I remember seeing the trailer for this and thinking "Wow, what a brilliant film it's going to be!!" To explain - the trailer featured "Gravitation anomalies Detector" - a grid on a display with (I think) the odd stretched-down point indicating the presence of a star or planet or whatever. Then there's a dirty great sink-hole appearing in the middle of the grid with no apparent bottom and that's when you see the title "The Black Hole" come up. After 30 years it still gives me the shivers! So, a couple of weeks later I go to the cinema to see this "great film" and what do I get? No cool Gravitation anomalies detectors, that's for sure. Just a load of standard Dismal crud. To put not too fine a point on it, I even deferred seeing Star Wars for almost another year after seeing the Black Hole as I was so dreadfully afraid that Chewbacca would be voiced by Slim Pickens (no respect to the late lamented actor and I loved him in 1941, made the same year) or some similar "old-timer" voice - in fact I planned to walk out of Star Wars had that been the case so I was most relieved when I heard growls instead. ANYHOW. The question, I suppose, is this: had I not seen such a great trailer would I still have gone to see the film? Probably. And been almost as disappointed. But making such a great trailer then a film that's such a pile of cack; well.....
Review of The Black Hole
