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Summary: Very good scary Sci-fi movie
Review: This is a movie that kept me on the edge of my seat, and made me jump quite a few times. It succeeds in doing well in two genres. Its Sci-fi appeal is matched by a sharp edge of suspense that'll keep you guessing. The gravity chamber scene is pretty edgy, watch out.
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Summary: Another Special Effects Gore-meister
Review: This film began with much promise, then hyperwarped into formula schlock, borrowing just about every blood and gore(no; not Al Gore)convention on its journey. The sole redeeming feature of this turkey is the unsettling idea that this ship entered and returned from a time,space and/or universe of pure, unadulterated evil. The film could (SHOULD) have been a really eerie, freaky, psychological mind-bender. Instead, this glitzy road-apple seamlessly became a do-it-yourself Friday the 13th/Halloween/________(insert your own). Save your money.
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Summary: Could have been Great...
Review: This is one of my favorite movies in the horror/sci-fi genre. Event Horizon is a real good movie that could have been a great one if it weren't for the last quarter of the movie. The whole movie proceeds with the viewer wondering, 'what is happening?', 'What's causing all these strange occurrences?', 'Who will they encounter?' I sat there watching and waiting for the eventual meeting with the unknown. What did I get?? A video log of some kind of blood and gore-groupy-get-together and Sam Neil trying to play Hellraiser on a ship. Up until then I was chomping on my nails and on the edge of my seat. After that, well, Mr. Anderson, a fisherman could sum it up best: "I let a good one get away."
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Summary: HELLRAISER in space
Review: I rented Event Horizon for two reasons, Laurence Fishburne and it was a horror movie. I see almost every horror movie released. Before Event Horizon the last one that scared me was the first Nightmare on Elm Street. This movie not only scared me in the typical ways, things jumping out unexpected and gore, it freaked me out and gave me the creeps in an intellectual way that I dont ever remember happening before. Except for Sam Neill, I thought the performances were very convincing. The set was very powerful and realy helped to establish the tone for the picture. I went in to this movie expecting nothing and left very entertained and a little shaken. Overall, a very effective horror movie.
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Summary: Got me going for about 3/4th of the way...then it bombed!
Review: The movie scared and delighted me for the first hour or so. The idea was a good one. It goes beyond a "haunted house in outerspace" concept. BUT what happened to the final 1/4th of the movie? Did the people responsible for the first half of the movie stroked out and was replaced by Ed Wood? I'm curious about the so-called 40 minutes cut out of the original flick. Overall a good idea that didn't know where to go.
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Summary: Liberate tut ame ex-infernis (free yourself from Hell)
Review: The Event Horizon is the name of a spaceship which dissapeared some ten years. And now it came back from its journey to hell. Just to make one thing clear, the ship is not haunted, the ship it the evil entity in itself. If the Devil can shapeshift into human form, why not shape as a spacecraft? Listen carefully to the movie and that is what they say. The ship itself is alive. When I saw that movie in the theatres, it was a thrill. I remained in my seat to watch it a second time. It made a long time I hadn't seen such a brilliant movie. The suspense was really well kept, and extraordinarily acted. Sam Neill plays a scientist who, 10 years earlier, created a vortex machine within a spacecraft, allowing the crew to travel from one point in the universe to another in no time. But then the ship mysteriously dissappeared. People on earth were told that it had a technical problem and that it blew up in space. But in fact, it travelled beyond the boudaries of our world. 10 years later (actual time in movie), NASA received a signal from outer space, a signal which was sent from... The Event Horizon!!!! So wanting to know what went on up there for the last 10 years, they sent a troup of military astronauts with the scientist up there to investigate. So on their way up there, he explains the theory of " faster than light year travelling". Scientist:- What is the shortest distance between two points? Crew member:- Straight line? Scientist:-No , the shortest distance is no distance at all. If you take a peace of paper and punch two holes at both ends, if you fold space time together (folding the peace of paper until the two holes are aligned together) you obtain only one hole, and then the ship simply passes through (as he slips a pen through the superimposed holes of the folded paper). Then once they enter the event horizon, the suspense starts. It is not the kind of movie where demons come out of the grave puking blood. This demon terrorises people by materialising their deepest fears. It is a true chiller for me. I saw that movie about 15 times and it is still not enough. You may consider this film to look like Alien, the difference though is that, you are not dealing with an Alien this time, so how can you kill something that feeds upon, and masters death.
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Summary: Get ready to JUMP!
Review: I don't consider myself to be someone who scares easily, but this movie freaked me out. That's what a GOOD horror movie should do. This is a movie that is frightening to your MIND, not just your stomach like the majority of horror flicks these days. EVENT HORIZON replaced CANDYMAN as the scariest movie I have ever see.
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Summary: "The Black Hole", Round II
Review: Around the early 60's, a film called "The Haunting" dazzled critics by giving you a good psychological horror story while never showing you the ghosts. Then, in the late 70's, Disney produced a sci-fi feature called, "The Black Hole". In this, the characters learn that dealing with a black hole is not the wisest of things to do. 1997 and Paul Anderson("Mortal Kombat", "Soldier") bring you "Event Horizon" to expand on this and to even offer a what-if scenario. Why did critics bash this? To me, this is what true horror films lack: substance. I am talking about pure psychological terror that not only gets the characters, but to the audience as well. Why the five-star reviews? Because frankly, the performances were good, the special effects were spectacular, and the stuff seen on the screen hasn't been this terrifying since 1963's "The Haunting". Now, take a bit of that film, mix in "2001" for space effects, the claustrophobia of "Alien", a dash of "The Haunting of Hell House", a cup of "The Black Hole", a pinch of "The Shining", and you wind up with one of the most brilliant psychological horror films of the year. Sam Neill plays an astronaut who, along with a crew of astronauts, goes out to Neptune to investigate the strange "Flying Dutchman"-like appearance of a ship called, "Event Horizon". The myth goes that the ship was sent on a mission through a fold in space and never reappeared for years. Now it's back. And it's lacking the crew. The only presence that sits aboard the ship is some sort of unseen force that preys on the minds and fears of its inhabitants. But, like "The Haunting", you never know if the astronauts are dreaming what they are seeing or if this thing really exists because you only see their delusions and their psychotic reactions to them. All they do know is that the ship came from somewhere...and it is made of absolute evil. Maltin bashed this film for not explaining what was causing the hauntings. That's the point and another Maltin-contradiction. It worked so well with "The Haunting" where you never really learned what was causing the mishaps. That's the mystery of it all and is part of what makes "Event Horizon" so much fun to watch. You don't know what is haunting the ship. And you don't want to know. Just look at what happens to the crew, as the astronauts soon find out... Did it go to another system? Or maybe to a different dimension? Or perhaps, a place that we have yet to comprehend...? And do we need to really need to know? Perhaps, the answer lies in our minds, my friends, the greatest of all mysteries and one that we may never solve. --Matt
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Summary: scary YOW! YOW!
Review: Yes this movie actually scared me. It's pretty intense from the get go. I agree with the person up there^ that there should be a driectors cut. I have one thing left to say "....Save yourselves from Hell..."
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Summary: Scary film should have director's cut version
Review: Event Horizon is a scary sci-fi thriller that is a whole lot better than the other films that began this genre. This movie is about a ship called the Event Horizon that has disappeared for seven years and returns with something strange on board. The performances in this movie were great and the film builds a good theme: Man should know some boundaries shouldn't be crossed. I've read that this movie had forty minutes cut out of it. Paramount should release a director's cut version bringing back all forty minutes cut out into tape and DVD. I know I would have enjoyed the movie even more if it was over 2 hours long.
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