Ah, Event Horizon, it's like "Alien" meets "The Shining" meets "Hellraiser". Great cast, an interesting premise, a very solid horror movie through and through.
It's also extremely well filmed, had a top notch crew working it. The sets are phenomenal and huge. And visual effects were cutting edge for the day. There is a 30ft long model of the ship they used for incredible shots of it. And what a ship design that is too. Everything about it is designed to be unsettling. And it works.
When the engineers were building this ship in the shipyard, I guess they were like “so a whole crew of people are gonna work and live on this ship? Then we should make the interior look as unsettling and anxiety inducing as possible!”
The interior and exterior design for the ship was inspired by the Notre Dame Cathedral, hence the archways in some of the rooms and the cross shape of the ship. Not sure any real engineer would be like "Oh yeah, this is an approriate design for a spaceship!". Or maybe they thought if they were going to go to Hell, might as well by in a flying cathedral!
@@Blackhawks19_xx ..... probably for movie's ship context of functionality those spike like protrusion are what relays some kind of data input towards the rotating orb of dimensional jumping gateway. Hence why the walls are inward spherical too.
"So, what did you guys land on as the design for the warp drive?" "Literal portal to hell." "With the extra spikes package?" "You know it!" "Solid choice, that'll make everyone happy!"
They were going to make a “Director’s Cut,” but the footage went missing/was destroyed, so this version of the film is all we have. One of my favorite horror films ever!
When they showed the original film, uncut, to test audiences, they were horrified; forcing the director to cut a lot of it out for this version we now have. I could only imagine how amazing it was. They were the lucky ones who got to see it.
I remember reading something about it, I think there was a mention of the scene with the original crew mutilating one another, that it was WAY longer and more graphic in that original material.
Yes! so happy you're doing this one. Gotta love Sam Neill. people don't think of him as a horror actor but he's been in three of my absolute favourites. Event Horizon, Possession and one that noboby ever reacts to but I wish you would, John Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness. Trippy lovecraftian movie within a movie.
In the Mouth of Madness is one of the only movies I've ever seen that genuinely frightened me. It shatters the fourth wall in a REALLY disconcerting way.
I was a projectionist and booth manager back when films were on actual 35mm film. We had to assemble adds, policies, trailers plus the actual film. We then had to screen it for problems in the middle of the night. We had to watch everything go through if we wanted to or not. Needless to say I've seen countless horror movies but this was the first film I ever turned the house lights back up to preview level and sat on the back row. I hardly slept that night and when the downstairs manager arrived the next day he took one look at me and said Damn, you look like Hell. He watched it and had trouble sleeping the next 3 nights.
I cannot imagine watching this alone in a dark theater in the middle of the night haha. Now I kinda hope I find a lonely retrospective showing sometime soon just to challenge myself...
When your airlock has the "Inner door" and "Outer door" open buttons right next to each other without so much as an "Are you sure?" prompt, you pretty much have it coming. Anything.
LOL, that reminds me of the series of "That Mitchell and Webb Look" sketches about a Bond-supervillain type having to account for things like health & safety and building codes. All of it's well-worth a look, for any who haven't seen it, especially if you like absurdist satirical British humor.
what I love about this movie is that given the time it came out in 97 the "space horror" genre was all aliens and monsters so it is easy to make those assumptions when watching and yet as the film goes further and further on each assumption you make is blasted to pieces leaving you like the crew having to scramble to work out whats going on and thats why the horror is so effective.
Kat: "He looks like one of the Cenobites from Hellraiser, right?" Event Horizon: "I have such wonderful, wonderful things to show you" Hellraiser: "We have such sights to show you" There's no Event Horizon 2, but there is a video game series called Dead Space that takes a number of cues from this as well as other movies you've seen now.
Sam Neill’s screaming in this flick is epic. That alone makes it worth watching. I keep hearing the “lost footage” segment had a ton of film lost due to storage conditions.
yeah they had to cut a lot to get this into theaterical release. Its sad that footage was lost. I would have literally given one of my kidney to see Director´s cut version of this film.
Rumor has it that Paul Anderson cast a group of adult film performers to film the "Hell Ship" scenes, and most of what was filmed was unsuitable for release, even with an NC-17 rating.
The edits are often overstated. There's a deleted briefing scene at the beginning of the movie, which is semi redundant to the final version of the film, because they play the distress call in the briefing scene. Dr. Weir insists that he has to go on the mission, and we learn that he's basically be disgraced ever since. On boarding the Event Horizon they find a tooth attached to its root. This was cut for pacing, and to give the bridge scene with the corpsicle and the blood on the wall maximum effect. They also cut out the pay off from the Hell orgy where we see a man get a hammer to the back of the head and his teeth getting punched out. The porn stars are still in the movie as the old crew. The Hell orgy seen is still there, but it featured a few more brief cuts. More explicitly shot of the woman doing doggy to the man that we can see... She's shoving a metal rod up his rectum. Another member of the crew gets hit int he back of the head with a hammer and nail, and his teeth get punched out the front of his mouth. We get a longer shot of the woman eating the man's living out of his belly. (She was supposed to be riding him cow girl, but there's no way for that to logistically work.) The guy ripping his guts out of his mouth was originally a few moments longer. The "Images from Hell" hallucinations were longer by a few seconds. They were never "minutes and minutes" longer like people claim. They were always intended to be flashes of violent and grotesque imagery, almost painterly in their composition (and if you freeze frame them, there are some very potent images in there.) There were more scenes featuring the Weir Beast, when the tank explodes in the grav-couch bay, he was supposed to crawl out and down the ladder. There were some bits and pieces of dialogue that were cut or trimmed from the workprint. People who claim there were "20 minutes of gore" cut... No. There was never 20 minutes of good. Maybe a total of 20 minutes worth of scenes, trims, and some gore elements. They didn't cut entire sequences like so many people seem to think. When it came to the rating they trimmed, sometimes, just a few frames off the ends of shots. The other concern was runtime. Shorter run time = more screenings per day.
I watched Event Horizon in the theater. I saw people walk out because they couldn't handle the gore. It may be a flawed movie, but I absolutely love it.
Yeah, there’s a story about the test screening where a couple of execs left the room because they couldn’t handle it. Afterwards the studio was “we can’t release this in this format!” Supposed to be about 20mins cut gore footage out there somewhere but no one can find it anymore. Anderson’s best film by far. Great reaction as always Kat. You’re quite hilarious 😂
That trope with folding space and using a magazine to demonstrate is so tired at this point. I suppose when this came out it had only been done a couple times, but now it's like "no, please, not the folded paper explanation again.".
Guy who plays the character who puts Latin in the special skills section of his resume is Jason Isaacs. You might know him better as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, or as Captain Lorca on Star Trek: Discovery. Despite having a small part here, I think he does a pretty good job.
You can usually tell whether Isaacs is a good guy or bad guy based on the length of his hair. In this movie, he has short hair and is a good guy: Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter: long hair, bad guy. American military officers in Fury and Black Hawk Down: buzz cut or shaved head, good guys. Colonel Tavington in The Patriot: long hair, bad guy. Mr. Darling in Peter Pan: short hair, good guy. Captain Hook ALSO in Peter Pan: long hair, bad guy. Crazy, isn't it?
It's a bit convoluted to explain, but many fans of Warhammer 40, 000 consider this movie unofficially a part of the 40,000 history. Basically, there is a parallel reality inhabited by demonic "Chaos" in Warhammer 40,000 which is very similar to what they encountered in this movie.
There is a sci-fi property called "Warhammer 40000" or WH40k that has a concept of an alternate dimension called The Warp which is infested with demons and all manner of evil spiritual entities- The Warp is used as a conduit for travel and various devices exist that prevent weird things from happening while you're travelling through it, but things were not always so well understood- and it is common to consider this film as a sort of unofficial canon to WH40k as far as Warp travel without those safety devices present or the dangers of the Warp known.
Ah. Back in the late nineties, I found this movie on tv. I was like, “Oh, I like scary movies. I remember a promo for this.” I was between the ages of 13 and 15, and I think I spent half the movie hiding behind the couch.
Hello Kat, great channel. I’m one of the silent ones, who avoids dropping comments. But I’ve been waiting for you to watch Event Horizon for ages. Really enjoyed this one. Thanks for letting me re-watch these old movies with you.
I love this film! A great Sci fi horror AND the only place you can find Morpheus, Alan Grant, Lucius Malfoy and the Sarge from Dog Soldiers in the same room! Did you do Dog Soldiers yet? A great indie horror from the UK. Great reaction Kat, lively and entertaining as always 👍👏
What's really sad is the directors cut was lost and hasn't been recovered. It had I think 7 to 10 more minutes of what happened to the original crew on it. But the executives saw it as to grotesque and required the scene to be shortened.
The story behind that is wild. Apparently it was a lot longer, like 30-40 minutes longer. And so intense and gory some test audience members were fainting. And it also gave exposition on crew members greatest fears, that of course end up happening to the crew members, like vivisection, etc. So anyway, what they cut was stored in a salt mine in Transylvania for whatever reason, and had degraded to unusability by the time it got popular enough to warrant a directors cut, so we'll probably never get to see the original.
That end credit music is so late 90s it whiplashed me right back into high school. I gotta go check and see if I somehow still have an old pair of Jncos in storage.
Great pick this week, a real cult classic. A couple of recommendations: Evil Dead (2013), Bandersnatch (Netflix, 2018), Smile (2022), The VVitch (2015), In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
What always gets me is the scary reveal that the event horizon didn’t get sent to another point in space but rather it went to hell itself actual hell where all is evil and agonizing pain and somehow the ship grew a consciousness and it brought back a piece of hell itself, that ship is absolute evil traveling through space
Absolutely one of my favorite horror movies! The premise really is, "van breaks down near the haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere". Obviously the cast if fantastic, but one of the last few movies to use mostly practical effects before CGI took over the industry. I've seen the behind the scenes, and the Event Horizon itself is like 50 feet long. So glad you enjoyed it!
One thing I remember from this movie is the auditory jump scares - sudden loud sounds at scary moments. It was too loud. Maybe it was the movie theater doing it, or something in their speaker volume settings?
The trailers for this rode on the current popularity in space films due to special effects and made it seem like an adventure/mystery. I grew out of horror films and was not expecting this to go that route. If I had known before, this wouldn't have left a taste in my mouth that time never cleansed.
I love Laurence Fishburne's character in this movie. He sees the fucked up video and immediately just says "we're leaving" haha it's what we are all thinking
Great reaction. One of my favorite horror movies. Another great Sam Neill horror/thriller is 'In the Mouth of Madness' also directed by John Carpenter (The Thing).
7:32 Viewers: That move took years to perfect on top of a mountain in the Himalayas. Don't let anyone fool you. This is a highly esoteric martial art form. She may deny the years of training but believe me, this is no ordinary Reactor.
Oooooh!!!! Nice! Can’t wait to watch this tonight after work. Plans have been made and are set! Please keep them coming! Your reactions are such a breath of fresh air; and you are super funny! Hubs and I enjoy watching your channel 😉
Cool fact...I met the father of the actor who plays "Smitty" the pilot (Sean Pertwee)! Yep, it was Jon Pertwee (aka the third "Doctor" of Dr. Who series)! There was a Dr. Who exhibition thing in Birmingham, Ala., in around 1983 or so. I was only about 12, but always regretted being so shy, and not starting a conversation with him.
"Event Horizon" is what you'd get if "The Shining" and "Hellraiser" had a baby together, and that baby happened to be a space ship at the edge of the solar system. Great movie, and the second DVD I ever bought (after "The Sixth Sense"). Like a lot of cult classics, it underperformed at the box office, but was discovered by millions of fans after the fact.
glad you watched this movie. it was basically a haunted house in space and pretty good imo. great cast that performed well i thought fun fact they cut the scene of the crew after the jump as too disturbing and the footage was destroyed at some point so it couldn't be restored when they made a director's cut.
See how much more effective jump-scares are when they're EARNED? The atmosphere, and, build up makes each one that much scarier. James Wan could learn a thing, or, two from this movie.
Kat: “The Event’s Over, Horizon!!!” [Then looks to the camera with a smug look of self satisfaction, as if to say, “See what I did there?”, pretending that she hasn’t spent last 2 hours screaming about doors opening in routine fashion.] Classic Kat.
The life force in the ship exploits the vulnerabilities of those within it. Weir wasn't an "evil" person when he arrived at the Event Horizon, but he was perhaps the most damaged member of the crew. He's haunted by guilt over the loss of his wife, and of course as a scientist his worldview has no room for the supernatural, so he's thrust into a situation he literally can't comprehend. But the horizon is the culmination of his life's work, so he is desperate to save it. This makes him the most vulnerable and easiest to exploit. Captain Miller by comparison has baggage from his past too, but he has an incredibly strong will. Peters, as a divorced mother of a special needs child, who suffers guilt at being separated from him, was also basically killed by the ship exploiting those emotions. While the ship terrifies other members of the crew, it can't do much to them without a possessed "agent" which is what Weir ends up becoming.
Such a great movie, like yes there are jumps cares, but the horror of the movie doesn't rely on it. The mere feeling of being trapped on a ship that went to a new universe, and see all your crew/friend brutally disappear at the hands of that first new discovered universe wich happens to be litteral hell! I mean common. .. This is one of the best horror movie of all time imo.
Some friends of mine went to the cinema to see this as they thought it was a sci-fi film - it scared the hell out of them, they were really glad it was still day light when it had finished.
This looks a lot better than I remembered it. First and only Horror movie I turned off while watching in 1998 and have not revisited. Not out of fear, but out of disgust. 🤣
My dad took me to theaters to see this as I was a kid, to say this movie invoked a deep rooted disturbed mind was an understatement, I couldn't sleep for a week straight, had nightmares, nothing else has ever done that for me like this movie did, I don't know why, like the eyeless scenes were just, the scariest thing that can ever be shown in any movie, eyeless corpse looking things nah man
Seeing people react to this is always gold. It's so great seeing Dr. Alan Grant be evil in the prequel to Warhammer 40k. Dead Space is the unofficial video game adaptation/sequel of Event Horizon.
This movie used to be some 30 minutes longer detailing dr grant’s transformation and a blood orgy but the footage has since rotted away in a Romanian salt mine
The Concept of "Folding Space" has been the Basis for many Sci-Fi Movies and TV Shows (Like Star Trek and Lost in Space). Einstein even had a Model of the Concept (that grid that had the vortex in the center. Most every Technical Thing you see in the Movies has been Theorised by Scientists in one way or Another.
Love this movie, genuinely unsettling and so much better than Anderson's later work on AvP. Fun fact though: DJ (Jason Isaacs, well known for playing Malfoy Snr in the HP series) took the dummy of his evicerated corpse home after filming wrapped and hung it in his study at home.
Smitty (Sean Pertwee) has another horror movie out you might like called "Dog Soldiers" from 2002. You might put that on your list. I think it might have a jump scare or two in it for you.
First of all, damn it you are so good at this. Second, I watched this movie when it was brand new, and about 10 more times after that. It never crossed my mind that perhaps it was all planned by him, creating the ship and everything else, with the goal of opening such a permanent gate. I am not saying that's what it is, but it is an interesting look at it. I always thought of it as a "happy accident" that the drive did this.
I bought this when it came out on DVD and watched it blind. I loved the exterior design of the Event Horizon but once they entered it I was immediately afraid. Brilliant Sci-Fi Horror film!
7:13 Excellent Wing Chun form ! Bruce Lee would be proud ! 7:26 Now you're making...a...a pizza? 20:55 There was a LOT more footage that was supposed to be there but the studio wouldn't let them put it in because it was so graphic, they wouldn't even let them include it in the DVD extras. Apparently there were a lot of very realistic eviscerations, etc. 26:16 Meh, He's Lucius Malfoy, he deserves it. 34:18 That's The Prodigy - Funky Sh*t, was so cool to hear them as a movie theme. (RIP Keef)
A few months after my father passed away i saw an old man walking ahead of me. He looked alot like my dad from the back. I knew my dad was dead of course but i couldn't help myself following him
26:26 The unfinished tic tac toe and hangman, that’s the true horror of this movie. Oh and the udder waste of cow, can’t forget that heifer, thanks for donating, RIP.
When this film came out I was a young soldier and when I saw the uniformed crewmen of that rescue ship I remember thinking "I should have joined the Air Force so I can get on something like that by the time I retire." But you know, these guys didn't end up so well. Taco Salad every day in the DFAC ain't worth that.
Yes... and yes. Strong links between this film and Hellraizer. Also In the Mouth of Madness would be fun, as part of a lovecraft fueled moviethon. it's part of the unofficial apocalypse movie trilogy. First is The Thing, then Prince of Darkness, and finally In the Mouth of Madness.
This is one of my favorite films of all time. And I give you mad respect Kat, because editing this review must have been tough. As graphic as this film gets, you did a great job getting around TH-cam restrictions. Thank you for all your hard work on this channel.
as scientists on mars, with teleportation experiments, had the displeasure to experience, this crew caught a glimpse into the eye of terror, but only tens of thousands of years later the horror will manifest itself in its full evil...
It's been a while since I have watched this movie, but seeing it again with your reaction makes it fun again! I am very happy that I have found your channel - it makes all others pale in comparison!
My favourite horror movie and the one that freaked me out the most out of all I've seen. For more Sam Neill in horror, check out The Omen 3 (after watching the first 2 of course). The are many fan theories on the web on how Event Horizon links to both the Hellraiser and Warhammer 40k universes. Thanks for a(nother) great reaction.
I watched this movie as a kid and I have not been able to watch it since. I haven't even bothered! This is as close as I will ge to it. The main thing I remember is bawling my eyes out about Baby Bear. 😭
Ah, Event Horizon, it's like "Alien" meets "The Shining" meets "Hellraiser".
Great cast, an interesting premise, a very solid horror movie through and through.
It's my favorite Warhammer 40k movie 😂
I consider it to be the best Hellraiser sequel.
@@Dudeamis17 No Hellraiser, is Warhammer 40 000
This is like going cave diving before SCUBA was invented.
It's also extremely well filmed, had a top notch crew working it. The sets are phenomenal and huge. And visual effects were cutting edge for the day. There is a 30ft long model of the ship they used for incredible shots of it. And what a ship design that is too. Everything about it is designed to be unsettling. And it works.
"The event's over... *Horizon*.."
Looks at camera with a mixture of confidence and regret.
Kat.. please never change.
When the engineers were building this ship in the shipyard, I guess they were like “so a whole crew of people are gonna work and live on this ship? Then we should make the interior look as unsettling and anxiety inducing as possible!”
The interior and exterior design for the ship was inspired by the Notre Dame Cathedral, hence the archways in some of the rooms and the cross shape of the ship. Not sure any real engineer would be like "Oh yeah, this is an approriate design for a spaceship!". Or maybe they thought if they were going to go to Hell, might as well by in a flying cathedral!
“Oh also we’re gonna build an entire room with spikes protruding from the walls”
@@Blackhawks19_xx ..... probably for movie's ship context of functionality those spike like protrusion are what relays some kind of data input towards the rotating orb of dimensional jumping gateway. Hence why the walls are inward spherical too.
I'm betting the ship's interior and such looked normal before it went through the Warp.
Honestly I'd take ride. And leave before they test the drive of course.
This film is the prime example of what happens when the Gellar field fails.
"So, what did you guys land on as the design for the warp drive?"
"Literal portal to hell."
"With the extra spikes package?"
"You know it!"
"Solid choice, that'll make everyone happy!"
"Eh, but it's great an' all, but I think it could use less eyes."
They were going to make a “Director’s Cut,” but the footage went missing/was destroyed, so this version of the film is all we have. One of my favorite horror films ever!
The place the footage was stored wasn't sufficiently sealed so moisture, etc. got in.
I remeber watching this as a 17yo at a special screening, stoned out of my mind back then. Absolutely crazy....
When they showed the original film, uncut, to test audiences, they were horrified; forcing the director to cut a lot of it out for this version we now have. I could only imagine how amazing it was. They were the lucky ones who got to see it.
I remember reading something about it, I think there was a mention of the scene with the original crew mutilating one another, that it was WAY longer and more graphic in that original material.
the test audience were fainting@@alexhale2696
Clenched fists, speaking with loss of breath, yelling in terror & using humour to deflect fear! Yep it's another classic Kat reaction 💯
Yes! so happy you're doing this one. Gotta love Sam Neill. people don't think of him as a horror actor but he's been in three of my absolute favourites. Event Horizon, Possession and one that noboby ever reacts to but I wish you would, John Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness. Trippy lovecraftian movie within a movie.
He was also Damien as an adult in the third Omen movie.
@@Viggenpower forgot about that one!
Mouth of Madness was Dope
In the Mouth of Madness is my favorite of the trilogy! It is a shame most don't watch it over The Thing and The Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness is one of the only movies I've ever seen that genuinely frightened me. It shatters the fourth wall in a REALLY disconcerting way.
I was a projectionist and booth manager back when films were on actual 35mm film. We had to assemble adds, policies, trailers plus the actual film. We then had to screen it for problems in the middle of the night. We had to watch everything go through if we wanted to or not. Needless to say I've seen countless horror movies but this was the first film I ever turned the house lights back up to preview level and sat on the back row. I hardly slept that night and when the downstairs manager arrived the next day he took one look at me and said Damn, you look like Hell. He watched it and had trouble sleeping the next 3 nights.
I cannot imagine watching this alone in a dark theater in the middle of the night haha. Now I kinda hope I find a lonely retrospective showing sometime soon just to challenge myself...
@@jerodast400 seat auditorium in a very old 4 screen theater. The fact the theater was haunted didn't help.
When your airlock has the "Inner door" and "Outer door" open buttons right next to each other without so much as an "Are you sure?" prompt, you pretty much have it coming. Anything.
LOL, that reminds me of the series of "That Mitchell and Webb Look" sketches about a Bond-supervillain type having to account for things like health & safety and building codes. All of it's well-worth a look, for any who haven't seen it, especially if you like absurdist satirical British humor.
Miller's deadpan line, after seeing the blood orgy, of "We're leaving. " is the funniest line in the movie. 😮
what I love about this movie is that given the time it came out in 97 the "space horror" genre was all aliens and monsters so it is easy to make those assumptions when watching and yet as the film goes further and further on each assumption you make is blasted to pieces leaving you like the crew having to scramble to work out whats going on and thats why the horror is so effective.
Kat: "He looks like one of the Cenobites from Hellraiser, right?"
Event Horizon: "I have such wonderful, wonderful things to show you"
Hellraiser: "We have such sights to show you"
There's no Event Horizon 2, but there is a video game series called Dead Space that takes a number of cues from this as well as other movies you've seen now.
Sam Neill’s screaming in this flick is epic. That alone makes it worth watching.
I keep hearing the “lost footage” segment had a ton of film lost due to storage conditions.
yeah they had to cut a lot to get this into theaterical release. Its sad that footage was lost. I would have literally given one of my kidney to see Director´s cut version of this film.
@@thejamppa for reeaal, super underrated cult film that could have potentially been even better/more fleshed out
@@mediumvillain It is not underrated...every reaction has tons of people gushing over how great it is.
Rumor has it that Paul Anderson cast a group of adult film performers to film the "Hell Ship" scenes, and most of what was filmed was unsuitable for release, even with an NC-17 rating.
The edits are often overstated.
There's a deleted briefing scene at the beginning of the movie, which is semi redundant to the final version of the film, because they play the distress call in the briefing scene. Dr. Weir insists that he has to go on the mission, and we learn that he's basically be disgraced ever since.
On boarding the Event Horizon they find a tooth attached to its root. This was cut for pacing, and to give the bridge scene with the corpsicle and the blood on the wall maximum effect. They also cut out the pay off from the Hell orgy where we see a man get a hammer to the back of the head and his teeth getting punched out.
The porn stars are still in the movie as the old crew. The Hell orgy seen is still there, but it featured a few more brief cuts.
More explicitly shot of the woman doing doggy to the man that we can see... She's shoving a metal rod up his rectum.
Another member of the crew gets hit int he back of the head with a hammer and nail, and his teeth get punched out the front of his mouth.
We get a longer shot of the woman eating the man's living out of his belly. (She was supposed to be riding him cow girl, but there's no way for that to logistically work.)
The guy ripping his guts out of his mouth was originally a few moments longer.
The "Images from Hell" hallucinations were longer by a few seconds. They were never "minutes and minutes" longer like people claim. They were always intended to be flashes of violent and grotesque imagery, almost painterly in their composition (and if you freeze frame them, there are some very potent images in there.)
There were more scenes featuring the Weir Beast, when the tank explodes in the grav-couch bay, he was supposed to crawl out and down the ladder.
There were some bits and pieces of dialogue that were cut or trimmed from the workprint.
People who claim there were "20 minutes of gore" cut... No. There was never 20 minutes of good. Maybe a total of 20 minutes worth of scenes, trims, and some gore elements. They didn't cut entire sequences like so many people seem to think. When it came to the rating they trimmed, sometimes, just a few frames off the ends of shots. The other concern was runtime. Shorter run time = more screenings per day.
I watched Event Horizon in the theater. I saw people walk out because they couldn't handle the gore. It may be a flawed movie, but I absolutely love it.
and that was the CUT version the other version is far far more
@@Greenwood4727 all that lost footage. Even the discovered clips don't cover the insanity that was originally filmed.
Yeah, there’s a story about the test screening where a couple of execs left the room because they couldn’t handle it. Afterwards the studio was “we can’t release this in this format!” Supposed to be about 20mins cut gore footage out there somewhere but no one can find it anymore.
Anderson’s best film by far.
Great reaction as always Kat. You’re quite hilarious 😂
That trope with folding space and using a magazine to demonstrate is so tired at this point. I suppose when this came out it had only been done a couple times, but now it's like "no, please, not the folded paper explanation again.".
My sister and I convinced my best friends mom to let him watch this movie with us. Unbeknownst to us, it was his first R movie. Lol.
Guy who plays the character who puts Latin in the special skills section of his resume is Jason Isaacs. You might know him better as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, or as Captain Lorca on Star Trek: Discovery. Despite having a small part here, I think he does a pretty good job.
You can usually tell whether Isaacs is a good guy or bad guy based on the length of his hair. In this movie, he has short hair and is a good guy:
Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter: long hair, bad guy.
American military officers in Fury and Black Hawk Down: buzz cut or shaved head, good guys.
Colonel Tavington in The Patriot: long hair, bad guy.
Mr. Darling in Peter Pan: short hair, good guy.
Captain Hook ALSO in Peter Pan: long hair, bad guy.
Crazy, isn't it?
@@stevenhenry9605 It's like Christopher Lloyd. His hair length is proportional to the craziness of the character :D
@@stevenhenry9605 Longish hair in Baldurs Gate 3: Very Bad guy.
It's a bit convoluted to explain, but many fans of Warhammer 40, 000 consider this movie unofficially a part of the 40,000 history. Basically, there is a parallel reality inhabited by demonic "Chaos" in Warhammer 40,000 which is very similar to what they encountered in this movie.
I fucking LOVE this movie!!
I actually have a friend who can't/won't watch any more Sam Neill movies EVER because of this movie lol
There is a sci-fi property called "Warhammer 40000" or WH40k that has a concept of an alternate dimension called The Warp which is infested with demons and all manner of evil spiritual entities- The Warp is used as a conduit for travel and various devices exist that prevent weird things from happening while you're travelling through it, but things were not always so well understood- and it is common to consider this film as a sort of unofficial canon to WH40k as far as Warp travel without those safety devices present or the dangers of the Warp known.
Weir invented the Warp drive, but forgot to invent the Gellar field.
@@erikbjelke4411
That would come thousands of years later.
The film was at least partially inspired by W40k so.
"Break his arm" with the same tone as Palpatine saying "Kill him, do it now"
A person watching a scary movie with you is going to get a bunch of bruises from all the punching you do Kat 🤣
Eleven events out of ten horizons. Well said. 🤘🏼
"We're leaving." Best. Line. Ever.
You remind me a lot of my mother when we watched horror movies together. She always had a great sense of humor watching something that she hated.
Some serious Kat Fu in this one. Great reaction, so much fun!
I love those trademark kat karate moves
"We're leaving!"
Yup
The end.
Ah. Back in the late nineties, I found this movie on tv. I was like, “Oh, I like scary movies. I remember a promo for this.”
I was between the ages of 13 and 15, and I think I spent half the movie hiding behind the couch.
Haha yeah and Kat's reaction is just like Eleanors.
Me having watched Aliens at the age of 6, this one was still kinda scary at times.
Hello Kat, great channel. I’m one of the silent ones, who avoids dropping comments. But I’ve been waiting for you to watch Event Horizon for ages. Really enjoyed this one.
Thanks for letting me re-watch these old movies with you.
I love this film! A great Sci fi horror AND the only place you can find Morpheus, Alan Grant, Lucius Malfoy and the Sarge from Dog Soldiers in the same room! Did you do Dog Soldiers yet? A great indie horror from the UK. Great reaction Kat, lively and entertaining as always 👍👏
What's really sad is the directors cut was lost and hasn't been recovered. It had I think 7 to 10 more minutes of what happened to the original crew on it.
But the executives saw it as to grotesque and required the scene to be shortened.
The sequel we deserve but never got, Event Horizon 2: Lost Footage Of The Blood Orgy
@Anon Ymous I see what you did there.
The story behind that is wild. Apparently it was a lot longer, like 30-40 minutes longer. And so intense and gory some test audience members were fainting. And it also gave exposition on crew members greatest fears, that of course end up happening to the crew members, like vivisection, etc.
So anyway, what they cut was stored in a salt mine in Transylvania for whatever reason, and had degraded to unusability by the time it got popular enough to warrant a directors cut, so we'll probably never get to see the original.
Oh my god, yes! My fav horror paired with my new founded fav channel!
That end credit music is so late 90s it whiplashed me right back into high school.
I gotta go check and see if I somehow still have an old pair of Jncos in storage.
This movie shocked me. I had no idea what this was about but i was not expecting this😂
Great pick this week, a real cult classic. A couple of recommendations: Evil Dead (2013), Bandersnatch (Netflix, 2018), Smile (2022), The VVitch (2015), In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
I think you should compare/contrast Vampire movies next. Like “Twilight vs 30 Days of Night”, “Bram Stokers Dracula vs Dracula the Untold Story” etc
The lost boys vs queen of the damned
"He's not himself" GOLD ! My new favourite channel
What always gets me is the scary reveal that the event horizon didn’t get sent to another point in space but rather it went to hell itself actual hell where all is evil and agonizing pain and somehow the ship grew a consciousness and it brought back a piece of hell itself, that ship is absolute evil traveling through space
Absolutely one of my favorite horror movies! The premise really is, "van breaks down near the haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere". Obviously the cast if fantastic, but one of the last few movies to use mostly practical effects before CGI took over the industry. I've seen the behind the scenes, and the Event Horizon itself is like 50 feet long. So glad you enjoyed it!
“Just a little bit of blood.. what’s the problem..” the way you self-soothe 😂
One thing I remember from this movie is the auditory jump scares - sudden loud sounds at scary moments. It was too loud.
Maybe it was the movie theater doing it, or something in their speaker volume settings?
The trailers for this rode on the current popularity in space films due to special effects and made it seem like an adventure/mystery. I grew out of horror films and was not expecting this to go that route. If I had known before, this wouldn't have left a taste in my mouth that time never cleansed.
I love Laurence Fishburne's character in this movie. He sees the fucked up video and immediately just says "we're leaving" haha it's what we are all thinking
Great reaction. One of my favorite horror movies. Another great Sam Neill horror/thriller is 'In the Mouth of Madness' also directed by John Carpenter (The Thing).
7:32 Viewers: That move took years to perfect on top of a mountain in the Himalayas. Don't let anyone fool you. This is a highly esoteric martial art form. She may deny the years of training but believe me, this is no ordinary Reactor.
Oooooh!!!! Nice! Can’t wait to watch this tonight after work. Plans have been made and are set!
Please keep them coming! Your reactions are such a breath of fresh air; and you are super funny! Hubs and I enjoy watching your channel 😉
"Feels like he should still be sleeping. Shut your eyes".
Where he's sleeping, he won't need eyes to sleep.
One of the cool things of this movie is the realism of the scene when justin goes out the airlock.
It's so cool to see people that don't LOVE horror truly appreciate it. Incredible movie for sure, will last the test of time.
Cool fact...I met the father of the actor who plays "Smitty" the pilot (Sean Pertwee)! Yep, it was Jon Pertwee (aka the third "Doctor" of Dr. Who series)! There was a Dr. Who exhibition thing in Birmingham, Ala., in around 1983 or so. I was only about 12, but always regretted being so shy, and not starting a conversation with him.
I worked with Sean Pertwee in 2010. We discussed Event Horizon over a few drinks.
"Event Horizon" is what you'd get if "The Shining" and "Hellraiser" had a baby together, and that baby happened to be a space ship at the edge of the solar system. Great movie, and the second DVD I ever bought (after "The Sixth Sense"). Like a lot of cult classics, it underperformed at the box office, but was discovered by millions of fans after the fact.
The guy who had a nightmare is also Damian Thorn in the omen part 3! There are four parts to these movies!
glad you watched this movie. it was basically a haunted house in space and pretty good imo. great cast that performed well i thought
fun fact they cut the scene of the crew after the jump as too disturbing and the footage was destroyed at some point so it couldn't be restored when they made a director's cut.
One of my all-time favs, and, Paul W.S. Anderson's one good film.
See how much more effective jump-scares are when they're EARNED? The atmosphere, and, build up makes each one that much scarier. James Wan could learn a thing, or, two from this movie.
My day in now complete, the music at the end credits is by the prodigy
The front section of the Event Horizon is Isaac's helmet in Dead Space.
There's a Low key Horror Movie from 1986 that would be appropriate for an upcoming Holiday. 1986's "April Fools Day" With Deborah Foreman.
Kat: “The Event’s Over, Horizon!!!” [Then looks to the camera with a smug look of self satisfaction, as if to say, “See what I did there?”, pretending that she hasn’t spent last 2 hours screaming about doors opening in routine fashion.]
Classic Kat.
The life force in the ship exploits the vulnerabilities of those within it. Weir wasn't an "evil" person when he arrived at the Event Horizon, but he was perhaps the most damaged member of the crew. He's haunted by guilt over the loss of his wife, and of course as a scientist his worldview has no room for the supernatural, so he's thrust into a situation he literally can't comprehend. But the horizon is the culmination of his life's work, so he is desperate to save it.
This makes him the most vulnerable and easiest to exploit. Captain Miller by comparison has baggage from his past too, but he has an incredibly strong will. Peters, as a divorced mother of a special needs child, who suffers guilt at being separated from him, was also basically killed by the ship exploiting those emotions. While the ship terrifies other members of the crew, it can't do much to them without a possessed "agent" which is what Weir ends up becoming.
Such a great movie, like yes there are jumps cares, but the horror of the movie doesn't rely on it. The mere feeling of being trapped on a ship that went to a new universe, and see all your crew/friend brutally disappear at the hands of that first new discovered universe wich happens to be litteral hell! I mean common. .. This is one of the best horror movie of all time imo.
Some friends of mine went to the cinema to see this as they thought it was a sci-fi film - it scared the hell out of them, they were really glad it was still day light when it had finished.
Thanks to Lawrence Fishburn's heroic sacrifice only half the ship got sucked off through a hole.
This looks a lot better than I remembered it. First and only Horror movie I turned off while watching in 1998 and have not revisited. Not out of fear, but out of disgust. 🤣
21:05 - "Eyes eyes baby... to hold, to hold"
My dad took me to theaters to see this as I was a kid, to say this movie invoked a deep rooted disturbed mind was an understatement, I couldn't sleep for a week straight, had nightmares, nothing else has ever done that for me like this movie did, I don't know why, like the eyeless scenes were just, the scariest thing that can ever be shown in any movie, eyeless corpse looking things nah man
Bloody love your reactions 😀 you should also watch Dog Soldiers 👍
Seeing people react to this is always gold. It's so great seeing Dr. Alan Grant be evil in the prequel to Warhammer 40k. Dead Space is the unofficial video game adaptation/sequel of Event Horizon.
Welcome to the wonderful world of JUMP SCARES! Enjoy your stay.
This movie used to be some 30 minutes longer detailing dr grant’s transformation and a blood orgy but the footage has since rotted away in a Romanian salt mine
A big bucket of popcorn that would end up on the floor. Watching a movie with you would be so much fun 🤣
The Concept of "Folding Space" has been the Basis for many Sci-Fi Movies and TV Shows (Like Star Trek and Lost in Space). Einstein even had a Model of the Concept (that grid that had the vortex in the center. Most every Technical Thing you see in the Movies has been Theorised by Scientists in one way or Another.
Kat has epic final-girl energy.
Get em Kat!
Great video as always Kat. The end Bop is by The Prodigy-Funky Shit FYI xx
Love this movie, genuinely unsettling and so much better than Anderson's later work on AvP.
Fun fact though: DJ (Jason Isaacs, well known for playing Malfoy Snr in the HP series) took the dummy of his evicerated corpse home after filming wrapped and hung it in his study at home.
Smitty (Sean Pertwee) has another horror movie out you might like called "Dog Soldiers" from 2002. You might put that on your list. I think it might have a jump scare or two in it for you.
I was once asked to babysit my nephews. We watched this move. It's been 10 years and I've never been asked to babysit again.
First of all, damn it you are so good at this.
Second, I watched this movie when it was brand new, and about 10 more times after that.
It never crossed my mind that perhaps it was all planned by him, creating the ship and everything else, with the goal of opening such a permanent gate.
I am not saying that's what it is, but it is an interesting look at it.
I always thought of it as a "happy accident" that the drive did this.
One of my favorite Sci-Fi movies.
That was an amazing one-liner you came up with!!
This was the absolute scariest movie I ever saw in theaters. Only time in my life I left the theater physically shaking
Kat you would be so fun to take to a movie! Awesome reactions!
I bought this when it came out on DVD and watched it blind. I loved the exterior design of the Event Horizon but once they entered it I was immediately afraid. Brilliant Sci-Fi Horror film!
7:13 Excellent Wing Chun form ! Bruce Lee would be proud ! 7:26 Now you're making...a...a pizza?
20:55 There was a LOT more footage that was supposed to be there but the studio wouldn't let them put it in because it was so graphic, they wouldn't even let them include it in the DVD extras. Apparently there were a lot of very realistic eviscerations, etc.
26:16 Meh, He's Lucius Malfoy, he deserves it.
34:18 That's The Prodigy - Funky Sh*t, was so cool to hear them as a movie theme. (RIP Keef)
The event's over.... horizon [eye contact] cracked me up. Dropped it like a detective 3 days before retirement.
"We are leaving!". Smartest decision by any commander in any movie ever. Too bad it was too late.
Have not even watched the reaction...but I am soooooo excited to see you do this already...HERE WE GOOOO!
Their whole ship blew it's system during the gravity drive thingy with Justin that's why they didn't get back on the ship
If I ever heard a "don't go there, nope nope nope" message then the message they received from the ship was probably just that xD
A few months after my father passed away i saw an old man walking ahead of me. He looked alot like my dad from the back. I knew my dad was dead of course but i couldn't help myself following him
26:26 The unfinished tic tac toe and hangman, that’s the true horror of this movie.
Oh and the udder waste of cow, can’t forget that heifer, thanks for donating, RIP.
When this film came out I was a young soldier and when I saw the uniformed crewmen of that rescue ship I remember thinking "I should have joined the Air Force so I can get on something like that by the time I retire." But you know, these guys didn't end up so well. Taco Salad every day in the DFAC ain't worth that.
Yes... and yes. Strong links between this film and Hellraizer. Also In the Mouth of Madness would be fun, as part of a lovecraft fueled moviethon. it's part of the unofficial apocalypse movie trilogy. First is The Thing, then Prince of Darkness, and finally In the Mouth of Madness.
This is one of my favorite films of all time. And I give you mad respect Kat, because editing this review must have been tough. As graphic as this film gets, you did a great job getting around TH-cam restrictions. Thank you for all your hard work on this channel.
Sam Neil also did a terrifying John Carpenter movie!
as scientists on mars, with teleportation experiments, had the displeasure to experience, this crew caught a glimpse into the eye of terror, but only tens of thousands of years later the horror will manifest itself in its full evil...
34:22 "Funky Shit" by The Prodigy.
It's been a while since I have watched this movie, but seeing it again with your reaction makes it fun again!
I am very happy that I have found your channel - it makes all others pale in comparison!
My favourite horror movie and the one that freaked me out the most out of all I've seen. For more Sam Neill in horror, check out The Omen 3 (after watching the first 2 of course).
The are many fan theories on the web on how Event Horizon links to both the Hellraiser and Warhammer 40k universes.
Thanks for a(nother) great reaction.
I watched this movie as a kid and I have not been able to watch it since. I haven't even bothered! This is as close as I will ge to it. The main thing I remember is bawling my eyes out about Baby Bear. 😭
2:41 "Someone needs to oil the doors on this ship"
I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40