O grave, where is thy victory ...!

This film was not appreciated by the critics and the audience UNFORTUNATELY than what he is: a highlight in the horror genre SF. The horror does not come with the "crushing" rod (pronounced langausge- stretched splatter excesses, orgies action, etc.), but. By a very cleverly produced, slowly but inexorably increasing atmosphere of disembodied, intangible horror whose direction out peels slowly Short, literally dazwischenge "troubled" splatter sequences whose meaning remains unclear at first, put the spotlight like shock effects. The crucial stylistic device of this film, in addition to sound effects, especially the outstanding scenes which, depending on the lighting times represent the futuristic interior of the spaceship, then associations with gloomy Gothic, on black cathedrals, crypts etc. awaken (as a model for buildings served a floor plan of the Notre Dame Cathedral!). The plot boils down to everything that appears at first glance bizarre: That one hell (in the religious sense) by a black hole enter kann.Es this is an outrageous for the understanding of modern, science-oriented people blending of rationality (the in the universe, although the place great, but just this-worldly, scientifically explainable mystery looks) and metaphysics (which the religious -Übernatürliche describes). From the abolition of this separation that is at least in Western culture for centuries, the film draws its really strange, frightening effect: Modern man or moviegoers, the irrational, religious and mythical fears (Hell ideas) displaced into the subconscious and from those mindsets mentioned free, faces unbehaglicherweise suddenly with the possibility faced that the triumph of the rational consciousness about the dark fears of the irrational that kept mankind for centuries in her spell, a triumph which is reflected in our logical-scientific picture of the universe, just a lie, an illusion, and the reality behind our blackest, repressed fear is actually larger than our rational universe, and this will consume (like a black hole!) Just think of the scene when the crew decrypts the enigmatic radio signals and with amazement finds that it is old (churches) Latin ..... a symbol of the metaphysical (from a pre-technical, pre-rational age) aboard a high-tech dominated by spaceship, a manifestation of highly developed instrumental reason, far out in space .... An unusual concept, a great film.