I love that one scene when they saw the footage and Cpt. Miller stopped the footage, bit of silence and just "We're leaving" THAT is how rational people would react
This is been used in a comparison against Prometheus in another video. The difference in how people should act in such situations Vs how people act just to further the plot. The later never works.
Eeehhh some wouldn't. They would instead over-rationalize it as homicidal mass hysteria, one-of-a-kind anomalous thing, the device altering people's brain functions, space madness (Pandorum), fake/corrupted video and audio, and so on and so forth to carry on with the mission until they got personally targeted by the warp's horrendous BS. Buuuut then again that sort of attitude is hardly rational either when there's a literal gore orgy on tape to prove something isn't right there.
Except the fact that you can truly only realise the horror if you known know what "cosmic horror" is, otherwise audience would only see it as another "gory horror movie", which is why I constantly tell those I know to look deeper into a movie after watching it to understand more of the horror of the movie or significance of a scene in other movie genre, also knowing H.P. lovecraft is also another helpful way as well
And how easily you can deflate that horror with a sassy black stereotype shooting all his air supply to jetpack halfway across space while saying "motherfucker"
Its a pretty good pair. Although because Paramount and games workshop are seperate entities and both don't want to mess with each other, we will never get a direct answer. But its a pretty fair guess to say this is just the creators rendition of warp exposure. because its pretty well agreed on that "hell" in event horizon is *strikingly* similar to 40k insofar as what you get when you unplug your psykers from the gellar field. To the point where its impossible even for most 40k fans to ignore the similarities. Hence why its been headcannon considered by many to be a far prequel to 40k.
That's why having movie critics is redundant like why listen to someone's opinion about a movie and just not simply judge the film ourselves then from there we can determine if it was a good film or bad word will get around about it
Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator. NOT a review site. It doesn't score movies. It collects whatever critic bothered to review the movie and divides the positive reviews over the total, which is how you get the "score". The moment the internet realizes that the "percentage" is not how it scored the movies but how many of the critics gave it a POSITIVE review is the day I'll have my faith returned to humanity. Get back in the pile, you idiot.
Just compare the reviews to the box office profits of films. All the SJW left wing socialist propoganda movies get 5 star reviews yet flop at the box office. All the great movies that perform amazing at the box office get crap reviews. Tells you all you need to know
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 The critical dislike of Event Horizon isn’t about left wing or right wing politics, you twit. Critics don’t like genre movies, and Event Horizon was both a horror and a science fiction movie. There’s nothing socialist about Clint Eastwood’s movie and critics adore his movies.
This movie scared the shit out of me when I was a child. I remember being terrified of walking down the hallway to my bedroom, thinking some shit was going to happen to me.
I remember I first watched Event Horizon when I was like 8 years old. One day I was looking for a movie to watch, and I came across a vhs tape that said Event Horizon on it (this was back when we still had a vhs, gosh I feel old, lol). I asked my dad “what’s Event Horizon?” And he said it’s a really scary movie and I wouldn’t be allowed to watch it until I was older. Him saying that only made me more curious about the movie, so later that night, after everyone else was asleep, I quietly left my room and went downstairs so I could secretly watch the movie. I had no clue what I was getting myself into. I was scared shitless, especially during that scene where there was the video footage of the old crew getting tormented. I should have listened to my dad, lol. I’m 20 years old now, and I had just recently rewatched Event Horizon for the first time in years so I could get over my childhood trauma. I enjoyed it and it didn’t bother me as much as it did when I was younger. Ah, good times
I remember sneaking peaks at this movie as a boy, because my Dad told me I wasn't ready to watch yet at the time. The scenes I watched terrified me and I fell in love with the movie. I've watched it countless times by now.
When I was 16, my dad rented it (he thought it was strictly sci-fi) and we got to the Weir-being-resurrected-as-a-demon part before turning it off. For about a week, I couldn’t sleep, the captain’s “libera te tutumet ex inferis” reverberating through my head. (I’ve never looked at Sam Neill the same.) I finally watched the movie in its entirety a few months ago, and though I didn’t do so alone and with the lights off like I planned, I consider it one of my great accomplishments. It’s right up there with “Alien” in terms of capturing that foreboding atmosphere.
As has been stated ad nauseum, this movie is straight up 40k-prequel canon to the fans who know about it. Just looking at the symbolism, the cosmic- and body horror, the designs, the inclusion of latin, the way the warp corrupts the crew's minds and souls, the way Weir designed the ship to have odd spikes and jagged designs... (He was clearly affected by the ruinous powers and thought the inspiration and knowledge his own. Weir might have even been a weak latent psyker or warp-sensitive. One of the very first among Mankind.) This was mankind's first broader contact with the warp, and the warp's first taste of humans. _It wanted more._
@@hotmailcompany52 Then you need to make the space smartass look really fucking smart instead of making the astronauts seem like idiots. You don't make your audience aware of your villain's big brain by making the heroes smooth brains, after all.
@@jinxedsphinx3600 I'm just saying that the best way to present higher intelligence is by writing actually smart characters and then writing them being outsmarted by the higher being.
Event Horizon is, to me, the best example of Cosmic Horror in cinema ever created. Love the movie and even after all these years I still go back and watch it every year or two.
That’s in the top three then we get John carpenters the thing and Stephen kings the mist no other movie has ever captured cosmic horror like those films because it stays with you and makes you think
@DavidLopez-yt2yp couldn't agree more. All those movies are great. Not just for the topics they cover but the way they approach it. They are not afraid to play things close to the vest, to let the viewer form their own opinion about how certain things play out or end. Such great movies.
@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 it's just more gory to be honest. You see the doctor get vivisected instead of seeing the aftermath. When wier shows the captain the visions their torture you see the gory details of it.
Much appreciation for the title drop of “In the Mouth of Madness” when describing Weir’s descent as Sam Neil was absolutely stellar in that Lovecraftian classic.
There never was a 2+ hour version. It was destroyed pretty much right after the movie launched. The movie studios weren't a big fan of storing the masters back then if they required massive edits to be sold commercially.
@@thefallencog actually they were stored in a salt mine for safe keeping since with the salt around the humidity wouldn't samage the film, but it wasn't sealed properly and well that wich mean to protect destroyed instead
This movie is still a prequel to 40k for me no question they clearly didnt have a navigator nor a gellar field this is why the events of the movie happened
There's an extended cut that shows maybe a minute or so of messed up stuff but reportedly there is a significantly longer cut and they wanted to do super graphic stuff but were shut down by the studio avoiding an X rating.
I found this in one of the last movie rental showtime or whatever it was called. Watched it with heavy use of the pause function, basically everyone was torn to shreds until nothing remained. Hell doesn't often get living victims with bodies they can turn into stains before they get the souls. Then the real pain begins. People don't need eyes in hell. There only purpose in hell is to be tormented endlessly. Don't need eyes to suffer. Or teeth. Or mouths. Or ears. Or sexual organs or orifices, or hands or feet. Let's get all that gouged and clawed out once and for all. There, now suffering can begin proper. Deaf blind and with no capacity to do or perform anything at all you're ready-made for the fire and the worms that do not die. Thats the basic premise of the footage you're wanting to see. The slow agonizing removal of sensory and reproductive and eating chewing organs like a dressed and gutted animal for supper. Yea, hell is bad.
As a teenager when "scary" movies like Jason and Freddy or Alien didn't scare me anymore, I saw this movie, and was frightened again. Also... Ever notice how the Warp Drive resembles the description of Ezekial's wheel?
No, but thank you for pointing that out. There is likely much more in this visual masterpiece I don't know about. Here I thought I was fairly well versed.
I took a bunch of LSD and saw this in the theater. I was to terrified to move or even look away. It was an experience, let me tell ya. Looking back, might not have been the best decision.
This movie & John Carpenter's "The Thing" (& it's later made prequal) are still my fav horror movies regardless of how easy the jump scares are to spot or "unreal" it might look compared to modern day film tech.
When Dead Space was being made the developers did an interview with game informer and talked about how Event Horizon and Alien were heavy inspirations for the game and it atmosphere. That was back when gaming and games journalists werent garbage. Good times.
The Ozymandyas(?) from Dino Crisis 3 concerned me the instant I saw it because of this movie. Then it destroyed my ship... I knew I was in serious trouble.
I wish they'd expand on the Event Horizon universe. Maybe a prequel about the ship's first crew or something? It just seems like this cult classic has so much potential.
Personally I believe (and this is a hill I will FOREVER die upon) Event Horizon takes place in the Hellraiser Universe and the Gravity Drive is just another Lament Configuration and the ship went to the Labyrinth and Leviathan sent the ship back as a new type of Cenobite.
I figured the characters went insane the same way the original crew did. Except that inside the Hell dimension the crew went insane instantly. Whereas with Miller's crew, it happens at a much slower rate. -- Its worth noting that Cooper was trying to calm down Stark at the end, so he wasn't as affected.
Event Horizon is basically a pre dark age story in the 40k universe. The portal makes an appearance in the astartes animation, at least i think it's the same
This film, as you exactly said had much much deeper meaning with respect to our survival and our fear of the unknown. I loved this movie when I watched it back in 1997 and it still holds as one of the best cosmic horror movies.
Somehow slept on this movie until 2023, the "horrific frenzy" scene as mentioned in the video is when I realized that this was closer to horror than sci-fi. The innocent pairing of Laurence Fishburne and San Neill on Laserdisc box art set a different expectation before I played this in my basement at night. I did not expect to love this movie but now I'm on my 11th Event Horizon TH-cam video and Googling the Warhammer universe.
This movie was kind of like “The House of Ushers” in outer space; but with a Spaceship coming to life, rather than a house. Either way, I love both those movies.
Nope, in WH chaos sends their armies in body if thete is a gate or tear between warp and real world. In this movie everything is based around characters and their fears. Evil in EH universe is differente from chaos in WH universe.
@@Heavente The point is 40K human ships (Orks too but that's a different case) have to sail through the Warp, a daemonic plane of existence, to achieve faster-than-light travels. Without a Gellar Field to protect, Warp entities could inflict unthinkable violations upon the crew in ways unimaginable.
I watched it in the cinema when it was released... awesome movie, very hyptonic in the big screen. I was hook straight away, never understood why it wasnt successful... I got a special edition with a hard sarcophagus shape box, love it!
I seriously don't understand how movie critics make money or have a job! As others have stated, this movie is grossly underrated and is one of my favorite sci-fi / horror films!
In my head canon, for the film’s backstory, Dr Weir already knew what the warp was about, that’s why he seemed so interested in the project and obsessed to meet with his wife (she committed suicide, thus a sin so she is in hell) and his main goal to fulfill this was to bring “human sacrifices” that’s why the L&C crew had some troubled background and guilt
@@LilSpookyyy Nah, too complicated. And how the hell could he have known whats out there? I personally like to think that all the terrors we see in this movie were just in their heads, nothing supernatural. There was no any "hell", and the ship was not "alive" in any sense. After "Event horizon" went through this Gate, it probably could be irradiated by some sort of radiation we dont have in our known universe, and Weir didnt know of this too. And this radiation started screwing with the minds of those who were exposed to it. So, the original crew went nuts immediately after coming through the Gate, and so did Justin when he was sucked into it. But the rest of the Miller's team had much more time before starting to have any hallucinations and stuff.
Despite the fact that this one of my favorite horror movies, as well as sci-fi movies, I'm actually somewhat glad this movie didn't do to well in the theaters, mainly due to the fact that if it had done well in the theaters it would have most likely gotten a squeal that would have been nothing more than a cash grab that would have been terrible.
I was 11 years old at the time this movie came out and I instantly fell in love with it. It scared the fucking shit out of me but kept me engaged with its excellent storytelling. I can honestly say that after watching this I fell in love with the horror gore genre pretty early on in my life. Nothing could scare me after this
This movie went hand in hand with the movie Sphere in my childhood. I felt like they were analogs of one another, where the sphere was eventually harnessed by humanity to bend space and achieve distant space travel. But the process essentially drove Jerry (the sphere entity) mad and caused it to recreate people's nightmares in more horrific detail being left alone in space for so long, it's mind reeling with the nightmares of the original crew he killed.
You mentioned Sam Neil making a slow descent "Into the Mouth of Madness" which was another cosmic horror film with Sam Neil directed by John Carpenter which came out well before Event Horizon. Nice touch.
To those asking about the previous video, the difference is that the other video goes more in detail about the people sent on the rescue mission, while this one focuses on trying to explain the cosmic entity that awaits and torments them. Bc of the unknown nature of the entity, this video is shorter and more condensed, with respect the information gone over about the crew
I loved this movie when it came out. The way it began, the music, and then the way the ship looked was amazing. I like how you'd never see the enemy just the quick images of what they did to you. I wanted them to make a prequel sequel. I like how you used Sam Neil's descent into the mouth of madness which was a great movie he was in.
Can't believe I haven't thought to ask this yet, would you consider covering Netflix's Castlevania? The show that proves a video game to film adaptation can KICK ASS!
My favorite guilty pleasure of a movie! Watched this last night in Cinemax! Too bad there's no Director's Cut of this film, because the original film negatives disintegrated over the years.
Thank You for breaking Event Horizon down. This movie scared the crap out of Me for years and left Me very confused. Your explanation gave Me a better understanding of the storyline concept as a whole. Great work!!!
My take on this movie was that the event horizon's core had an effect on the brains of the people who were close enough to it due to magnetism. This in effect worked as a constant state of hallucination, meaning that any fear they experience is amplified and and continues to grow. There was never any Demons or hell, just an effect of the ship on the humans. Much less intriguing, I know.
It doesn’t explain how miller felt the heat of fire in the grav core before he finds out what the meaning of the distress message really was, he perceived heat, unless that can happen then there’s no explanation to how the magnetism might make the brain perceive heat
I’ve watched 100s if not 1000s of horror movies in my life. When I first saw Event Horizon I was working out of town and staying in a hotel by myself. It was 1 am I was laying in bed in the dark. And yes. This movie spooked me. I left a light on…It was a physiological horror movie. Not so much visual. It was finding out where the ship had been all these years
Speaking of Cosmic Horror, would you ever do a video on Bloodborne? It is one of if not the most successful video game based on cosmic/gothic horror and blends the two genres perfectly in a way that nobody has ever managed to do before.
When I saw this movie as a kid, I wasn't horrified, I was just stunned at how crazy it was, I would say jaw dropped stunned thinking "damn, this is trippy"
Never, EVER, trust what "movie critics" say about anything. They should be called "movie snobs" instead. I saw this movie in the theater was was genuinely frightened. It is an underrated masterpiece. I still watch it about once a year. If you want to see another good cosmic horror, that coincidentally features Sam Neil, check out "In the Mouth of Madness".
My favorite seen is when the young guy is in the airlock and comes to his senses right before the sequence starts and his plea to the mother figure. The whole mama bear and baby bear interaction is heart breaking. The feeling of inevitable suffering that will happen and you can't stop it is captured perfectly in that scene.
I've always thought the ending of this movie would be a good segway into a (hopefully well done) Doom movie. After Lt Stark gets debriefed and talks about what the gateway did and what happened to the ship, the rescue crew and Dr. Weir, this could introduce the UAC and the work Dr. Weir was doing. After the disappearance of the EH, Weir could have continued his work on Mars, on a similar gateway except based on land. This takes us to Mars where there isn't only a commercial mining operation, but an operation ran by the UAC while also conducting scientific experiments, namely Weir's gateway. After learning what happened on the ship, the scientists are curious and turn it on. A wave similar to the one we saw on the ship permeates the base and people slowly start going mad and get disfigured and attack. Zombies. Since Weir introduced the Hell dimension to our world through his ship, the actual creatures (demons) that inhabit Hell it are able to find it on their end and use the gate on Mars to start invading the base, so on and so forth. Call in the Marines, Doom Guy gets there last cause he knocked out his CO, and starts fucking shit up. Long, drawn out and probably plagued with flaws, I know. Just been rolling around in my head for like 20 years lol.
I had the pleasure of seeing this underrated gem in theaters back in the day. Crazy thing is that the girl I saw the film with later went insane but I'm sure it's unrelated.
I can never get anyone to watch this or in the mouth of madness for some reason people don't seem to like Sam Neill mixed with lovecraftian stories while I think they are a perfect match.
I love that one scene when they saw the footage and Cpt. Miller stopped the footage, bit of silence and just "We're leaving"
THAT is how rational people would react
I really want to believe that is how rational people would act. I certainly know I would leave after that.
Me, too. It's one of my favorite scenes. I also love it when he says "F**k this ship"
This is been used in a comparison against Prometheus in another video. The difference in how people should act in such situations Vs how people act just to further the plot. The later never works.
Eeehhh some wouldn't.
They would instead over-rationalize it as homicidal mass hysteria, one-of-a-kind anomalous thing, the device altering people's brain functions, space madness (Pandorum), fake/corrupted video and audio, and so on and so forth to carry on with the mission until they got personally targeted by the warp's horrendous BS.
Buuuut then again that sort of attitude is hardly rational either when there's a literal gore orgy on tape to prove something isn't right there.
For all this movie gives, that scene might be my favorite.
This is a criminally underrated horror movie.
True. The first time I watched this I couldn't believe I've never watched it before
It legit scared the crap out of me
So true, it got panned on release. 29% on Rotten Tomatoes etc.
Totally agree!
Big facts. Love this movie to death.
a great example of how you don't need a CGI monster to create horror
First comment I totally agree with
Except the fact that you can truly only realise the horror if you known know what "cosmic horror" is, otherwise audience would only see it as another "gory horror movie", which is why I constantly tell those I know to look deeper into a movie after watching it to understand more of the horror of the movie or significance of a scene in other movie genre, also knowing H.P. lovecraft is also another helpful way as well
CGI it's an absolute disgrace, props might be expensive as fuck but my god it's night and day.
And how easily you can deflate that horror with a sassy black stereotype shooting all his air supply to jetpack halfway across space while saying "motherfucker"
O yeah and to my mind thát is horror.
Quite a decent amount of Warhammer 40k fans considers "Event Horizon" as canon, as humankinds first encounter with the Warp and the forces of Chaos.
just look at 9:37 its the mark of chaos
Its a pretty good pair. Although because Paramount and games workshop are seperate entities and both don't want to mess with each other, we will never get a direct answer.
But its a pretty fair guess to say this is just the creators rendition of warp exposure. because its pretty well agreed on that "hell" in event horizon is *strikingly* similar to 40k insofar as what you get when you unplug your psykers from the gellar field. To the point where its impossible even for most 40k fans to ignore the similarities. Hence why its been headcannon considered by many to be a far prequel to 40k.
That's because it is
I wish I knew what these nerds we're talking about
I'm surprised people don't know this but apparently the guys who made this movie is a 40k fan.
“Into the mouth of madness” I see what you did there, good one
I caught that too. Nice job indeed.
I was reading this comment as soon Neil said it. Nice timing.
Yet another example of why Rotten Tomatoes and 'professional reviews' rarely get it right.
That's why having movie critics is redundant like why listen to someone's opinion about a movie and just not simply judge the film ourselves then from there we can determine if it was a good film or bad word will get around about it
Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator. NOT a review site. It doesn't score movies. It collects whatever critic bothered to review the movie and divides the positive reviews over the total, which is how you get the "score". The moment the internet realizes that the "percentage" is not how it scored the movies but how many of the critics gave it a POSITIVE review is the day I'll have my faith returned to humanity.
Get back in the pile, you idiot.
Just compare the reviews to the box office profits of films. All the SJW left wing socialist propoganda movies get 5 star reviews yet flop at the box office. All the great movies that perform amazing at the box office get crap reviews. Tells you all you need to know
@Joe Cool you're just as bad as them
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 The critical dislike of Event Horizon isn’t about left wing or right wing politics, you twit. Critics don’t like genre movies, and Event Horizon was both a horror and a science fiction movie. There’s nothing socialist about Clint Eastwood’s movie and critics adore his movies.
This movie scared the shit out of me when I was a child. I remember being terrified of walking down the hallway to my bedroom, thinking some shit was going to happen to me.
It did! You’ve been gone 7 years!
Why the hell did you watch this as a kid? 🤣
I did too. It both scared me and captivated me.
I remember I first watched Event Horizon when I was like 8 years old. One day I was looking for a movie to watch, and I came across a vhs tape that said Event Horizon on it (this was back when we still had a vhs, gosh I feel old, lol). I asked my dad “what’s Event Horizon?” And he said it’s a really scary movie and I wouldn’t be allowed to watch it until I was older. Him saying that only made me more curious about the movie, so later that night, after everyone else was asleep, I quietly left my room and went downstairs so I could secretly watch the movie. I had no clue what I was getting myself into. I was scared shitless, especially during that scene where there was the video footage of the old crew getting tormented. I should have listened to my dad, lol. I’m 20 years old now, and I had just recently rewatched Event Horizon for the first time in years so I could get over my childhood trauma. I enjoyed it and it didn’t bother me as much as it did when I was younger. Ah, good times
Same here! I used to be a Star Trek fan before i watched this movie.
I remember sneaking peaks at this movie as a boy, because my Dad told me I wasn't ready to watch yet at the time. The scenes I watched terrified me and I fell in love with the movie. I've watched it countless times by now.
I had a similar experience with Aliens haha
Same. This movie terrified me so much it did the reverse and I couldn’t watch it for years.
Same!! And my dad saw me watching it so he turn off the TV and stop me recording it on the VHS lol
Hah, same here. As a result I'm absolutely fascinated by Alien, Event Horizon and The Thing.
Which resulted in me loving Dead Space very much.
When I was 16, my dad rented it (he thought it was strictly sci-fi) and we got to the Weir-being-resurrected-as-a-demon part before turning it off. For about a week, I couldn’t sleep, the captain’s “libera te tutumet ex inferis” reverberating through my head. (I’ve never looked at Sam Neill the same.)
I finally watched the movie in its entirety a few months ago, and though I didn’t do so alone and with the lights off like I planned, I consider it one of my great accomplishments. It’s right up there with “Alien” in terms of capturing that foreboding atmosphere.
That scene with the crew killing (and raping) each other is literally the most disturbing ten seconds in cinematic history.
Especially that bit where someone's pulling the person's guts out through their mouth 😳
The captain speaking Latin while holding his gouged out eyes horrified me when I first saw it. Still does
@@PapaSmoke69X Ex Inferis
Imagine what the extended cut must be like.
@@SirBlackReeds Apparently it’s been lost but it was minutes long.
As has been stated ad nauseum, this movie is straight up 40k-prequel canon to the fans who know about it.
Just looking at the symbolism, the cosmic- and body horror, the designs, the inclusion of latin, the way the warp corrupts the crew's minds and souls, the way Weir designed the ship to have odd spikes and jagged designs... (He was clearly affected by the ruinous powers and thought the inspiration and knowledge his own. Weir might have even been a weak latent psyker or warp-sensitive. One of the very first among Mankind.)
This was mankind's first broader contact with the warp, and the warp's first taste of humans.
_It wanted more._
I love the way you write
Go outside
@@Gandalf_axtuL
No u.
The author stated it ?
@@Gandalf_axtuL It’s COVID era, I don’t wanna die
This is how you do horror. Not making smart astronauts look like idiots.
unless theres something smarter than them making them look dumb ;P
@@hotmailcompany52 Then you need to make the space smartass look really fucking smart instead of making the astronauts seem like idiots. You don't make your audience aware of your villain's big brain by making the heroes smooth brains, after all.
@@nerobernardino88 okay are we referring to Life with the crazy nerve alien from Mars or are we talking about Alien: Covenant / Prometheus??
@@jinxedsphinx3600 I'm just saying that the best way to present higher intelligence is by writing actually smart characters and then writing them being outsmarted by the higher being.
I was hyped for 'Aliens' but lost interest as soon as a bunch of the humans offed each other through friendly fire.
One of the reason I got fond with this film is that a game called Dead Space somehow captures the same horror experience as the film
I fell in love with Dead Space because of how much it reminded me of Event Horizon lol
@Rico Ars Technica have two video interviews with him. I haven't watched the longer one, so the shorter one may be an exerpt, but its worth a look.
Yea I noticed they must have referenced this movie a lot for their ideas
I remember when dead space first came out... I was spooked than terrified because I was playing at night... I got a refund the next day
This and The thing both were Glen's inspiration for Dead Space..
Event Horizon is, to me, the best example of Cosmic Horror in cinema ever created. Love the movie and even after all these years I still go back and watch it every year or two.
Great film
That’s in the top three then we get John carpenters the thing and Stephen kings the mist no other movie has ever captured cosmic horror like those films because it stays with you and makes you think
@DavidLopez-yt2yp couldn't agree more. All those movies are great. Not just for the topics they cover but the way they approach it. They are not afraid to play things close to the vest, to let the viewer form their own opinion about how certain things play out or end. Such great movies.
It’s a shame we’ll never see a Director’s cut
It really is
But the thing is… can we handle it if/when it's out?
I saw it by mistake when I was a kid. My mother rented the VHS tape from Hollywood video. God that version gave me nightmares for months lol.
@@N8kdmagazine what's different between the directors cut then regular?
@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 it's just more gory to be honest. You see the doctor get vivisected instead of seeing the aftermath. When wier shows the captain the visions their torture you see the gory details of it.
Much appreciation for the title drop of “In the Mouth of Madness” when describing Weir’s descent as Sam Neil was absolutely stellar in that Lovecraftian classic.
Such an underrated Sci-Fi Horror that's actually smart and scary.
There is a 2+ hour version that we’ll probably never get to see.
There never was a 2+ hour version.
It was destroyed pretty much right after the movie launched. The movie studios weren't a big fan of storing the masters back then if they required massive edits to be sold commercially.
@@thefallencog I just said it because AVGN said it in his review. I hate censorship, especially when it results in media being lost.
@@thefallencog actually they were stored in a salt mine for safe keeping since with the salt around the humidity wouldn't samage the film, but it wasn't sealed properly and well that wich mean to protect destroyed instead
Remember kids, this film can be a cautionary tale about WHY YOU SHOULD LEAVE THE GELLAR FIELD ON!
Unless you're the Ork's, cause they love "In flight entertainment"
and the reason why the ship disappeared for 7 years and reappeared on the same spot is because they didnt have a Navigator!!
For the Emperor
This movie is still a prequel to 40k for me no question they clearly didnt have a navigator nor a gellar field this is why the events of the movie happened
What is the Gellar field and what does it do?
Would of loved see the extended version with all the hell scenes that where cut
Me too. The sudden cuts in the film make it seem disjointed.
Won't happen. Allegedly the studio put the films negatives in a Salt mine in Eastern Europe. The film is beyond useable.
@@satnav1980 haha yeah lost in a mine, you couldn’t make it up
There's an extended cut that shows maybe a minute or so of messed up stuff but reportedly there is a significantly longer cut and they wanted to do super graphic stuff but were shut down by the studio avoiding an X rating.
I found this in one of the last movie rental showtime or whatever it was called. Watched it with heavy use of the pause function, basically everyone was torn to shreds until nothing remained. Hell doesn't often get living victims with bodies they can turn into stains before they get the souls. Then the real pain begins. People don't need eyes in hell. There only purpose in hell is to be tormented endlessly. Don't need eyes to suffer. Or teeth. Or mouths. Or ears. Or sexual organs or orifices, or hands or feet. Let's get all that gouged and clawed out once and for all. There, now suffering can begin proper. Deaf blind and with no capacity to do or perform anything at all you're ready-made for the fire and the worms that do not die. Thats the basic premise of the footage you're wanting to see. The slow agonizing removal of sensory and reproductive and eating chewing organs like a dressed and gutted animal for supper. Yea, hell is bad.
Interesting how that machine at the ship looks like an angel.
This is what happens when you send a space ship into the Warp without the blessings and protection of the Emperor of Mankind!
i mean everyone else does just fine, you really just need a gellar field.
Amen
You don’t need any of that if you are Orks - they live to fight and consider this “hell” a paradise.
There are places in the warp far worse than hell itself
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz the orks run as soon as they smell the hive fleets
As a teenager when "scary" movies like Jason and Freddy or Alien didn't scare me anymore, I saw this movie, and was frightened again.
Also... Ever notice how the Warp Drive resembles the description of Ezekial's wheel?
No, but thank you for pointing that out. There is likely much more in this visual masterpiece I don't know about. Here I thought I was fairly well versed.
It looks like an ophanim, the wheel looking bible accurate angels
Great catch!! Thanks for pointing that out!
It's not a "warp drive."
@@papabear9481 It is exactly a warp drive.
I took a bunch of LSD and saw this in the theater. I was to terrified to move or even look away. It was an experience, let me tell ya. Looking back, might not have been the best decision.
We should hang out….
This movie & John Carpenter's "The Thing" (& it's later made prequal) are still my fav horror movies regardless of how easy the jump scares are to spot or "unreal" it might look compared to modern day film tech.
This movie definitely inspired Dead Space, as well as Doom 3.
When Dead Space was being made the developers did an interview with game informer and talked about how Event Horizon and Alien were heavy inspirations for the game and it atmosphere. That was back when gaming and games journalists werent garbage. Good times.
The Ozymandyas(?) from Dino Crisis 3 concerned me the instant I saw it because of this movie. Then it destroyed my ship... I knew I was in serious trouble.
Doom 3 is my favorite Part👋😀
And the Doom reboot.
Dead space was amazing
The fact that most of the cut footage was erased forever, is one of the greatest crimes in cinema history....
It doesn’t matter because where they’re going they won’t need eyes to see
No it's a good thing and i'm glad it never saw the light of day, those 10 seconds were QUITE enough for me.
@@alexandergordon3432 yeah
@@alexandergordon3432 I bet it's something close to the crossed comics. Freaking brutal man
Considering how disturbing the ten seconds we got was, I don’t know if I want to see the cut footage.
I feel like every review gets us closer to a reconstructed version of the film. With the removed shots replaced.
The core of the ship looks incredible! Practical effects in this film are top notch! Love it!
In my Minde this is the earlyest Humanity was using the Warpdrive in the Warhammer 40k Univers!
I can see why people would think that.
@Nat20 Damage maybe not a warp drive but humanity's first encounter with the Warp
Deffo the realm chaos when the drive opens
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I just made a comment like this then scrolled down to see yours lol. Fuck yeah!
I wish they'd expand on the Event Horizon universe. Maybe a prequel about the ship's first crew or something? It just seems like this cult classic has so much potential.
It's always a good day when FilmComicsExplained uploads a video.
Should really mention how awesome and gothic looking the ship design is , it's almost terrifying in itself.
Personally I believe (and this is a hill I will FOREVER die upon) Event Horizon takes place in the Hellraiser Universe and the Gravity Drive is just another Lament Configuration and the ship went to the Labyrinth and Leviathan sent the ship back as a new type of Cenobite.
I always thought the ending just meant she had a bad dream… just for one final jump scare for the audience
I always felt that the ending shows the characters that survived went insane from ptsd.
I figured the characters went insane the same way the original crew did. Except that inside the Hell dimension the crew went insane instantly. Whereas with Miller's crew, it happens at a much slower rate. -- Its worth noting that Cooper was trying to calm down Stark at the end, so he wasn't as affected.
I was 12 years old when I saw this in the theater and it quickly became AND still is one of my all time favorite movies
I’m such a big fan of the movie and your channel, I’m so excited for this new vid.
I love the “Into the Mouth of Madness” reference. That’s one of my all time favourite movies. Along with Event Horizon of course
Event Horizon is basically a pre dark age story in the 40k universe. The portal makes an appearance in the astartes animation, at least i think it's the same
This film, as you exactly said had much much deeper meaning with respect to our survival and our fear of the unknown. I loved this movie when I watched it back in 1997 and it still holds as one of the best cosmic horror movies.
Absolutely my favorite horror movie.
Somehow slept on this movie until 2023, the "horrific frenzy" scene as mentioned in the video is when I realized that this was closer to horror than sci-fi. The innocent pairing of Laurence Fishburne and San Neill on Laserdisc box art set a different expectation before I played this in my basement at night. I did not expect to love this movie but now I'm on my 11th Event Horizon TH-cam video and Googling the Warhammer universe.
This movie was kind of like “The House of Ushers” in outer space; but with a Spaceship coming to life, rather than a house. Either way, I love both those movies.
One of my all time favourite flicks. It really makes you think in the first playthrough, and I can watch it any time and enjoy it.
"Do you hear the voices too?"
-Chaos Cultist
"Sanity is for the weak!"
Cruushhhh...Kiiiillllll...DDDEEEEESTRooooYYYY!!!!!!
One of my all time faves which combined sci-fi and horror so well.
I always wanted to see the demon universe in Event Horizon
Just look into the eye of terror
@@bloodangel19 Don’t look into it, bad things will happen
@@Joeligma69420 message aproved by Perturabo
Don’t forget where they’re going they won’t need eyes to see
You can, check Hellraiser
Great video and insight. Thank you for reminding me of this movie!
I remember seeing snippets of this movie through my childhood and it scarring me a little more each time I saw more, great film!
One of my favourite movies of all time, across all genres. Criminally underrated!
Easily one of my favourite movies. Criminally underrated. It's a shame we'll never get to see the lost full version!
Easily my all-time favorite horror film. Great story, great characters, great direction, the whole nine yards.
Personally I like that the movie a possible prequel to the war hammer 40k universe
Nope, in WH chaos sends their armies in body if thete is a gate or tear between warp and real world. In this movie everything is based around characters and their fears. Evil in EH universe is differente from chaos in WH universe.
God please no
@@Heavente well if you dive deeper in, not all the time they do that but cast their influence and madness onto the humans and corrupting them
@@Heavente The point is 40K human ships (Orks too but that's a different case) have to sail through the Warp, a daemonic plane of existence, to achieve faster-than-light travels. Without a Gellar Field to protect, Warp entities could inflict unthinkable violations upon the crew in ways unimaginable.
No. Just no.
This channel is criminally underrated and an absolute gem of sci fi TH-cam
I saw this in the cinema. Brilliant experience.
I watched it in the cinema when it was released... awesome movie, very hyptonic in the big screen. I was hook straight away, never understood why it wasnt successful... I got a special edition with a hard sarcophagus shape box, love it!
I seriously don't understand how movie critics make money or have a job! As others have stated, this movie is grossly underrated and is one of my favorite sci-fi / horror films!
In my head canon, for the film’s backstory, Dr Weir already knew what the warp was about, that’s why he seemed so interested in the project and obsessed to meet with his wife (she committed suicide, thus a sin so she is in hell) and his main goal to fulfill this was to bring “human sacrifices” that’s why the L&C crew had some troubled background and guilt
That actually sounds really good lol
@@LilSpookyyy Nah, too complicated. And how the hell could he have known whats out there?
I personally like to think that all the terrors we see in this movie were just in their heads, nothing supernatural. There was no any "hell", and the ship was not "alive" in any sense.
After "Event horizon" went through this Gate, it probably could be irradiated by some sort of radiation we dont have in our known universe, and Weir didnt know of this too. And this radiation started screwing with the minds of those who were exposed to it.
So, the original crew went nuts immediately after coming through the Gate, and so did Justin when he was sucked into it. But the rest of the Miller's team had much more time before starting to have any hallucinations and stuff.
Despite the fact that this one of my favorite horror movies, as well as sci-fi movies, I'm actually somewhat glad this movie didn't do to well in the theaters, mainly due to the fact that if it had done well in the theaters it would have most likely gotten a squeal that would have been nothing more than a cash grab that would have been terrible.
Fun fact, they are actually making a TV series based on the movie and directed by the guy who made Godzilla vs Kong
Hey Nyat keep the content coming.
I've always loved this movie. Awesome. Terrifying. Suspenseful.
Awesome video! This movie definitely deserves a deep dive
One of the most underrated horror scifi movies of all time.
I wish they made a sequel.
Subtle In the Mouth of Madness reference, another one of my favorites!
I was 11 years old at the time this movie came out and I instantly fell in love with it. It scared the fucking shit out of me but kept me engaged with its excellent storytelling. I can honestly say that after watching this I fell in love with the horror gore genre pretty early on in my life. Nothing could scare me after this
This movie went hand in hand with the movie Sphere in my childhood. I felt like they were analogs of one another, where the sphere was eventually harnessed by humanity to bend space and achieve distant space travel. But the process essentially drove Jerry (the sphere entity) mad and caused it to recreate people's nightmares in more horrific detail being left alone in space for so long, it's mind reeling with the nightmares of the original crew he killed.
Never go into the warp... WITHOUT A GELLAR FIELD!
nor navigator
Like a relationship, there needs to be boundaries.
You mentioned Sam Neil making a slow descent "Into the Mouth of Madness" which was another cosmic horror film with Sam Neil directed by John Carpenter which came out well before Event Horizon. Nice touch.
To those asking about the previous video, the difference is that the other video goes more in detail about the people sent on the rescue mission, while this one focuses on trying to explain the cosmic entity that awaits and torments them. Bc of the unknown nature of the entity, this video is shorter and more condensed, with respect the information gone over about the crew
This is one of your best written videos, by far! Very very good work
This film is a great mix of warhammer 40k's fantasy elements and the atmosphere of dead space.
I loved this movie when it came out. The way it began, the music, and then the way the ship looked was amazing. I like how you'd never see the enemy just the quick images of what they did to you. I wanted them to make a prequel sequel. I like how you used Sam Neil's descent into the mouth of madness which was a great movie he was in.
Nice 'In The Mouth Of Madness' reference
The 4 points presented at 8:30 sums up perfectly well what Lovecraft's work is all about. Best description ever!
Can't believe I haven't thought to ask this yet, would you consider covering Netflix's Castlevania? The show that proves a video game to film adaptation can KICK ASS!
Its on the to do list! Haven't gotten to watching it yet, though
@@filmcomicsexplained Could you please 🙏 do a video covering Coraline. It's one of my favorite scary childhood movies
@@filmcomicsexplained I’ll be looking forward to seeing your video on it. It really is a great series adaptation of the third game in the franchise.
I remember watching this as a kid. Scared the crap out of me. Still love it. Looks like a rewatch is in order.
My favorite guilty pleasure of a movie! Watched this last night in Cinemax! Too bad there's no Director's Cut of this film, because the original film negatives disintegrated over the years.
Mate I can’t help but binge watch your content! absolutely great work!
The same guy who made the brain dead RE movies made this underrated masterpiece.
Just so he could cast his girl so she'd wouldn't be unemployed
Can't believe he once made this masterpiece.
Same with the 2004 Alien vs Predator movie and Mortal Kombat
@@matt_canonboth of those are whack too
"A slow descent into 'the mouth of madness'" ... I see watcha did there! Nice one! Very nice! :)
The DooM Slayer has found his favorite cruise ship.😎
Thank You for breaking Event Horizon down. This movie scared the crap out of Me for years and left Me very confused. Your explanation gave Me a better understanding of the storyline concept as a whole. Great work!!!
My take on this movie was that the event horizon's core had an effect on the brains of the people who were close enough to it due to magnetism.
This in effect worked as a constant state of hallucination, meaning that any fear they experience is amplified and and continues to grow.
There was never any Demons or hell, just an effect of the ship on the humans.
Much less intriguing, I know.
That doesn't explain where the ship actually gone to
It doesn’t explain how miller felt the heat of fire in the grav core before he finds out what the meaning of the distress message really was, he perceived heat, unless that can happen then there’s no explanation to how the magnetism might make the brain perceive heat
I’ve watched 100s if not 1000s of horror movies in my life. When I first saw Event Horizon I was working out of town and staying in a hotel by myself. It was 1 am I was laying in bed in the dark. And yes. This movie spooked me. I left a light on…It was a physiological horror movie. Not so much visual. It was finding out where the ship had been all these years
This channel is becoming iconic now intro and outro, so eerie, I love it.
Speaking of Cosmic Horror, would you ever do a video on Bloodborne? It is one of if not the most successful video game based on cosmic/gothic horror and blends the two genres perfectly in a way that nobody has ever managed to do before.
This movie absolutely terrified me when I was younger - now it does even more so.
When I saw this movie as a kid, I wasn't horrified, I was just stunned at how crazy it was, I would say jaw dropped stunned thinking "damn, this is trippy"
Awesome, Mr. Explained!
Never, EVER, trust what "movie critics" say about anything. They should be called "movie snobs" instead. I saw this movie in the theater was was genuinely frightened. It is an underrated masterpiece. I still watch it about once a year.
If you want to see another good cosmic horror, that coincidentally features Sam Neil, check out "In the Mouth of Madness".
My favorite seen is when the young guy is in the airlock and comes to his senses right before the sequence starts and his plea to the mother figure. The whole mama bear and baby bear interaction is heart breaking. The feeling of inevitable suffering that will happen and you can't stop it is captured perfectly in that scene.
"Dr. Weir's slow descent Into the Mouth of Madness..."
I see what you did there! :)
Amazing and completely underrated movie!
Cosmic Horror: (sadistic grin) "Welcome to Hell."
(BOOM!!!)
Doom Slayer: "Knock Knock!"
Cosmic Horror: (horrified) "Oh... Shit."
Simon the digger from Gurren Lagann: proceeds to drill Chutulu and Azothoth.
I've always thought the ending of this movie would be a good segway into a (hopefully well done) Doom movie. After Lt Stark gets debriefed and talks about what the gateway did and what happened to the ship, the rescue crew and Dr. Weir, this could introduce the UAC and the work Dr. Weir was doing. After the disappearance of the EH, Weir could have continued his work on Mars, on a similar gateway except based on land. This takes us to Mars where there isn't only a commercial mining operation, but an operation ran by the UAC while also conducting scientific experiments, namely Weir's gateway. After learning what happened on the ship, the scientists are curious and turn it on. A wave similar to the one we saw on the ship permeates the base and people slowly start going mad and get disfigured and attack. Zombies. Since Weir introduced the Hell dimension to our world through his ship, the actual creatures (demons) that inhabit Hell it are able to find it on their end and use the gate on Mars to start invading the base, so on and so forth. Call in the Marines, Doom Guy gets there last cause he knocked out his CO, and starts fucking shit up. Long, drawn out and probably plagued with flaws, I know. Just been rolling around in my head for like 20 years lol.
This is one of the most underrated movie i rewatched over and over
I had the pleasure of seeing this underrated gem in theaters back in the day. Crazy thing is that the girl I saw the film with later went insane but I'm sure it's unrelated.
Don't be so sure, friend
Such a great movie! One of my favorite
"you know nothing. hell is only a word. the reality is much, much worse...
now, LET ME SHOW YOU"
This was probably the most sadistically scary movie I saw as a teenager. They did a fantastic job merging Sci-fi and horror.
I can never get anyone to watch this or in the mouth of madness for some reason people don't seem to like Sam Neill mixed with lovecraftian stories while I think they are a perfect match.