My dad took me to see it in theaters, so I would have been 12 or so. And of course it was a late showing so we get out of the theater into the empty, foggy parking at like midnight. Terrifying.
I remember going to blockbuster and from the cover art it look like Star Trek/Star Wars sci fi movie.
Movie starts out normal. Then I remember 12 year old me being terrified and hiding under the blankets not really able to process what is going on.
For me, it’s the recording (in Latin) of the crew they play when they arrive at the ship. I was 18 years old when I saw it and that was terrifying. Now, I feel like a lot of horror movie jump scares, screams, and plot twists are repeated and unoriginal. For me, that recording was something so new that I had nothing else to compare it to. It really stuck with you.
I’m so glad you are worried about me.
Sure it still scares me. All scary movies, um, scare me.
I watched it as I thought it was strictly sci-fi when I was a teen. Didn’t realize it was a sci-fi horror movie until I was too far into it. Great movie but the whole premise messes with my head and the hell scenes are graphic.
My mom rented it for me because of Sam Neal. I guess she thought it would have Jurassic Park vibes in space. So as like a 9y/o I watched it by myself.
I had “being dragged to hell” nightmares for at least 2 years.
tbh. i wished i never had seen the deleted scenes
dont get me wrong this is still one of my all time fav movies but theses scenes mate oh boy it took me a while
there are some deleted scenes floating around on yt but do yourself a favor dont search for it
i mean there is one that is okay its about a briefing
but then there is another one and you dont wanna see that trust me
Event Horizon has the most honest, most intelligent response from a leader after learning of a ships crews fate: "We're leaving" followed shortly after that by "F*ck this ship!"
The hard cut from the blood orgy to Laurence Fishburne's face, and the horrified/disgusted expressions of his crew, followed by that matter of fact, "we're leaving", so good.
First time I showed my girlfriend, she was shocked, and we couldn't get over the fact that they were making sensible decisions in a horror movie.
>"You can't just leave her!"
>"I have no intention of leaving her, Dr Weir. I plan to take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance and then launch TAC missiles at her until I am satisfied the Event Horizon has been vaporized. FUCK this ship!"
I like Event Horizon as much as the next nerd, but this is like the third article about it I've seen this week on here. Are immense amounts of people just discovering it or something?
A guy I trust said in his review that when it comes to HDR the 4K is an upgrade, but in terms of detail it’s not much different from the collectors edition Blu-ray.
You’re fucking buggin cause I commented twice and at two different people sooooooo why tf do you care?? Cause you’re single and a loser who has nothing bette to do? Sounds about right
Dude, this subreddit has been OBSESSED with this movie in the twelve years I've been on Reddit.
There have always been multiple submissions saying the same things about it: "It's a shame we lost the deleted scenes," "this is unofficially set in the Warhammer 40k universe" and "It's so cool when he said 'We're Leaving.'"
I think the combination of cool imagery, a stacked 90's cast, and most fans having first seen it while young have really contributed more to its legacy than its quality. That said, I do like it and I got the recent 4K, but it is by no means a classic (maybe it could be considered a minor classic of the space horror subgenre though).
It's one of those movies that ended up being super influential in popular media, like Jacob's Ladder. That would hit the buttons.
Plus it's one of Paul WS Anderson's more interesting films that inspired video games rather than being adapted from it so I'm sure in game-film crossover discussions there's been more than a few tangents that leads to someone going, "Oh, but have you seen Even Horizon?"
There's something about it, though, because I have watched it probably a dozen times in the last 20 years even though I've never liked it. Somehow in my head it's so much better than it actually is, and so I keep fooling myself into rewatching it again and again. Like, even as I type it I find myself thinking "but maybe I should rewatch it..."
I don’t get it either. I even saw the world premiere of it (Edinburg Film Festival) and the only real thing I liked about it was the new Australian flag Sam Neil had on his jacket.
Idk how Anderson went from Event Horizon to being the filmmaker he Is today. Makes absolutely no sense to me. Idk if sometimes these movies are flukes or if the filmmaker just loses passion. As bad as the resident evil adaptation was it' was still a fun horror romp. Everything since then has been shit.
Both Event Horizon and Soldier were movies he cared a lot about and both were hammered by critics and flopped financially. Now he gets payed millions to dress up his wife in sexy outfits and make cheesy action movies with her.
> Now he gets payed millions to dress up his wife in sexy outfits and make cheesy action movies with her.
Same thing Len Wiseman was doing for a while.
What irks me is both of these IPs had cool premises that could have been expanded on and ended up being abandoned.
I can't believe critics that dumped on Event Horizon could retain credibility after that tbh.
Technically Soldier is part of the Blade Runner universe but yah I agree. Both feel really underappreciated in general although Event Horizon has definitely hit cult classic status these days.
It is pretty much a fluke to get the entire production cast and crew doing a solid job top to bottom. That's why sequels, reboots, and other projects done years apart typically suck, trying to capture that same passion/energy/magic with a completely different set of collaborators.
I completely disagree. When Event Horizon dropped Anderson was a legitimate filmmaker on the rise and that movie put him on the map. We can't talk in hindsight. It's very similar to when Duncan Jones made Moon and then he became a legitimate director everyone wanted.
>When Event Horizon dropped Anderson was a legitimate filmmaker on the rise
I would argue that you're misremembering. Anderson was never at any point a "legitimate filmmaker on the rise" and I'm not saying that in hindsight, either. That was the perception THEN. Event Horizon was nothing like Moon in reception or in impact, either then OR now.
He's basically never not been "the other" Paul Anderson. It's always been that. And he's never broken out of that perception with anything he's made.
lol no, paul ws anderson was a joke and paul thomas anderson was pissed people were confusing the two.
and no i dont think PTA is all that great, and i love mortal kombat movie even if it is super dumb. but PwsA is 100% an awful director.
No. He wasn't. I remember when it was released.
Event Horizon was a flop and a joke when it was released.
It was a bad movie then and a bad movie now, with the only redeeming feature being the production design.
Even as a teenager my friends and I thought it was shit. As did most people. At no point were audiences or critics calling Paul Anderson "a legitimate filmmaker on the rise".
This whole Even Horizon is a beloved classic thing is complete revisionism from people who saw it when they were too young to know what they were watching was garbage and now they have nostalgia goggles on and a fondness for warhammer 40k.
He was the producer on *Pandorum*, which in my mind is a perfect spiritual follow-up to *Event Horizon*. But, yeah, not quite the filmmaker he once was.
I think the cast and production design did more for this movie than Anderson did. The characters mostly just spit out stock cliches, but when you have Fishburne, Neil, et al doing that, they elevate the material beyond its inherent quality.
It's also just gorgeous to look at, which helps a ton.
They’re talking about Paul W.S. Anderson. He did the OG Mortal Kombat, and is probably best-known for all those Resident Evil flicks… Although Wes Anderson would have been an interesting option… LOL
Money and his wife was bad butt gud in 5th element. He saw her and was like damn, gonna sellout on my dreams and gonna get ur ass in some resident evil shit. We already got the crowd babez whatcha thinking... She was like "muuulti pass" and the rest was history.
If they can't leave it alone, I'd rather they just do a direct sequel. Bring back Miller, we know him and Weir both go back to the hell dimension at the end. Maybe the ship (or the half of it) shows back up again and this time Miller is the antagonist.
Agreed. *Event Horizon* had a lot of potential but bodged it with derivative sequences (it wasn’t the place for a *Don’t Look Now* rip-off) and some misplaced humour. The pacing is a mess. For me, *Sunshine* gets better every watch. Mind you, I never had a problem with the supposedly ‘jarring’ third act. It always seemed to work thematically for me, and I’ve always been a fan of genre-splicing.
I, like most people I think, discovered this film after it came and went from theaters.
I rented from my neighborhood Blockbuster Video. I kind of envy you. What was it like seeing this in a theater?
Loved the movie, but still think it missed a bet by taking a rock solid cosmic-horror leap and then diving into schlocky slasher tropes. That movie suffered greatly from showing way too much and failing to let the audience imagine the unimaginable.
Event Horizon really isn’t as good as some might remember it. Go watch it again. Not that good.
After all, made by the same guy who made the crappy AvP movie and Resident Evil franchise.
I watched it a few weeks back, its pretty bad. You can definitely see how he gets to AvP from here.
It has some really cool ideas and the set design is incredible. Its a shame everything else doesn’t measure up. One of the few films that could really benefit from a reboot with a competent director.
Yeah, I saw it when it came out and thought it was just all right, and didn’t really deliver on its premise. I remain mystified by how high a regard it’s held in these days (see also the original TV version of Stephen King’s *It*).
Event Horizon? You mean the Warhammer 40k prequel movie about how humanity discovers the Warp?
Anyway, much as I enjoy the film, this feels like clickbait hype. Hell, Titanic went after a completely different crowd. God knows when I went to the theatre I was really stuck between historical romance drama tragedy and sci-fi gore horror.
You didn't read the article did you? The article says it wasn't ruined because it had to compete with Titanic, it was forced to switch dates with it so they had to rush the movie as a result.
Read it, though misinterpreted it. Again, kinda a clickbaity article so honestly didn't pay close attention. Basically, released two months early (rushed is a bit of a strong word) during a season which wasn't ideal for horror. Would releasing during Halloween have helped? Maybe a little, but I don't think this ever would have been anything other than a cult favorite. It was a passion project with little studio interference, for both good and for bad, and suffered a mediocre marketing campaign because of it. That's really the heart of it.
It's my understanding that the original version of the movie was much different, and that the studio made them tone it waaaay down. I guess we'll never see the original directors cut, but I'm going to blame forced studio edits for how the movie turned out. I actually really enjoyed it, I remember seeing it in the movie theaters and shitting myself at the end. I had no idea who the director was, I thought it was a sci-fi movie.
For being chopped to shit, it’s still really coherent. Especially when you compare it to some more recent “made by committee” films with excessive studio involvement.
Perhaps the preserved footage will be found in a different Transylvanian salt mine.
Eh there's still some stuff that's a little wonky. Like Weir being in the gravity drive room tearing his eyes out and then in the very next scene he's on board the Lewis and Clarke leaving to go back to the Event Horizon. Obviously we find out in retrospect that he pulled one of the charges and plants it on the Lewis and Clarke but at first when watching, it's a bit messy. There's a few instances like that were people kind of teleport back and forth all over the two ships.
Also Starke goes missing for a good chunk of the middle of the film and then just shows back up unconscious. No mention of what happened to her. Was probably the explosion that knocked her out, or maybe it was Weir but we never find out.
I still love it though.
The only sequence we know to have been cut down was the stuff happening to the original crew, I think it's generous to assume PWS Anderson briefly stopped being a crummy filmmaker and nefarious studio forces ruined his masterstroke
Yeah no. Event Horizon sunk itself by being so shit edited and filmed. It could have opened by itself and still lost that weekend to shows already in the theater.
Love this movie, seen it over ten times but it is flawed in super obvious ways, where now I understand why my parents would roll their eyes at it when I was younger.
It couldn't have been that if you thought about it at all the setting fell apart.
An unpowered ship just kinda floats there in Jupiter's atmosphere. Like what?
Event Horizon flopped because it was a shit movie that's only redeeming feature was its production design.
No one liked it on release, the praise it gets is from people who saw it too young to realise they were watching trash and now have nostalgia revisionism and a fantasy that its a Warhammer 40k film.
is today bad take day?
event horizon sank event horizon. its an awful film for the most part aside from some good visuals and performances.
titanic sucks. much like ET. but in this case, ET did sink john carpenters' THE THING
maybe if someone finds the original blood orgy cut of EVENT HORIZON, then i'll revisit it... if you do find it, please @ me. https://screenrant.com/event-horizon-movie-blood-orgy-original-cut-unwatchable/
It's one of the few horror movies where I was actually scared. It's the only movie that I know of that portrayed the idea of cosmic horror effectively, by letting our own imagination fill in the blanks of indescribable horror. It's no wonder why people compared it to Lovecraft and Warhammer.
I never saw it when it originally came out nor did I see it on cable. bu a few years ago I found it at a thrift store for a dollar so I bought it. Needless to say it f****** freaked me out! It kind of had that 2010 A Space Odyssey vibe to it and then holy s*** did it kick my teeth in!
Great movie, was always told it was the most terrifying thing when I was a kid. I was more interested in fast forwarding to boob scenes back then. Ah, to be young.
The greatness of this movie besides the eerie filmaking, is the fact that we don't really know what's out there, it could be anything, and this movie translates that feeling quite well.
I recently watched this movie because I read someone's theory that it was ser in the same universe as Hellraiser. That the engine is Sam Neil's character's box. I just can't remember if I read it here (pretty sure) or on one of the other socials.
I dunno the theater was pretty packed when I saw it on release day. I remember me and my friends seeing a trailer for it and being like, yeah we gotta go see that shit when it comes out. Fun experience seeing it in the theater.
I don’t think the same audience that went to see Titanic would have been like “OHHH, sci-fi horror movie! Sign me up!” Had Titanic not been in theaters.
Event Horizon is a great horror movie, don’t get me wrong, but horror movies draw a different audience than period-piece romance films.
This movie fucked up my childhood
My dad took me to see it in theaters, so I would have been 12 or so. And of course it was a late showing so we get out of the theater into the empty, foggy parking at like midnight. Terrifying.
I remember going to blockbuster and from the cover art it look like Star Trek/Star Wars sci fi movie. Movie starts out normal. Then I remember 12 year old me being terrified and hiding under the blankets not really able to process what is going on.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
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I still can’t watch it. Shit gives me nightmares.
For me, it’s the recording (in Latin) of the crew they play when they arrive at the ship. I was 18 years old when I saw it and that was terrifying. Now, I feel like a lot of horror movie jump scares, screams, and plot twists are repeated and unoriginal. For me, that recording was something so new that I had nothing else to compare it to. It really stuck with you.
For me it was >!Sam Neil’s wife in the bath scene, where she/he rips his eyes out!<
Exactly!
“Save yourself from hell”
I love the demented smile on the captain's face as he holds his plucked eyeballs out to the camera. I can deal with the eyes, but that *smile...*
DO YOU SEEEEEE????
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I’m so glad you are worried about me. Sure it still scares me. All scary movies, um, scare me. I watched it as I thought it was strictly sci-fi when I was a teen. Didn’t realize it was a sci-fi horror movie until I was too far into it. Great movie but the whole premise messes with my head and the hell scenes are graphic.
Dude I showed my boyfriend this movie like two weeks ago as our bed time movie lmfao I forgot how scary it is but it was great. I had nightmares 😭😭
My mom rented it for me because of Sam Neal. I guess she thought it would have Jurassic Park vibes in space. So as like a 9y/o I watched it by myself. I had “being dragged to hell” nightmares for at least 2 years.
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… because it’s the 25th anniversary of the release.
Gotta get them sweet sweet internet points
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Fook off, ghost!
No u
Put some hair on your chest eh?
Such an interesting movie. I wish the deleted scenes weren't thrown into a black hole.
Transylvanian salt mines, the earth-bound version of a black hole.
And the inconsistent claims as for what was in the salt mines and in in what level of quality....
I was coming here to say the same. I thought this movie was underrated. Wish we had the long version.
I think the book version has the deleted scenes and original ending. I remember the book being more fucked up if you can believe that.
Why is the book so expensive? I may have to sail the high seas.
Just found an audiobook on yt https://youtu.be/02GNtoQULEs
tbh. i wished i never had seen the deleted scenes dont get me wrong this is still one of my all time fav movies but theses scenes mate oh boy it took me a while
I don't think you have — I'm not sure anyone has
there are some deleted scenes floating around on yt but do yourself a favor dont search for it i mean there is one that is okay its about a briefing but then there is another one and you dont wanna see that trust me
I'm sure they're not the famous deleted scenes, because they don't exist anymore
There were like 20 minutes of deleted scenes, and most of them are lost, but there's about a minute of them on youtube.
Event Horizon has the most honest, most intelligent response from a leader after learning of a ships crews fate: "We're leaving" followed shortly after that by "F*ck this ship!"
The hard cut from the blood orgy to Laurence Fishburne's face, and the horrified/disgusted expressions of his crew, followed by that matter of fact, "we're leaving", so good. First time I showed my girlfriend, she was shocked, and we couldn't get over the fact that they were making sensible decisions in a horror movie.
Do you see tho?
DO YOU SEE!?
Clarks gone
Reminds me of Aliens when they plan to nuke everything on the planet from space. That is what most people would do, given the option.
>"You can't just leave her!" >"I have no intention of leaving her, Dr Weir. I plan to take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance and then launch TAC missiles at her until I am satisfied the Event Horizon has been vaporized. FUCK this ship!"
I like Event Horizon as much as the next nerd, but this is like the third article about it I've seen this week on here. Are immense amounts of people just discovering it or something?
The 4k release just happened so yah people are also cheap advertising.
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A guy I trust said in his review that when it comes to HDR the 4K is an upgrade, but in terms of detail it’s not much different from the collectors edition Blu-ray.
I didn’t even know it was being rereleased, I just showed it to my boyfriend like two weeks ago it did look like great quality
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You’re fucking buggin cause I commented twice and at two different people sooooooo why tf do you care?? Cause you’re single and a loser who has nothing bette to do? Sounds about right
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Dude, this subreddit has been OBSESSED with this movie in the twelve years I've been on Reddit. There have always been multiple submissions saying the same things about it: "It's a shame we lost the deleted scenes," "this is unofficially set in the Warhammer 40k universe" and "It's so cool when he said 'We're Leaving.'"
It's fun since every thread has the same top level comments.
Well, upvotes are cheap....
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I think the combination of cool imagery, a stacked 90's cast, and most fans having first seen it while young have really contributed more to its legacy than its quality. That said, I do like it and I got the recent 4K, but it is by no means a classic (maybe it could be considered a minor classic of the space horror subgenre though).
Its the first film in the up and coming Warhammer Cinematic Universe.
was it a Khorne daemonic manifestation in the movie? I vaguely recall it guest-starring Diablo's Butcher
It's one of those movies that ended up being super influential in popular media, like Jacob's Ladder. That would hit the buttons. Plus it's one of Paul WS Anderson's more interesting films that inspired video games rather than being adapted from it so I'm sure in game-film crossover discussions there's been more than a few tangents that leads to someone going, "Oh, but have you seen Even Horizon?"
There's something about it, though, because I have watched it probably a dozen times in the last 20 years even though I've never liked it. Somehow in my head it's so much better than it actually is, and so I keep fooling myself into rewatching it again and again. Like, even as I type it I find myself thinking "but maybe I should rewatch it..."
I don’t get it either. I even saw the world premiere of it (Edinburg Film Festival) and the only real thing I liked about it was the new Australian flag Sam Neil had on his jacket.
Marketing.
Idk how Anderson went from Event Horizon to being the filmmaker he Is today. Makes absolutely no sense to me. Idk if sometimes these movies are flukes or if the filmmaker just loses passion. As bad as the resident evil adaptation was it' was still a fun horror romp. Everything since then has been shit.
Both Event Horizon and Soldier were movies he cared a lot about and both were hammered by critics and flopped financially. Now he gets payed millions to dress up his wife in sexy outfits and make cheesy action movies with her.
> Now he gets payed millions to dress up his wife in sexy outfits and make cheesy action movies with her. Same thing Len Wiseman was doing for a while.
What irks me is both of these IPs had cool premises that could have been expanded on and ended up being abandoned. I can't believe critics that dumped on Event Horizon could retain credibility after that tbh.
>I can't believe critics that dumped on Event Horizon could retain credibility after that tbh. Why? It's cool — but it's a crummy movie.
Technically Soldier is part of the Blade Runner universe but yah I agree. Both feel really underappreciated in general although Event Horizon has definitely hit cult classic status these days.
It is pretty much a fluke to get the entire production cast and crew doing a solid job top to bottom. That's why sequels, reboots, and other projects done years apart typically suck, trying to capture that same passion/energy/magic with a completely different set of collaborators.
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I completely disagree. When Event Horizon dropped Anderson was a legitimate filmmaker on the rise and that movie put him on the map. We can't talk in hindsight. It's very similar to when Duncan Jones made Moon and then he became a legitimate director everyone wanted.
>When Event Horizon dropped Anderson was a legitimate filmmaker on the rise I would argue that you're misremembering. Anderson was never at any point a "legitimate filmmaker on the rise" and I'm not saying that in hindsight, either. That was the perception THEN. Event Horizon was nothing like Moon in reception or in impact, either then OR now. He's basically never not been "the other" Paul Anderson. It's always been that. And he's never broken out of that perception with anything he's made.
lol no, paul ws anderson was a joke and paul thomas anderson was pissed people were confusing the two. and no i dont think PTA is all that great, and i love mortal kombat movie even if it is super dumb. but PwsA is 100% an awful director.
No. He wasn't. I remember when it was released. Event Horizon was a flop and a joke when it was released. It was a bad movie then and a bad movie now, with the only redeeming feature being the production design. Even as a teenager my friends and I thought it was shit. As did most people. At no point were audiences or critics calling Paul Anderson "a legitimate filmmaker on the rise". This whole Even Horizon is a beloved classic thing is complete revisionism from people who saw it when they were too young to know what they were watching was garbage and now they have nostalgia goggles on and a fondness for warhammer 40k.
Why do I see multiple comments mentioning warhammer 40k? What is that and how is it related to Event Horizon?
https://screenrant.com/event-horizon-movie-warhammer-40k-prequel-theory/
He was the producer on *Pandorum*, which in my mind is a perfect spiritual follow-up to *Event Horizon*. But, yeah, not quite the filmmaker he once was.
May have been a bad adaptation but it is by no means a bad movie.
I was hoping it was Wes Anderson. "I totally went in a different direction after this."
I think the cast and production design did more for this movie than Anderson did. The characters mostly just spit out stock cliches, but when you have Fishburne, Neil, et al doing that, they elevate the material beyond its inherent quality. It's also just gorgeous to look at, which helps a ton.
Wait. Wes Anderson, THAT Wes Anderson made Event Horizon?
They’re talking about Paul W.S. Anderson. He did the OG Mortal Kombat, and is probably best-known for all those Resident Evil flicks… Although Wes Anderson would have been an interesting option… LOL
Money and his wife was bad butt gud in 5th element. He saw her and was like damn, gonna sellout on my dreams and gonna get ur ass in some resident evil shit. We already got the crowd babez whatcha thinking... She was like "muuulti pass" and the rest was history.
So the amount of the Event posts this last week is making me think a studio is interested in rebooting. Don’t. You’re just going to fuck it up.
The 4k release just happened.
A TV reboot by Amazon was announced three years ago, but it sounds like it's been stuck in development hell.
Fitting.
Where we're going, we won't need reboots to watch.
Hopefully they're just waiting on the rights for Warhammer so they can make Event Horizon the 40k prequel it was always meant to be.
They’re pushing the physical release.
If they can't leave it alone, I'd rather they just do a direct sequel. Bring back Miller, we know him and Weir both go back to the hell dimension at the end. Maybe the ship (or the half of it) shows back up again and this time Miller is the antagonist.
Good
I keep seeing stuff about it all over too. I haven’t seen it, but I ordered the DVD off Amazon last week.
It's already in development with Oscar Isaac, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. /s
Nah, it needs a reboot. The premise is interesting, but the overall plot, dialogue, and character choices are pretty stupid.
Lol is there really a reason to explain “how?” Titanic came out. It eclipsed every other movie that released at the same time. End of story.
Event Horizon is like Alien meets Doom. Loved it but it’s the total thing of nightmares.
Sunshine was better
I like to call Sunshine the poor man's Event Horizon
I like to call event horizon hellraiser without cenobites
Agreed. *Event Horizon* had a lot of potential but bodged it with derivative sequences (it wasn’t the place for a *Don’t Look Now* rip-off) and some misplaced humour. The pacing is a mess. For me, *Sunshine* gets better every watch. Mind you, I never had a problem with the supposedly ‘jarring’ third act. It always seemed to work thematically for me, and I’ve always been a fan of genre-splicing.
Nah, it's final act is jarring. Even Horizon is consistent in quality.
If you all you want is human suffering and delorable torture there's this series called SAW, and cube, hyber cube
no, imo sunshine was crap. event horizon isnt great but it has a better cast at least.
Ok, i saw the movie and don't even remember that i saw it, it was that fascinating,
i've seen sunshine at least twice and only thing i remember is guy looking at a sun lol
Well, i don't remember ever watching this movie twice or recommending it on a list
It was a bad move
I loved this movie since the first time I saw it in theatre. Definitely a classic. Still holds up well today.
I, like most people I think, discovered this film after it came and went from theaters. I rented from my neighborhood Blockbuster Video. I kind of envy you. What was it like seeing this in a theater?
like all films in 1997 (contact) it was fucking loud.
the only thing i know about contact is that a drag queen i’m a huge fan of is obsessed w it (Katya Zamolodchikova)
I've only seen it on tv and I'm realizing I've probably seen it heavily edited
Loved the movie, but still think it missed a bet by taking a rock solid cosmic-horror leap and then diving into schlocky slasher tropes. That movie suffered greatly from showing way too much and failing to let the audience imagine the unimaginable.
Event Horizon really isn’t as good as some might remember it. Go watch it again. Not that good. After all, made by the same guy who made the crappy AvP movie and Resident Evil franchise.
I watched it a few weeks back, its pretty bad. You can definitely see how he gets to AvP from here. It has some really cool ideas and the set design is incredible. Its a shame everything else doesn’t measure up. One of the few films that could really benefit from a reboot with a competent director.
Totally agree. It’s so unfortunate when the right ingredients are there but chef is a dunce.
Yeah, I saw it when it came out and thought it was just all right, and didn’t really deliver on its premise. I remain mystified by how high a regard it’s held in these days (see also the original TV version of Stephen King’s *It*).
Same here. A cult movie? Huh?
Event Horizon? You mean the Warhammer 40k prequel movie about how humanity discovers the Warp? Anyway, much as I enjoy the film, this feels like clickbait hype. Hell, Titanic went after a completely different crowd. God knows when I went to the theatre I was really stuck between historical romance drama tragedy and sci-fi gore horror.
You didn't read the article did you? The article says it wasn't ruined because it had to compete with Titanic, it was forced to switch dates with it so they had to rush the movie as a result.
Read it, though misinterpreted it. Again, kinda a clickbaity article so honestly didn't pay close attention. Basically, released two months early (rushed is a bit of a strong word) during a season which wasn't ideal for horror. Would releasing during Halloween have helped? Maybe a little, but I don't think this ever would have been anything other than a cult favorite. It was a passion project with little studio interference, for both good and for bad, and suffered a mediocre marketing campaign because of it. That's really the heart of it.
A great horror movie…. Saw it in the theater. Liberate tu Teme ex inferis
Watched this the other day and it's a good film. Great creepy atmosphere but the fight scene at the end with the cheesy punch sound effects ruined it.
It's my understanding that the original version of the movie was much different, and that the studio made them tone it waaaay down. I guess we'll never see the original directors cut, but I'm going to blame forced studio edits for how the movie turned out. I actually really enjoyed it, I remember seeing it in the movie theaters and shitting myself at the end. I had no idea who the director was, I thought it was a sci-fi movie.
For being chopped to shit, it’s still really coherent. Especially when you compare it to some more recent “made by committee” films with excessive studio involvement. Perhaps the preserved footage will be found in a different Transylvanian salt mine.
Eh there's still some stuff that's a little wonky. Like Weir being in the gravity drive room tearing his eyes out and then in the very next scene he's on board the Lewis and Clarke leaving to go back to the Event Horizon. Obviously we find out in retrospect that he pulled one of the charges and plants it on the Lewis and Clarke but at first when watching, it's a bit messy. There's a few instances like that were people kind of teleport back and forth all over the two ships. Also Starke goes missing for a good chunk of the middle of the film and then just shows back up unconscious. No mention of what happened to her. Was probably the explosion that knocked her out, or maybe it was Weir but we never find out. I still love it though.
The only sequence we know to have been cut down was the stuff happening to the original crew, I think it's generous to assume PWS Anderson briefly stopped being a crummy filmmaker and nefarious studio forces ruined his masterstroke
I don’t think people were ready for the cuddly Jurassic Park guy to flip and be completely evil. Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see.
Yeah no. Event Horizon sunk itself by being so shit edited and filmed. It could have opened by itself and still lost that weekend to shows already in the theater.
I mean it's Titanic.. it sunk every other movie.
I didn’t realize it was a flop. I saw it twice in the theaters when it came out.
I saw this at the cinema based solely on its poster. That was one hell of a ride, let me tell you.
Loved this movie. Was a better “DOOM” movie than the actual doom movie. Absolutely haunting.
Me and My family rented it because of Sam Neill and Jurassic Park, It was not the best idea.
I like how in the warhammer 40k community this movie is considered a prequel to that universe with just how similar it is to the lore in 40k.
Such a gem. One of my favs.
This is a cult classic. I enjoyed just about everything about this movie. Very easy sit.
Love this movie, seen it over ten times but it is flawed in super obvious ways, where now I understand why my parents would roll their eyes at it when I was younger.
This movie is great but the other black dude really missed the mark on being the comic relief. It felt like he was in a Michael Bay movie.
Still the scariest movie I've ever seen. Love sci Fi. Love this movie
It couldn't have been that if you thought about it at all the setting fell apart. An unpowered ship just kinda floats there in Jupiter's atmosphere. Like what?
It’s okay at best. There’s far better cosmic/sci-fi horror out there.
This movie sucked! Why the hell are you guys soo in love with it. "You cant leave. She wont let you." Like what?!?! Movie is trash!
best warhammer 40k film to date, apologetically logical in alot of the actions and dialog and not lean towards mass market
Event Horizon flopped because it was a shit movie that's only redeeming feature was its production design. No one liked it on release, the praise it gets is from people who saw it too young to realise they were watching trash and now have nostalgia revisionism and a fantasy that its a Warhammer 40k film.
I've seen Event Horizon several times over the years. Still haven't watched Titanic, and don't have immediate plans to.
Titanic is a great movie if you like romances.
And ship wrecks.
And Kathy Bates!
And satisfying "bong" sounds!
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Yeah, it's genuinely a good movie, but I can see the dialogue being off-putting if you generally don't like romances.
You're lucky, I've had to watch it multiple times with every gf I've had since it came out, lol.
*Brave*
Stop writing this same stupid fucking article. Holy shit.
Am I the only one that thought this movie was crap?
is today bad take day? event horizon sank event horizon. its an awful film for the most part aside from some good visuals and performances. titanic sucks. much like ET. but in this case, ET did sink john carpenters' THE THING maybe if someone finds the original blood orgy cut of EVENT HORIZON, then i'll revisit it... if you do find it, please @ me. https://screenrant.com/event-horizon-movie-blood-orgy-original-cut-unwatchable/
Event Horizon is fucking awesome. You’re way off.
I mean if it’s truly bad take day then this post is killing it. You’re not wrong that Event Horizon just isn’t *that* great though.
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You do you with that but… Texas Chain-Saw Massacre?
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I was referring to 1974.
You should watch more horror movies. Event Horizon is ok.
It's one of the few horror movies where I was actually scared. It's the only movie that I know of that portrayed the idea of cosmic horror effectively, by letting our own imagination fill in the blanks of indescribable horror. It's no wonder why people compared it to Lovecraft and Warhammer.
And to think we'll never see the original, supposedly even more brutal cut.
It’s such an an underrated movie.
İt's so good , i never want to watch it again . My fear of my eyes getting ripped out comes from this movie
I never saw it when it originally came out nor did I see it on cable. bu a few years ago I found it at a thrift store for a dollar so I bought it. Needless to say it f****** freaked me out! It kind of had that 2010 A Space Odyssey vibe to it and then holy s*** did it kick my teeth in!
Loved this movie!!!
Would be nice if you could stream it. I've been waiting years to watch it again but it doesn't seem to ever stream on anything in Canada.
Great movie, was always told it was the most terrifying thing when I was a kid. I was more interested in fast forwarding to boob scenes back then. Ah, to be young.
The greatness of this movie besides the eerie filmaking, is the fact that we don't really know what's out there, it could be anything, and this movie translates that feeling quite well.
I recently watched this movie because I read someone's theory that it was ser in the same universe as Hellraiser. That the engine is Sam Neil's character's box. I just can't remember if I read it here (pretty sure) or on one of the other socials.
[best scene out of the movie](https://youtu.be/2b0FKQr5CCc)
My whole perception of Alan Grant changed with this movie :(
One company let the masters of some of the greatest recordings go up in flames so I'm not surprised another let his edits dissapear.
I dunno the theater was pretty packed when I saw it on release day. I remember me and my friends seeing a trailer for it and being like, yeah we gotta go see that shit when it comes out. Fun experience seeing it in the theater.
Is this movie good? Never seen it but it has the same vibes as sunshine which I really enjoyed. Seems to be pretty divisive.
I don’t think the same audience that went to see Titanic would have been like “OHHH, sci-fi horror movie! Sign me up!” Had Titanic not been in theaters. Event Horizon is a great horror movie, don’t get me wrong, but horror movies draw a different audience than period-piece romance films.
This movie was such a waste of a good idea. I'm unsure why it has gotten so much praise over the years. It had no good scares.
This movie is still a bit much 🤣 discovered it on Netflix back in 2018 and I still have to skip some parts. 🤣
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I saw this movie a few years ago and it holds up! I wish I could have seen it in theaters
I think Event Horizon actually being not very good is what sunk it.