Event Horizon

[The Delfonics]

This movie gets dumped on alot, but after seeing it for the 3rd time it still freaks me out! A scary, gorey little movie that is weird from start to finish. I read somewhere that Paul Anderson is releasing a Directors Cut which actually includes 30-40 more minutes of footage and lots more gore! Wow. This is near the top of my scariest movies list. (8/10)

On an unrelated note I thought Anderson carried over some of the overcast techniques into Resident Evil very well.

[Duke Nukem]

I also like this movie. I hate to see people dump on this movie, when actually, it is so creepy, mysterious, and somewhat scary on it's own. Not only that, it's original! Yeah, it's another "spaceship movie," but it's one that's haunted and has been to some mysterious dimension. I just wish it wasn't cut by the MPAA, or whoever. I want the Director's Cut. Nonetheless, this version still kicks the asses of numbers of other horror/thrillers out there.

[KillerKlown]

I like this movie too, it's kinda like Hellraiser in space. I would really like to see the extra footage in the director's cut.

[Jewbo]

its not to bad. it had a really good idea that wasnt put across to well. definantly could have been better but still a good film overall.

[Elgyn]

I like it up until the end when one of the cast members turns into a lame wannabe Cenobite.

Very stylish, great set design.

[Gretchen_Ross]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
I like this movie too, it's kinda like Hellraiser in space.

that's exactly what i thought the first time i saw it! i mean, it's not the greatest movie ever made, but it's still creepy and gory.

[Cushing]

I really like Event Horizon . It's just a big haunted house movie set in space but it's done with a great deal of style .
I can't believe the same man made the TRULY awful Resident Evil.

[Buck Turgidson]

I tend to enjoy the aspects and set pieces of horror and suspense even more in a SF setting. Resident Evil and Event Horizon are both good examples of this.

I've written this several places all over these boards, but I dig Event Horizon, very much.

"Hell...that's just a word. The reality is...so much worse." :cool:

[Haddonfield]

I dig this flick...the idea isnt to original per say...(ship lost in space, Evil lurks, people get killed, go insane) but it was done in a nice way. Some pretty gore-tastic moments and decent suspence. Overall it could have been better with tighter charecter development (what movie is any different?) and maybe even a few more splashes of the red stuff!!..sure im greedy but ill give it 7/10...10/10 for the decompression moment.

[bowieee]

For some reason this movie scares me more than any other. Actually to the point where I refuse to watch it again. It's not even that good but certain scenes really got to me. I'm not usually scared to the point where i refuse to watch something but it looks like this movie took me there.

[The Delfonics]

Originally posted by bowieee
For some reason this movie scares me more than any other. Actually to the point where I refuse to watch it again. It's not even that good but certain scenes really got to me. I'm not usually scared to the point where i refuse to watch something but it looks like this movie took me there.

Ya, but i like being scared lol. This is definately on the top of my scariest movies list until they make a Silent Hill movie. I had to stop playing that game (the second one that is) after a couple hours at night because I started getting so paranoid and scared lol

[!MorganOnyx!]

When GHOST SHIP opened in the UK a couple of weeks ago we went to see it. I loved it but my friend absolutely hated it saying it was a blatant rip off of EVENT HORIZON. He said it practically matched up scene for scene the death/suspense sequences. I haven't seen it for a while.

Anyone agree because I thought he was being a bit harsh?! Especially because EVENT has almost certainly ripped off god knows how many movies itself!

[Buck Turgidson]

The idea of a spaceship developing a malevolent personality isn't new. (George R.R. Martin wrote a fine story called Nightfliers about the subject. It was made into a hideous movie w/ Catherine Mary Stewart and Michael Praed).

As everyone now knows, Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris featured an alien consciousness that projected humans' fears and insecurities in corporeal form, so that's not new, either.

Having written that, I liked what Event Horizon did with these standard tools.

[JustOneFix]

I think it stands firm on its own two feet despite being a remake of Tarkovsky's Solaris (1974).

[The Delfonics]

Wasnt Solaris a more subtle movie though? A romance type?

[Elgyn]

Think of it as a B-horror version of "Solaris".

[eetstatik]

alot of people dump on this movie, since they try to pigeon hole it as haunted house story set in space as some kind of gimmick. If you really look at it, though, it's not an actual gimmick as it is an interesting take on an old story, the Marie Celeste. If you don't know, it's an old story about a boat that dissapeared years ago, then reappears empty to haunt the sailors who discovered it. It's just that story, only updated. They basically did a ghost story in space instead of another Alien rip-off, and ask what's wrong that?

[FT13TH Addict]

We really need a Director's cut of this flick. It would improve it from great to awesome!!