THE BLACK HOLE (1979) – Episode 254 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“A wolf remains a wolf, even if it has not eaten your sheep.” Hmm. What if it has not eaten a cow? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they take to space via Disney’s The Black Hole (1979).

Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 254 – The Black Hole (1979)

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Synopsis: A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

• Director: Gary Nelson
• Writers: (screenplay by) Jeb Rosebrook and Gerry Day; (story by) Jeb Rosebrook and Bob Barbash & Richard H. Landau 
• Composer: John Barry
• Selected Cast:
  • Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
  • Anthony Perkins as Dr. Alex Durant
  • Robert Forster as Captain Dan Holland
  • Joseph Bottoms as Lieutenant Charles Pizer
  • Yvette Mimieux as Dr. Kate McCrae
  • Ernest Borgnine as Harry Booth
  • Tom McLoughlin as Captain S.T.A.R. (as Tommy McLoughlin)
  • Steven Banks as Sentry Robot (uncredited)
  • Don Lewis as Sentry Robot (uncredited)
  • Roddy McDowall as V.I.N.CENT. (voice) (uncredited)
  • Gary Nelson as Drone with Mask Removed (uncredited)
  • Slim Pickens as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)

Disney’s The Black Hole (1979) is on the agenda for this episode. Spectacular visual effects and a good cast bode well for this film. That is, if it weren’t for the bad science and the equally bad script. The two little robots, voiced by Roddy MacDowall and Slim Pickens, are kind of fun, but also kind of dumb. Maximillian Schell, Robert Forster, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms fill out the cast and perform admirably, considering what they have to work with. One Grue Believer referred to it as a “sublime failure.” Regardless of their opinions of the film as a whole, your 70s Grue-Crew have a ball discussing this one. They hope you do the same, watching or listening.

At the time of this writing, The Black Hole (1979) is available to stream from Disney+, and various PPV options.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next ‘70s episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Audrey Rose (1977), screenplay by Frank de Felitta (based on his novel), directed by Robert Wise, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, and John Beck.

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