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Summary: Superb Cast, Good Storyline loses it somewhere
Review: One of reasons I was drawn to this movie was because Laurence Fishburne was in it. The cast led by Fishburne and the other seasoned actor Sam Neil guides carries this film a couple of notches above all the teen based horror movie. The concept of haunted ship works for th most part. Sam Neil playing the troubled scientist who slowly becomes demented with Fishburne playing the charasmatic and commanding Captain is just riveting. The supporting cast for the most part is equally good. There are hardly any ghouls or ghosts seen here but the tension builds itself solidly from the first time you see the Event Horizon hovering in between the clouds. The dialogue is not too corny either. The ship itself is the epitome of fear, gourgeously designed knee deep in a gothic nightmare and dark future. The SFX are brilliant. This movie is good horror fest, destined to be a cult movie if it is'nt already.
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Summary: Great horror/suspense/sci-fi flic, but WAY too much gore!!!
Review: I have just seen EVENT HORIZON on my 55"-screen TV w/surround sound system and I can conclude that it is the most shocking, unsettling, suspensful, creepy, and just plain old goryiest movie I've ever seen. The movie is basically about a huge state-of-the-art ship called the EVENT HORIZON, which was built for faster that light speed travel in the year 2040. But it disappered withougt a trace. 7 years later, it suddenly reappered in Neptune's orbit. Now, a search and rescue crew led by Laurence Fishburne and the ship's desginer (Sam Neill) must search in the ship for any signs of the crew and find out why and how is disappered. From the minute they crew steps on that ship, the movie turns from sci-fi to horror right away, and many scarry scenes follow. A factor which contributes heavily to that are the sets, which look great. The sets perfecty convey claustrophobic and gothic parts of the ship. The music is top-notch, too. Although the beginning is tecno, the rest is full of nail-biting themes that also enhances the movie. The acting is pretty good; Sam Neil and whoever plays SMITH's character deserves extra recognition. The special effects are good as well, accurately conveying the vastness of space, etc. The only bad thing about this movie was the gore. There was WAY TOO MUCH! I have a very strong stomach for gore, but some of the stuff I saw in EVENT HORIZON was way to much. (Think about people cutting out each other's eyeballs and reaching in to each other's throats and pulling out guts. Or how abot somebody being pinned up to the ceiling by their SKIn with their chest OPENED Up with their guts FALLING OUT. And of course there's a bunch of subliminal shots of really nasty things. Unfortunately, some sick puppies might put it into slow motion. So, get the picture?) IT would'v been much better if we could HEAR what was happening and leave the VISUAL things to our imagination. All of the scary parts without the gore are great. (Luckily, most of the gore is in the last 30 minutes of the film, saving the hour before it.) Most of the scares revolve around the regular "BOO!!!!!" scares where something is really quiet and then something loud happens. But some of the other scares are great. What really shines about this movie is that there is no monster or anything: It's all phycological. The ship is MANIPULATING the crew to become mentally unsteady. That creeped me out by itself. How the ship got that way, you'll just have to see the movie and find out. By itself, it IS a solid horror flick. I'd give it a B+. But watch on an EMPTY stomach. 1997; 97 minutes; Rated R for scenes which include very strong amounts of graphic violence and gore, brief nudity, some strong obscenity, and some VERY disturbing images.
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Summary: I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
Review: Mixing elements of the various genres of filmmaking is very tricky business, and, sadly, the people behind EVENT HORIZON decided to give it a go ... to horrendous results. The talents of such box office stars as Laurence Fishburne (THE MATRIX) and Sam Neill (JURASSIC PARKs I and III) are absolutely wasted here in this film about a crew of space explorers finding a missing Earth ship and the spooky, scary consequences that follow ... assuming you can make any sense out of the plot. While the special effects are top notch, the story is low-brow, combining elements of the classic ghost story (horror) with space drama (science fiction) into a concoction that doesn't quite make any sense. Don't bother. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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Summary: What was Sam Neill thinking by appearing in this film?
Review: It's really hard to belive that Sam Neill after staring in some early good movies like The Hunt For Red October and Jurassic Park, has not had more good roles in good movies come along. Last year's Jurassic Park III was one, and Event Horizon is another. Here his acting talents are wasted in a basically Roger Corman B-movie type Horror film that tries to be like Alien when it is not. If the gore, the over-kill gotheic sets are not bad enough, the bad language and hammy acting by many of the other performers are. Here's hopeing that Sam choses his roles more wisely in the future.
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Summary: Best Ever!
Review: Best Sci-Fi horror film i have ever seen, simply awesome
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Summary: A Must have for a sci-fi /Horror fan
Review: ...The premise of the movie is that the space ship event horizon traveled somewhere unkown and then reappeared 7 years later. By the time the investigating crew find out that the ship brought a little bit of hell (and or evil) back with it its to late for them to escape. Halucinations and terror creep in and sanity rush out. If you liked Sam Neil in "In the Mouth of Madness" then you will certainly like this movie. Enjoy
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Summary: One Of the Best Out There
Review: This is one of the best Sci Fi Horror Movies there is out there. If you like a movie that will keep you on your toes and none stop action than this is it. The Louis and Clark are on a mission to go to Neptune and find a ship called the Event Hoeizon.What they don't know is it's not only a ship but its ALIVE!!! It was sent to Proximus Sentory(the closest star to us) and it went there but it came back as more than a ship. The crue is all dead and they find out how. Now the Crue of the Louis and Clark have to servive the ship and them selfs! The ship knows there fears and hits them with it. One member of The Louis and Clark is the builder of the ship and he comes along to fix it but it can fix its self. They have to stay alive while there is still air and they only have one ship to take them Bak,The Event Horizon. Its there only way back.Whos getts home and who stays in "Hell"? You have to watch it to see.
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Summary: Is it hot in here, or is this movie just dumb?
Review: If you liked "She-Devil". If you liked "Wing Commander". You'll LOVE "Event Horizon". I, on the other hand, hated both of those movies. This movie is an hour and a half long identity crisis. Is it a sci-fi movie? Is it a horror movie? Or is it a poorly executed, twisted combination of both? The only thing horrific about this movie is the premise - Let's put the guy from "Bicentennial Man", Cowboy Curtis from "Pee Wee's Playhouse", and the school teacher that ran over the creepy kid on the bike from, "Twilight Zone: The Movie", on a space ship careening through the solar system. What happens next is anyone's guess. Did the spaceship take a wrong turn and end up in Hell? Or is the spaceship actually Hell, controlled by a crew of the Devil's ambassadors? Is Laurence Fishburne hurting for cash? These are just a few questions that "Event Horizon" does a good job of not answering. This movie is pure evil.
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Summary: Space...the final frontFEAR!
Review: Some questions presented by "Event Horizon": What happens when scientists explore the borders of time and space, and find more than they bargained for? Can a spacecraft play host to terrifying events without being tainted by evil? Is Kathleen Quinlan one of the hottest actresses on the planet? The answers WILL SHOCK AND HORRIFY YOU. Get this movie. Right now. Plus, the DVD cover is OUTSTANDING.
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Summary: Garbage
Review: This very bad sci-fi/horror crossover film does neither well. The spaceships look more like torture chambers than one would imagine a real space ship to look. The characters are flat and lifeless. Basically, it's Hellraiser somewhere near Uranus. But, if you're into these strange gorefest horror films, go watch Hellraiser. It's better.
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