Event Horizon

[Ugly Goblin Boy]

Yes, I have seen it before. Yes, it is relatively old. Whew, now that that is out of the way.

I just finished watching it, and I don't believe I've seen it since it was originally release. I must say, WTF happened to Paul Anderson!? That movie totally and completely kicked ass! Well, except for maybe the end, which I think was thown together rather quickly. But the gore is superb, and CGI used very effectively. Anyone else seen it recently?

[tom de plume]

I agree. It is a far from perfect film, but I was one of the people who thought he was going to make some disturbing cinema (insert joke here)after I saw EH in the theater.

A very creepy, albeit incoherent, horror movie.

[Chris Myers]

For me, modern classic. Sam and Pre-Morpheus Laurence (don't call em Larry) do a great job, and Anderson still knew the meaning of "creating a creepy movie with wisely used FX and spare actions".

[mrstiffie]

Yeah...it still bothers me that Laurence Fishburne goes to hell at the end. Never seen either Solaris, so I don't know if they are any good. It has a great concept, except I wish it wasn't another "there's someone that character knows...hey! They turned their head and it's gone! Ooohhh" Other than that and the ending it rocked.

[AphexHybrid]

I'm probably one of the few who read the novel before seeing the film on this one, and predictably, the movie didn't live up to the source material. The character Sam Niell portrays was kind of rushed in the movie version, and you didn't get the full emotional punch of the torment his character had gone through. I did think the movie was okay, but only just. Wouldn't be the first time the characters needed a bit more fleshing out before simply killing them off.

[Vaya the Necromancer]

Oh I loved it, and the end was fitting IMO, Lawrence making the ultimate sacrifice for his friends and comrads, blah blah blah hero cakes.

[mdamien13]

Love, love, love this movie! One of the last movies to give me the heebie-jeebies. Watch the DVD frame-by-frame when Sam Neill's character shows Laurence Fishbourne hell - wow!

Speaking of, when the fuck is a Special Edition coming out for this?

[Scarecrow]

Definitly one of the better Hellraiser sequels.

Oh wait...

:D

- Scarecrow

[instant_Gozu]

I dug it...I thought it was pretty well put together..and it had some faboo sets in it.

[Floydian Trip]

Both Solaris movies are great, imo.

I just watched Event Horizon again 2 weeks ago. I love it. I wasn't disapointed in the end at all. It has some very disturbing imagery and great looking effects. The ship itself is one of the cooler ones in film I think.

[i3ullseye]

Great flick. One of the few truly scary movies to come out in years at the time it was out. As for Anderson?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day I suppose, so maybe he has ONE more in his future somewhere.

[David Manning]

You know, this film ALMOST worked.

It could've been great. In the end, it's something I caught on Cinemax.

This should've been a much, much better film.

[billylove]

The original Solaris is great, what?

Yeah, EH is a great little film full of quick scares and overall feeling of doom, much like Jaws or The Thing.

But, I feel Sam Neil's character was a tad lacking in his background and stuff. His vife commits suicide? What? The only character you really feel for is Lawrence who IMHO had the best character and you really got where he was coming from. But we all know what happens to the hero in this one.

[Wetbones]

I haven't seen this since it came out theatrically in 1997 (?) but I liked it a lot then. Sure, there was an obvious HELLRAISER-vibe to some of it but I could live with that. A really disturbing film that combines sci-fi and horror effectively (for the most part).

I'm surprised nobody has brought up all the stuff that got cut out of the theatrical version ... If you re-read the old issues of Fangoria that covered the film you'll find tons of pictures of insanely gory scenes that are not in the finished film. and Paul Anderson repeatedly said that the film was trimmed significantly after test audiences thought it was "too intense", "too gross" etc. So maybe some of the less coherent stuff in the film is a direct result of excessive cutting by the studio. I can't believe that I'm writing this but I'd grab a director's cut by Anderson as soon as it comes out! EVEN HORIZON was his personal favourite of his own films when Fango interviewed him on the set of RESIDENT EVIL. So it obviously is still dear to his heart and I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to restore it to its original glory. There were actually rumors about a forthcoming Special Edition about a year ago but those sadly turned out to be a fanboy's pipedream.

[thedudeabides]

What a good movie this is. It's sorely underrated, and I'm happy and suprised so many people here like it.
I don't think it got it's fair shot when it came out.

On a personal note, this was the first movie my wife and I watched when we got our first apartment years and years ago, so it holds a special place for me. Watching the laserdisc on a 13 inch TV which was sitting on the floor.
Ah, memories.

[Charlie Brigden]

Best comedy ever.

All hail Paul Anderson, comedic genius!

[Wetbones]

Charles B:
Best comedy ever.I take it you've never seen BLOOD FREAK?

[mrstiffie]

I'd love to see the SE version.

So are you supposed to belive that eventually you die in the alternate universe? The victims we see on the video are scattered about the ship as corpses. So will Fishburne eventually end his suffering over there?

[walter-konkrete]

A trumped up Re-make of THE BLACK HOLE with fake blood and fancy camera work, but without the redneck robots.

Never got the love for this one.

[billylove]

mrstiffie:
I'd love to see the SE version.

So are you supposed to belive that eventually you die in the alternate universe? The victims we see on the video are scattered about the ship as corpses. So will Fishburne eventually end his suffering over there?Your body dies. But I think your soul would be trapped.

[Wetbones]

AphexHybrid runs OCP:
I'm probably one of the few who read the novel before seeing the film on this one ...It was based on a novel? Who wrote that book? I can't find it anywhere ... Are you sure you don't mean a novelization of the screenplay? Sometimes those end up having more character details and depth than the finished films because they are based on the script (which is usually more detailed than the finished film) and a halfway talented writer may add a thing or two and get away with it ...

[Scott Standridge]

I saw this in the theatres, and it had plenty of adrenaline going for it there, but after it was all over I just kind of felt like, "eh." As many have mentioned, I felt that it played like a Hellraiser rip-off, right down to the Cenobite-esque makeup of the climax. A neat premise, and an okay popcorn flick, but deserved or not, for me it felt derivative and forgettable.

But hey, if Sam Neil in leather is your thing, you can't go wrong here. wink

[mastronikolas]

It was the tie-in novel. It features scenes cut from the film.

A Sphere rip-off, obviously, but I loved the first 80 minutes. It sure looks severely edited.

Seriously, does anyone have an update on the extended cut?

[AphexHybrid]

Wetbones:
AphexHybrid runs OCP:
I'm probably one of the few who read the novel before seeing the film on this one ...It was based on a novel? Who wrote that book? I can't find it anywhere ... Are you sure you don't mean a novelization of the screenplay? Sometimes those end up having more character details and depth than the finished films because they are based on the script (which is usually more detailed than the finished film) and a halfway talented writer may add a thing or two and get away with it ...I don't remember who wrote the book and perhaps it was one of the novelizations you speak of. Amazon would probably be able to dig up a copy for you and it's well worth the read. It's sort of like what H.P. Lovecraft would have written if he had been familiar with the theory of space folding. Your comments earlier about the test audiences claiming the original cut was too intense is just insane. This is SUPPOSED to scare you! Why the fuck are you going to a horror film if you want something on the pablum-level that a Disney animated movie kicks out? I hate test audiences and I curse people who are so lame that the scariest movie they can stand is along the lines of 'Scream' or some other sorry shit like that.