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Summary: Horrible Horror
Review: One of the grossest, goriest movies I've ever seen. The plot was horrible. It just moved from one killing to the next. Blood and gore everywhere. Not worth the time I spent watching it. I kept waiting for something positive to happen, but ....
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Summary: from the director of Mortal Kobat
Review: this one is ok with some intense horror scenes but please..it runs out of steam way to early and we dont get that edge we need....Sam Neill at the end, I mean come on but Laurence Fishburne is great. not much fun on a planetary scale
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Summary: HELL IS JUST A WORD,THE REALITY IS MUCH WORSE.
Review: All I can say is that this is a really good movie.The movie has a very dark atmosphere and a really good original story.The visual imagery is fantastic and the gore is awesome.Superb acting by all the cast especially the scientist who goes mad.If you dont own this then you are truly missing out on a great film.
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Summary: terrible
Review: Once again Paul Anderson is given the right tools for a decent movie and blows it.I'll give credit where it's due though. For once, an Anderson movie had a GEORGOUS set design. Both space ships were terrific on both interior and exterior shots. If there's any redeeming quality to this movie, this is it by far. As for the story though, the pace of the movie was just awful. I'd love to see how much was left on the editing floor because the transitions from scene to scene were horrible. Characters would be introduced one minute, disappear for the next 20 minutes, reappear in the backgroud the next minute, all of which was to set up their kill scene the next minute. Poor editing made it really difficult to generate even the ability to be able to tell who was who, let alone build up a connection to anyone. I also didn't care for the 'Hellraiser' turn the film seemed to unexpectedly take. Not only was I completely blindsided by it, but I didn't think it was necessary. Think of the level of suspense that was build in '2001: A Space Oddessey' when HAL loses it and starts killing the crew. Anderson could have maybe taken a similiar direction here all while staying true to the haunted-house-in-space idea that he seemed to want to develop. This is just one more example of how a poor production crew can completely kill a movie. I hate to think that Anderson has my beloved 'Alien vs Predator' movie up next, because, personally, I can't see how this guy keeps getting work.
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Summary: Not entirely horror
Review: I wasn't really a big sci-fi fan untill i saw this movie. But I did not believe it was horror till i read these reviews. Event Horizon had a very good plot, a space ship goes into the furthest reaches of hell and back. A man turning into a demon from hell and trying to slaughter his crew. Event Horizon had intricate plot twists and a good cast. Event Horizon was good, but not the best. I would recomend it though and say its a pretty good sci-fi movie.
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Summary: A Haunted House in Space...with Teeth. Big Teeth.
Review: Is "Event Horizon" endlessly derivative from about a million other Space/Horror movies? Absolutely. Does it look somewhat like "Aliens"? It should, it has the same cinematographer (Adrian Biddle, who also did "Judge Dredd" and "1492")and set designer (Crispian Sallis, who also designed the sets for "Gladiator" and "12 Monkeys"). Does the movie break down into a gory, senseless cinematic stew of incomprehensibility in its final 20 minutes? You betcha. But you'd be a fool to let any of these things get in the way of your taking a fun-filled two-hour jaunt to the very edge of the galaxy and doing some sight-seeing aboard the "Event Horizon", a special ship---a *very* special ship, actually, that was conducting experiments in trans-light speed (that's "warp speed", Mr. Sulu) before it disappeared seven years ago. And now it's back! Orbiting a black hole, no less! And attempts at radio contact have proved futile! So pack of your blaster and get out that passport, it's time to join Dr. William Weir (played to the bloody hilt by Sam Neill, who appears to be having the time of his career) and journey to the edge of the galaxy to determine what happened to the Event Horizon's original crew in 2040---a crew which included Dr. Weir's wife (played by Holley Chant, a real trooper who proves you don't even need eyeballs to turn in a knockout and creepy performance). Let's back up for a minute. When I first saw "Event Horizon" in a nearly empty theater in Upstate New York, I hated it. I disparaged it, loudly, to friends. Naturally I backed up my 'hatred' by saying the movie was plotless, the movie broke down in the end, that it was brainless, that a coolly atmospheric beginning was spoiled by an 'evil' that more properly belonged in a Hellraiser film. But let me tell you what was really on my mind: "Event Horizon" got under my skin and really *disturbed* me. It gave me the creeps. It made me wince to watch its twisted, warped plot unfold on the screen. From the moment we're 'introduced' to Dr. Weir aboard the Good Ship Event Horizon, and especially when we get a good look at the gangrenous legs of the medical officer's 'son', I was saying "Uh oh---this movie is out of control". Me, a veteran, jaded gorehound! That power to disturb in a horror movie is a rare gift, which is why I believe director Paul W.S. Anderson to be one of the finest genre directors working today. Anderson takes all the rules of the science fiction movie, sets them up, abides by them for about the first 25 minutes of the film until you really think you know what's going on, and then throws them out the window while you're yelling "hey---you can't do that with the Rules!". Anderson is the creepy guy who takes your arm and finds the nerve that hurts and then squeezes, and squeezes, and squeezes. That's what watching "Event Horizon" is like: having a particularly sensitive nerve squeezed, over and over again---albeit in the nicest possible way. It would be unfair to the viewer to say more about "Event Horizon" than this: the rescue team, including Dr. Weir and Captain Miller (played understatedly by the pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne) of the 'Lewis & Clark', find the Event Horizon an abandoned derelict, orbiting a black hole. Well, abandoned, except for strange visions, and discomfiting voices echoing throughout the grim passageways---and then there's the matter of all the blood, gore, and other goop caked up in the alcoves of the Horizon's bridge, or the final broadcast made by the Horizon's captain... Anderson directs much like a young Ridley Scott, which is not surprising, since his crew includes a number of Scott's colleagues. He has a flair at building up a sustained atmosphere of menace and brooding malevolence, and of getting the most from his eerie, ornately Gothic set design. Of course, I immediately wondered who on Earth would design the Event Horizon to look like it did---with spikes, flanges, and violent green access-ways---but then possibly the Horizon had undergone a few upgrades by the time we get to see it, and I don't think Earth had anything to do with the design changes. Anderson is also particularly good in his sparing and careful use of CGI, which is used to telling effect in this movie: the sequence in which we see a cascade of items---a watch, a nail file, loose change---spiralling in zero gravity is beautiful and creepy all at once. All that said, "Event Horizon" is a compact, stylish little piece of pure horror and it is very scary. It's also one of the goriest films I've ever watched. Ever wonder what a guy who wanders into an airlock without a spacesuit looks like over the course of a few minutes? Wonder no longer. Wanna see a full surgical lumbar dissection in the main bridge? No problemo, Sarge! Ever ponder what a little homemade LASIK surgery without anesthetic might look like? Ponder no more, pardner! Anderson finds the thing you really don't want to see---the awful thing, the thing that other directors are content to let happen offscreen---and forces you to watch. There are a few missteps (Fishburne's encounter with a burning crewman and Richard Jones's obligatory laugh relief undermine the meticulous atmosphere), but "Event Horizon" is a mercilessly nasty and disturbing excursion into outer space horror that pulls no punches. It's a wicked tale, stylishly told, of a Deep Space Haunted House with very big teeth---and a powerful appetite.
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Summary: I Can't Believe I Paid for This
Review: After viewing this movie, I had a heated argument with my friend who said this movie was worth paying the rental fee. The plot was seriously lacking in structure and follow through- almost like throwing lots of little scenes together and hoping they make a high dollar movie. It reminded me of "The Shining" transported into space with less actual mind-bending horror and more unnecessary gore. The goriness of it gives it its redeeming qualities, as it is the only part of the movie that is REALLY scary besides that on scene that had suspense. If the film doesn't make you physically ill, it will make you ill temepered when you realized you PAID to see this.
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Summary: Future Horror
Review: "Event Horizon" is a film that any true horror film fan should see at least once. Yes, it is highly derivative of other films but it is still able to deliver horrific shocks. The casting of this film is excellent and it only adds to the overall high quality feel of the film. A truly dark and disturbing experience, well worth your time.
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Summary: 3.5 stars. Yeah it could have been better.
Review: While it isn't very original, and some special effects are bad it is still a decent sci-fi/horror flick. A homage to Alien, Virus, and The Shining this horror flick takes hold and doesn't let go, and while alot of the film is cliched, it should satisfied even jaded horror buffs like me. Definately worth watching alone in the dark. Just remember Liberate Te Ex Inferis. P.S. Sam Neil rules in this flick.
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Summary: Unoriginal and Overrated
Review: Good special effects wasted on a bad story. The story line is amateurish at best and the script seems as if it was hurriedly borrowed from the "Exorcist." The story itself doesn't develop well in telling the audience why the events occur the way they do or what the motives of the antagonists are. Instead, the movie hopelessly counts on blood and gore scenes as fillers to do the explaining of the story which it never does. The script is shallow and unrevealing. Very much like the "Exorcist", the audience is never told about why the story happens and focuses more on how it unfolds. Unlike the "Exorcist" the setting in outer space actually takes away the element of the supernatural required for this sort of story. The result being that the story falls flat and has no sense to it: it just slowly and senselessly trods along to the end. A viewer is certainly not missing much for not renting this movie. Definitely not worth buying. For this genre of film, I would recommend the "Alien" series, "Pitch Black", or Carpenter's "The Thing", instead.
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