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Time Trap
2017 · Film · 87 min
Directed by Mark Dennis, Ben Foster
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
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Don't have Netflix so not sure what's available there, and several might not be wife-friendly. Also I enjoy weird, so YMMV.
Time Trap (2017) is an excellent low budget sci-fi movie with a trailer that spoils the key plot elements. Had I watched the trailer before the movie, I certainly wouldn't have enjoyed Time Trap nearly as much.
Perhaps with that time dilation and the slow evaporation of the black hole, nothing ever enters the event horizon. The horizon would seem to retract away from you as you approached it until it was gone.
Side note, I watched this almost B movie called "time trap" and I feel like falling into a black hole would be just like the end of that movie. It really made me want to jump in a black hole.
I'll add some films that I enjoyed. Some might be flawed, some constrained by their budget etc, but overall I enjoyed watching them. Ordered alphabetical (I hope).
The more mainstream ones:
- Brainstorm (1983)
- Gamer (2009)
- Midnight Special (2016)
- Pandorum (2009)
- Outland (1981)
- Possessor (2020)
The more low budget/indie ones:
- Alien Arrival (2016)
- Chariot (2022)
- The Endless (2018)
- Galaxy of Terror (1981)
- Honeymoon (2014)
- The man with the magic box (2017)
- The Objective (2008)
- Senn (2013)
- The Signal (2014)
- Time Trap (2017)
- Welcome the Stranger (2018)
There's a movie called Time Trap that sort of uses this as a plot device. While the time slipage isn't caused by the effects of a black hole, it is still an interesting sci-fi. Not a big budget film that I had never heard of, but the pandemic has allowed me to watch a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have had time for before.
While not a perfect film by any means, and more aimed at a younger audience I suspect, I found Time Trap[1] to be fairly interesting overall.
Similar in theme, I also enjoyed The Endless[2].
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4815122/
[2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3986820/
Time Trap is a campy sci-fi movie that explores a similar concept, teenagers get trapped in a cave where time elapses differently. Not highly recommended, but it’s good fun.