The Black Hole, a Disney Classic, though they don't seem too proud of it. This was disney's first foray into the Sci-fi realm. Lets start with the DVD Case, they went with a Glossy black case, which looks and feels really slick. Bonus features include an extended trailer and a featurette about the making of they film with one of the VFX artists.
The film funs 98 minutes, just a tad long for a Broadcast showing. Looking at the cast was pretty impressive Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, and Slim Pickens. In the first 10 minutes you will notice that they didn't pull a George Lucas on this one and try to digitally touch up the whole film, Thank Goodness! What I mean is you will see the wires from the weightless shots all the edges on the matte paintings and no CG. Anthony Perkins is just about as creepy in this as he is in Psycho. The sound track of this film is pretty cool, it was scored by John Barry who has done some other cool sound tracks. For those of you who don't recall the story line, think of it as 20,000 leagues under the sea, in space. A mad man in charge of a space ship wants to be the first to traverse a black hole, and he wont let anyone stop him. A pretty dark film, I don't want to give any spoilers. So go rent it or better yet, buy a copy.
Matt Worley
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