yep, but..... with AI development maybe the cut and lost /and cut but still existing in low quality/ can be reconstructed so we will get seemless revival version..... same goes for The Keep and few other fuckups that could have been great....also the newer rambo movies that were converted to what pg-6 rating? would be reedited for proper gore
@@britishpatriot7386 I don't remember anyone being that adamant about getting out of there until it was well and truly too late. Once they were already phucked it was, "take off, nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure!"
@gusgrimm7533 ah, that's true. I forgot about that scene. But I'm still giving it to Event Horizon because they actually tried to follow through instead of sticking around for the mission.
It's a great line everybody in the theater laughed. It's a great character It's too bad it had the director it did it really is a great movie with great actors in it.
Certain people sneer at science fiction but it has the highest number of 'panned' movies now revered as classics. Event Horizon and John Carpenter's The Thing, for two.
I "see" what you did there. That was funny. Maybe second best line in the movie. Best line was "We're leaving". I love this movie...saw it when it first came out and a jazillion times since.
The coolest thing about Event Horizon was the setting. Voyager had just taken magnificent photos of Neptune a few years before, and this was a perfect place for a sci fi horror movie. Neptune is frighteningly cold place with supersonic wind storms (2,400 kph!!!!) And it's so far away that even the sun struggles against the dark of space. And yet, amazingly, the subsurface oceans of Triton might contain hidden life...weird life that's never seen a flicker of light. Yeah...it doesn't get much better than that.
Aw, I thought this would be Deep Rising. Went with friends, had the theater to ourselves while everyone else went for Titanic and we laughed and screamed all the way through it. One of the best theater experiences I ever had!
I prefer Deep rising which I saw in the theater. The crowd watching DR were laughing and screaming at the same time. The actor who played Benny in the mummy stole the movie.
Event Horizon scared me immensely, the whole concept of abyss of space and a self aware spaceship possessed by unknown entities or some time twisted mind bending entities was just pure terrifying entertainment.
Yeah, some of the dismemberment clips of the original crew were shocking. I didn't know it was a horror in space, I thought it was a sci-fi adventure ... boy, did I need new trousers after that one.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handleThe forced fellatio scenes were even more disturbing. Experienced porn actors were actually used for those sexually graphic scenes.
I’m glad I found this comment, Im a Huge Science Fiction fan. I am not a fan of horror. I bend a little .. But This Movie was A lot. when my buddy asked me if I saw it (describing it as a science fiction film) I was happy to see it…. Boy was I wrong 😑. .. it’s really just the one scene.. My brain just can’t comprehend the gore. Be a good horror movie or a good science fiction movie..🎥 Don’t be a bad horror science fiction movie.
You know some how I missed this and just came across it last year. I thought it was an awesome movie with a huge reveal at the end and it's hard to fool me but I never would have guessed where they were in a million years. I've seen thousands of movies and it's to the point where most of them I can figure out the plot a 1/4 to 1/2 way in but ones like this kept me going to the end. Same goes for Predestination. That one blew me away.
I first saw this movie back in '97 in the theater and my first thought was that this was the best origin story for Warhammer 40K warp drive. The Event horizon went into the Warp without a navigator or a Geller field and the demons ate them for snacks.
Writer Phil Eisner stated that he was a big 40k fan and that the film was heavily influenced by it. It's obviously not an official Warhammer release but the overall atmosphere and tone of Event Horizon is probably as near as you'll ever get to 40k.
Hmm if you think about it, the Immaterium Warp Drive must have been developed before the Gellar Field... because they wouldn't know they needed the field until they tried testing the drive. And it must have looked something like... this film.
Saw it in theaters after a co-worker recommended it. She didn’t tell me it was “Hellraiser in space”. I don’t watch horror movies and it took everything in me to sit all the way through it. She heard from me the next day! 😂
The movie was grotesque. Hollywood ran dry of fake blood for weeks after it was made, and the sheer stupidity of some the characters in it made the movie almost as hard to watch. "Gee, I know I'm on a spaceship in the middle of nowhere, but that must really be my little son running around here." Good grief.
@@rcnelson I'm with you. I saw it at a free sneak preview and was digging it for about 2/3rds of the film. The last third just did not work at all for me. In the end, after trying several of his films I just realize that the director is not for me.
@@rcnelsonAnd the guy actually thinking he won't need eyes on that trip! And to open that door! Did you see how the crew of the Event Horizon spent their last moments, why would they think those were good ideas?!
@@rcnelsonyou don't understand the movie lmfao. The warp engine is messing with their mentality, they don't realise they're hallucinating. Imagine hating a movie because you were too dumb to understand it lol.
Come on, those two proved to the world that movie critics were full of crap, inconsistent and shouldn’t be taken seriously, at least the mainstream media critics
Siskel was inconsistent, but Ebert was like a Rotten Tomatoes critic score. Only if it was an undeniable masterpiece, or objectively bad, was there a chance he'd get it right. Unless he gave it one or four stars, I could count on the opposite of his review being reality.
The critics said Independence Day was going to bomb in theaters because the Fresh Prince wasn't an action star... (I saw the movie 8 times in theaters, bought the Letterbox VHDS AND then the DVD boxed set... Screw the critics. They hate a movie I go watch it. They love a movie, I avoid it like the plague. They like a movie and I wait for it to come out on rental.) Lol.
That is one wild ride on the Event Horizon. Went to see this on the big screen back in the day, the title sound cool, the poster was intriguing, and there was no wait to get in to see it. What an amazing movie. Let's keep up hope for those lost reels turning up one day.
Sam Nell also known for the movie “Omen” film too. Event Horizon still holds on its own for its horror theme, even though “Alien” was still fresh in many people’s minds.
Yeah that felt like a lifetime between those movies. After Alien I literally finished high school, went to college, finished college, got married, got a plush tech job (90s 🎉), had kids, and my kids were in school themselves when this came out.
The 90s is one of the greatest decades in film history. It wasnt just Jurassic Park or Tremors or Demolition Man that shined. We got amazing dramas like Titanic, Braveheart, Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential. Who cares that Event Horizon didn't do as well then. Galaxy Quest wasn't a big hit either. But they've both become cult classics
Last of the Mohicans, The Fifth Element, Robin Hood (Costner), 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, The Usual Suspects, and (although I find the movie is shit) Scream. Yeah, 90's was golden.
Demolition Man? Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Robin Hood (🤮), Starship Troopers, and Scream all sucked balls. Some of the others mentioned do rule, though. There were a lot of big budget movies but as for quality I don’t think it measures up to the 80s, though it was probably better or similar to the 00s and better than the 10s. Today’s movies are a mix of really bad and decent or good indie films from companies like A24. Almost no reason to go to a movie theater anymore.
I saw "Event Horizon" in theaters. It was terrifying. BUT the last 1/3 of the movie was a jumbled mess. The lost footage would help so much with that. Good movie that could have been great.
best scifi horror ever - it's such an underused genre. I put this at the top of my horror list, with Colour out of Space, Lord of Illusions, In the Mouth of Madness, and a large portion (but not all) of the Hellraiser movies. Some might see a common theme in my favourite horrors - crossing boundaries and insanity. I'm a HUGE fan of Lovecraftian stories and Clive Barker; and wish we had way more big films of this style than we do.
I saw it in theater, all I remember about the experience is jumpscares. Wasn't my thing but I did enjoy it upon rewatching on VHS. The "it takes place in the Warhammer universe" theory is pretty fun.
The 40k inspiration is the best thing about it. it's a terrifying premise. Unfortunately, the script sucks, the acting is hammy, and what ends up on screen is a huge mess.
I saw Event Horizon in the cinema in 1997. I used to go with a friend every week to see a movie that we'd no idea about, the best we knew was that EH was a space flick. Holy sh*t balls, we came away in shock. Really appreciated the production value and the story but we were just so confronted by the gruesome spectacle and no happy ending, and....loved it! PS - I've never seen Spawn or Anaconda.
I loved the concept of EH. Yes, they discovered how to do hyperspace using another dimension to shortcut travel through our universe. Problem: other dimension is hell. That is just a very cool concept which for me carried the film.
Took a long time though. My head canon is that after the Event Horizon incident, they rediscovered this tech every few centuries, but the results of the jumps (i.e. demon-possessed spaceships) occurred every time. So it took humanity a while to figure out that this was an ongoing problem and it took a long time to develop Gellar Fields before this tech became usable.
I watched Event Horizon at the cinema when it came out. I always saw the connection to 40k BUT. If you watch the making of. They never once mention warhammer (despite the iconography during the hell scene literally with 8 pointed stars etc as well as the warp travel/lack of gellar field). Director said that the ship design was inspired by the Norte dam cathedral, not a single mention of 40k. Also Leutin09 hates the connection and he is the lore master so 🤷♂️
The biggest issue I had with Event Horizon at the time was the marketing. Contact had come out in July, and this definitely rode that wave and was hyped as "Sam Neill space mystery", not "Doom without shotguns". No one likes a bait and switch at the theater.
Marketing definitely was all wrong for this movie. It played everything safe and no one had any idea what they were about to see. For some people this was a good thing, for many others not so good. But then again, I think we all crave for a modern movie to come out and for the trailer not to tell us the entire plot in 30 seconds.
Yes, I went to see it on its opening back in the day, here in the UK. The cinema was packed. The audience loved it. There were no empty seats. When I learned later it flopped I was amazed. It was good, not great by very good and a decent enough horror thriller. It was not as good as Alien, but it was the first big budget Sci Fi Horror that was similar, that I was old enough to finally go and see in a cinema. It also seemed to sell like mad on DvD when it was released in the early days of that new format back in 1999. All sci fi and horror fans bought it for their collection, and it was the same with the Thing, another film that did so much better on home release than it did in theatres....
Maybe this explains a bit of it: th-cam.com/video/IRjmQXDhyps/w-d-xo.html Wormhole missing a spinning blue box though..😸 But incidentally, (maybe) they also contributed both to DrWHO and..that Spawn.
Hmm... That's the same reaction I experienced when I saw Carpenter's "The Thing" in the theater with my friend. I sat through the movie enthralled. My friend kept shuddering and turning sideways in his seat away from the screen.
Scariest part is the line "this ship has been beyond the boundaries of our universe, of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been, what it's seen... or what it's brought back with it?". That concept alone is pure horror!
I gave up on Roger Ebert as a critic when I heard he gave "Tora, Tora, Tora" a negative review, then praised "Pearl Harbor " enthusiastically, objectively a mediocre film.
While I love the historical accuracy of "Tora Tora Tora!" I immediately admit it is not the most engaging film. First half of the film, most people not interested in history will be fast asleep, only to be rudely awoken when the attack finally begins. Pearl Harbor - I did like it. Not a great movie but very entertaining nonetheless. But being a bit of a historian myself, I prefer watching "Tora Tora Tora!" because it is historically accurate. Pearl Harbor is luxurious bubblegum.
@@AudieHolland Pearl Harbor was garbage in my eyes even when I was 15 when it came out. Just a story about a threesome that will never happen, or something like that. And then some mediocre action with guns and bombs and 'MURICA!!!! I mean even by Michael Bay standards it's really quite low.
Honestly, I kinda shrugged at this movie. The horror didn't scare me. The best scene to me was the crew watches the last log entries and their captain says. "We're leaving." Best subversion in horror. Common sense is not dead.
The scene in the medical bay scared that out of me. Not saying it while talking about Event Horizon. The scariest part of it was the possibility for the inventor's suicidal wife to actually have wound up there and the fact that the humans had to do the dirty work. Other visible monsters would have been refreshing, right? At least in the crew's hallucinations. You knew immediately that, even if the inventor had rushed to that door, the gore would have been his duty.
If you like subverted expectations try Feast 1, 2, & 3. Executive produced by Wes Craven, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. No big name stars in it that I recall, and it was kind of dumb at times, but fun for all that.
If it was released properly maybe his whole career would have been different! We'll never know... I personally love Paul W.S. Anderson, great entertainer, if only he was duo with a good writer!
I love Event Horizon. I enjoyed the fact the main villain was not an actual person, alien or robot but the ship itself. One part which makes me laugh each time thought is the way cooper says "Dont hit me!" after getting back onboard.
You put me in mind of The Other Side of Midnight, which was expected to be a smash hit and even an Oscar shoo-in, so much so that the studio insisted on its being shown as a double feature as a favor to the B-feature, a little sci-fi project called ... Star Wars.
Well , *I* bought a ticket and saw it in the theater. So, I didn't really know it bombed. But, to be fair, I also bought a ticket to see "Spawn" and "Copland" that year also.
To be fair, Spawn was a new take on Super Heros that was less Superman and Batman the movie and ushered in a approach to directing. Spawn felt like half a blockbuster, half made for video in the early days of CGI. It was the production equivalent of the embryo that would grow and evolve into Bryan Singers significantly more polished X-Men
Spawn has a great story, but the movie isn't executed well. Some of the special effects are so bad, that even back in the time when it was released, they looked terribly cheap (the hell scene - wtf?)!
The Pertwees are one of the great British acting dynasties. Sean's dad was Jon Pertwee, the third Doctor Who, his uncle was Michael Pertwee who wrote many British films and their cousin was Bill Pertwee who is best known for playing ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army. No one is in danger of losing Sean.
Event Horizon definitely felt like parts were missing and scenes seemed disjointed here and there. It's such a shame that Paul Anderson didn't go back to create an Extended Director's Cut; showing us what he truly wanted to convey; even if the special cut would have ended up 3 hours long.
I worked at a movie theatre and we did a sneak the Thursday night before opening. After everyone cleaned up and went home. The next night we all got together for another sneak (maybe copland), and everyone was so weirdly quiet beforehand. Every new group i stopped by to say hi to had the same conversation, 'so that was fucked up, right?', 'terrifying'. Only scary movie I've seen as an adult.
Really cool factoid: Sam Neill's character has an Australian flag on the shoulder of his flightsuit, except the Union Jack in the upper-left corner of the flag patch has been replaced with the Aboriginal flag - as an Aussie I have to say: I'm OK with that, seriously...
Blade Runner was considered to be an expensive flop, and turned out to be foundational for practically every science fiction film that ever followed. Haven't seen this one, but it looks like the black hole meets Solaris.
While Blade Runner was a great movie, it was objectively a theatrical flop. It only had a domestic and Australian release, for a total of a bit north of $27.6 million on a production budget of $30 million, which doesn't include advertising and secondary budgets. It only became financially positive decades later from home sales, even subsequent theater releases over the last 4 decades only increased the box office totals by a bit more than $14.1 million to a total worldwide 4 decade box office of a bit more than $41.75 million.
@nerofl89 you're talking about money 💰 almost exclusively. It was the look of it that was influential for the most part. The issues that were being addressed certainly qualify as science fiction the same as solaris. Alien on the other hand was more of a horror action deal. So bladerunner stands as a success in its own right. Similar circumstances befall both Ralph Bakshi making wizards and George Lucas making the original star wars film, when they met in the big studios waiting room and both were looking for money 💰 to complete their projects. Both were turned down, and both found finances and did make their films. Wizards was a 1 million dollar 💵 budget and playing in theaters earning money, but it was pulled from theaters to make room for star wars. So they let it run to earn 1 million bucks and break even, and out it went. Those studios must regret turning Lucas down now. If you can find the DVD of wizards, in the special features Ralph explains all of this.
@@alancadieux2984 You wrote a useless essay only to exclusively ignore what the term "flop" means by movie standards, and that is the financial outcome. The esthetics or it's influence is irrelevant, the movie, no matter how good it is, was a flop.
@@alancadieux2984 I'll be gracious enough to leave that just to you, at least my few sentences directly addressed things you said and was not a bunch of useless tangents.
I liked this movie so much and was so disappointed at the og version being heavily edited, i still kind of expect someone from the film crew someday coming forward saying "i actually have a saved copy of the original cut"...
It looked great in the cinema, and I thought it wasn't bad as a movie, but it's one of those things that improve upon further viewings. At the time, I'd have given it a six, but now my score would be closer to eight. 🍄
"Scary" movies seldom scare me. I usually find them predictable and forgettable. I first watched Event Horizon alone one evening when my girlfriend was at work. I didn't get any sleep that night. I lay there in bed for hours, with the lights on, until my girlfriend got home. To this day, I rank Event Horizon as the most terrifying movie I've ever seen 😂
This is literally one of my favorite all time horror movies. i was already familiar with the concept of folding space and the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics so I found the movie's premise super exciting. In fact it was intense for me at one point I almost had to leave the theatre and I was obsessed with the sound track for years.
I saw Event horizon at the cinema when it came out. I didn't "hate" it, but it was more ... "confusion"? I went in expecting a sci-fi movie, but got this blend of religious horror and sci-fi instead, sort of an "Exorcists in Space" vibe. I don't know, maybe that was a large part of what drove the audience reaction? I have to say that I actually now very much enjoy the film, and was definitely disappointed that the possibility of a director's cut was off the table.
The reason the movies did so good on video was you could pause "that" scene. It goes by so fast in theaters that most people just ended up saying "what the hell was that?" At home, you know exactly what hell that was! Literal hell! Still makes me squirm all these years later!
The very first time i watched it i could tell it had been butchered. Too many dead ends in the second half that should have been allowed to run on. I would love to see the majestic full version.
Roger Ebert said it best. This film has a great deal of foreboding, a lot of afterboding, but no actual boding. It may also be a stealth prequel to Warhammer 40k.
I had a friend in high school who saw this opening weekend. He loved it, but he loved everything he saw in a theater. Including Spawn. I'm grateful that home media has salvaged the reputations of hidden gems like Event Horizon.
I love the random high and low scores Roger Ebert has given some films. Like the idea that all you needed is to catch him on a good day and not bore him is quite inspiring.
I wasn't exactly thrilled with it when I was watching it in the theater. Mostly because the ads I saw for it pretty much made it seem a straight Sci-Fi movie, so it was kind of off. But later looking at it from a Horror Sci-Fi point of view it was pretty good.
I watched both Spawn and Event Horizon at the cinema and Event Horizon is waaaaay better than Spawn. It was actually a pretty good film and I have it in HD. Would have loved to see the original stuff that was cut, though
I loved EH when it came out. Wouldn't get gore in space like that again until "Jason X." Great design and photography. Cast stacked with solid stars. I knew it was likely to tank but figured it would do a lot better on home video and was right. The idea of a series isn't bad in theory, but it would be going up against the expectation that it will restore all the blood, guts, and sex chopped from the film. That may be a stretch, even for streaming. However, if they ever do make the stupid thing, I nominate Toby Stephans as the Captain. If you haven't seen him as "Captain Flint" in "Black Sails," you've missed one of the most ferocious performances in a series. Stephans would kill in an "Event Horizon" series.
8:10 The wormhole demonstration scene was not only copied in "Interstellar" it was also copied in "Thor: Love and Thunder", where Natalie Portman actually mentions "Event Horizon" by name.
@@kudukilla It was also in the book "A Wrinkle in Time" although their demonstration is slightly different since it needed to work on the page rather than the screen.
The flashes of graphic video with the screams when they are reviewing the last video log entry set the tone for the movie...and still messes me up today. Your head makes it even worse than seeing it.
I'd fight them rather than let them take either, personally. And as 1- I'm not exactly prize fighter material and 2- I had to make do to survive schoolyard bullies back in the day, you better bet I'm fighting dirty as hell.
I saw this movie in theaters. I walked out into the sunshine and shivered. The movie creeped me out so much I had to stand in the sun to get warm again. Lol. To this day it is still hard to watch, but I do watch it periodically. I recently watched a TH-cam of a young woman watching this movie. Her reactions were awesome to watch. I did like the live action Spawn movie too. Just sayin'. John Leguizamo as the Fat Clown was hilarious. "Uh-oh... you got that 'I'm gonna beat the fat little clown' look in your eyes!"
The Event Horizon has been past the unknown boundaries of outer space and has come back possessing an evil force, Anderson’s film details cosmic horror under the guise of science fiction and in the shadows of Lovecraft. The ‘weird fiction’ author had often written of the fragility of the human mind when it experiences the horrors from beyond their usual rational perceptions, and as the astronauts of Event Horizon face up to the hellish reality of the spaceship, their deepest fears and desires are exposed through nightmarish visions. In that light, Anderson’s film borrows from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris as well as Lovecraft’s works, which famously include ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and The Shadow over Innsmouth. This confrontation of the limits of the human mind is no short feat for a piece of cinema, bringing to mind the existential dread of Lovecraft’s most psychologically tormented characters.
With Hellraiser, Clive Barker produced one of the most enjoyable and accomplished horror films of all time and, in Doug Bradley's Pinhead, a horror icon to rival Lugosi and Karloff. Hellraiser doesn't pretend to be an adaptation of any of Lovecraft's stories, but the influence that he had is written all over it.
@@zunipus Clive Barker cribs from Lovecraft. Up until Lovecraft, the basis of horror (not that it was a particularly mature genre at the point Lovecraft was writing) had basically been the inhumanity of man when man's humanity is stripped away by some form of death or undeath (Dracula/Frankenstein/Zombies/Witches/Werewolves/Ghosts). The basis of Lovecraft's horror is that the very universe, a faceless, nameless, indescribable power; is inherently hostile not just to humans, but to the very existence of humanity and that hostility, being the universe, exists everywhere, but stands just outside of human perception. What is known as 'cosmic horror'. That was a fundamental shift in the nature of horror. Without Lovecraft, there would have been no Clive Barker and no Event Horizon. There would also have been no H.R. Giger and no Alien movies and no Warhammer 40K either. I doubt you would even find Satan or 'The Devil' particularly referenced as a horror trope before Lovecraft.
Loved this film, it was heavily promoted in the UK and was well received here. It’s a shame Paramount rushed it instead of waiting for a finished Halloween release that would have been so much more popular.
It's almost always sci-fi or horror movies that somehow later become cult classics when they fail at the box office. From Blade Runner, Waterworld, Starship Troopers, The Abyss, Tron, Donnie Darko, The Thing and many others of the 80s and 90s scifi through to more modern fare like Ad Astra and the brilliant Dredd, all of these films were considered failures but later went on to become cult classics.
I was promised a fascinating SciFi movie. I went opening night. Sam Neil is ALWAYS a draw because of Omen III. The minute the Hell connection came in there were groans in the cinema. It just went downhill at terminal velocity. A beautiful but dreadful disaster.
Spaceship that has a warp drive creating portals through Hell feels like a winning ticket to me...some straight-up Doom vibes right there. Then again, I'm always up for some sci-fi in my horror and some horror in my sci-fi, so I may be in the minority.
Horror and science fiction were originally the same genre because people fear what they don't understand. Mary Wollstonecraft was 16 when she wrote The Modern Prometheus, as part of a horror fiction contest, and in the foreword she argues that it is all the more scary for a really being plausible. No elves, no demons, no supernatural nonsense, just science and medicine and murder. This is commonly credited as the birth of science fiction, although there are science fiction stories going back to antiquity. And very few of them have monsters. Still, with the pulp magazines of the 20th century, both science fiction and fantasy were under the horror label because they didn't fit either romance or crime.
The scariest movie I have ever watched because I went into the theater not expecting what would play out. I had no idea it was a horror movie, and to this day, I still can't watch it because of that. But it would be an A if I had to give it a rating because nothing was predictable.
I recall when Shout/Scream Factory released their Collector's Edition on bluray, they announced that they truly did try their best to obtain the lost elements in order to incorporate the missing footage in the film but simply couldn't. The elements are absolutely lost or destroyed and sadly we'll just never see it.
@@GiantFreakinRobot I hear you, it was a unique design. I preferred the design of the rescue ship. It felt more like a usable vessel and less like hostile architecture.
I know Event Horizon is the MECA of horror enthusiasts, but it really was not that good. It deserves the "cult following" it has now, but they took a potentially good sci-fi movie and dumbed it down into a jump-scare slasher flick. It is NOT better than Ghost Ship for the simple reason that Ghost Ship had character development, not just "Jason in outer space."
@@GiantFreakinRobot And that is great. I totally understand why some people love splatter films and hope they keep making them fo you. We all want films we like.
Event Horizon was great even cut up. The biggest travesty is we’ll never get to see the movie uncut.
Agree. I love it regardless
totally agree
Echo that. Brilliant story. Dr Who Jnr is on board 😊
yep, but..... with AI development maybe the cut and lost /and cut but still existing in low quality/ can be reconstructed so we will get seemless revival version..... same goes for The Keep and few other fuckups that could have been great....also the newer rambo movies that were converted to what pg-6 rating? would be reedited for proper gore
I've seen it several times and always enjoy it. Completely underrated even with the choppy edit.
Event Horizon was and is a masterpiece space horror. Classic Fishburne line: We're leaving!
"We're leaving!"
No human being in the history of horror movies were as smart as this man was at this moment.
@@britishpatriot7386 I don't remember anyone being that adamant about getting out of there until it was well and truly too late. Once they were already phucked it was, "take off, nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure!"
Alien 1978. 1st 15mins...
Lambert: I don't like this place. Let's go.
Dallas: Don't worry. It'll be fine.
😮
@gusgrimm7533 ah, that's true. I forgot about that scene. But I'm still giving it to Event Horizon because they actually tried to follow through instead of sticking around for the mission.
It's a great line everybody in the theater laughed. It's a great character It's too bad it had the director it did it really is a great movie with great actors in it.
@timothythompson4144 Agreed. I really, really enjoy that movie.
Certain people sneer at science fiction but it has the highest number of 'panned' movies now revered as classics. Event Horizon and John Carpenter's The Thing, for two.
Blade Runner,
@@davidwhite7767 I was going to mention that very film ;)
Yeah, Ebert did a really crappy review for The Thing too…😊
They are all better than anything like titanic. Give me sci-fi over any of that other crap.
The thing was an instant classic. The Prequel was pretty good also
I only listened to this review... because where we're going, we don't need eyes...
Well thanks for listening then! But not a review
I "see" what you did there. That was funny. Maybe second best line in the movie. Best line was "We're leaving".
I love this movie...saw it when it first came out and a jazillion times since.
great use of back to the future line
@Mirpurmad ...
You don't know the movie.
The coolest thing about Event Horizon was the setting. Voyager had just taken magnificent photos of Neptune a few years before, and this was a perfect place for a sci fi horror movie.
Neptune is frighteningly cold place with supersonic wind storms (2,400 kph!!!!)
And it's so far away that even the sun struggles against the dark of space.
And yet, amazingly, the subsurface oceans of Triton might contain hidden life...weird life that's never seen a flicker of light.
Yeah...it doesn't get much better than that.
Dune
"Ad Astra" was a great movie that featured Neptune.
Im glad I dont care what the "mainstream" thinks about anything... Event Horizon is definitely in my movie collection... 👍🙂
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Amen😃
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"Mortal Kombat!...90's techno"
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Double Dragon
MK Annihilation
Event Horizon is one of, if not the, dumbest movie ever made...
What he said
Aw, I thought this would be Deep Rising. Went with friends, had the theater to ourselves while everyone else went for Titanic and we laughed and screamed all the way through it. One of the best theater experiences I ever had!
It's because men had a girlfriends and they want to see Titanic...
I prefer Deep rising which I saw in the theater. The crowd watching DR were laughing and screaming at the same time. The actor who played Benny in the mummy stole the movie.
Event Horizon scared me immensely, the whole concept of abyss of space and a self aware spaceship possessed by unknown entities or some time twisted mind bending entities was just pure terrifying entertainment.
Yeah, some of the dismemberment clips of the original crew were shocking. I didn't know it was a horror in space, I thought it was a sci-fi adventure ... boy, did I need new trousers after that one.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handleThe forced fellatio scenes were even more disturbing. Experienced porn actors were actually used for those sexually graphic scenes.
You had 66 likes. I had to make it 67 😅. This movie was crazy.
I’m glad I found this comment, Im a Huge Science Fiction fan. I am not a fan of horror. I bend a little .. But This Movie was A lot. when my buddy asked me if I saw it (describing it as a science fiction film) I was happy to see it…. Boy was I wrong 😑.
.. it’s really just the one scene.. My brain just can’t comprehend the gore. Be a good horror movie or a good science fiction movie..🎥 Don’t be a bad horror science fiction movie.
@@richardcollier1912 I'd obliterated that scene from my memory. Thanks for helping it creep back.
With a connection to Event Horizon I also think Pandorum (2009) is also very underrated.
You know some how I missed this and just came across it last year. I thought it was an awesome movie with a huge reveal at the end and it's hard to fool me but I never would have guessed where they were in a million years. I've seen thousands of movies and it's to the point where most of them I can figure out the plot a 1/4 to 1/2 way in but ones like this kept me going to the end. Same goes for Predestination. That one blew me away.
Pandorum is scary, freaky... totally agree.
@@jamescole6846I am also a Movie Sleuth and came up snakes eyes on my guesses.
Another great one.
Very entertaining and good film,bought the dvd from Blockbuster Videos ( any one remember them ?? ) I need to dig up my dvd for a re-watch.
Event Horizon was one of the best science fiction/horror ever done. It's to bad the really horrific edits were destroyed...
To bad? Is that the same as from good? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bruh, to and too are different words with different meanings. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@slappy8941 Yawn 🥱
I can't even imagine the horrifying stuff cut out ... terrified enough by what we got!🫣
There’s enough bits and pieces on youtube to sate some of that curiosity but it’s a dam shame we won’t get a real director’s cut.
@@slappy8941 That's a rather extreme reaction to a common homonym error. Are you okay? Is this some kind of coping mechanism?
I first saw this movie back in '97 in the theater and my first thought was that this was the best origin story for Warhammer 40K warp drive. The Event horizon went into the Warp without a navigator or a Geller field and the demons ate them for snacks.
I see you Henry Cavill.
Writer Phil Eisner stated that he was a big 40k fan and that the film was heavily influenced by it. It's obviously not an official Warhammer release but the overall atmosphere and tone of Event Horizon is probably as near as you'll ever get to 40k.
@@Azhalan - Just call it a prequel and enjoy.
In this case, we tore each other appart.
Hmm if you think about it, the Immaterium Warp Drive must have been developed before the Gellar Field... because they wouldn't know they needed the field until they tried testing the drive.
And it must have looked something like... this film.
Saw it in theaters after a co-worker recommended it. She didn’t tell me it was “Hellraiser in space”. I don’t watch horror movies and it took everything in me to sit all the way through it. She heard from me the next day! 😂
The movie was grotesque. Hollywood ran dry of fake blood for weeks after it was made, and the sheer stupidity of some the characters in it made the movie almost as hard to watch. "Gee, I know I'm on a spaceship in the middle of nowhere, but that must really be my little son running around here." Good grief.
@@rcnelson I'm with you. I saw it at a free sneak preview and was digging it for about 2/3rds of the film. The last third just did not work at all for me. In the end, after trying several of his films I just realize that the director is not for me.
@@rcnelsonAnd the guy actually thinking he won't need eyes on that trip! And to open that door! Did you see how the crew of the Event Horizon spent their last moments, why would they think those were good ideas?!
@@rcnelsonyou don't understand the movie lmfao. The warp engine is messing with their mentality, they don't realise they're hallucinating. Imagine hating a movie because you were too dumb to understand it lol.
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The only let down of Event Horizon is not getting to experience the ship traveling through the wormhole.
It wasn't a good experience for those poor pioneers, so the viewers are exempt from it.
Come on, those two proved to the world that movie critics were full of crap, inconsistent and shouldn’t be taken seriously, at least the mainstream media critics
Siskel was inconsistent, but Ebert was like a Rotten Tomatoes critic score. Only if it was an undeniable masterpiece, or objectively bad, was there a chance he'd get it right. Unless he gave it one or four stars, I could count on the opposite of his review being reality.
The critics said Independence Day was going to bomb in theaters because the Fresh Prince wasn't an action star... (I saw the movie 8 times in theaters, bought the Letterbox VHDS AND then the DVD boxed set... Screw the critics. They hate a movie I go watch it. They love a movie, I avoid it like the plague. They like a movie and I wait for it to come out on rental.) Lol.
@ yeah, we did pretty much the same thing,
That is one wild ride on the Event Horizon. Went to see this on the big screen back in the day, the title sound cool, the poster was intriguing, and there was no wait to get in to see it. What an amazing movie. Let's keep up hope for those lost reels turning up one day.
I saw it then as well i`m a bit of a wuss and it scared the cr*p out of me but a loved it....
Fantastic movie. Every nightmare you ever had about space. Beautifully shot.
Sam Nell also known for the movie “Omen” film too. Event Horizon still holds on its own for its horror theme, even though “Alien” was still fresh in many people’s minds.
Fresh? Alien came out 16 years earlier.
Yeah that felt like a lifetime between those movies. After Alien I literally finished high school, went to college, finished college, got married, got a plush tech job (90s 🎉), had kids, and my kids were in school themselves when this came out.
Omen III
The 90s is one of the greatest decades in film history. It wasnt just Jurassic Park or Tremors or Demolition Man that shined. We got amazing dramas like Titanic, Braveheart, Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential. Who cares that Event Horizon didn't do as well then. Galaxy Quest wasn't a big hit either. But they've both become cult classics
Last of the Mohicans, The Fifth Element, Robin Hood (Costner), 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, The Usual Suspects, and (although I find the movie is shit) Scream.
Yeah, 90's was golden.
Demolition Man? Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Robin Hood (🤮), Starship Troopers, and Scream all sucked balls. Some of the others mentioned do rule, though. There were a lot of big budget movies but as for quality I don’t think it measures up to the 80s, though it was probably better or similar to the 00s and better than the 10s. Today’s movies are a mix of really bad and decent or good indie films from companies like A24. Almost no reason to go to a movie theater anymore.
@dukeon wait. Why does Braveheart and Forrest Gump suck balls??
@@dukeon Someone clearly has s*** taste
@@dukeon What the frick, man? You must have a mind as shallow as a kiddie pool to hate those films.
I remember seeing it at the cinema and I adored the film. It’s just a shame the deleted grizzly deleted scenes were not preserved.
I saw "Event Horizon" in theaters. It was terrifying. BUT the last 1/3 of the movie was a jumbled mess. The lost footage would help so much with that. Good movie that could have been great.
best scifi horror ever - it's such an underused genre. I put this at the top of my horror list, with Colour out of Space, Lord of Illusions, In the Mouth of Madness, and a large portion (but not all) of the Hellraiser movies. Some might see a common theme in my favourite horrors - crossing boundaries and insanity. I'm a HUGE fan of Lovecraftian stories and Clive Barker; and wish we had way more big films of this style than we do.
You and me both!!!
I saw it in theater, all I remember about the experience is jumpscares. Wasn't my thing but I did enjoy it upon rewatching on VHS. The "it takes place in the Warhammer universe" theory is pretty fun.
The 40k inspiration is the best thing about it. it's a terrifying premise. Unfortunately, the script sucks, the acting is hammy, and what ends up on screen is a huge mess.
I saw Event Horizon in the cinema in 1997. I used to go with a friend every week to see a movie that we'd no idea about, the best we knew was that EH was a space flick. Holy sh*t balls, we came away in shock. Really appreciated the production value and the story but we were just so confronted by the gruesome spectacle and no happy ending, and....loved it! PS - I've never seen Spawn or Anaconda.
Spawn was meh. Anaconda? Another movie to show off CGI.
I loved the concept of EH. Yes, they discovered how to do hyperspace using another dimension to shortcut travel through our universe. Problem: other dimension is hell. That is just a very cool concept which for me carried the film.
It's a great concept, I still don't think the movie itself is very good though.
You should look into the lore behind Warhammer 40k (the Warp) and Doom. They all use the same concept.
Warhammer 40000 fans know this event as the debacle which convinced Earth to invent the Geller Field
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Took a long time though. My head canon is that after the Event Horizon incident, they rediscovered this tech every few centuries, but the results of the jumps (i.e. demon-possessed spaceships) occurred every time. So it took humanity a while to figure out that this was an ongoing problem and it took a long time to develop Gellar Fields before this tech became usable.
I watched Event Horizon at the cinema when it came out. I always saw the connection to 40k BUT. If you watch the making of. They never once mention warhammer (despite the iconography during the hell scene literally with 8 pointed stars etc as well as the warp travel/lack of gellar field). Director said that the ship design was inspired by the Norte dam cathedral, not a single mention of 40k. Also Leutin09 hates the connection and he is the lore master so 🤷♂️
The biggest issue I had with Event Horizon at the time was the marketing. Contact had come out in July, and this definitely rode that wave and was hyped as "Sam Neill space mystery", not "Doom without shotguns". No one likes a bait and switch at the theater.
Marketing definitely was all wrong for this movie. It played everything safe and no one had any idea what they were about to see. For some people this was a good thing, for many others not so good.
But then again, I think we all crave for a modern movie to come out and for the trailer not to tell us the entire plot in 30 seconds.
Event Horizon is in the running for best horror flick ever. I feel it's so good because the premise seems plausible.
Clearly this was an American issue, because I remember everyone in the UK loving it.
As an American classic Doctor Who fan, I instantly recognized Mr. Smith as the third doctor’s son.
Yes, I went to see it on its opening back in the day, here in the UK. The cinema was packed. The audience loved it. There were no empty seats. When I learned later it flopped I was amazed. It was good, not great by very good and a decent enough horror thriller. It was not as good as Alien, but it was the first big budget Sci Fi Horror that was similar, that I was old enough to finally go and see in a cinema. It also seemed to sell like mad on DvD when it was released in the early days of that new format back in 1999. All sci fi and horror fans bought it for their collection, and it was the same with the Thing, another film that did so much better on home release than it did in theatres....
Maybe this explains a bit of it:
th-cam.com/video/IRjmQXDhyps/w-d-xo.html
Wormhole missing a spinning blue box though..😸
But incidentally, (maybe) they also contributed both to DrWHO and..that Spawn.
I swear 40k must be naturally embedded in every Brit's psyche, that makes total sense.
@@benrig89 yeah, it was totally a 40k movie.
I saw it in the theater and thought it was great. The people I went with were pretty freaked out though.
It can do that!
Hmm... That's the same reaction I experienced when I saw Carpenter's "The Thing" in the theater with my friend. I sat through the movie enthralled. My friend kept shuddering and turning sideways in his seat away from the screen.
I saw it at the cinema also and was freaked out. LOL. I thought this film was your standard sci-fi romp,boy,was I wrong.
Scariest part is the line "this ship has been beyond the boundaries of our universe, of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been, what it's seen... or what it's brought back with it?".
That concept alone is pure horror!
It sounds like a summary of Darwin's expedition on HMS Beagle.
Great cast. Great characters. Great writing. Freaky story. Actually frightening.
I watched it in theaters as a teenager. Event Horizon is freaking awesome. I will die on this hill.
I gave up on Roger Ebert as a critic when I heard he gave "Tora, Tora, Tora" a negative review, then praised "Pearl Harbor " enthusiastically, objectively a mediocre film.
While I love the historical accuracy of "Tora Tora Tora!" I immediately admit it is not the most engaging film.
First half of the film, most people not interested in history will be fast asleep, only to be rudely awoken when the attack finally begins.
Pearl Harbor - I did like it. Not a great movie but very entertaining nonetheless.
But being a bit of a historian myself, I prefer watching "Tora Tora Tora!" because it is historically accurate.
Pearl Harbor is luxurious bubblegum.
Nailed it 🔨 He was a loon!
@@bigtomboye Who needs movie critics anyway?
@@AudieHolland Pearl Harbor was garbage in my eyes even when I was 15 when it came out. Just a story about a threesome that will never happen, or something like that. And then some mediocre action with guns and bombs and 'MURICA!!!!
I mean even by Michael Bay standards it's really quite low.
I had agreed with almost every one of Roger Ebert's scores until this brief--and very stranger--time in movie history. Kind of a loopy season for him.
Honestly, I kinda shrugged at this movie. The horror didn't scare me.
The best scene to me was the crew watches the last log entries and their captain says. "We're leaving." Best subversion in horror. Common sense is not dead.
The scene in the medical bay scared that out of me. Not saying it while talking about Event Horizon. The scariest part of it was the possibility for the inventor's suicidal wife to actually have wound up there and the fact that the humans had to do the dirty work. Other visible monsters would have been refreshing, right? At least in the crew's hallucinations. You knew immediately that, even if the inventor had rushed to that door, the gore would have been his duty.
If you like subverted expectations try Feast 1, 2, & 3. Executive produced by Wes Craven, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. No big name stars in it that I recall, and it was kind of dumb at times, but fun for all that.
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Despite everything, Event Horizon remains the director’s best film.
If it was released properly maybe his whole career would have been different! We'll never know... I personally love Paul W.S. Anderson, great entertainer, if only he was duo with a good writer!
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Soldier could have been great, but what we got… Jaysus.
@@PitNeex he has a mate he works with Jeremey Bolt, another top in the field, look him up
I love Event Horizon. I enjoyed the fact the main villain was not an actual person, alien or robot but the ship itself.
One part which makes me laugh each time thought is the way cooper says "Dont hit me!" after getting back onboard.
This also clearly a pre 40k story where humanity didn't understand the hell dimension that will later be called the warp.
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@@GiantFreakinRobot you must not be a pom. For lots of poms, Cavill is a tourist newb.
Great video on Event Horizon. I admit didn't understand it when it first released. But i liked it alot more on rewatches.
Thanks!
You put me in mind of The Other Side of Midnight, which was expected to be a smash hit and even an Oscar shoo-in, so much so that the studio insisted on its being shown as a double feature as a favor to the B-feature, a little sci-fi project called ... Star Wars.
Well , *I* bought a ticket and saw it in the theater. So, I didn't really know it bombed. But, to be fair, I also bought a ticket to see "Spawn" and "Copland" that year also.
As did I! Lol
Copland was good. So overlooked.
To be fair, Spawn was a new take on Super Heros that was less Superman and Batman the movie and ushered in a approach to directing. Spawn felt like half a blockbuster, half made for video in the early days of CGI. It was the production equivalent of the embryo that would grow and evolve into Bryan Singers significantly more polished X-Men
Spawn has a great story, but the movie isn't executed well. Some of the special effects are so bad, that even back in the time when it was released, they looked terribly cheap (the hell scene - wtf?)!
I still listen to the soundtrack
A classic. I saw it at the theater when it first came out. The failure of this film is totally on the studio. I bought a digital copy.
I saw Event Horizon when it hit the theaters in 97 and instantly loved it
"Have you ever seen fire at 0 g? Its beautiful. Slides over everything."
the studio screwed over the movie real bad
Event Horizon deserves a high quality sequel.
I’d love that.
Not now, not in this moment, please
Or a prequel!!
Both a prequel and a sequel that gives more information on the original Event Horizon including scenes missed out, lost and recreated.
I didn't watch it in the theatres and only later watched it on DVD, and I've loved it ever since. I still watch it every now and again.
It has Sean Pertwee...a great lost actor.
How is he “lost”?
He was a great Alfred Pennyworth. :)
WYM "lost"? Bloke's still alive at 60.
The Pertwees are one of the great British acting dynasties. Sean's dad was Jon Pertwee, the third Doctor Who, his uncle was Michael Pertwee who wrote many British films and their cousin was Bill Pertwee who is best known for playing ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army. No one is in danger of losing Sean.
Event Horizon definitely felt like parts were missing and scenes seemed disjointed here and there. It's such a shame that Paul Anderson didn't go back to create an Extended Director's Cut; showing us what he truly wanted to convey; even if the special cut would have ended up 3 hours long.
I really hated the Titanic movie. I've never seen it again and I never want to .
LOL, from the time of its release I decided I'd never watch it even once. Decades later I'm proud to say I still haven't.
So you still don't know how it ends?
I worked at a movie theatre and we did a sneak the Thursday night before opening. After everyone cleaned up and went home. The next night we all got together for another sneak (maybe copland), and everyone was so weirdly quiet beforehand. Every new group i stopped by to say hi to had the same conversation, 'so that was fucked up, right?', 'terrifying'. Only scary movie I've seen as an adult.
Really cool factoid: Sam Neill's character has an Australian flag on the shoulder of his flightsuit, except the Union Jack in the upper-left corner of the flag patch has been replaced with the Aboriginal flag - as an Aussie I have to say: I'm OK with that, seriously...
One of the greatest sci fi horror movies ever made. There are not enough movies like it.
Blade Runner was considered to be an expensive flop, and turned out to be foundational for practically every science fiction film that ever followed. Haven't seen this one, but it looks like the black hole meets Solaris.
While Blade Runner was a great movie, it was objectively a theatrical flop. It only had a domestic and Australian release, for a total of a bit north of $27.6 million on a production budget of $30 million, which doesn't include advertising and secondary budgets. It only became financially positive decades later from home sales, even subsequent theater releases over the last 4 decades only increased the box office totals by a bit more than $14.1 million to a total worldwide 4 decade box office of a bit more than $41.75 million.
@nerofl89 you're talking about money 💰 almost exclusively. It was the look of it that was influential for the most part. The issues that were being addressed certainly qualify as science fiction the same as solaris. Alien on the other hand was more of a horror action deal. So bladerunner stands as a success in its own right. Similar circumstances befall both Ralph Bakshi making wizards and George Lucas making the original star wars film, when they met in the big studios waiting room and both were looking for money 💰 to complete their projects. Both were turned down, and both found finances and did make their films. Wizards was a 1 million dollar 💵 budget and playing in theaters earning money, but it was pulled from theaters to make room for star wars. So they let it run to earn 1 million bucks and break even, and out it went. Those studios must regret turning Lucas down now. If you can find the DVD of wizards, in the special features Ralph explains all of this.
@@alancadieux2984 You wrote a useless essay only to exclusively ignore what the term "flop" means by movie standards, and that is the financial outcome. The esthetics or it's influence is irrelevant, the movie, no matter how good it is, was a flop.
@nerofl89 a useless essay, that makes 2 of us.
@@alancadieux2984 I'll be gracious enough to leave that just to you, at least my few sentences directly addressed things you said and was not a bunch of useless tangents.
I liked this movie so much and was so disappointed at the og version being heavily edited, i still kind of expect someone from the film crew someday coming forward saying "i actually have a saved copy of the original cut"...
It looked great in the cinema, and I thought it wasn't bad as a movie, but it's one of those things that improve upon further viewings.
At the time, I'd have given it a six, but now my score would be closer to eight.
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"Scary" movies seldom scare me. I usually find them predictable and forgettable. I first watched Event Horizon alone one evening when my girlfriend was at work. I didn't get any sleep that night. I lay there in bed for hours, with the lights on, until my girlfriend got home. To this day, I rank Event Horizon as the most terrifying movie I've ever seen 😂
This is literally one of my favorite all time horror movies. i was already familiar with the concept of folding space and the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics so I found the movie's premise super exciting. In fact it was intense for me at one point I almost had to leave the theatre and I was obsessed with the sound track for years.
An absolute tragedy that the edits have been completely lost for all time. Using the prodigy for the soundtrack was also very cool.
I saw Event horizon at the cinema when it came out. I didn't "hate" it, but it was more ... "confusion"? I went in expecting a sci-fi movie, but got this blend of religious horror and sci-fi instead, sort of an "Exorcists in Space" vibe. I don't know, maybe that was a large part of what drove the audience reaction?
I have to say that I actually now very much enjoy the film, and was definitely disappointed that the possibility of a director's cut was off the table.
The reason the movies did so good on video was you could pause "that" scene. It goes by so fast in theaters that most people just ended up saying "what the hell was that?" At home, you know exactly what hell that was! Literal hell! Still makes me squirm all these years later!
The very first time i watched it i could tell it had been butchered. Too many dead ends in the second half that should have been allowed to run on.
I would love to see the majestic full version.
Hands down one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. Terribly underrated.
Roger Ebert said it best. This film has a great deal of foreboding, a lot of afterboding, but no actual boding. It may also be a stealth prequel to Warhammer 40k.
I had a friend in high school who saw this opening weekend. He loved it, but he loved everything he saw in a theater. Including Spawn. I'm grateful that home media has salvaged the reputations of hidden gems like Event Horizon.
Right movie at the wrong time. I really like it, like "The Thing" a good crossover of SF and Horror.
Good review! But Event Horizon was indeed very gruesome!! 😮
Event horizon is my favorite movie of all time
You could do a lot worse!
Aliens
Event Horizon
The Thing “JC” ver
Pumpkin Head
Hell Raiser
I love the random high and low scores Roger Ebert has given some films. Like the idea that all you needed is to catch him on a good day and not bore him is quite inspiring.
I liked Event Horizon when it came out I would have given it at least a 8/10
I don’t understand the haters
Fair.
The big reveal was… killer.
People around me were showered with popcorn.
I wasn't exactly thrilled with it when I was watching it in the theater. Mostly because the ads I saw for it pretty much made it seem a straight Sci-Fi movie, so it was kind of off. But later looking at it from a Horror Sci-Fi point of view it was pretty good.
@@rwill156 it’s been over 20 years but I remember being confused with a few things but still enjoying it.. this would explain that
I watched both Spawn and Event Horizon at the cinema and Event Horizon is waaaaay better than Spawn. It was actually a pretty good film and I have it in HD. Would have loved to see the original stuff that was cut, though
I loved EH when it came out. Wouldn't get gore in space like that again until "Jason X." Great design and photography. Cast stacked with solid stars. I knew it was likely to tank but figured it would do a lot better on home video and was right.
The idea of a series isn't bad in theory, but it would be going up against the expectation that it will restore all the blood, guts, and sex chopped from the film. That may be a stretch, even for streaming. However, if they ever do make the stupid thing, I nominate Toby Stephans as the Captain. If you haven't seen him as "Captain Flint" in "Black Sails," you've missed one of the most ferocious performances in a series. Stephans would kill in an "Event Horizon" series.
I would say a movie like this comes along once every 10 years, 2 out of 4 stars is just bewildering.
8:10 The wormhole demonstration scene was not only copied in "Interstellar" it was also copied in "Thor: Love and Thunder", where Natalie Portman actually mentions "Event Horizon" by name.
The concept of “folding space” was in the book Dune, but didn’t have that demonstration.
@@kudukilla It was also in the book "A Wrinkle in Time" although their demonstration is slightly different since it needed to work on the page rather than the screen.
Isn't it also in The Universe In A Nutshell?
The restored ship’s log is my go-to image for pure, unadulterated chaos.
I just recently watched it for the first time on paramount plus i enjoyed it
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The only movie that's ever given me, as an adult, nightmares.....that ending....
"Event Horizon": seen in theater in France at the time. Found it great the first time.
Still pretty solid to me.
The flashes of graphic video with the screams when they are reviewing the last video log entry set the tone for the movie...and still messes me up today. Your head makes it even worse than seeing it.
I dunno, I like em' both, but if somebody had to take some of my discs away I'd give up Prometheus over Event Horizon.
I'd fight them rather than let them take either, personally. And as 1- I'm not exactly prize fighter material and 2- I had to make do to survive schoolyard bullies back in the day, you better bet I'm fighting dirty as hell.
I saw this movie in theaters. I walked out into the sunshine and shivered. The movie creeped me out so much I had to stand in the sun to get warm again. Lol. To this day it is still hard to watch, but I do watch it periodically. I recently watched a TH-cam of a young woman watching this movie. Her reactions were awesome to watch.
I did like the live action Spawn movie too. Just sayin'. John Leguizamo as the Fat Clown was hilarious.
"Uh-oh... you got that 'I'm gonna beat the fat little clown' look in your eyes!"
Event Horizon is one of the best Sci fi movies ever !
Great show and thanks for verifying that post-production was short-changed. I thought as much the first time I saw it on video.
Perhaps the mythical lost version of Event Horizon could be recreated with the help of AI generated imagerie🤔
I loved it when the Captain said, Where leaving! After seeing the footage. He broke the tired trope of people running head first into danger.
Event Horizon is HP Lovecraft in space. Unfortunately many film watchers are not familiar with Lovecraft and did not know how to react to the movie,
Hmm, no. It's Clive Barker in space, quite blatantly. Check out his first two Hellraiser films and his books.
The Event Horizon has been past the unknown boundaries of outer space and has come back possessing an evil force, Anderson’s film details cosmic horror under the guise of science fiction and in the shadows of Lovecraft. The ‘weird fiction’ author had often written of the fragility of the human mind when it experiences the horrors from beyond their usual rational perceptions, and as the astronauts of Event Horizon face up to the hellish reality of the spaceship, their deepest fears and desires are exposed through nightmarish visions.
In that light, Anderson’s film borrows from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris as well as Lovecraft’s works, which famously include ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and The Shadow over Innsmouth. This confrontation of the limits of the human mind is no short feat for a piece of cinema, bringing to mind the existential dread of Lovecraft’s most psychologically tormented characters.
With Hellraiser, Clive Barker produced one of the most enjoyable and accomplished horror films of all time and, in Doug Bradley's Pinhead, a horror icon to rival Lugosi and Karloff. Hellraiser doesn't pretend to be an adaptation of any of Lovecraft's stories, but the influence that he had is written all over it.
@@zunipus Clive Barker cribs from Lovecraft. Up until Lovecraft, the basis of horror (not that it was a particularly mature genre at the point Lovecraft was writing) had basically been the inhumanity of man when man's humanity is stripped away by some form of death or undeath (Dracula/Frankenstein/Zombies/Witches/Werewolves/Ghosts).
The basis of Lovecraft's horror is that the very universe, a faceless, nameless, indescribable power; is inherently hostile not just to humans, but to the very existence of humanity and that hostility, being the universe, exists everywhere, but stands just outside of human perception. What is known as 'cosmic horror'.
That was a fundamental shift in the nature of horror. Without Lovecraft, there would have been no Clive Barker and no Event Horizon. There would also have been no H.R. Giger and no Alien movies and no Warhammer 40K either. I doubt you would even find Satan or 'The Devil' particularly referenced as a horror trope before Lovecraft.
Loved this film, it was heavily promoted in the UK and was well received here. It’s a shame Paramount rushed it instead of waiting for a finished Halloween release that would have been so much more popular.
It's almost always sci-fi or horror movies that somehow later become cult classics when they fail at the box office. From Blade Runner, Waterworld, Starship Troopers, The Abyss, Tron, Donnie Darko, The Thing and many others of the 80s and 90s scifi through to more modern fare like Ad Astra and the brilliant Dredd, all of these films were considered failures but later went on to become cult classics.
I was promised a fascinating SciFi movie. I went opening night. Sam Neil is ALWAYS a draw because of Omen III. The minute the Hell connection came in there were groans in the cinema. It just went downhill at terminal velocity. A beautiful but dreadful disaster.
Still a good watch with all its flaws.
There is a 5/5 movie in there
Spaceship that has a warp drive creating portals through Hell feels like a winning ticket to me...some straight-up Doom vibes right there. Then again, I'm always up for some sci-fi in my horror and some horror in my sci-fi, so I may be in the minority.
Horror and science fiction were originally the same genre because people fear what they don't understand.
Mary Wollstonecraft was 16 when she wrote The Modern Prometheus, as part of a horror fiction contest, and in the foreword she argues that it is all the more scary for a really being plausible. No elves, no demons, no supernatural nonsense, just science and medicine and murder. This is commonly credited as the birth of science fiction, although there are science fiction stories going back to antiquity. And very few of them have monsters.
Still, with the pulp magazines of the 20th century, both science fiction and fantasy were under the horror label because they didn't fit either romance or crime.
I loved event Horizon
Did you see it in theaters?
@@GiantFreakinRobot VHS
The scariest movie I have ever watched because I went into the theater not expecting what would play out. I had no idea it was a horror movie, and to this day, I still can't watch it because of that. But it would be an A if I had to give it a rating because nothing was predictable.
Best movie ever made - if you disagree, you’re wrong… can’t put it any better than that
I mean that’s crazy and wrong but I like it!
That is an incorrect statement but I respect the confidence.
@@Shiznaft1 Can you seee......CAN YOU SEE!!!!!!!!
I recall when Shout/Scream Factory released their Collector's Edition on bluray, they announced that they truly did try their best to obtain the lost elements in order to incorporate the missing footage in the film but simply couldn't. The elements are absolutely lost or destroyed and sadly we'll just never see it.
It wasn't my favorite but it wasn't bad. I prefer 2009's Padorum for that sci fi horror feel.
Yeah but the ship design
@@GiantFreakinRobot I hear you, it was a unique design. I preferred the design of the rescue ship. It felt more like a usable vessel and less like hostile architecture.
Event Horizon and Pandorum..that would make a great Drive in double feature.
@@JESimsAssociates Agreed! Sounds like a Halloween event... in the Livingroom LOL
None of those women who went to Titanic 12 times, were never going to go to Event Horizon. I'm sure many girlfriends punished their boyfriends after.😂
I do not like horror and will never watch Event Horizon a second time, but I still have to admire the quality of film-making and story-telling.
I know Event Horizon is the MECA of horror enthusiasts, but it really was not that good. It deserves the "cult following" it has now, but they took a potentially good sci-fi movie and dumbed it down into a jump-scare slasher flick. It is NOT better than Ghost Ship for the simple reason that Ghost Ship had character development, not just "Jason in outer space."
Couldn’t agree more. I went into it expecting some decent sci-fi and instead, got schlocky horror. Never felt the need to see it a second time.
I don’t really love horror like Drew does, but I still love this
@@GiantFreakinRobot And that is great. I totally understand why some people love splatter films and hope they keep making them fo you. We all want films we like.