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Summary: Great flick with terrific effects and a decent plot
Review: This is a great flick. Sam Neil does a fantastic job of freaking out the viewer especially in a horrifying self mutilation scene. This movie didn't get much hype when it first came out, but this movie actually scared me.......not an easy task. See this movie especially in a college dorm with 15 girls or so....
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Summary: One of the 90's worst
Review: The only reason I give it one star is for the great special effects. The movie itself is awful. Does someone have to explode every time a movie takes place in outer space? It's just gore to have gore. The story makes no sense, the characters are cardboard, and sadly, Sam Neill's character makes no sense. Paul Anderson may have done wonders with the special effects of Mortal Kombat, but he has no clue on what a story is. Put it this way, he followed this debacle up with Soldier... Stay away from Event Horizon -- it's the kind of piece that ruins a genre.
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Summary: Blood, gore, and human entrails. You're kinda picture?
Review: I found nothing redeeming about this movie. I got sucked in by a good trailer, and felt in need of a mental bath afterwards. I'm giving it one star for the special effects at the beginning.
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Summary: Real Horror, Real Fun
Review: This was my second favourite movie of 1998 (if Dark City hadn't arrived the same year it would easily have been the first). It's fast paced, well acted and doesn't pull it's punches like so much of what's billed as horror today. Worth owning.
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Summary: The best Sci/Horror in years
Review: This movie was everything and more. The acting and special affects was awsome. The thought of time travel by opening or tearing a hole or rip in time and space reallity to travel and end up into a chaos deminsion of blood, guts, ripping out eyes was so awsome. GET THIS MOVIE
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Summary: this movie is the absolute creepiest I've ever seen
Review: This is an incredibly creepy movie.Great is you like sleeping with the light on for weeks after (I would know).if you like the absolute scariest stephen King this movie's for you.a word to the wise though , dont watch it alone. (day or night !!!!!!)
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Summary: Disappointing: Wanted "Alien" -- Got Blood and Guts
Review: I'm a big fan of science fiction (and suspense well done), and the trailer for this look fascinating. The beginning of the film doesn't dissapoint. It is foreboding and quickly captures one's attention. Unfortunately, as more of the mystery becomes revealed, it turns into a gore-fest, with little or no redeeming features. The ending (the last 25 seconds, that is) is clever, but it's been done before.If you would like a suspenseful science fiction film that probably doesn't require an airsickness bag, I'd recommend _Alien_ or _The Abyss_. (For that matter, _Lifepod_ was better than this.) Both are excellent dramas, and, in particular, _The Abyss_ has some of the best film acting one sees. If you want something frightening, try _The Silence of the Lambs_, which is the only film I've ever seen that I actually found frightening. The production values are good, as are the special effects, but the film fails to add up on a number of levels. Essentially, the ship, designed to use a folding space technology to move from any point in space to any other, actually enters a "dimension of pure chaos." Chaos, apparently, can only be manifested by bloody slashings and murders, cannibalism, and ripping one's eyes out. Bottom line: Thankfully, I only rented it.
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Summary: This one starts as SF and ends up being a horror flick...
Review: If you're paying attention, you will understand why the things that are happening are taking place. This is a very gory and scary chillfest that will leave you quivering if you *really* understand what happened to the original crew of the ship.
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Summary: Beautifully-crafted telling of a really awful story.
Review: An experimental starship, launched seven years earlier and not heard from since, has appeared in orbit around Neptune. Its designer, a genius lacking enough social skills to make Steve Jobs look like a charm school valedictorian, accompanies the rescue ship sent to retrieve any survivors. The set design and presentation is exquisitely well done, but the film resorts to cheezy gimmicks like boosting the volume of sudden sounds. And sadly, this is where the story starts to break down. Competent and seamless effects fly in the face of awkward and two-dimensional writing; the ship itself is posessed, yet it has no convincing motive other than to terrorize, maim, and kill. It's dressed up to look like SF, but it's just a horror story. Silent Running suffered from the same problem of astounding effects around a stilted story, but at least it was a fascinating character study of a man who has to live with himself after committing murder AND it had an important message about conservation. Want a good, scary SF story? Try Alien, or Aliens. It's grotesque in places, it's scary, but it's also beautifully crafted AND always believable; the first is a "boo" film, the second is an action film.
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Summary: The Best Horror/SciFi Movie of the 90's!
Review: This is one of the creepiest, most frightening, well made horror movies I have seen in years. The actors, special effects, and visuals are exellent. This one movie that is just plain old fun to watch. Okay, okay, it breaks down a bit at the end, but if great plot is what you were looking for, you should have picked a sleeper from the drama section. I watch movies for fun not intellectual stimulation.
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