The live-action films of Disney's so-called "Dark Age" are endlessly fascinating. After its namesake died in 1966, the flailing studio spent the next 20 years (and change) trying to reinvent itself in the lead-up to the Disney Renaissance. Because of this, it began tackling live-action projects that were noticeably more mature and ambitious than its output in decades past. This also answers the riddle of how the hell the same company that gave us zany fare like "The Shaggy Dog" and basically every Disney movie Kurt Russell made in the 1950s and '60s ended up producing something as peculiar and even horrifying as 1979's "The Black Hole."

Directed by Gary Nelson (who also helmed Disney's 1976 take on "Freaky Friday"), "The Black Hole" began as the Mouse House's attempt to catch the wave o

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