did Jason Lives played the robot S.T.A.R. in The Black Hole
Unfortunately this film was swept under the umbrella of what people call 'Dark Disney', encompassing the likes of 'Watcher in the Woods' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'.
In 1980, I was 5 years old and a few months after moving into my stepfather's new house my mother took me to the video store that had just opened. I remember my mother telling me to pick a movie but I didn't get it - why would I pick a movie when we don't even have a video player? She said something like "don't we?". I picked my video and got home to find a shiny new VHS player under the TV. The very first movie I ever saw on video was The Black Hole. It was also the second, third, and fourth. I was already a Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers, fan and my STAR droid action figure joined the Empire as a bounty hunter. My favourite characters were Maximilian and Vincent, and I distinctly remember acting as Maximilian and spinning my hand like his claw on multiple occasions, similar to the way I pretended to be R2-D2, C3-PO, Darth Vader, Yoda, and Twiggy. I refuse to re-watch this film. My childhood memories shall forever remain unsullied.
@@lanedossett6870 Only people who think Disney is some sort of "woke" warrior and only cares about "checking boxes" would be triggered by that sort of thing - because Disney is a business and only cares about making money. Like every other studio.
Absolutely one of my favorite movies ever. I was 5 when this hit theaters, and I still love this movie to this day. I would love to see a remake, as long as the robots aren't CG.
I always liked the overall idea of the movie, and the opening special effects when the Cygnus fired up were incredible. I feel like Disney blew it though by thinking they had to have the hokey robots and gimmicks like every other space hardware movie had. The vibe of the story itself felt like a forerunner to Sunshine, only with an insane captain determined to enter the black hole instead of an insane captain stopping the mission to restart our dying sun. If they had focused more on that, they would certainly have lost a lot of the younger audience but made up for it with a more mature audience who could appreciate the pacing and more in-depth story.
No way! JoBlo just did a Black Hole video and I was searching for new videos about this very movie? Serendipity! I love this movie. I have a little shelf full of toys from this flick, and no one knows it! Space horror at its 70s finest!
Saw it as a boy, love it as an adult. The magic comes from the nostalgia. Any remake would be disappointing. Don’t forget that, in a way this was a remake of another disney movie, Forbidden Planet, 1956.
Maximilian still stands to this day in my top three villains of all time in film with Darth Vader being the top Maximilian being the second and Megatron is number 3
Everybody was trying to get some of that sweet sweet Star Wars money. I liked Vinson the robot as well as Maximilian he was a pretty formidable villain.
@@grapeshot You're welcome! You'd be amazed how many grown adults with lives and jobs actually need my help with the most basic of shit! If I thought humanity was ultimately worth a damn, it might actually disturb me a little.
@@grapeshot You're welcome! You'd be amazed how many grown adults with lives and jobs actually need my help with the most basic of shit! If I thought humanity was ultimately worth a damn, it might actually disturb me a little.
Sadly, of the two Cygnus models built both ended up destroyed. The first was blown up while filming the final climactic descent into the black hole. The second was stored in crates and then left outside a warehouse for years until it was run over by a forklift. These models were beautiful as each was acid-aged until they had green patinas similar to the Statue of Liberty's. You can see this effect during the Palamino's close-up approach when they're inspecting the darkened ship's exterior.
I love this movie. It was the first sci-fi movie I'd ever saw as a kid. My Dad brought em home one day on VHS or BetaMax tape around in 1981 or 82. I was 5 or 6 years old at this time and I watched it together with my parents and from the spot I was totally fascinated by it. Still love to watch it from time to time on DVD. I also have a small Old B.O.B figure from Disney Kubrick Medicom here in my shelf and a vintage comic book. In my opinion, this movie is highly underrated. John Barrys soundtrack is also a masterpiece.
Yeah the special effects are really cool. You have to be in just the right mood for this one though. StarWars works because its a movie which feels way bigger than it is. BlackHole has a different feel and style to it but I like it!!
Love it. Still watch it often. I have the soundtrack on vinyl and it's on regular rotation. I love the look of the VFX. Nothing else looks quite like it. The Black Hole and TRON were big influences on me as a kid. They were so unique. Great period for Sci Fi. 1977-1984. Hard to top. Star Wars to The Terminator
Thanks for reminding me to watch this film again. I saw this film when released, I always really liked it a lot. Literal all-star cast, great effects. Too bad there are no huge screens in the theaters any more, like when I first saw this film, it was awesome to see.....
I will never forget the intro on the Big Screen. The cartesian grid lines falling into that singularity was impressive. The rest of the movie was plodding and boring. Story and characters are important.
I saw this when I was five years old and had screaming nightmares. Thirty years later, I got it on DVD and laughed my ass off, at the cheesy late '50s special effects - you could literally see fishing lines, making the robots "float" in the air. It was still a pretty good flick. I watched it, went to bed and yep, woke up from a nightmare, again. That damned meteor, smashing it's way through the ship...
Best robot: Maximilian. Id watch a remake. If they kept the dark gothic angle. Its what would make it peculiar, not 'A typical' in design. Too much scifi design is so much the same, same designers is probably why. Get some different artists from non FX studios. Just like the brilliance of HR Giger's work in Alien. The individualists eye is whats interesting. Be unique, not the same as.
There were several aspects of this video which revealed that it was edited by a Latino, notably the use of "MM" instead of just the single "M" for million, a comma when the narration clearly says "four point five million dollars," and the use of the PG-13 rating graphic when a) that rating hadn't been invented yet in 1979 and b) Pirates of the Caribbean was famously Disney's first PG-13 movie. Also, is there a line missing at the 8:59/9 minute mark? Otherwise, great video. I've always loved The Black Hole and have always reiterated the fact that it was conceived BEFORE Star Wars, thus isn't just the Disney knockoff some seem to claim it was.
1979 was a big year for sci fi. MGM had just capitalized for six new films...they were screaming for sci-fi. They offered Max Klein four times what Lester Siegel offered for the Black Hole script. But a couple of weeks before, Lester was sitting in Trader Vic's, enjoying a mai tai, when his pal Warren Beatty comes in. He wishes him well, and they have a little chat. Seems he was attached to star in 'Zulu Empire,' which was gonna anchor that MGM slate, but Warren confided that the picture's gone over budget because the Zulu extras want to unionize. They may be cannibals, but they want health and dental! Which meant that the movie was kaput, so the MGM deal wasn''t gonna happen, and the Black Hole script wasn't worth the buffalo sh*t on a nickel.
@@angelainamarie9656 Right? My favorite was Argo. It was a space movie in the Middle East...a real science fantasy adventure. It was in turnaround--real dogsh*t--until Lester Siegel bought the rights for $10,000 and went into production in just a month. Up like a carny ride! This is all thanks to Kevin Harkins from Studio Six Films.
A guilty pleasure of mine. First saw it as a young boy, still enjoy it decades later. The ending is the only think I feel lets it down. A little too ... well, 2001 a Space Odyssey I suppose. But where 2001 pulled it off Black Hole just gets weird, lol,
1. Long Musical Introduction 2. A hot blonde and a nerd go on a trip to meet a professor. 3. The trip is interrupted by mechanical difficulty. 4. They seek help in a dark, seemingly abandoned structure that is experiencing communications difficulty. 5. A light suddenly appears, revealing a mysterious figure in a window. 6. The structure is inhabited by very strange people, led by a megalomaniac scientist. 7. Scientist has created his own companion, who possesses all the qualities the scientist wishes he had, such as imposing size and physical strength. 8. Someone hopes to find a missing relative. 9. Scientist seduces the nerd into joining him. 10. There's an awkward dinner party. 11. It is revealed that the scientist murdered the missing relative. 12. The chase scene. The hot blonde is captured. 13. The scientist's damaged old servant betrays him. 14. The Scientist and his companion become one in death. 15. Everyone spins really fast until the structure leaves our reality entirely. The Black Hole is just a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I remember watching this movie as a kid - and the ending scene of the movie scared the crap out of me. that aside, I loved this movie and thought, as a kid at least, it was pretty good. It was definitely dark and not the norm for Disney at the time.
Star Wars was not sci-fi. It was a fantasy, action, adventure, war movie - that happened to be set in space and laden with fantasy/hitech weaponry. The Seventies before had seen much actual Science Fiction, with movies like Punishment Park, THX 1138, A Clockwork Orange, Silent Running, Idaho Transfer, World on a Wire, Soylent Green, Westworld, Zardoz, Logan's Run, Stalker, Solaris. If anything Star Wars mostly put an end, or rather a pause, to the era of sci-fi. After it, space operas (such as Battlestar Galactica or Flash Gordon), horror and action flicks, and rom-coms became a trend. The Day After could still be called Sci-fi without overstretching what is considered sci-fi, but by then it was an exception rather than the norm to have a futuristic movie grounded in actual science. Blade Runner and Brainstorm veered more towardswas cyberpunk, and similar stuff such as Robocop, Alien / Aliens and Akira leaned more into the horror and action genres. Sci-fi slowly did make a comeback again in the nineties with good movies such as Gattaca, Thirteenth Floor, Strange Days, eXistenZ, Ghost in the Shell coming out. Even then, much of it was still being watered down with fantasy stuff such as Dark City, Terminator 2, The Matrix, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, or downright space opera stuff such as The Fifth Element or Lost in Space or Independence Day or Mars Attacks.
The cool thing about this movie is it is a throwback to the old school way Disney made movies. All in house with the Disney mandate of quality and innovation but a stab at a more mature themes and audience to keep up with the times. 1 foot in the past and 1 foot attempting to be more contemporary.
Actually, V. I. N. CENT's a badass. The little cartoon ball look and snarky nerdisms just serve to make it THAT MUCH MORE badass when he's just scared of precicely fuck all and can surgically dissect a fly at fifty feet. Don't see any of the hero droids doin' THAT in Star Wars.
Casting suggestions for a remake: Chris Pratt as Captain Dan Holland Karen Gillan as Doctor Kate McCrae Christoph Waltz as Doctor Hans Reinhardt. Anyone else can fill the gaps? I would have Vincent and B.O.B. as humanoid robots and give this BLACK HOLE remake an even darker and twisted spin of the story giving it a 12A certificate, with Karen/Kate undergoing her cybernetic surgical conversion into one of Reinhardt’s cyborg zombies like in the 1979 original but even more terrifying and slightly graphic. This would be a sign of Disney not afraid to venture into the dark and serious side of nature in their entertainment. I would also like to see the opening title sequence of the original film recreated as well as the great John Barry’a haunting score.
All I remember about this movie is Anthony Perkins being skewered by the rotary blades of that menacing robot. It was one of the best death scenes ever.
The Black Hole was 100% allegory for a story they couldn't just come out and tell. The fact that it was told at all, in this medium, at that time, on big screens all across the country, got their point across entirely even if they lost money on the film. It wasn't a failure in what they were trying to do, even if it was a commercial disaster for the studios.
I first saw that in the 4th grade at an assembly (movie protector and all!) It stuck with me!!! I just re-watched it today for the 1st time in adulthood... very different movie than I remembered! Way darker!!! And that ENDING 🥶
I loved this movie when it came out in my country. We had censorship at the time so every movie took one year to reach theaters here. So we had the merchandise even before the actual feature was released. I had a fold up maganize of the Palomino, Maximillian (that i did not know was a bad guy) and VICENT
I loved black hole as a kid. I was obsessed with my viewmaster reels of it and luckily had the toys of the main robot bob? and the bad stormtrooper style robot Maximilian? Unfortunately i havent seen it in 30 years as its yet another film that just disappeared in the UK
Looove this movie!! I discovered it between Star Trek and Star Wars, born in 88' so it was a VHS Classic for me!! I grew up with Trek but didn't really get into Star Wars till the prequel trilogy started 😱
I can’t believe the score was just a quick footnote, I loved the music
I haven't heard it since the 70s and I still remember it. It's iconic.
I loved the score too. Did you get the CD release? It sounds awesome!
saw this in the theater's as a kid, loved it then, still one of my all time favorites now. i always get a kick when i hear a movie regarded as a 'cult favorite' where i was already a fan from when it 1st came out 😂
Agreed. I went to see this on release in the UK and enjoyed it a lot. I have the DVD. The sound track is brilliant as well.
"A wolf remains a wolf, Even if it has not eaten your sheep."
Your review of The Black Hole was executed well, good job.
I was struck immediately by the intro when I went to see this as a kid. I still think the intro with music is pretty haunting.
When the ship came out of the black hole, it had transformed into the _Event Horizon_ . It is canon.
The two films are entirely dissimilar.
@@ZiddersRooFurry um...dont burst the bubble
I was 9 when this came out. Still love this movie as much...even more than back then.
This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. Mom & Dad dropped me off at the theatre, since its Disney. And up to a certain point, it was a good kids, movie, then the final act kicked in, and I ran out of the theatre crying. The mirror masks that fell off, Maximillion drilling a hole through that guys chest.
I was 5 at the time, and while I wasn't scared shitless, Maximillian did give me the creeps for sure and I'll admit I did have a nightmare or two from the movie. But nothing that bad all things considering for what they showed in 1979 lol
Thank you! I was scarred for life.
The Black Hole was not PG-13.
It didn’t exist in 1979 because Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom didn’t exist yet (1984) which shocked parents so much they got PG-13 implemented.
Loved this movie as a kid. Would love to see GOOD remake
Obviously no one would want a "bad" remake lol
This is truly one of the best movies of that era.
This movie is closer to 2001 S Space Oddysey and Event Horizon than Star Wars or anything of the sort. And then they were surprised families didn't go see it? That said, I'd love see Disney taking such risks again today. But instead they do almost exclusively embarrsing knock-offs of their own movies.
That ending is something interesting.
I was six when I first saw this movie,,,,, for the next two years I just knew,,,,,, KNEW Max was going to come busting out of my closet!
that was my experience with Jaws. I was sure Jaws was gonna show up on the back edge of my bed... even though I lived 500 miles from the ocean >.
@@mikeb.1705 Yeah,,,, he might decide to swim up the sewer,,,,,,, we weren't sure.🤣
@@jacobwebb2623exactly! And you never know whether or not that black hole might dump Max out into a closet!
I will always enjoy The Black Hole for the special effects and different storyline. Fun Fact for anyone who doesn't know, director Tom McLoughlin, who did Jason Lives played the robot S.T.A.R. in The Black Hole
I LOVE “The Black Hole”. It was my favorite record book when I was a child. The music was the perfect amount of creepy.
Me too!!
Totally agree, it's up there with The Dark Crystal for creepiness
I had that same record book
John Barry has done some awesome music.
Had same record book!! Loved it!
Black Hole was a great, gritty scifi flik.
This movie definitely has a "split personality". Solemn discussions about God and the Universe, alternate with laser gun battles and cutesy robots.
I saw it in the theater Christmas of ‘79. I enjoyed it. Of course, I was 9 at the time.
I went to see this & Star Trek The Motion Picture. Both Looked great on a huge screen.
Unfortunately this film was swept under the umbrella of what people call 'Dark Disney', encompassing the likes of 'Watcher in the Woods' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'.
Those were great movies too.
In 1980, I was 5 years old and a few months after moving into my stepfather's new house my mother took me to the video store that had just opened. I remember my mother telling me to pick a movie but I didn't get it - why would I pick a movie when we don't even have a video player? She said something like "don't we?". I picked my video and got home to find a shiny new VHS player under the TV.
The very first movie I ever saw on video was The Black Hole. It was also the second, third, and fourth. I was already a Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers, fan and my STAR droid action figure joined the Empire as a bounty hunter. My favourite characters were Maximilian and Vincent, and I distinctly remember acting as Maximilian and spinning my hand like his claw on multiple occasions, similar to the way I pretended to be R2-D2, C3-PO, Darth Vader, Yoda, and Twiggy.
I refuse to re-watch this film. My childhood memories shall forever remain unsullied.
Me, now 54: I immediately remembered the name of the robots; the toys I had as a kid. Good movie!
I'm 54 as well, and to this very day I still have my V.I.N.C.E.N.T and Charley Pizer action figures. 👍
If there was ever a case for a remake, The Black Hole would be it. But not with current Disney.
Bruckhiemer or zak snider
@@jessebacon9535agreed 😊
Being Disney, would they even call it The " Black " Hole ?? That might trigger someone !!!!😆😆😆
@@lanedossett6870 Oh for fucks sake. Nobody's getting triggered like that. That's just some weirdo fantasy of yours.
@@lanedossett6870 Only people who think Disney is some sort of "woke" warrior and only cares about "checking boxes" would be triggered by that sort of thing - because Disney is a business and only cares about making money. Like every other studio.
Absolutely one of my favorite movies ever. I was 5 when this hit theaters, and I still love this movie to this day. I would love to see a remake, as long as the robots aren't CG.
It's such a fantastic film. The special effects are unique
I always liked the overall idea of the movie, and the opening special effects when the Cygnus fired up were incredible. I feel like Disney blew it though by thinking they had to have the hokey robots and gimmicks like every other space hardware movie had. The vibe of the story itself felt like a forerunner to Sunshine, only with an insane captain determined to enter the black hole instead of an insane captain stopping the mission to restart our dying sun. If they had focused more on that, they would certainly have lost a lot of the younger audience but made up for it with a more mature audience who could appreciate the pacing and more in-depth story.
I still remember, as a kid, I had Black Hole bed sheets with the robots on them.
No way! JoBlo just did a Black Hole video and I was searching for new videos about this very movie? Serendipity! I love this movie. I have a little shelf full of toys from this flick, and no one knows it! Space horror at its 70s finest!
Synchronicity!
Went to see it when it came out. Always liked it. The soundtrack is really good as well.
Love this movie one of my favorite soundtracks for any film....
This couod make a great remake if done right
Saw it as a boy, love it as an adult. The magic comes from the nostalgia. Any remake would be disappointing. Don’t forget that, in a way this was a remake of another disney movie, Forbidden Planet, 1956.
For those interested in more info, Cecil (Good Bad Flicks) has a really in depth video on The Black Hole.
I loved The Black Hole. I saw this movie in the early 80's as a kid. I'm so happy that its finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Would like to see a remake.
Maximilian still stands to this day in my top three villains of all time in film with Darth Vader being the top Maximilian being the second and Megatron is number 3
I had a Maximillian figure for years and years no idea where he went.
Went to the movies to see it. Great flick, hunted down a copy and added it to my collection, I watch it once and a while just for the memories.
I have the DVD version where disney avoided putting the disney logo on the DVD cover.
Everybody was trying to get some of that sweet sweet Star Wars money. I liked Vinson the robot as well as Maximilian he was a pretty formidable villain.
**V. I. N. CENT.
@@devinpaul9026 okay thanks
@@grapeshot You're welcome! You'd be amazed how many grown adults with lives and jobs actually need my help with the most basic of shit!
If I thought humanity was ultimately worth a damn, it might actually disturb me a little.
@@grapeshot You're welcome! You'd be amazed how many grown adults with lives and jobs actually need my help with the most basic of shit!
If I thought humanity was ultimately worth a damn, it might actually disturb me a little.
@devinpaul9026 don't worry, the sun will not supernova and explode because of this.
This is the third video on this movie and easily the best. Thumbs up
It's one of my favorite space movies, more similar to Forbidden Planet (1956) than Star Wars (1977).
I watch this movie every so many years.
A remake would be interesting. But im unsure if modern science would allow it
This movie and Logan's Run hold a special place in my heart. I was obsessed with them as a child.
Sadly, of the two Cygnus models built both ended up destroyed. The first was blown up while filming the final climactic descent into the black hole. The second was stored in crates and then left outside a warehouse for years until it was run over by a forklift. These models were beautiful as each was acid-aged until they had green patinas similar to the Statue of Liberty's. You can see this effect during the Palamino's close-up approach when they're inspecting the darkened ship's exterior.
One of my favorite films since I've seen it at the cinemas.
I saw it in the theater when it was released. I was 12. I liked it. I haven't seen it since. I should watch it again.
The robot had its name before Schell was cast, but it had only one L, which was changed to two (LL) after he signed on.
The music was fantastic. It was dark and crazy. I love this film.
Still one of my favorites!
Yeah, I remember those toys, had Max, Vince, and Bob. Not as cool as TRON toys, but better made.
I love this movie. It was the first sci-fi movie I'd ever saw as a kid. My Dad brought em home one day on VHS or BetaMax tape around in 1981 or 82. I was 5 or 6 years old at this time and I watched it together with my parents and from the spot I was totally fascinated by it. Still love to watch it from time to time on DVD. I also have a small Old B.O.B figure from Disney Kubrick Medicom here in my shelf and a vintage comic book. In my opinion, this movie is highly underrated. John Barrys soundtrack is also a masterpiece.
Yeah the special effects are really cool. You have to be in just the right mood for this one though. StarWars works because its a movie which feels way bigger than it is. BlackHole has a different feel and style to it but I like it!!
Loved the movie, except the end. I had the novelization. Cygnus is my all-time favorite movie spacecraft.
Give me the in Passengers... a very unique Star Ship..
was way scary when a kid and still remember parts of it... love it now and reminds of flash gordon vibes.
Love it. Still watch it often. I have the soundtrack on vinyl and it's on regular rotation. I love the look of the VFX. Nothing else looks quite like it. The Black Hole and TRON were big influences on me as a kid. They were so unique. Great period for Sci Fi. 1977-1984. Hard to top. Star Wars to The Terminator
Thanks for reminding me to watch this film again. I saw this film when released, I always really liked it a lot. Literal all-star cast, great effects. Too bad there are no huge screens in the theaters any more, like when I first saw this film, it was awesome to see.....
I loved it as a kid, maybe it doesn't hold up as well but I am still fond of it.
I will never forget the intro on the Big Screen. The cartesian grid lines falling into that singularity was impressive. The rest of the movie was plodding and boring. Story and characters are important.
I can't believe it's on RUclips. I'm fixing to watch it on the TV.
Dude... This movie is such glorious schlock.
seen this film after Star Wars and thinking not bad
I saw this when I was five years old and had screaming nightmares. Thirty years later, I got it on DVD and laughed my ass off, at the cheesy late '50s special effects - you could literally see fishing lines, making the robots "float" in the air. It was still a pretty good flick. I watched it, went to bed and yep, woke up from a nightmare, again. That damned meteor, smashing it's way through the ship...
had a really nice production design and toyline
The 'Black Hole' is something so scary, absurd and completely out of it's wold it should be a cult classic (I think it is?)
Best robot: Maximilian. Id watch a remake. If they kept the dark gothic angle. Its what would make it peculiar, not 'A typical' in design. Too much scifi design is so much the same, same designers is probably why. Get some different artists from non FX studios. Just like the brilliance of HR Giger's work in Alien. The individualists eye is whats interesting. Be unique, not the same as.
There were several aspects of this video which revealed that it was edited by a Latino, notably the use of "MM" instead of just the single "M" for million, a comma when the narration clearly says "four point five million dollars," and the use of the PG-13 rating graphic when a) that rating hadn't been invented yet in 1979 and b) Pirates of the Caribbean was famously Disney's first PG-13 movie.
Also, is there a line missing at the 8:59/9 minute mark?
Otherwise, great video. I've always loved The Black Hole and have always reiterated the fact that it was conceived BEFORE Star Wars, thus isn't just the Disney knockoff some seem to claim it was.
Great score by John Barry 🕺
I watched it at the theatre, loved it, even had some of the figures and the Cygnus model.
1979 was a big year for sci fi. MGM had just capitalized for six new films...they were screaming for sci-fi. They offered Max Klein four times what Lester Siegel offered for the Black Hole script. But a couple of weeks before, Lester was sitting in Trader Vic's, enjoying a mai tai, when his pal Warren Beatty comes in. He wishes him well, and they have a little chat. Seems he was attached to star in 'Zulu Empire,' which was gonna anchor that MGM slate, but Warren confided that the picture's gone over budget because the Zulu extras want to unionize. They may be cannibals, but they want health and dental! Which meant that the movie was kaput, so the MGM deal wasn''t gonna happen, and the Black Hole script wasn't worth the buffalo sh*t on a nickel.
1979 was a BANNER year for sci-fi fans, omg did the goodies start to spill out.
@@angelainamarie9656 Right? My favorite was Argo. It was a space movie in the Middle East...a real science fantasy adventure. It was in turnaround--real dogsh*t--until Lester Siegel bought the rights for $10,000 and went into production in just a month. Up like a carny ride! This is all thanks to Kevin Harkins from Studio Six Films.
I remember toys from this movie
A guilty pleasure of mine. First saw it as a young boy, still enjoy it decades later. The ending is the only think I feel lets it down. A little too ... well, 2001 a Space Odyssey I suppose. But where 2001 pulled it off Black Hole just gets weird, lol,
I saw this in theaters and had some of the toys.
1. Long Musical Introduction
2. A hot blonde and a nerd go on a trip to meet a professor.
3. The trip is interrupted by mechanical difficulty.
4. They seek help in a dark, seemingly abandoned structure that is experiencing communications difficulty.
5. A light suddenly appears, revealing a mysterious figure in a window.
6. The structure is inhabited by very strange people, led by a megalomaniac scientist.
7. Scientist has created his own companion, who possesses all the qualities the scientist wishes he had, such as imposing size and physical strength.
8. Someone hopes to find a missing relative.
9. Scientist seduces the nerd into joining him.
10. There's an awkward dinner party.
11. It is revealed that the scientist murdered the missing relative.
12. The chase scene. The hot blonde is captured.
13. The scientist's damaged old servant betrays him.
14. The Scientist and his companion become one in death.
15. Everyone spins really fast until the structure leaves our reality entirely.
The Black Hole is just a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Lets do the Black Hole again....
I remember my friend had the action figures of Vincent, Bob & Maximilian & he used to bring them into school, fun times.
One of my favourte movies ever ... love this movie ... the music, the feel, the lighting , the suspense, the horror and the bizarre ending
The ending wasn't any more bizarre than that of 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY.
It was kind of dark for a Disney film, and I liked it.
I remember watching this movie as a kid - and the ending scene of the movie scared the crap out of me. that aside, I loved this movie and thought, as a kid at least, it was pretty good. It was definitely dark and not the norm for Disney at the time.
Star Wars was not sci-fi.
It was a fantasy, action, adventure, war movie - that happened to be set in space and laden with fantasy/hitech weaponry.
The Seventies before had seen much actual Science Fiction, with movies like Punishment Park, THX 1138, A Clockwork Orange, Silent Running, Idaho Transfer, World on a Wire, Soylent Green, Westworld, Zardoz, Logan's Run, Stalker, Solaris.
If anything Star Wars mostly put an end, or rather a pause, to the era of sci-fi.
After it, space operas (such as Battlestar Galactica or Flash Gordon), horror and action flicks, and rom-coms became a trend.
The Day After could still be called Sci-fi without overstretching what is considered sci-fi, but by then it was an exception rather than the norm to have a futuristic movie grounded in actual science. Blade Runner and Brainstorm veered more towardswas cyberpunk, and similar stuff such as Robocop, Alien / Aliens and Akira leaned more into the horror and action genres.
Sci-fi slowly did make a comeback again in the nineties with good movies such as Gattaca, Thirteenth Floor, Strange Days, eXistenZ, Ghost in the Shell coming out.
Even then, much of it was still being watered down with fantasy stuff such as Dark City, Terminator 2, The Matrix, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, or downright space opera stuff such as The Fifth Element or Lost in Space or Independence Day or Mars Attacks.
I woulnt call T2 or Alien fanatsy
I must have been a weird child cause I ate this movie up and left no crumbs...also love ST the motion picture....
The cool thing about this movie is it is a throwback to the old school way Disney made movies. All in house with the Disney mandate of quality and innovation but a stab at a more mature themes and audience to keep up with the times. 1 foot in the past and 1 foot attempting to be more contemporary.
Actually, V. I. N. CENT's a badass. The little cartoon ball look and snarky nerdisms just serve to make it THAT MUCH MORE badass when he's just scared of precicely fuck all and can surgically dissect a fly at fifty feet. Don't see any of the hero droids doin' THAT in Star Wars.
Casting suggestions for a remake:
Chris Pratt as Captain Dan Holland
Karen Gillan as Doctor Kate McCrae
Christoph Waltz as Doctor Hans Reinhardt.
Anyone else can fill the gaps?
I would have Vincent and B.O.B. as humanoid robots and give this BLACK HOLE remake an even darker and twisted spin of the story giving it a 12A certificate, with Karen/Kate undergoing her cybernetic surgical conversion into one of Reinhardt’s cyborg zombies like in the 1979 original but even more terrifying and slightly graphic.
This would be a sign of Disney not afraid to venture into the dark and serious side of nature in their entertainment.
I would also like to see the opening title sequence of the original film recreated as well as the great John Barry’a haunting score.
Almost forgot
Please please please never stop ♥️
All I remember about this movie is Anthony Perkins being skewered by the rotary blades of that menacing robot. It was one of the best death scenes ever.
Like it or not, if you saw this film at the right age, you never forgot it. And the double-barrel laser pistol remains my favorite sci-fi weapon.
The Black Hole was 100% allegory for a story they couldn't just come out and tell. The fact that it was told at all, in this medium, at that time, on big screens all across the country, got their point across entirely even if they lost money on the film. It wasn't a failure in what they were trying to do, even if it was a commercial disaster for the studios.
I love the movie because it was a dark Sci fi
I first saw that in the 4th grade at an assembly (movie protector and all!) It stuck with me!!!
I just re-watched it today for the 1st time in adulthood... very different movie than I remembered! Way darker!!!
And that ENDING 🥶
Thats amusing they made all those action figures, etc for a movie that is so unlike Star Wars. Its an odd movie but worth a watch if like sci-fi
I loved this movie when it came out in my country. We had censorship at the time so every movie took one year to reach theaters here. So we had the merchandise even before the actual feature was released. I had a fold up maganize of the Palomino, Maximillian (that i did not know was a bad guy) and VICENT
I remember we went to see The Black Hole I liked the movie and it's soundtrack .
Seen it once when I was little, I'm still not over B.O.B dying!
R.I.P B.O.B you're right you and Vincent was the best.
The voiceover sounds like Johnny Cab from Total Recall.😂
I loved black hole as a kid. I was obsessed with my viewmaster reels of it and luckily had the toys of the main robot bob? and the bad stormtrooper style robot Maximilian?
Unfortunately i havent seen it in 30 years as its yet another film that just disappeared in the UK
I love this movie. Totally deserves more love
I was captivated by this movie it was so dark and amazing
Vincent and Bob killed this movie. They were just too cutie and hokey.
Disagree. They were a counterpoint to how scary Max was. He was an incredible villain for what he was.
Vincent is my name sharp shooting is my game.
Great movie!
Looove this movie!! I discovered it between Star Trek and Star Wars, born in 88' so it was a VHS Classic for me!! I grew up with Trek but didn't really get into Star Wars till the prequel trilogy started 😱