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Summary: Stunning F/X, hokey story!
Review: My reason for giving this movie a lower rating is a simple matter of personal preference, and others may completely disagree with me. I wanted this movie to be pure science. The unknown can be horrifying enough. However, the plot takes us into this "hell" were evil lurks, bringing up deep theological questions. I've never cared for the blending of sci-fi and theology. In my eyes, that's what brings this movie down.
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Summary: Warning: No wusses allowed
Review: I'll make this short: This movie scared the crap out of me. So, if you like that sort of scary movie, watch this. It's very violent. <Like when a guy is launched into space. Gross!> You have been warned.
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Summary: Event Horizon = Space Dreck
Review: The premise is interesting although familiar, but story suffers from a confused spine and tons of plot holes. Also, some of the most ludicrous set design I've ever seen: The ship looks like a cross between an underlit 'Nostromo' from "Alien" and Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion." Not quite the design to keep a crew sane over years of space travel. The sets also offered pointlessly Gothic design (hallways that looked like abattoirs) inane set elements that were added just because they looked cool (headlights on a black hole generator?), all adding up to the set designer falling in love with his own sketches and the director letting him. Any crew spending any amount of time in that ship would have wigged out on their own, no Hell necessary.
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Summary: A good idea gone bad
Review: Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) boards a spaceship and informs its crew and Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) that they are going on a search for the Event Horizon. The Event Horizon is a ship that Dr. Weir built. The Event Horizon disappeared a few years ago and its crew supposedly met their deaths. From reading the back of the box, I thought "Event Horizon" sounded like a movie that was about a space mission where the people were just going to search for the lost crew of the Event Horizon. However, it turned out to be something that made it a bad movie. A few of the crew members start going paranoid and some even turn into satanic demons that cut their own eyes out and go mad. I'm not going to tell you why they start going mad because that would give away too much of the movie. "Event Horizon" was a good idea gone bad in my opinion because I think it would've been more entertaining without all the blood and gore and the satanic stuff. If it would have been about a crew that goes on search for a lost ship and lost crew and the only horrors that would give the crew a run for their money would be things such as asteroids, it would've been a much better movie. I'm not crazy about movies that involve the people who are supposed to be on the same side turning into maniacal killers against each other. On the other hand, "Event Horizon" isn't all bad. It has spectacular special effects and some exciting sequences. The effects and the action packed parts are the only reason I didn't give the movie just one star. The only reason I would recommend "Event Horizon" is for anyone who likes watching great special effects, otherwise, I recommend skipping this movie.
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Summary: Too many cheap shocks - not enough Sci-Fi
Review: The Amazon Editorial review sums it up nicely. B-horror movie feel, lots of cheap "you know it's coming" shock scenes, not enough sci-fi. Very predictible. Be sure to rent it before you buy it =)
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Summary: attacks beyond belief
Review: Event Horizon is great for people for Science Fiction lovers that enjoy blood and guts, but I don't enjoy that much blood and guts. A ship is sent to travel the stars, but contact is quickly lost. Years later it shows up again. The team sent to explore quickly finds many horrers brought back on the ship. Enjoy.
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Summary: Demonic trash
Review: I had great anticipation of this movie after seeing the preview but was extremely disappointed and disgusted at the wanton gore and satanic crap that were thrown in to save this pathetic movie. The satanic, extremely gory "log" of the deceased crew of the "Event Horizon" is revolting in every way. You see screaming, writhing nude bodies drenched in blood being tortured. Utter crap. You also get to see an eyeless, nude woman who is apparently the good doctor's deceased wife. She appears to him quite frequently and flashes the camera as she tries to coax him to go to hell with her. Wonderful. Just for a change of pace, the doctor gets possessed, rips his eyes out and rips out the chest of one of crew who is dangling by his skin from the ceiling. It just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? The good doctor then becomes some kind of demon thingy that comes out of the fire looking like a flaming turd and throws fire at our heroic captain Fishburne. Then the flaming turd turns into a 21st Century version of the guy from Hellraiser. All in all, this is a terrible movie that is wanton in its demonic content, gore, demonic content, gore, and just for a change of pace, more gore. The only good thing about this movie is the cast. That's it.
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Summary: This movie gets dumped on way too much
Review: Event Horizon is much better then many people say. I don't get scared easily by movies but this movie even made me jump. There is quite of bit of blood and gore, but hey it's a horror movie not just a sci-fi. If you want to be scared and jump in your seat, see this movie. Be warened, it's not for the light hearted.
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Summary: You love it,you just don't want to admit it.
Review: Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Neill, Sean Pertwee and Jack Noseworthy head up the cast of director Paul Anderson's Science Fiction horror picture EVENT HORIZON. Drawing from a multitude of sources, not least amongst them Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation SOLARIS, HELLRAISER, Kubrick's THE SHINING, ALIEN and even Bruce Clark's cheap 'n' cheerful GALAXY OF TERROR, this is a well put together, visually splendid big budget piece of science fiction schlock set in the year 2047 and concerning a mission to investigate the sudden mysterious reappearance of an experimental American spaceship (the titular) Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, has pulled the old bad penny trick popping up unannounced in the orbit of Neptune. A salvage rescue team is required. Mission commander / [space]ship's captain Laurence Fishburne and creepy scientist Sam Neill (designer of the mystery vessel) accompanied by a T-shirt- and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pro's head off into the outer reaches of the solar system only to encounter an 'empty vessel', one that's not making much noise. Dead and deserted, the Event Horizon is no laughing matter at the best of times, but when boarding and further investigation turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, mysterious Latin utterances on a last desperate ships log message (no 'stardate...blah blah blah' here!) and a decidedly unearthly presence; the trip assumes somewhat more than most had bargained for in the way of fun and games. Transpires the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and clearly obviously impossible) visions lure various of the crew members into terminal situations. A presence 'not of our dimension' (as Rod Serling might have opined) has domain over the Event Horizon, this disturbing presence perhaps connected to the black hole designed to warp space through which the ship had ventured and it wants something... . EVENT HORIZON is a pleasing watch, superbly crafted on the technical side, the ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of ALIEN providing the requisite sense of ominous foreboding, adding menacing touches such as teeth seemingly sprouting from bulwark doors and claw-like spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Adrian Biddle (101 DALMATIANS, FIERCE CREATURES) captures some of the more evocative, memorable images in recent times, assisted by a strong special effects crew and Production Designer Joseph Bennett. Unfortunately the films plotting is admittedly less inspired and inventive than the production design, hardly original, but it is nonetheless done with some style and seeming belief and the special effects are genuinely top-notch. The film is capably acted, competently penned and impressively helmed by director Paul Anderson (MORTAL KOMBAT and the underrated SHOPPING) and is an excellent mix of science fiction and horror movie genres. There is enough graphic violence for the censors to have been nervous about it's US 'R' rating whilst the setting is pure ALIEN. A special mention in dispatches for the soundtrack too; enjoyable and suitably creepy. Much of EVENT HORIZON's criticism stemmed from its obviously borrowed plot elements, the primary reason it was so poorly received by audiences being simply because they did not know what to expect. It is not ALIEN, nor pitiful feelgood tripe such as STAR WARS, nor the crudity that is Barker's overrated HELLRAISER. Anderson simply heists the best elements from all of them. Despite the film's narrative shortcomings, the film succeeds on several levels. It is in many respects an excellent central idea, the question posed: What if hell was indeed a physical place you could actually go to? and what if that place lay in the depths of space?. Ultimately the movie has a trashy 'B' movie charm about it and is destined to be seen as a classy, classic example of that 'something nasty in space' 'B' subgenre as typified by Norman J. Warren's equally impressive INSEMINOID / HORROR PLANET and of-course the ALIEN quartet.
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Summary: Flawed, but not without a little genuine horror
Review: While I don't feel this movie is as good as some of the reviewers say it it, it isn't nearly as bad as some of its other reviews would have you believe either. Granted, it has its shortcomings. None of the characters, except Weir maybe, are memorable. Some of the dialogue is corny. And most importantly, these characters act a little unrealistic when each meets their own personal nightmare. But if it is the intention of the makers of this film to scare and disturb people, then they succeeded. There are several scenes that you may forget about after you finish watching. But wait about a week or two when you turn out your light and go to bed. Plus this is a scary movie on a thematic level. Regardless of how you feel about the scientific aspects of the movie, what if faster-than-light (FTL) travel produced catastrophic results? And what if the Earth was threatened and FTL travel was the only means of survival? Mankind would be left with two choices: extinction or damnation. Some choice, eh? If you want to watch a fun movie that will have you feeling good about life, don't watch this. Watch THE WATERBOY instead. But if you want to watch a film that might knock 2-3 hours of sleep off for a couple nights, then watch this.
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