Fun fact, it was supposed to be more gruesome ! But between test audiences and the producers upon pre-screening they said ," dial it back a little bit " . Would you believe the cut footage was stored in a salt mine in Transylvania !!! 😂 Don't believe me ? Well then believe The Drinker , "BELIEVE THAT" ! 😅 th-cam.com/video/XNdUDLvvNR4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ude4UEnyDmN-Hd1l
In the theater, the whole audience erupted in laughter because everyone was thinking the same thing. Rarely does a film know exactly what emotion it will evoke from it's audience so effectively.
@@archangel0891 _Starship Troopers_ predates WH40K by 28 years, and while it's reasonable to think that WH40K's creators might have read it, there's no way to know without asking them.
Fun story. I met Sean Pertwee at London Comic Con in 2010. I took my limited set (case looks like the hull of the Event Horizon) for him to sign. When I handed it to him he looked at it in shock and said "Where the F*CK did you get this?" He explained that he asked for EVERY version of the film from Director Paul Anderson and to that moment he thought he had. When I said I got it in Asda (UK Walmart) with my groceries it didnt make matters better. He texted Paul Anderson mid-meet about the set. First celeb id ever pissed off. Just last week Sean was here in Scotland at a con with Simon Pegg & Sean Gunn. My boy was at the con and went to see Sean Pertwee to sign his Gotham set. My kid brought up the meet in 2010 and no he didnt remember my face but he remembered the meet at the set. They had a laugh about it and how pissed he was and to this day he still doesnt have that version of Event Horizon😂
That's exactly what I thought when I saw this movie back in 1997: it's a mix of 2010 (a team is sent to find a lost spaceship), Hellraiser, Stargate and the video game Doom (the portal leading directly to hell). It is a shame that the footage with the gore scenes that were eliminated from the final cut due to pressure from the studio is completely lost.
@@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc Not Stargate. Warhammer 40k. One of the people working on the movie confirmed it. Faster than light travel means having to pass through a hell dimension. Except you would have things much worse than the cenobites doing that sort of thing to the crew.
@@TheGoIsWin21 Having some real trouble here remembering other examples... Miller has got to be the best example of the Competent Protagonist. Wait! Ellen Ripley. But for real, what are some other examples?
When he said that, I said "THANK YOU!" in the theater. 😆 I saw this at least 3x in the theater because it creeped me out and gave me the chills so much, I wanted to show other people. I took two other people, separately, and I think they hated me for it 'cause it freaked them out. They looked traumatized afterward. They were like, "THAT WAS HORRIBLE!" I said, "Horrible because it's bad or horrible because it creeped you out?" They were like, "The latter," and I said "Well, then it did its job well." Another time when I said "Thank you!" was when they played the log back the first time with just the audio and the pilot, Sean Pertwee, said, "What the fucking hell was THAT?!" These are the things that make a good horror movie, when the people involved do and say what they are supposed to do in these crazy situations and it still doesn't matter. Too many times characters are written to be stupid so they can fall into whatever misfortune lies ahead. Running straight into a buzzsaw, figuratively (and sometimes literally).
It blows my fucking mind that you can casually drop "That's just like what I saw when I did Ayahusca" in EVENT FUCKING HORIZON and just leave it at that.
First time I watched this, I was in the basement of the house of a friend of a friend. No windows, no real ventilation, and we were smoking pot; it was…quite the experience…
May not be as underrated as it used to be at this point ... but it still needs to be said , that this is one of the greatest Horror/Gore/SciFi Movies ever made ! Still gives me chills ....
What's crazy is that it was originally intended to be even more graphic than it was. All those quick cut images of the crew being tortured was taken from actual footage they shot but couldn't use in order to keep their R rating.
VERY underrated and visually stunning sci-fi horror - The Cell with Jenifer Lopez and an incredible Vincent D'Onofrio. An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.. An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. One of the best looking films I have ever seen.
~1997 was right in a sweet spot where VFX was either terrible or amazing. It was a few years after Jurassic Park, so everybody was focused on CGI. But there was still a ton of expertise in great model work and practical effects that hadn't been pushed aside, and studios were still used to budgeting for prop, set, and model construction on pictures. Event Horizon is horrifying, but it perfectly balanced the novel CGI with the traditional, at a time when a toooooon of movies were doing really terrible looking CGI monsters that didn't hold up at all.
The Cell is an interesting premise and the dream sequences look great. The ending is a bit unexpected too. It definitely fits in to that era of late 90s gritty "serial killer with a plan" movies, but having slick CGI of the early 2000s.
One of the most underrated Sci Fi Horror Thriller Films ever made! The original cut of the movie was 130 minutes but the producers cut it down to 97 minutes as the film contained gory bloodier footage that caused the test audience to feel sick to their stomach. There were talks of a director's cut, yet most of the cut footage may be lost or destroyed.
The footage was found, in a salt mine in Transylvania of all places. But because of that environment and improper storage the film was damaged where only a few minutes at best where usable, so it was abandoned. But there is always hope that somewhere out there there is another copy of the footage.
@@memnarch129 I've seen a lot of people talk about wanting to see the extended version. But I really don't think that's necessary unless you're just really into gore-porn. You get the idea of the horror of the ship perfectly well from what you see in this cut. And as Jen mentions, those quick flashes are pretty effective at leaving an impression.
Sometimes less is more. Stuff cut out of a movie is very often cut for a good reason when gore is involved. At some point it stops being scary and just turns into disgusting and sickening, which is a different genre of movie. :P Like with the cut scenes from "Alien" for example, none really add anything worthwile to the near-perfection of the cinematic cut.
@@memnarch129 How it end up there? And why put the stuff in an environment that ruins the footage? ...Also, were any people mysteriously lost/killed while retrieving lost horror movie footage from a Transylvanian salt mine? :D
After watching this movie in college, I was dropped off but I made my buddies wait in the car while I turned on all the lights in our house. I will not be watching this reaction with you :)
Which adds even more constraints and contention, because you simply cannot leave (like a house). I watched this movie in the cinema when it came out. To me it is one of the best movies I have ever seen, because it shows the conflicts within the characters more than any physical confrontation outside.
Some people say this movie was basically a Warhammer 40K movie and the hell dimension they found was The Warp. Not super into 40K, but The Warp does show you things and fuck with your mind if you're not shielded from it. The fact that Weir actually called it a place of "Pure Chaos" lends credence to the idea that it might've had 40K as one of its influences.
"...well using layman's terms, we use a rotating magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons, these in turn fold space-time consistent with Weyl Tensor dynamics until a space-time curvature becomes infinitely large and you produce a singularity, now a singularity..." I say this to sound intelligent, problem is I quote it randomly and people think I'm insane...😂🤣 ...which I am. 🤗❤ Love this movie, one of my absolute favourite sci-fi's. Morpheus, dude from Jurassic Park, awesome!! 🥳 Cheers for the video!! 🙏
Don't know if this was said already but the hell dimension footage was actually heavily censored for the movie release. Unless i am mistaken, I'm pretty sure the full version of those shots was never released to the public and is just sitting on some vault somewhere. Event Horizon is one of the coolest premises for a horror movie i have seen and the visual design of the movie is excellent. The empty eye socket CGI always looked bad though. The movie is also notable for being the main inspiration for the Dead Space game series which really nails this aesthetic. They're the scariest games i played through, though the constant shtick of LOUD NOISES!!!! gets old after a while. Speaking of games: this director did quite a lot of game to movie adaptations, all of them pure unadulterated trash save for the first Mortal Kombat movie.
The footage was, for some bizarre reason, stored in a salt mine somewhere in Europe and deteriorated so all the extra filmed scenes can't be recovered.
Original Mortal Kombat is actually a pretty decent movie. It's camp for sure, and visibly low-budget, but it's also fun and entertaining, and manages to wring a decent enough story out of the paper thin lore of the arcade game. :)
I remember when I saw this movie in theaters... I was so creeped out... I walked out into the sunlight and stood there for 5 minutes before going home. I haven't seen the movie since. This was the closest I've come to rewatching this movie, Jen.
Saw this in the theater with a friend when we were teenagers. As we walked out, neither of us said anything to the other for a minute. Finally, my friend decided to break the silence. He said, "that's the kind of movie that gets you right here," and gestured to his stomach.
When me and my friends saw it in the theater (our first R rated movie as we'd all turned 18 lol), one of the other theater patrons about 6 rows behind us had a full on panic attack and cried out "Somebody help me", they turned up the lights and put the movie on pause for a few minutes to deal with the person. The whole thing scared the rest of the theater too lol... imagine if they had been able to stick all the cut footage in, ugh.
It’s been a rough two weeks but I still wanted to stop by for a second to show a little support. Great idea to put this out during spooky season Jen and I see that your security blanket has been working overtime this month as well 😂.
a cool story I heard when I was in film school about this movie. Apparently they fired a SFX guy but told him he could finish the day or something. so he hid a baby doll in the frozen body and was long gone by the time they went to shoot it. so when they drop it and it breaks apart there is a baby doll that you can actually see in the final film if you go frame by frame.
"Fold. The. Paper!" I'm not positive but i think this might be the movie that popularized the whole "fold a paper in half to explain wormholes" thing. I'm sure its come up other places, but I think this was the first demonstration for a mainstream audience. This is probably one of my favorite all time horror films. The gore is used sparingly and effectively, without being overloaded on the viewer. Every character behaves rationally, intelligently, and competently (with the obvious exception of Weir), doing their absolute best to survive while demonstrating that they are exceptional professionals who are very good at their jobs. It just doesn't matter, because reality is falling apart around them 😂. Captain Miller just saying "fuck this, fuck your ship, fuck this mission, we're leaving" is probably the most relatable thing I've ever seen a character do in a horror movie. 10/10 in my book. And a fun factoid: many people consider this an unofficial Warhammer 40k movie. If you know the lore of the universe, this movie is a FANTASTIC representation of how The Warp works there. 😂
All the way back in 1963, the book "A Wrinkle In Time" included a version of this using a piece of string instead of paper. There might have been a Heinlein novel that preceeded this, but I'm not certain.
Your again awesome thumbnail sums this up Jen holy moly this is going to be jumpscaretastic 😱 love how Jen calls Lawrence fishburne Morpheus whenever she sees him 😀🔥💙🔥💙
When first I saw this, it stayed with me for a long time. I was savvy enough to know its imspirational origins, which are "2010: The year we make contact" and "Hellraiser". Yet despite this, its savage imagery and bleak message profoundly disturbed me to the point of having nightmares about it for some time after. To this day, it remains one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
Back in 1997, I went to see this with friends without having seen the trailer. I thought it would be more of a space exploration movie. I had no idea what I was in for. lol
In the Words of Tony Stark: "OH it's Good to be Back!"😅Thank You very much for this one today, Jen💝the only thing I Enjoyed (maybe) more than this Reaction was that I got to BE HERE throughout this entire Premiere!👍I'm not the best Fan of Horror Movies either, but I've always been a Fan of this Director's Work🤩Paul W.S. Anderson cleverly combines Sci-Fi into Horror with many of His Movies!👌 Recommendation: there's another Movie that's very similar to this one (in many ways) called "Sphere" ('98) and so far as I know😇nobody else has Reacted to that one...not yet! (LOL)
I first saw this as a 12-year-old because heck yeah! Sci-fi! Scared the hell out of me and I've never been able to bring myself to even consider watching it again. Watching this reaction was more than enough of a recap
This was made in the late 90's, and it's interesting that they were still getting the science mixed up. A hole in space that allows a jump from one point to another ISN'T a black hole, but rather a wormhole. A black hole isn't anything other than a extremely dense field of gravity that even light can't escape from. They act like interstellar vacuum cleaners, sucking up and crushing anything that comes close to them. On the other hand, a wormhole is a corridor in space, just like what's shown in Star Trek DS9.
"Hellraiser in SPACE." Another great movie, with an absolutely STACKED cast, that was largely ignored and overlooked when it was first shown in theaters, but which quickly developed a following with movie rentals. It was one of the first DVDs I ever bought, and I've watched it at least a dozen times. LOVE IT!!
I saw this movie just after it was released on home video, I was 18 and a senior in high school and it totally freaked me out. The fact of something making you realize and "see" your worst fear was terrifying. Needless to say I didn't watch it again until I was 30.
If you think this movie was the first to have a premise similar to this, I challenge you to do a reaction to the Disney-made 1979 scifi film "The Black Hole." For a Disney film, that one was really and I mean REALLY dark and creepy. I will only say that 'The Black Hole' also starts with finding a huge and creepy looking spaceship (that gives immensely ominous vibes when you see it) lost in space, in a situation involving both a black hole and the subject of Hell. At more than one point in the film, YOU WILL FOR SURE say out loud something along the lines of "...and DISNEY made this movie??" I guarantee you'll end up saying that about a certain scene toward the end, in particular. I'm already betting money that scene will actually make you wonder how the frick the movie was supposed to have been made for child Disney audiences. There is no nudity or profanity in it, but there is very dark morbidity despite that, however. You'll see what I mean. Even the soundtrack is very dark, powerful and ominous. PLEASE do a reaction to that one, and you won't regret it. But you may have nightmares after you see it. Just sayin.'
Thank you for putting yourself through this on our behalf, Jen. I saw this on its opening weekend and it creeped everyone out in the cinema, especially with its almost subliminally horrific imagery that you couldn't unsee (did you need eyes to see ?) The Shining and Hellraiser blended with 2001... Great reaction and Jenalysis as always. Now please don't have nightmares. We, your Usual Suspects, will be your metaphorical safety blanket...
This movie still manages to scare the sh... out of me😂 The hellish dimension always gave me lovecraft vibes. Worth mentioning is also Michael Kamen's and Orbital's soundtrack which always stood out for me. Jen, thanks for your great reaction to this scifi/horror milestone ❤ I have seen a few other reactions to it as well but yours is by far the best...including the fantastic editing!👍 You have a wonderful day!
Michale Kamen did a concert conducting a symphony with Metallica, S&M. They recieved a Grammy for one of the tracks on that concert. He did the score for Kevin Costner's Robin Hood movie, Letha Weapon. Before he died he did X:Men, Tomb Raider and Band of Brothers. He passed in 2003. Great composer Edit: One of the theories surrounding this film is that they are in/or enter Warhammer 40K universe. Really cool Also I really recommend the videos by Critical Drinker. he's a huge fan of the film plus he interviewed one of the actors in another. great stuff
LOVE this movie. It didn’t get the props it deserved back when it came out. I guess no one was ready for a sci-fi/horror flick about a ship that fosters a black hole into Hell…such a badass flick amiga 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Hey Hey there Jen Murray. My twisted nephew showed me this one on video cassette. Didn't expect all the jump scares.😂 ❤Love your reaction as always. Have a good night
I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. It’s one of only two or three movies that has actually scared me when I saw them. And it’s crazy to think, that we are closer to the year this movie takes place, than we are to the year it was released. 11:00 Is this Jen’s moment of, “This one time, at band camp,” but with ayahuasca.
And to think, this is the tamed-down version of the movie! I do think what Jen said was right, though - the quick flashes are probably more effective than an extended look at all that hell stuff. Your imagination has to work more, so it lingers longer! Also, a little note on DJ, the guy who ends up on the hooks (Jen’s favourite bit!). When Weir rips his shirt open, we see a long scar down the centre of DJ’s chest. This was apparently the idea of Jason Isaacs himself, who reasoned that DJ had once had to have extensive surgery and now has a fear of going through it again. Therefore, what Weir does to him is DJ’s worst nightmare. Poor Lucius Malloy 😢
Hi Jen ! According to your usual playlist, or 'king of movies you like... when I saw 'Event Horizon first watching ' I was like .. 'OMG Jen! ' ..Are you sure you want do this to yourself ?? But you did it ! For sure Event Horizon is not Mars Attacks ... at all! Now I guess you need some therapy, what about an old feel good movie? I can't resist suggesting you ( ...again) *batteries not included' from 1987. It's an underrated Spielberg production, about a friendly ufo' encounter. I am 1000% sure you will like it, especially the music by James Horner. Its one of my best childhood movie, and despite its still holds up to me, I don't understand why it has completely vanished ... I really would like you to help that wonderful movie existing again. Thx for what you do!
Hey Miss Jen. I'm as ready for the big Florida hurricane as I can be and was looking for something less scary than real life right now. This is perfect.
A little on Lewis & Clark. If you like North American wildlife, like I do, their journals outline what was here before the gun and plow destroyed so much. They described many animals to science for the first time, and their names are still attached to several, like Clark's Nutcracker and Lewis's Woodpecker.
Saw this in the theater opening weekend with my mom. We both loved sci-fi movies and the marketing for it didn't say anything about it being a horror film which she hates lol. The way it slowly introduces the horror elements throughout is really well done, to the point that non-horror folks become trapped and so invested even they must see it through to the end. In some ways, the audience becomes trapped much like the characters on the Event Horizon itself.
The first time I watched this movie was at the 2004 Sci-Fi-London 3 Film Festival. It was an all-nighter consisting of Resident Evil, The Thing, Pitch Black and ending with Event Horizon. A great time (started the festival at 10am Saturday morning with The Dark Crystal, then many movies back-to-back, ending with a double bill of 28 Days Later and The X-Files on Sunday afternoon). 30 hours of no sleep goodness!
I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid with my friends and their mom. We all wanted to see it, so she took us. Fast forward: when we got back, I had to walk home which was like 100 yards away,. It was like 10 o'clock at night, so naturally I sprinted all out the entire way given. Then when I got home, my parents weren't there because they had gone to the store, so I locked every door and turned on every light. I was feeling pretty confident.
Hello Jen!😊 Good call, that is Kathleen Quinlan from "Apollo 13". I think the blonde, Joely Richardson (Strarck) looks cute in this film. This is one of my favorite horror films, maybe because there are few films that deal with Hell or a Hell dimension, besides the "Hellraiser" films. A younger Sam Neill (Dr. Weir) actually portrayed the son of the devil in "Omen III: The Final Conflict" (1981).😉 Great reactions to this very unsettling horror film, Jen!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It does look like the main deck of the ship is also alive, and they may not live at the end.😉
The core is inspired by the biblical description of certain Angels. That's why the design keeps popping up in so many sci fi franchises: Event horizon, Contact, Mass Effect, Dead Space 2, etc
Three things that convinced me never to go back to horror flicks/books: the orginal The Excorcist, reading the book Amytiville and lastly, Event Horizon. When I was in the Navy I read Amytivlle during the night on the ship in the berthing with red lights on before I went to bed. Yeah, never doing that again.
17:20 "Frig off, Movie!" 🤣🤣🤣 Is it any wonder why Jen makes me so much the Smitten Kitten? 😻 33:39 HA! This starts a Twisted Sister video I cobbled together for "Burn In Hell" from, I believe, WatchMojo videos.
That movie is such a huge disappointment. it has one of the greatest premises in horror, it has one of the best settings conductive to horror and yet i can come up with scarier scenarios and imagery while I'm taking a shower than what is presented in the movie.
The book is considered a thriller, so marketing the movie as horror was a mistake. Sphere, unfortunately, was not a well done adaptation, but it's still decent as a standalone creepy movie.
3:20 - "There gonna be a jumpscare in this movie, ain't there?" Nope, the whole movie is a large jumpscare, one after another. Event Horizon is considered one of the best sci-fi movies that mixes sci-fi element and supernatural element. The movie "The Black Hole" (1979) had similar concept to this but it was not as gruesome as this movie which shocked a lot of people.
This film has still one the best ship captains ever: As soon things look dangerous: "We're leaving" instead trying to figure more things out. I wish they would make remake of this film, giving someone like James Wan original script to modify it and in my dreams Idris Elba would be captain Miller.
I feel for Jen. This is one terrifying film. I made the mistake of watching this alone in the dark. Legend has it, there was footage cut from the "torture" scene that was so horrifying, even the director came off set with a blank stare saying, "You won't believe the shit I just saw." Supposedly the footage is lost, but who knows.
Did you know this would be as gruesome as it is?!
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Honestly Jen: Paul W.S. Anderson had previously Directed "Mortal Kombat" ('95), and THIS Movie is More Bloody and Gory than even THAT was! (LOL)
You must see DeepStar Six
Fun fact, it was supposed to be more gruesome !
But between test audiences and the producers upon pre-screening they said ," dial it back a little bit " .
Would you believe the cut footage was stored in a salt mine in Transylvania !!! 😂
Don't believe me ?
Well then believe The Drinker , "BELIEVE THAT" ! 😅
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“I saw something exactly like that when I did ayahuasca.”
I s this is gonna hit too close to home for Jen isn’t it.
"We're leaving." Best leadership command of the whole movie.
Best leadership command in any movie.
In the theater, the whole audience erupted in laughter because everyone was thinking the same thing. Rarely does a film know exactly what emotion it will evoke from it's audience so effectively.
Jen: There is gonna be A jumpscare in this movie.
Yes and it brought a couple of friends with it.
The unofficial warhammer 40k movie or "Why gellar fields are a good idea"
Also contains the best reaction in any horror movie:
"We're leaving!"
40k movie? Didnt you see Starship Troopers? (Cadians v Tyranids)
@@archangel0891 i can see what your saying but this is way more like warp lore than ST is tyranid war.
Never travel the Warp without a Gellar Field.
@@archangel0891 _Starship Troopers_ predates WH40K by 28 years, and while it's reasonable to think that WH40K's creators might have read it, there's no way to know without asking them.
Could have opened the door to a whole universe of material for films & shows.
i love the casual "when i did ayahuasca" drop. also this is probably the last movie where you'd ever want to see any of the imagery while tripping.
Now we need a blog about the trip! Get her on Joe Rogan! :)
No doubt 😂
Very cool lady! 😊
From personal experience:
Don't look any shit like that while tripping.
Just sit down and play Wipe Out.
Trust me. It will be awesum 😉
@@chriswerth918 Did you see Jesus, aliens or demons?
Fun story. I met Sean Pertwee at London Comic Con in 2010. I took my limited set (case looks like the hull of the Event Horizon) for him to sign. When I handed it to him he looked at it in shock and said "Where the F*CK did you get this?" He explained that he asked for EVERY version of the film from Director Paul Anderson and to that moment he thought he had. When I said I got it in Asda (UK Walmart) with my groceries it didnt make matters better. He texted Paul Anderson mid-meet about the set. First celeb id ever pissed off.
Just last week Sean was here in Scotland at a con with Simon Pegg & Sean Gunn. My boy was at the con and went to see Sean Pertwee to sign his Gotham set. My kid brought up the meet in 2010 and no he didnt remember my face but he remembered the meet at the set. They had a laugh about it and how pissed he was and to this day he still doesnt have that version of Event Horizon😂
He can have mine... I got that DVD case as well, and as I'm getting rid of all my physical movies I won't be needing it anymore. ;P
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I did that in 2010 and sorely regret it
Oh, Jen. Just jumping in with both feet, huh? This is like 2001 meets Hellraiser.
Actually a pretty apt description!
With a little bit of the shining sprinkled on top
That's exactly what I thought when I saw this movie back in 1997: it's a mix of 2010 (a team is sent to find a lost spaceship), Hellraiser, Stargate and the video game Doom (the portal leading directly to hell). It is a shame that the footage with the gore scenes that were eliminated from the final cut due to pressure from the studio is completely lost.
@@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc Funny you should make the Doom comparison, since this was basically the plot of the horrible Doom movie (not the Karl Urban one).
@@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc Not Stargate. Warhammer 40k. One of the people working on the movie confirmed it. Faster than light travel means having to pass through a hell dimension. Except you would have things much worse than the cenobites doing that sort of thing to the crew.
Jen at 17:20: "Frig off, movie!" You're so good at making me laugh, Jen!
'Fuck this ship!' is the right attitude to have, Captain Miller was no dummy!
Yet another example of my favorite horror trope: The Competent Protagonist 😂
@@TheGoIsWin21 Having some real trouble here remembering other examples... Miller has got to be the best example of the Competent Protagonist.
Wait! Ellen Ripley.
But for real, what are some other examples?
@@MrDanteMason Most of the characters from The Thing, as well. Off the top of my head that's all I've got, though
When he said that, I said "THANK YOU!" in the theater. 😆 I saw this at least 3x in the theater because it creeped me out and gave me the chills so much, I wanted to show other people. I took two other people, separately, and I think they hated me for it 'cause it freaked them out. They looked traumatized afterward. They were like, "THAT WAS HORRIBLE!" I said, "Horrible because it's bad or horrible because it creeped you out?" They were like, "The latter," and I said "Well, then it did its job well."
Another time when I said "Thank you!" was when they played the log back the first time with just the audio and the pilot, Sean Pertwee, said, "What the fucking hell was THAT?!" These are the things that make a good horror movie, when the people involved do and say what they are supposed to do in these crazy situations and it still doesn't matter. Too many times characters are written to be stupid so they can fall into whatever misfortune lies ahead. Running straight into a buzzsaw, figuratively (and sometimes literally).
@@MrDanteMason Erin from "You're Next".
Next station, "Pandorum" (2009).
Hell yes.
Love Pandorum
Yeah, pandorum is a great movie. Also has a good looking woman in it.
I approve of this recommendation. Also has a pre-Walking Dead role from Norman Reedus.
It blows my fucking mind that you can casually drop "That's just like what I saw when I did Ayahusca" in EVENT FUCKING HORIZON and just leave it at that.
"I did Ayahusca, no big deal" Jen. Holy fuk
First time I watched this, I was in the basement of the house of a friend of a friend. No windows, no real ventilation, and we were smoking pot; it was…quite the experience…
Oh boy talk about a "frig" counter. This one should be near the record books LOL
May not be as underrated as it used to be at this point ...
but it still needs to be said , that this is one of the greatest Horror/Gore/SciFi Movies ever made !
Still gives me chills ....
What's crazy is that it was originally intended to be even more graphic than it was. All those quick cut images of the crew being tortured was taken from actual footage they shot but couldn't use in order to keep their R rating.
@@GamingwithDweavis We know , we know ...
I love this Warhammer 40k movie, you can even see the chaos symbol in one take.
When the blood starts running along the ceiling….I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME! IT IS A GOOD P A I N ! 👹👺😜🤪
VERY underrated and visually stunning sci-fi horror - The Cell with Jenifer Lopez and an incredible Vincent D'Onofrio. An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.. An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. One of the best looking films I have ever seen.
The Cell is AMAZING! It needs to be seen by more, for sure!
~1997 was right in a sweet spot where VFX was either terrible or amazing. It was a few years after Jurassic Park, so everybody was focused on CGI. But there was still a ton of expertise in great model work and practical effects that hadn't been pushed aside, and studios were still used to budgeting for prop, set, and model construction on pictures. Event Horizon is horrifying, but it perfectly balanced the novel CGI with the traditional, at a time when a toooooon of movies were doing really terrible looking CGI monsters that didn't hold up at all.
We were 15 and thought watching that movie tripping HARD on acid would be fun. It was, an experience...
I can second that, that movie has some absolutely gorgeous visual ideas, like the streamer-cape, omg
The Cell is an interesting premise and the dream sequences look great. The ending is a bit unexpected too. It definitely fits in to that era of late 90s gritty "serial killer with a plan" movies, but having slick CGI of the early 2000s.
This…along with the original “Hellraiser”… has to be the ultimate horror movies.
someone who feels the same as me, i've just posted to say hell raiser and event horizon are two of the scariest films i've seen
@@philhebden the third best horror movie, according to Bill Burr….is Titanic. lol
One of the most underrated Sci Fi Horror Thriller Films ever made!
The original cut of the movie was 130 minutes but the producers cut it down to 97 minutes as the film contained gory bloodier footage that caused the test audience to feel sick to their stomach. There were talks of a director's cut, yet most of the cut footage may be lost or destroyed.
The footage was found, in a salt mine in Transylvania of all places. But because of that environment and improper storage the film was damaged where only a few minutes at best where usable, so it was abandoned. But there is always hope that somewhere out there there is another copy of the footage.
@@memnarch129 I've seen a lot of people talk about wanting to see the extended version. But I really don't think that's necessary unless you're just really into gore-porn. You get the idea of the horror of the ship perfectly well from what you see in this cut. And as Jen mentions, those quick flashes are pretty effective at leaving an impression.
Sometimes less is more. Stuff cut out of a movie is very often cut for a good reason when gore is involved. At some point it stops being scary and just turns into disgusting and sickening, which is a different genre of movie. :P
Like with the cut scenes from "Alien" for example, none really add anything worthwile to the near-perfection of the cinematic cut.
@@memnarch129 How it end up there? And why put the stuff in an environment that ruins the footage?
...Also, were any people mysteriously lost/killed while retrieving lost horror movie footage from a Transylvanian salt mine? :D
@@lennyvalentin6485 IDRC, but think it wasnt the only footage stored there.
I remember the first time I watched this movie. To this day, all I can think is that everything would have been fine if they only had their towels.
Nice Hitchiker's reference!
Event Horizon 2: The Trip to Barnard's Star
Awesome, dude! 🙂
Gateway to Hell < Vogon poetry
I thought that they were going to Proxima Centauri, not Betelgeuse.
After watching this movie in college, I was dropped off but I made my buddies wait in the car while I turned on all the lights in our house. I will not be watching this reaction with you :)
What I think is kinda cool is that despite all the sci-fi elements, this movie really comes down to just being a haunted house, but in space!
Which adds even more constraints and contention, because you simply cannot leave (like a house). I watched this movie in the cinema when it came out. To me it is one of the best movies I have ever seen, because it shows the conflicts within the characters more than any physical confrontation outside.
Michael Kamen had an interesting music career in addition to his great film scores.
Some people say this movie was basically a Warhammer 40K movie and the hell dimension they found was The Warp.
Not super into 40K, but The Warp does show you things and fuck with your mind if you're not shielded from it.
The fact that Weir actually called it a place of "Pure Chaos" lends credence to the idea that it might've had 40K as one of its influences.
"...well using layman's terms, we use a rotating magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons, these in turn fold space-time consistent with Weyl Tensor dynamics until a space-time curvature becomes infinitely large and you produce a singularity, now a singularity..." I say this to sound intelligent, problem is I quote it randomly and people think I'm insane...😂🤣
...which I am. 🤗❤
Love this movie, one of my absolute favourite sci-fi's. Morpheus, dude from Jurassic Park, awesome!! 🥳
Cheers for the video!! 🙏
Don't know if this was said already but the hell dimension footage was actually heavily censored for the movie release. Unless i am mistaken, I'm pretty sure the full version of those shots was never released to the public and is just sitting on some vault somewhere.
Event Horizon is one of the coolest premises for a horror movie i have seen and the visual design of the movie is excellent. The empty eye socket CGI always looked bad though.
The movie is also notable for being the main inspiration for the Dead Space game series which really nails this aesthetic. They're the scariest games i played through, though the constant shtick of LOUD NOISES!!!! gets old after a while. Speaking of games: this director did quite a lot of game to movie adaptations, all of them pure unadulterated trash save for the first Mortal Kombat movie.
The footage was, for some bizarre reason, stored in a salt mine somewhere in Europe and deteriorated so all the extra filmed scenes can't be recovered.
Original Mortal Kombat is actually a pretty decent movie. It's camp for sure, and visibly low-budget, but it's also fun and entertaining, and manages to wring a decent enough story out of the paper thin lore of the arcade game. :)
I remember when I saw this movie in theaters... I was so creeped out... I walked out into the sunlight and stood there for 5 minutes before going home. I haven't seen the movie since. This was the closest I've come to rewatching this movie, Jen.
Saw this in the theater with a friend when we were teenagers. As we walked out, neither of us said anything to the other for a minute. Finally, my friend decided to break the silence. He said, "that's the kind of movie that gets you right here," and gestured to his stomach.
When me and my friends saw it in the theater (our first R rated movie as we'd all turned 18 lol), one of the other theater patrons about 6 rows behind us had a full on panic attack and cried out "Somebody help me", they turned up the lights and put the movie on pause for a few minutes to deal with the person.
The whole thing scared the rest of the theater too lol... imagine if they had been able to stick all the cut footage in, ugh.
Discoverd this channellike 2 weeksago,love the start trek episodes!,love sf
Always fun to watch reactions of this film 😁 Great cast, especially Sam Neil as the villain with his immortal line "DO YOU SEE!!!" 😱
"I saw something exactly like that, when I did ayahuasca." - Jen
You learn something every day.
The cryosleep dream request is extremely valid. I would do the same. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾Great reaction!
"we're leaving" Smartest response in a horror movie.
It’s been a rough two weeks but I still wanted to stop by for a second to show a little support. Great idea to put this out during spooky season Jen and I see that your security blanket has been working overtime this month as well 😂.
Thanks D! We're all thinking if you, hoping you're feeling well 💗
Same here, You hang in there, Dylan. 🙏❤🩹
The number of times you said "does he have eyes?!?!!??" lmao perfect reaction to this movie.
a cool story I heard when I was in film school about this movie. Apparently they fired a SFX guy but told him he could finish the day or something. so he hid a baby doll in the frozen body and was long gone by the time they went to shoot it. so when they drop it and it breaks apart there is a baby doll that you can actually see in the final film if you go frame by frame.
I love it when Jen says, "Frig Off Movie!"
"Fold. The. Paper!" I'm not positive but i think this might be the movie that popularized the whole "fold a paper in half to explain wormholes" thing. I'm sure its come up other places, but I think this was the first demonstration for a mainstream audience.
This is probably one of my favorite all time horror films. The gore is used sparingly and effectively, without being overloaded on the viewer. Every character behaves rationally, intelligently, and competently (with the obvious exception of Weir), doing their absolute best to survive while demonstrating that they are exceptional professionals who are very good at their jobs. It just doesn't matter, because reality is falling apart around them 😂. Captain Miller just saying "fuck this, fuck your ship, fuck this mission, we're leaving" is probably the most relatable thing I've ever seen a character do in a horror movie. 10/10 in my book.
And a fun factoid: many people consider this an unofficial Warhammer 40k movie. If you know the lore of the universe, this movie is a FANTASTIC representation of how The Warp works there. 😂
Yeah, I laughed when they used the exact same thing in Interstellar!
All the way back in 1963, the book "A Wrinkle In Time" included a version of this using a piece of string instead of paper. There might have been a Heinlein novel that preceeded this, but I'm not certain.
Your again awesome thumbnail sums this up Jen holy moly this is going to be jumpscaretastic 😱 love how Jen calls Lawrence fishburne Morpheus whenever she sees him 😀🔥💙🔥💙
Watched this on a late night Space channel Friday movie. Didn’t sleep that night.
When first I saw this, it stayed with me for a long time. I was savvy enough to know its imspirational origins, which are "2010: The year we make contact" and "Hellraiser". Yet despite this, its savage imagery and bleak message profoundly disturbed me to the point of having nightmares about it for some time after. To this day, it remains one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
Back in 1997, I went to see this with friends without having seen the trailer. I thought it would be more of a space exploration movie. I had no idea what I was in for. lol
I'm pretty sure the marketing for this movie was intentionally vague, so your friends probably didn't know much more than you did.
Jen you seriously crack me up, your simply the ideal person to watch a horror film with. 😂
Ok, one of my favorite quotes from Jen here in the 3rd act: "Oh No! Does he have eyes?!?!"
Most acurate non-cannonical warhammer universe ice breaker
Fun fact: the long oblong shaped hallway set was reused in the 1998 film version of “Lost in Space”.
Had some great Jen screams in this one…😂
In the Words of Tony Stark: "OH it's Good to be Back!"😅Thank You very much for this one today, Jen💝the only thing I
Enjoyed (maybe) more than this Reaction was that I got to BE HERE throughout this entire Premiere!👍I'm not the best
Fan of Horror Movies either, but I've always been a Fan of this Director's Work🤩Paul W.S. Anderson cleverly combines
Sci-Fi into Horror with many of His Movies!👌
Recommendation: there's another Movie that's very similar to this one (in many ways) called "Sphere" ('98) and so far as
I know😇nobody else has Reacted to that one...not yet! (LOL)
All I want to say is with this reaction you have become my favorite reaction channel. I love how you watch movies.
Thanks! Glad you're here :)
I first saw this as a 12-year-old because heck yeah! Sci-fi! Scared the hell out of me and I've never been able to bring myself to even consider watching it again. Watching this reaction was more than enough of a recap
You survived the ship Event Horizon! Great jump scares but it wad gory af! Thanks Jen ❤️💛
Great reaction. That was some very sad (like sad unhappy, not sad bad) techno dancing when the credits rolled.
This was made in the late 90's, and it's interesting that they were still getting the science mixed up. A hole in space that allows a jump from one point to another ISN'T a black hole, but rather a wormhole. A black hole isn't anything other than a extremely dense field of gravity that even light can't escape from. They act like interstellar vacuum cleaners, sucking up and crushing anything that comes close to them. On the other hand, a wormhole is a corridor in space, just like what's shown in Star Trek DS9.
"Hellraiser in SPACE." Another great movie, with an absolutely STACKED cast, that was largely ignored and overlooked when it was first shown in theaters, but which quickly developed a following with movie rentals. It was one of the first DVDs I ever bought, and I've watched it at least a dozen times. LOVE IT!!
I saw this movie just after it was released on home video, I was 18 and a senior in high school and it totally freaked me out. The fact of something making you realize and "see" your worst fear was terrifying. Needless to say I didn't watch it again until I was 30.
One of the best budget Sci-Fi horror films around.
If you think this movie was the first to have a premise similar to this, I challenge you to do a reaction to the Disney-made 1979 scifi film "The Black Hole."
For a Disney film, that one was really and I mean REALLY dark and creepy. I will only say that 'The Black Hole' also starts with finding a huge and creepy looking spaceship (that gives immensely ominous vibes when you see it) lost in space, in a situation involving both a black hole and the subject of Hell.
At more than one point in the film, YOU WILL FOR SURE say out loud something along the lines of "...and DISNEY made this movie??" I guarantee you'll end up saying that about a certain scene toward the end, in particular. I'm already betting money that scene will actually make you wonder how the frick the movie was supposed to have been made for child Disney audiences.
There is no nudity or profanity in it, but there is very dark morbidity despite that, however. You'll see what I mean.
Even the soundtrack is very dark, powerful and ominous.
PLEASE do a reaction to that one, and you won't regret it. But you may have nightmares after you see it.
Just sayin.'
Jen does love a good soundtrack, and that certainly has one.
Thank you for putting yourself through this on our behalf, Jen. I saw this on its opening weekend and it creeped everyone out in the cinema, especially with its almost subliminally horrific imagery that you couldn't unsee (did you need eyes to see ?) The Shining and Hellraiser blended with 2001... Great reaction and Jenalysis as always. Now please don't have nightmares. We, your Usual Suspects, will be your metaphorical safety blanket...
I generally don't enjoy horror movies but Event Horizon has always been the perfect mix of SciFi and Horror to make me love it.
"So what design did you end up using for the gravity drive?"
"Oh, 'literal portal to Hell'."
"Nice! Strong choice!"
Helluva movie. I like the fact the only one that was stupid was Weir. Everybody else was like, nope time to go. Fun reaction Jen
This movie still manages to scare the sh... out of me😂 The hellish dimension always gave me lovecraft vibes. Worth mentioning is also Michael Kamen's and Orbital's soundtrack which always stood out for me. Jen, thanks for your great reaction to this scifi/horror milestone ❤ I have seen a few other reactions to it as well but yours is by far the best...including the fantastic editing!👍
You have a wonderful day!
Michale Kamen did a concert conducting a symphony with Metallica, S&M. They recieved a Grammy for one of the tracks on that concert.
He did the score for Kevin Costner's Robin Hood movie, Letha Weapon. Before he died he did X:Men, Tomb Raider and Band of Brothers. He passed in 2003. Great composer
Edit: One of the theories surrounding this film is that they are in/or enter Warhammer 40K universe. Really cool
Also I really recommend the videos by Critical Drinker. he's a huge fan of the film plus he interviewed one of the actors in another. great stuff
My fav movie to watch while i fall to sleep and have nothing else to watch. Its such a good flick.
I can't wait to see what you make if this one, Jen; then again, it's always entertaining when Canada's sweetheart is in the house. 🤭🥰😘 xxxxx
LOVE this movie. It didn’t get the props it deserved back when it came out. I guess no one was ready for a sci-fi/horror flick about a ship that fosters a black hole into Hell…such a badass flick amiga 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Oh yes. We’re only seconds into the video and I know this’ll be my favourite video of the week
29:00 - "Does she have eyes?" - Well that's one way to check if she's one of the scary baddies. 😂😂😂
Hey Hey there Jen Murray. My twisted nephew showed me this one on video cassette. Didn't expect all the jump scares.😂 ❤Love your reaction as always. Have a good night
Not even sure I can watch a reaction to this. I watched it on a plane as a kid, it left an impression to say the least.
I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. It’s one of only two or three movies that has actually scared me when I saw them.
And it’s crazy to think, that we are closer to the year this movie takes place, than we are to the year it was released.
11:00 Is this Jen’s moment of, “This one time, at band camp,” but with ayahuasca.
And to think, this is the tamed-down version of the movie! I do think what Jen said was right, though - the quick flashes are probably more effective than an extended look at all that hell stuff. Your imagination has to work more, so it lingers longer!
Also, a little note on DJ, the guy who ends up on the hooks (Jen’s favourite bit!). When Weir rips his shirt open, we see a long scar down the centre of DJ’s chest. This was apparently the idea of Jason Isaacs himself, who reasoned that DJ had once had to have extensive surgery and now has a fear of going through it again. Therefore, what Weir does to him is DJ’s worst nightmare. Poor Lucius Malloy 😢
Hi Jen ! According to your usual playlist, or 'king of movies you like... when I saw 'Event Horizon first watching ' I was like .. 'OMG Jen! ' ..Are you sure you want do this to yourself ?? But you did it ! For sure Event Horizon is not Mars Attacks ... at all! Now I guess you need some therapy, what about an old feel good movie? I can't resist suggesting you ( ...again) *batteries not included' from 1987. It's an underrated Spielberg production, about a friendly ufo' encounter. I am 1000% sure you will like it, especially the music by James Horner. Its one of my best childhood movie, and despite its still holds up to me, I don't understand why it has completely vanished ... I really would like you to help that wonderful movie existing again. Thx for what you do!
This movie is based on the Warhammer 40K. Interstellar travel is happening by going trough the hell basically.
No it is not, it was scripted far before warhammer.
@@rastiga9196 Before 1987?
K.
@@rastiga9196 haha you funny troll :)
Hey Miss Jen. I'm as ready for the big Florida hurricane as I can be and was looking for something less scary than real life right now. This is perfect.
Stay safe!
@@jenmurrayxo Thank you, ma'am.
30:26 Speedy Gonzales actually makes a cameo here, it's just that he runs SO FAST you can't really see him. 🤣
A little on Lewis & Clark. If you like North American wildlife, like I do, their journals outline what was here before the gun and plow destroyed so much. They described many animals to science for the first time, and their names are still attached to several, like Clark's Nutcracker and Lewis's Woodpecker.
The prodigy! Best way to end a film 😅
Saw this in the theater opening weekend with my mom. We both loved sci-fi movies and the marketing for it didn't say anything about it being a horror film which she hates lol.
The way it slowly introduces the horror elements throughout is really well done, to the point that non-horror folks become trapped and so invested even they must see it through to the end.
In some ways, the audience becomes trapped much like the characters on the Event Horizon itself.
The first time I watched this movie was at the 2004 Sci-Fi-London 3 Film Festival. It was an all-nighter consisting of Resident Evil, The Thing, Pitch Black and ending with Event Horizon. A great time (started the festival at 10am Saturday morning with The Dark Crystal, then many movies back-to-back, ending with a double bill of 28 Days Later and The X-Files on Sunday afternoon). 30 hours of no sleep goodness!
I watched this when I was 9 and that scene in the green duct with the flashing lights scared the hell out of me. It was seared into my brain for weeks
Jen, give The Gate a go for a cool 80s practical effects proper VHS-fest
I second this! I loved The Gate growing up!
I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid with my friends and their mom. We all wanted to see it, so she took us. Fast forward: when we got back, I had to walk home which was like 100 yards away,. It was like 10 o'clock at night, so naturally I sprinted all out the entire way given. Then when I got home, my parents weren't there because they had gone to the store, so I locked every door and turned on every light. I was feeling pretty confident.
Jen brings automatic smiles ❤
Hello Jen!😊 Good call, that is Kathleen Quinlan from "Apollo 13". I think the blonde, Joely Richardson (Strarck) looks cute in this film. This is one of my favorite horror films, maybe because there are few films that deal with Hell or a Hell dimension, besides the "Hellraiser" films. A younger Sam Neill (Dr. Weir) actually portrayed the son of the devil in "Omen III: The Final Conflict" (1981).😉 Great reactions to this very unsettling horror film, Jen!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It does look like the main deck of the ship is also alive, and they may not live at the end.😉
The core is inspired by the biblical description of certain Angels. That's why the design keeps popping up in so many sci fi franchises: Event horizon, Contact, Mass Effect, Dead Space 2, etc
A really well made sci-fi horror movie. It’s always been one of my favourites. Definitely a close second to Alien in the category.
"There's gonna be a jumpscare in this movie...?"
Well...maybe XD
Three things that convinced me never to go back to horror flicks/books: the orginal The Excorcist, reading the book Amytiville and lastly, Event Horizon. When I was in the Navy I read Amytivlle during the night on the ship in the berthing with red lights on before I went to bed. Yeah, never doing that again.
17:20 "Frig off, Movie!" 🤣🤣🤣 Is it any wonder why Jen makes me so much the Smitten Kitten? 😻
33:39 HA! This starts a Twisted Sister video I cobbled together for "Burn In Hell" from, I believe, WatchMojo videos.
It's more thriller than horror, but Sphere is worth a watch
That movie is such a huge disappointment. it has one of the greatest premises in horror, it has one of the best settings conductive to horror and yet i can come up with scarier scenarios and imagery while I'm taking a shower than what is presented in the movie.
@@deathtoraiden2080 well that's what I mean, it's not outright horror, it's more psychological in your head stuff, literally 😂
The book is considered a thriller, so marketing the movie as horror was a mistake. Sphere, unfortunately, was not a well done adaptation, but it's still decent as a standalone creepy movie.
@@karlwest437 It's not good at being that either. Everything in the movie but the premise is just flat.
You now know what inspired every horror game in space for the last 24 years
Everyone in this movie is so good. Especially Sean Pertwee.
3:20 - "There gonna be a jumpscare in this movie, ain't there?"
Nope, the whole movie is a large jumpscare, one after another. Event Horizon is considered one of the best sci-fi movies that mixes sci-fi element and supernatural element. The movie "The Black Hole" (1979) had similar concept to this but it was not as gruesome as this movie which shocked a lot of people.
this movie is one of the few that genuinely scared the crap out of me back in the day :P
The "Event Horizon" looks like a prototype for a Romulan warbird.
Aww Event Horizon, the first and probably only Warhammer 40K live action feature film
This one of the darkest sci-fi flicks ever. LLLoved it.
i remember sneaking into the cinema to watch this, since i was too young . good times
This feels like a prequel to a Doom movie with the numbers filed off and I mean that entirely as a complement.
This film has still one the best ship captains ever: As soon things look dangerous: "We're leaving" instead trying to figure more things out. I wish they would make remake of this film, giving someone like James Wan original script to modify it and in my dreams Idris Elba would be captain Miller.
I feel for Jen. This is one terrifying film. I made the mistake of watching this alone in the dark. Legend has it, there was footage cut from the "torture" scene that was so horrifying, even the director came off set with a blank stare saying, "You won't believe the shit I just saw." Supposedly the footage is lost, but who knows.