10 Most Incredible Practical Effects In Sci-Fi Movie History

If you thought the rotating corridor in Inception is mind-blowing, try doing it with 1960s technology with one-thirteenth the budget. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has mind-blowing effects from start to finish. But it is the scene where we see an astronaut jogging on the walls of a spaceship's interior where the viewer thinks, "How the hell did they do that?" This scene is shown in an unbroken 38-second take so the audience doesn't think it is a simple camera trick (even though it totally is).

To achieve this shot, Kubrick had the actor run on a circular treadmill (although everyone called it The Hamster Wheel) and rotated it around the camera to give the illusion the astronaut was defying gravity. Nothing like this had ever been attempted before in a movie. At the time, it was one of the most expensive effects in the history of cinema.

It's worth mentioning that the director of Inception, Christopher Nolan, said that Stanley Kubrick was his favourite director and he looked to his films for inspiration, especially while making Interstellar. Speaking of which...