The Black Hole - Trailer (HD) (1979)

[@TechnicJunglist]

Highly underrated film.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

It is. Great themetune too.

[@techsun9581]

I had the Vincent toy robot when I was 4, and remember playing with it in the back seat of my parent's Chevette on the way back from seeing the Black Hole in the theater. Man, do I wish I still had that toy robot - I loved it. Agreed, the film is underrated and the end is astoundingly trippy. 😲

[@ARIKIP]

Amazing trailer. What a classic. John. Barry’s music and Percy Rodriguez’ narration. Wow.

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

R.I.P. Robert Forster 😢💔🌹

[@Mr3Submarine]

Still a favorite sci-fi film of mine since childhood. Sadly, with the recent passing of Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Bottoms is now the last surviving cast member.

[@chrisfinch8637]

Even the director of the movie, Gary Nelson had passed away, not that long ago, too.

[@wangson]

Wow! Good call, Alan. This film was (and remains) fantastic!! Endlessly watchable, man!

[@ZenenNlLugo]

"We're the Best". Always Tear up to the relationship of the droids and great film score. A Cinematic Classic for both SciFI and Disney...a Bygone Era.

[@markalvarado7884]

...a journey, that begins, where everything ends... Isn’t that just bone chilling!

[@esv5182]

Baddass XD

[@andrewcarlson3486]

thats deep

[@flipcritic]

Percy Rodriguez. His voiceover work for trailers made them infinitely more chilling.

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1985]

Wow, I really love both The Black Hole and Flash Gordon 1980 so much. I always had a soft spot for The Black Hole and Flash Gordon from 1979-1980 and The Black Hole along with Flash Gordon with Max von Sydow are both the most underappreciated sci-fi films of all time. The Black Hole is a very underrated and brilliant sci-fi Disney film, the John Barry music score was great, and The Black Hole had excellent characters like Dr. Hans Reinhardt, Maximilian, and V.I.N.CENT. Roddy McDowall as V.I.N.CENT was an awesome robot character, the robot fight scene between Maximilian and V.I.N.CENT was amazing, and Dr. Hans Reinhardt as well as Maximilian and Max von Sydow as Emperor Ming are one of my absolute favorite sci-fi villains. I also love Flash Gordon 1980. Flash Gordon 1980 was a very good and awesome sci-fi film with a stellar Queen soundtrack, it had a magnificent cast like Max von Sydow, Topol, Timothy Dalton, and Brian Blessed, and Flash Gordon 1980 along with The Black Hole are both way much better films than The Last Jedi and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[@metatronix9571]

One of the most underrated films out there. I adored this one as a kid then got to see it on the big screen as an adult . . . while trippin bawls, hahaha!

[@shawnjenkins8707]

Still awesome!!! I have an old copy. It’s still great!!

[@HennieVredeveldt]

I have the vhs and dvd and some toys from the movie.....saw it 3x on the big screen in 1979.....classic and Top movie......

[@josebro352]

Disney's darkest movie

[@abbaszaidi8371]

The very first film I ever saw in the cinema RIP Robert Forster

[@wangson]

FANTASTIC FILM!!! When I was a kid, this blew my mind and scared the hell out of me...that big red (evil) robot? and the kind (and kind of gay) friendly robot? This film is a classic!

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1985]

I agree. I Love The Black Hole as well. The Black Hole along with Moonraker and Flash Gordon 1980 with Sam J. Jones are the most underappreciated sci-fi films of all time, the John Barry music scores for The Black Hole and Moonraker were both brilliant, and Flash Gordon 1980 was an awesome sci-fi film with a stellar cast like Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, and Brian Blessed.

[@actorben]

I first saw this in the theaters! Why hasn't there been a video game based on this underated gem from Disney!

[@Monsoon888]

I had the board game. It was fun.

[@terranempire725]

I had the record and listen along story book. There was an extra dialog at the end. If you watch carefully you can see the moment in the movie when the movie executives stepped in and ruined it

[@actorben]

@@terranempire725 I do as well! I wonder how a remake of this would work, since it seems EVERYTHING is, " Disney-fied," these days?

[@terranempire725]

@@actorben the remake would be garbage. Disney made Star Wars even worse that Lucas had messed it up

[@terranempire725]

@@actorben I love how dark the scene is when he's going through the crew quarters and finds everything is still there. The music was phenomenal for the movie.

[@germanicelt]

I remember recording this on VHS in 1988 when I was in highschool, and watched it many times. I don't think I've seen it since '89.

[@Barnstormer1969]

Rest in peace, Robert Forster.

[@chrisfinch8637]

And now to Yvette Mimieux and director Gary Nelson, both in the same year.

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1983-by6qp]

Happy 45th Anniversary Alien, Moonraker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and The Black Hole (1979-2024) Wow, I can't believe that Alien, Moonraker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and The Black Hole are all 45 years old now in 2024 and I always loved Alien, Moonraker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and The Black Hole from 1979. I admire Alien by Ridley Scott as one of my absolute favorite films, Alien had brilliant stuff like the Jerry Goldsmith music score and Sigourney Weaver's performance as Ripley, and Moonraker along with Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Black Hole are the most underappreciated sci-fi films of all time. Moonraker is a very underrated and awesome bond film with Roger Moore and Michael Lonsdale, Moonraker was my very first bond film that made me a fan of the James Bond Franchise, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture as well as The Black Hole were both very good sci-fi films from start to finish.

[@wills2140]

1979 was a seminal year in filmmaking. _Alien_ especially is a movie that holds up well to this day. Good comment

[@Barnstormer1969]

Rest in peace, Yvette Mimieux.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

Im surprised disney didn't make a ride out of this at the park

[@citizenofcorona8783]

Space Mountain

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@citizenofcorona8783 that dosent count

[@gabrielbennett5162]

Maybe they would have if it hadn't flopped at the box office.

[@evansuhayda2279]

Or a shitty cash grab re-make

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@evansuhayda2279 yeah ride sounds better than what you said

[@davidbeckman7925]

1. Love this movie. 2. Love this trailer. 3. Love learning that actor Percy Rodrigues was the immortal voice of narration on this, the classic JAWS trailers, and many more. Wikipedia him for a big list. His voice! So epic. Rip, Percy 💜👊

[@bradlafferty6076]

He died too?

[@angelomigliore1507]

A gem from 1979.

[@bradlafferty6076]

I saw this and Breaking Away and Meatballs that year.

[@Chopperwocky]

The trailer gives away a lot of the plot.

[@StratoPL]

The plot is - try not to get sucked in by black hole... Failed... The end

[@DemmyChan]

I saw this on BETA tape when my father was stationed in Okinawa.

[@sgtmayhem7567]

Your comment brought back a lot of memories. I think it was 1988, the proprietor of a video rental store tried to talk me into a Betamax player. She told me that Beta was more popular in California and would probably be replacing VHS. A player cost well over $300 and that was way too much for a rookie cop’s $20,000 yearly salary, plus there were a lot less movies to rent. Their entire inventory VHS and Beta cassettes was less than 200 titles and you had to pay a membership fee before you could rent video.

[@RedStallion2000]

@@sgtmayhem7567 A Betamax membership? Holy Cow! Don't remember that.

[@densaunders3550]

Loved this film as a kid hope the remake will be good too ...... Love Bob and vincent

[@dextercooper3090]

Affectionately voiced by Roddy McDowall aka VINCENT & Slim Pickens aka Bob.

[@frederickburke9944]

Narrated by the great trailer voice of Percy Rodriguez

[@RedStallion2000]

Thanks for mentioning this! Was just about to ask about the narrator, but decided to see if someone already mentioned him. What a voice !!

[@bps3013]

It's interesting that the trailer used John Barry's more somber (and far more effective) theme for the scene where Holland rescues Kate from the android lobotomy room instead of the upbeat heroic cue that they used in the film itself. The Black Hole is one of John Barry's best scores ever but it feels like Disney wanted some uplifting Star Wars-esque theme mixed in which, IMHO, was a mistake, especially for a film like this. It's still one of my guilty pleasures and I watch it often.

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1985]

R.I.P Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Roddy McDowall, Slim Pickens, Maximilian Schell, and George Carlin I miss Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Roddy McDowall, Slim Pickens, Maximilian Schell, and George Carlin so much. I always loved The Black Hole, The Black Hole is a very underappreciated and brilliant sci-fi Disney film, and Robert Forster was a great film actor in The Black Hole and Alligator. Yvette Mimieux was very good as Dr. Kate McCrae, Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt was an excellent sci-fi villain, and Roddy McDowall as V.I.N.CENT as well as Slim Pickens as Old B.O.B are both one of my favorite robot characters along with C-3PO and R2-D2. I also love George Carlin. George Carlin was the best American comedian of all time, Jammin' in New York from 1992 is my absolute favorite George Carlin special, and George Carlin was amazing as the role of Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station.

[@tharakanewan3544]

I read the original book. I still have it in my bookshelf.

[@chazAtl197o-s]

Saw this movie as a kid. Scared the heck out of me and the opening music gave me nightmares. I only now appreciate the special effects including one of the first uses of CGI in the opening segment.

[@ricksherman34]

I love Sci-fi and enjoyed the movie as a kid, but to be honest it's pretty dark for a Disney film. I mean it was like Rogue One for it's time. Everyone dies at the end.... 😆

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

ehh.... it was more Disney's take on a 2001: A Space Odyssey ambiguous ending. There are survivors, but what happened to them and where are they?

[@RedStallion2000]

I can't help but think that the scene at 0:19 looks like a Star Wars light saber duel. The person on the left even looks like he's holding a light saber, and the one on the right looks like Darth Vader 😄

[@makeadifference4all]

When I think "creepy sci-fi," I think "Ernest Borgnine" 😆

[@ZidaneWarner]

The ending to this trailer would’ve scared the shit out of me as a kid

[@andrewcarlson3486]

A journey that begins Where everything ends

[@fredkeeler4620]

I can assure you as someone who was a kid at the time having seen this in a theater, it did

[@fredkeeler4620]

Disney's first PG rated film- unusually grim & humorless in tone.

[@terranempire725]

@@fredkeeler4620 Disney's first and ONLY PG rated film. They should have kept it adult and dark. It would have been a great Sci fi horror

[@narendrapatel9144]

A TIMELESS CLASSIC

[@AntLive-lu5qx]

This trailer was on my Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh VHS I watched as a child!

[@greggotheeggo]

lol the eyes on those robots haha. also tyson brought me here.

[@quinopro]

Thought I was watching the actual movie half way through. Woke up from my nap 2 times

[@oruffryder]

Why does this movie look so much better then Tron? Even now the special effects still look pretty.

[@aeonsnarfus]

Good question, because the same man and his company, Robert Abel & Associates, produced the special effects seen in this trailer, and also wrote custom software for, and produced the computer graphics for, Tron.

[@RedStallion2000]

A lot (if not most) of this film was shot using traditional practical special effects (models, etc.). That may explain why. It has some beautiful effects...

[@CodyChromeBand]

This movie gets darker by the year

[@robertgodlewski8553]

Aluminum foil has so many uses!!!

[@TamasLukacs-ltommie]

Why do Americans call it alunimum? 😂still funny

[@robertgodlewski8553]

@@TamasLukacs-ltommie We took the English language and butchered it!😂

[@TamasLukacs-ltommie]

@@robertgodlewski8553 just done quick search and Canadians call it aluminum too. I didn't know that.

[@VegasX900]

@@TamasLukacs-ltommie What do you call it?

[@TamasLukacs-ltommie]

@@VegasX900 😅 It's called aluminium

[@raycarr1389]

I got to see this cheesy Disney sci-fi film in 70mm & Dolby Stereo when it was re-released in 1981. Wouldn't mind seeing it again on the big screen. Even though it was a flop for Disney, it was ahead of its time in 1979.

[@CollectorChronicles]

I was born in 79 but somehow had Black Hole bedsheets and pillowcase. I always wanted action figures of the Sentry Guards.

[@gagon1979]

I watched this as a child and it still haunts me. It is so dark and depressing - everything about it. This mad captain that wants to destroy himself and his robotic crew! And these characters stumbling upon his ship who just want to survive! The music is absolutely depressing, the deaths of certain characters are depressing (blades through a book!!!), the destruction of the damaged robot is depressing, the way they all survive us depressing, again, the music is absolutely depressing!!!! ... I teared up watching the trainer due to the resulting PTSD of watching the movie as a kid. This was a Disney movie!!! But no crazy bug/ car, no traps for parents, professors that turn into dogs, no Princesses and rabbits that cleaned the cottage! No good that triumphed over evil. It was just people that survived the madness. F*ck this movie!!!

[@supremeobliterator]

I am yruly sorry forvyour PTSD. I saw it as a kid as well and I have to admit it was haunting.

[@tailtap2222]

Dear Hollywood & Disney, PLEASE DO NOT REMAKE THIS. THANK YOU

[@trollking6055]

Yeah hate to tell you it's reportedly in the pipeline all Female cast in other words all female cast with a black an Asian a Mexican a fat chick and some white privilege spitting white Women 😂😂

[@wanted556]

This 1979 trailer feels like its from the 60s XD

[@ThatGirlAafia]

Chris Nolan's favourite film

[@car103d]

Because of the black hole? Then also Space 1999 Black Sun, the very first black hole on screen, in 1973, and British production.

[@elproscripto1048]

No entiendo,si la película es de 1979 porq que l trailer utiliza música de John Barry compuesta para el film Octopussy n 1983? Tiene que ver que ambos filmes fueron musicalizados por el l mismo compositor?

[@sinistrobing]

Que efeitos bons para a época, expetacular.

[@Tony-1971]

Still not available on blu ray. Not in the UK anyway. Unbelievable.

[@kascnef]

Why

[@Staatus_Quo]

You can only buy it on Blu Ray directly from the Disney Movie Club thing.

[@coopersteves]

It’s now on blu ray!

[@Tony-1971]

Cooper Steves Just got it on blu ray. Looks great.

[@Tony-1971]

Kiley Staats Just got it. It looks real nice on blu ray. They did a good job. No extras though sadly.

[@georgeharris9873]

I have the novel. In one chapter, after the attack on the Cygnus by the meteors, there is more telling of the Cygnus being torn apart by the gravity of the Black Hole and the the Anti-Gravity effects were being disrupted by it, causing the ship to drift sideways. I hope they do a remake and tell that part as Alan Dean Foster told it.

[@mikedski9698]

Now Man Is About To Enter The 40TH Anniversary Of Disney's THE BLACK HOLE! 1979-2019! The Journey That Begins Where Everything Ends!

[@Tomfoolery1972]

Strange editing, it's like they took a fully finished trailer and just spliced in the entire hospital rescue scene in the middle 🤔

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

The moment with Disney tries to cash in out of Star Wars and it fails horribly. Percy Rodrigues voice. At least Tron 3 years later was Disney's Redemption.

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

Not knocking TRON at all as it is one of my favorites, but there is nothing wrong with this movie other than some limited-by-the-era special effects (mostly the "Zero-g" wirework). I watch this movie several times a year and am super glad it is on Disney+. Yeah, there as some "well, we need lasers and cute robots too, because Star Wars" in here, but the plot and story elements are pretty damn dark for a Disney films, even now, but especially in that time!

[@samfrito]

If Disney failed at doing this movie I'd say it delivered on making a cool out of their comfort zone sci fi movie that released during the holidays and to tide us over til Empire came out the following summer.

[@Tony-1971]

This movie is a fantastic piece of space opera. Its is a million times better than those horrible woke Disney star wars movies too.

[@dubla321]

Mmm no a lot of people seem to think anything space age from 79 to 89 was because of Star Wars. However, in the 60s and the 50s space was the place. There are hundreds of not thousands of film titles that had similar themes similar designs etc. if anything Star Wars and Lucas definitely felt influenced by the space age of the 60s and 50s. I mean after all the moon landing was all the rage during that time. Hollywood was all over it groveling at anything they could make. This film was just another one off attempt at a space odyssey. Even Japan fell madly in love the both robotics and space opera in the 50s and continued so allll the way up until the late 90s. Sadly, the space age has come and gone and everything great that made it worth while. Everything now is very cookie cutter and the biggest problem is the designs and most of the movies these days are all cgi. Which is fine, but nothing like real props.

[@bobrew461]

I had a Black Hole colouring book in 1979, and was so looking forward to this movie...It was disappointing... :-(

[@dextertheragdollcat213]

Wish this would get a proper worldwide blu ray or 4k release instead of the stupid overpriced and restrictive Disney Club option.

[@law-11]

Is that.... Reynolds wrap on her head?

[@cartoonfanatic524]

This movie has been released for over 40 years now.

[@96819chris]

Awesome. Soundtrack

[@chrisfinch8637]

I can never look at Anthony Perkins in this film, or any of his other work, and not think of Norman Bates (or his “mother”).

[@citizenofcorona8783]

Disney’s answer to Star Wars before buying it out

[@terrys4351]

Disney's answer to Star WArs. IT was a dark movie but yet a good one.

[@2013venjix]

1979: Disney released The Black Hole 2019: NASA found a Black Hole

[@modernrider1398]

This movie really shows how ahead of it’s time Star Wars and Alien were. Yikes

[@JoltJolt]

i watched this as a child seem good now that i go back to it looks like shit but i was a part of my childhood it was always on TV

[@Barbabapan]

same here...!

[@espeditoalves9525]

Lol me too

[@leonardeuler9592]

I didn't watch it as a child. But I read the Comics book adaptation of this movie. Vincent in the Comics seemed more realistic than in this trailer.

[@acwarrilow]

Not even a Black Hole can eat three Shredded Wheat !!

[@8iosatlost209]

This film influenced my live like no other. I know every little sound of this film. And it is the reason why gravity is my favourite physical parameter. I´m thinking about a method to produce gravity by..., which would stay in a stable field.

[@michaelcombrink8165]

Spin in a circle?

[@kakarotyung7056]

How is your work comming along? I'm building a device that can turn children into adults lets say I could turn a 14 year old in to a 30 year old I need a better power source though every time I go to use it, it blows the whole towns power supply up but I got a plan

[@supremeobliterator]

@@kakarotyung7056 But there already is a device thzt can turn chikdren into adults, it's called time.

[@supremeobliterator]

@@kakarotyung7056 But there already is a device thzt can turn chikdren into adults, it's called time.

[@kakarotyung7056]

@@supremeobliterator you have no idea what I have done ... I should of listened to every one who told me to stop but I got caught in my own gravity field and have absorbed it into my essence now it's made me super strong and I've stopped aging but I'm slowly loosing my sanity all I can think about is crushing the world in my palm hahahaga who's laughing now

[@falsebaroness]

Is that Tony Jay narrating the trailer?

[@elbob099]

MAXIMILLION!!

[@smileysmilefan7879]

I became an explorer, I saw my parents as they truly were (9/8/79)

[@cardio8133]

It's star wars... But it ends early

[@TamasLukacs-ltommie]

The lazer is Terminator

[@marcomolinero5877]

In March 2018, it was reported that Emily Carmichael would be writing the film.

[@StratoPL]

It's from 1979??? Feels rather 1950

[@dreia2405]

This movie looks amazing, is it good?

[@CodyChromeBand]

Dreia yep

[@samfrito]

I'd swear it was the best sci fi movie Disney ever produced up to that point. The music itself is very orchestral and haunting, but it has some silliness in parts.

[@245-TRIOXIN]

Its one of the best space opera movies ever made. If you love Space operas you'll absolutely adore this film.

[@lehah4333]

It’s a strange movie in that it has some goofy elements but also some pretty stark moments of horror. The very end was my introduction to existential dread at age 6

[@jamesanthony5681]

No, despite having some good actors.

[@fransker13]

Yo, that's star lord's guns !!!

[@raulcontreras8297]

I just watched this on Disney+...

[@andrewcarlson3486]

Same

[@perfectionbox]

where's the simpler trailer with just the grid

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Desperately in need of Joel and the bots.

[@8iosatlost209]

Now galaxies better than star wars.

[@ameliawarfield5637]

The first science fiction film 🎥 by Disney. Scary.

[@kittenburger_prime]

Wow the spoilers

[@honeyfitz3791]

Old special effects but still a pretty good sci fi movie.

[@rzxkp7none275]

Watching this being monitored as normal.

[@zynark777]

George Lucas: *drops Star Wars* Disney: Damn that shit is hot, let's totally rip it off. 2010s: Disney buys SW brand and ruins it.

[@Rawdiswar]

Anyone read the book?

[@1TakoyakiStore]

They don't make trailers like this anymore.

[@davidellis5135]

This needs to be re released on blue ray.

[@davidellis5135]

@@mistert5620 Thanks for the info but it's a bit steep for a blue ray Disney being greedy when 4k DVDs are twenty quid.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

It's on disney +

[@dextercooper3090]

It's officially available on Blu🔵Ray exclusively through The Disney Movie Club. But keep in mind that there's No bonus material to this item.

[@martinmarsano3960]

The only bad thing of this movie is the ending.

[@markjones7417]

It was a stupid movie of the caliber I would expect to see in the 50s or 60s genre of sci-fi. True-to-form, Disney takes "the black hole," with immense possibilities based on theories of space and time, yet the astronauts come out of it with nothing but, "wow, what a ride." The cartoonish droids looked better suited for entertaining young children at Disneyland.

[@futabanarugonzalez3399]

The Goldbergs brought me here

[@truthseeker5796]

the narrator's voice resembles Carl Sagan

[@glyph241]

I Read The 📚 One Night In Jail... 🙄

[@aksiiska9470]

ernest borgnine hat auch bei im westen nichts neues mitgespielt

[@andrewcarlson3486]

I fear nothing but that thing (Sees maximilian) It scares me

[@andrewcarlson3486]

Time to face destiny

[@jamesanthony5681]

Bad movie as I remember, and made (1979) by Disney before Michael Eisner became CEO. Maximillian Schell plays the scientist observing and studying the black hole, and at one point while making his scientific calculations, he can be heard saying, "Pi r squared." Good grief. I got sucked in by The Black Hole when I paid $3.00 to see it at the theater in '79.

[@iguanapete3809]

Damn, this is bad.

[@taratupa73]

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

[@trollking6055]

Comment section broken up in two categories Category A.. People say how good it is Category B.. Star Wars Fan Boys bitching it sucks and ripped off Star Wars