Event Horizon is STILL Disturbing
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- I actually couldn't revisit this film for over ten years because it ruined my childhood so hard.
Of course, the rewatch (which only happened last year) was nothing like the first time - it wasn't as scary, as well made, or even serious as I remembered. That's fair. It happens. BUT I thought that it's a film that didn't age like milk (huge asterisk there), and that there are more clever tricks up its sleeve than I realized initially, especially when it comes to the 'lighting'.
Today, we're going to talk about Paul W.S. Anderson's forgotten gem, Event Horizon (1997), how it uses different premises and techniques to build and maintain tension, and why it is STILL a disturbing film.
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Timestamp
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Atmosphere & Design
4:33 Narrative Premise
5:31 Gore
7:33 Lighting & Color
10:43 Surgical
12:28 Umbilicus
13:41 Thank You
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What was a film that ruined YOUR childhood? :D Let me know so I can check it out!
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Burnt Offerings - It seems kind of silly as an adult but it scarred my 10 yo brain. I didn’t know the title until a few years ago, and half believed I imagined all the scary parts. Event Horizon has only “that” scene I can’t rewatch but its a great movie. Thank you for covering it!
I don’t even know the name of the film that ruined my childhood, but it was on tv in the early 2000s. I only saw about 10 seconds of it. The scene appeared to be one or two men torturing another man. I think I recall the man vomiting onto the ground. They then proceeded to cut one of his fingers off with scissors. The camera focused on the scene and then slowly panned over the finger. I could be wildly misremembering the scene but what I saw traumatized me. Anyone know what movie this could be. Looked like it was from the ‘70s or ‘80s
Sleepwalkers by stephen king, saw it when I was 9. My sister held me down with my eyes open for some scenes and it is the reason I can't see animal death in horror movies. I still can't watch it.
Fire in the Sky. I still have occasional nightmares 30 years later
Beyond tragic that all the cut footage has been lost and we'll never get the director's edition 😭
As years pass I’m increasingly more amazed at what they decide to remake. I’d like to see Paul Andersen give this another go
@@trippy_dread621 I'm just amazed that considering the state of contemporary Western horror movies, there are still so many people who think remaking Event Horizon is a good idea 😜
@@MardukGodSlayer Totally agree. While it is tragic that we won’t ever see Event Horizon in its intended form, remaking is never the answer. Was at the theaters recently and of all the promo they had plastered all over the place, there was quite literally only one upcoming film they were promoting that wasn’t either a remake or sequel. Thankfully there are some smaller production companies that are doing a solid job of putting some original ideas out there, but for the most part Hollywood doesn’t care about making quality or original cinema, just needs to put butts in seats. And nothing does that more than rehashed nostalgia apparently.
@@hgfskate Absolutely. You've got to play it safe to pull in as broad an audience as possible!
The coming AI technology would allow fans to extend and exaggerate existing scenes.
"You know nothing. "Hell" is just a word... *The reality is much worse."*
Cool thanks
Scared the crap outta me...
Yeah, it's being alive in 2022-2024.
Chaos gods?
@@SordidusFellatioSlannesh of course but probably the warp
I still consider the brief glimpse of the footage from the previous crew to be one of my all-time traumatic cinematic moments
I watched this movie when I was 13 and yeah, I agree with you. That stuck with me for months, lol.
I had nightmares about those brief footages.
@@Mayakranwow, that must have been traumatic. I was 30 years old and was totally disturbed.
Believe it or not. Prometheus was the next film disturbing to me.
I was about 11 or 12 yrs old when i first watched that scene. It scarred me for years. I couldnt sleep for months!
The most surprising thing for me is that it was made by Paul WS Anderson, who hasn’t ever come close to this again. I wonder if the hellish post-production process damaged him too much to be this brave again. Great video, thanks.
I wonder how often Paul WS Anderson is confused with the genius director Paul Thomas Anderson
Alex Proyas, imo, got the same treatment too.
The studios will mentally drain these creatives to exhaustion, nearly killing their passion. At time , almost killing them literally via mental abuse, overwork and such.
A friend of mine, is convinced it's a way for corporate Hollywood to keep them inline, so no star directors pops up, ala New Hollywood, and question the status quo.
A bit far out, then You realise thaf if it happens at your little non famous job, imagine that with billions dollars at stakes.
@@gregbors8364I feel all the time, I remember thinking the there will be blood and boogie was the same as the resident evil guy and assumed the resident evil movies were a fun side project for him😂
No. Becoming whipped did.
Came to the comment section looking for this lol. Honestly, that's the true horror 🤣
I believe the color/temperature in the film is a nod to Dante's Inferno. Dante's vision of Hell was not the traditional "lake of fire", instead having 9 levels, each with its own unique characteristics. The deepest level of Hell is not an inferno but a frozen wasteland where the Devil is trapped in ice.
I think you’re right. I also think cold and clinical is often considered more horrific than chaos by many people.
For example in the film “Jacob’s ladder“(the titular drug being of biblical reference) there is a scene where the main character is strapped onto a gurney and being taken through a psychiatric hospital. It becomes more and more chaotic the patients in random cages and becoming more and more monstrous until he is taken to the depths of the hospital, where is a sentimal Demon and he is taken into an operating theatre of cold light and precision and pain.
watching the full raw uncut version of this movie will always be one of my wishes.... devastated when i learnt that the physical media for those is destroyed
I've always imagined it would be on par with the Crossed comics
How the hell does that even happen? It’s so fucking stupid.
Somebody probably gave orders to tamper it considering the notoriety of what's said about the full version to be extremely gory sexual hellscape pornography.
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see".
Makes you wonder what the hell that even means, like you gotta FEEL your way around or worse? I really love the idea/theory that Event Horizon is somehow connected to the Hellraiser universe. The core of the ship is basically the Lament Configuration. You do get transported to a realm that could be argued to be made up of extreme sado-masochistic fetishism, pleasure from pain infinitum.
I've always imagined that without eyes, your senses are far more open and alert to all the unspeakable sensations bestowed onto you
@@SamuelBlack84Or that is something you can perceive beyond what you can 'see.' Like even without eyes, your mind will see what is around you.
Much of the things in our Universe operates on forces which we visually cannot see. Like gravity or radiation. Yet you do feel it's effect on you. Likewise whatever this hell dimension is seem to be in a primordial state of existence....pure chaotic energy. But once it comes in contact with a conscious mind like ours it latches on & manifest a brutal sentience to cause unspeakable chaotic outcomes filling in the very nature of where it originates from.
Idk just my crazy brainstorming of possibilities.
There is a really strong note os cosmic horror to this movie. Starting even at the location and unsung star of the film, Neptune. Absolutely hostile, dead and so very far away. Usually a planet implies an island, a point of reference in the enless emptines of space. But here that still nothing is vastly preferrable to the depths of the frozen hell that is the outermost planet. It seeming even bleaker and more isolated than the almost litteral nothing of the space surrounding it.
The Hellraiser connection is certainly there from a design standpoint, but I came across an eerie, possibly unintentional reference to a much, much older vision of horror: The various hells of Japanese Buddhism are fairly comprehensively detailed in ancient texts...until you get to the bottom layer, Mugen Jigoku, a place explicitly stated to be too horrific to comprehend, let alone describe. Whoever is sent there... pretty much ends up like the crew in the video log.
I worked in the film industry in the UK while this was being made. I knew people on set and would hear stories about what they were up to and how crazy it was. Several crew reported that they’d shot reels and reels of the hell scape and many scenes that were cut from the film. They said they were some of the most fucked up practical effects they’d ever witnessed. The version we see is apparently a massively edited final cut and that the horror element would have been possibly the most gruesome ever to be put on film. The mind boggles.
I think my imagination is sufficient to picture it 😊
@@SamuelBlack84Fur suits lining the halls of the living quarters
@@cam5816 How very 1970s
Given how disturbed I was at what we DID get, I think the cut material would have sent me to a therapist.
That brief vision of hellscape we got was terrifying enough and it was literally with amputees apparently😭
Event Horizon is somehow both very of its time and also ahead of its time. The 90s tropes are apparent, but the themes, visuals, and existential dread fit in so well with modern sci-fi & horror.
The 3d scenes are really good to. It looks like a modern video game. And it's from the 90s. Most things looked like a cube with colors
I don’t know existential dread was very 90s 🤔
Yeah the weirdest thing about it is that 1997 movies (and I suppose anything made a year before or after) have an extremely specific look. It only existed for a very short period of time but it's wild and you know it every time you see it. It does date this film as does some of what can be captured with the tech at the time. But despite all of that and some of the wild plot holes (The average person knows space doesn't work like that now) It's still delivers on scares thanks in part to the incredible sets and lighting and to the commitment of the actors
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate Neptune, the unsung co-star of this film? I always loved the fact that they chose Neptune as the setting, rather than just making up some planet xyz lightyears away. It gives it a sense of familiarity and grounded realism, but on the other hand, as a setting for a story of any kind, its probably the most violent and alien planet in our solar system:
1) Its super far away (remote, lonely)
2) stupid-cold (inhospitable, devoid of life)
3) much bigger than Earth (intimidating)
4) has winds that break the sound barrier (i.e. violence of a scale our brains are incapable of understanding)
5) a gas/ice giant, so no solid surface (another unfathomable quality - why should "hell" have the convenience and comfort of solid ground?)
6) its blue, but not in any soothing, life sustaining, or tranquil way, which makes it uncanny and unsettling (people don't typically associate blue with hellishness).
IDK, I just think it really added something to the film. Neptune just gives that vibe of being on the threshold of what we know (and it sorta is)... between that and everything I mentioned above, I think its got a very underutilized and underappreciated spookiness. I mean, just watch the film and appreciate that shot of Neptune from orbit when the first get there, with the flickering lightning and churning storms. I immediately was like "yeah, they shouldn't be here, they're about to go off the literal deep end of our solar system".
Yeah, we imagine all these faraway stars, and what worlds might circle them, and what peoples might live upon them… but the farthest we’ve gotten is the fricken moon. Not even Mars, and _let alone_ that horrid blue supersonic frost giant that waits for us at the end of the proverbial line.
@@jeremytitus9519yeah, I can't remember where but there was an interview with Michio Kaku where he actually tried to describe Netpune's wind, and we hear sonic booms with a relatively tiny object moving very fast through a relatively big still medium (air) - but imagine the whole medium itself moving that fast and its less of a single, one-and-done sonic boom and more of a non-stop sonic "roar". So, basically the sound of "hell" (and it would probably feel like the shockwave from a frag grenade on an endless loop).
Neptune is bananas.
Still my favourite planet. ❤
@@jeremytitus9519if I am not wrong. When the film came out, we didn't know about other planets circling other suns. Isn't it facinating?
You should watch Ad Astra, if you haven't already. The last act takes place in orbit above Neptune, and it is extremely panic inducing. Like existential dread overload...
this movie was simultaneously so close to being amazing and so close to being awful
Nailed it.
Completely agree. Felt very conflicted after I watched it.
@@carson5090not for a lack of being able to search it myself. But do we know if they ever released an uncut version?
It's weirdly close to being amazing given how awful it really is. Three views over the span of a decade or so and I'm disappointed each time... but it's not a HARD watch; quite the opposite actually... just a disappointing watch.
So right! 🎯
I would argue that one of the most terrifying moments is right at the beginning when you first see the Event Horizon appear after the crew ship comes out the other side of the storm…everything becomes still and you just see it sudden, up close, and floating there in space. I am glad it now has a cult following. My Mum and I (she’s also a horror fan) went to see it at the cinema when I was 14. It has stayed with me ever since.
YES! I'm glad I'm not the only child this traumatized. As the youngest with a 4 year gap, I saw this wayyyyyy too early. My brother used crack open my door at night and whisper "Liberate Tuteme Ex Inferis" - I did not appreciate the joke
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'You ever seen fire at zero gravity?'
'No'
'It's beautiful. It's like liquid. It slides all over everything. It comes up in waves...and they just kept hitting him. Wave after wave...he was screaming for me to save him...'
This movie has a lot of problems, but you can't deny that Laurance Fishbourne was excellent as Captain Miller.
Ahh yes, the very first warhammer 40k movie. The ship went through the warp. First ship to go faster than light. Disappeared as soon as the drive activated…
He had every opportunity to bring up 40k and just... didn't.
@@rike889because he didn’t need to, doesn’t know about the lore, or doesn’t give a sh*t. Take your pick
@@CommanderShepard-wq3wo I mean the "lore" of 40k is just most of the big tropes from all of the 70's sci-fi (the ones who worked) He cited every single influence that allowed WH40k to thrive and even exist, so i'm pretty sure you're either ignorant of where it comes from, or you're just angry at the creator for some reason.
I say that as a 40k Fan till my childhood, but you just have to read 50 pages from Dune to understand most of 40k is just hommage or profoundly inspired by what came long before, and they didnt reinvent the wheel.
The writer of Event Horizon is a big 40k fan and said it was one of his influences when writing the film, Event Horizon has its connections to 40k on a film history level aside from what the fans lore head canon about it.
@@derpherp7432 that’s awesome!
“Event Horizon” is one of my favorite movies of all time and I was reminded of it immediately when I watched “The Witch.” It really hones in on the idea that you, the people around you, etc, aren’t as “normal” as you once thought. I also love the Hellmouth references!
Bro posting at 2:00 am about hell ☠️
He going thru it
I couldn't sleep with the lights off for weeks. My friend and I snuck into his parents room, and afterwards we were silent for twenty minutes.
This movie is unsatisfying in a way that’s like waking up too soon from a good dream
"I have such wonderful, wonderful things to show you" is something I will never forget.
Very Hellraiser
love event horizon so much, which maybe because I saw it some time after already being traumatized by other movies at the time this movie didn't mess me up That much.
Also, props to Sam Neil adding in an aboriginal flag to his character's uniform back in the late 90s.
I was a huge fan of Paul W.S. Anderson for quite awhile there! "Mortal Kombat", "Soldier", "Event Horizon", "Resident Evil", and even "Alien vs Predator" were all on regular rotatation in my VCR and DVD player.
"Event Horizon" is still one of my favorite Sci-fi-Horror movies of all time. The story is original. The cast is at their best. The practical effects are top level! My only disappointment is that we'll never see the Hell sequence in its' entirety.
Dead Space took a whole lot of the atmosphere from this movie and I think that’s part of what makes the Ishimura so memorable as well
I watched Event Horizon as a freshma in college and I remember exactly how the experience tranfixed me. As a lapses catholic, I had given up on the idea of heaven and hell for long, but the film sold me the idea hell could be a real place in this infinite universe. The Ship was designed as the Notre Dame cathedral, which is why the spaces feel also clinical, like a hospital or a church. And the hallucinations always are about guilt. Truly horrifying, and I see you chose a requiem as background music, so the religious element didn't escape your eye... My favorite Sci-Fi horror movie, I couldn't care less about the bad CGI or other problems, the premise alone makes me put it above Alien or The Thing. Great video!!! Thanx!!!
I love that you talked about how the characters just feel natural. That's one of the main reasons I have loved this movie over the years. It's a crazy sci-fi story yet the characters are so grounded and respond to things the way I think I would in the situation. They're there to do their job but the second things are clearly not right, they want to pack up and leave. The movie then throws challenges at them, obstacles, and they approach them in realistic and reasonable ways. That's what makes it such a great horror flick. In a lot of movies, the horror, the bad things that happen, they do so because of the stupid decisions characters do, yet when people are making reasonable calls to situations it makes that fear so much better.
Excellent analysis, as always. I watched Event Horizon when it came out, and still enjoy revisiting it.
One of the best things about Event Horizon is actually the other works it inspired-particularly Dead Space. Dead Space I feel fulfills a lot what the film attempted to do.
Absolutely love your analyses and perspective, not to mention the editing
Thank you so much :) happy to hear my vids are enjoyable
The recording with the previous crew saying "liberate me" scared the hell out of me
That was awesome!!!!
Event horizon is one of my favorite films of all times!!!
Thanks for bringing it in.
I just want to say your videos are so damn good and I wish you were able to come out with a video a week. Keep up the amazing work man!
Had a surprisingly similar experience with this film when I was younger. I must've had nightmares about the old crew sequence for months after seeing the film. Now that I'm older and much more interested in this kind of film, I think I'm ready to revisit it. Really great video!
Awesome Vid!
Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany
Yeah this movie messed me up too when I was younger. Took a good 10 years before i watched it again. I now appreciate it much more than just the scariest movie i had seen. The Ring always felt like it took the same progression from Event Horizon, and i think is why it too is pegged as one of the scarier movies out
I was definitely not a child when I first watched this movie, but even as a 20 year old, even with the manny years of experience watching other horror films, I was still so disturbed by the movie that I couldn’t finish it. I’d like to blame it on the fact I was watching it alone in my dark room on a rainy day but I still haven’t gone back to try. Maybe I will now that it’s been so many years since…
Excellent video. Instant sub. Thank you for your hard work!
I had been wanting to check this movie out for so long especially since I’ve always been such a huge Dead Space fan. Finally watching this movie that went on to inspire one of my favorite survival horror series of games ever made was insane. I was looking at everything and just getting blown away by. It’s so frustrating that Paul W.S. Anderson never got to make the movie he wanted. I really feel like a longer cut of this movie would’ve served the story better and given us a clearer picture on what was going on but I do also have to admit that the whole not always knowing what’s going on makes for a better experience sometimes as well cuz it puts you in line with the characters. Really solid film. Thanks for the awesome analysis man!!!
"Where we're going...we don't need eyes to see!"
you nailed another one, my guy. cheers.
This was mine too. I watched it at eight and the bathroom scene caused me sleepless nights as did the found footage scene. I think my parents recorded it from TV and I sneaked the video tape up to my room and watched it. Watching it now hits me differently. I think it's a masterpiece.
Many thanks for this observated video, i learn something new about the light intensity can effect the ambience of the movie staged. Thank you, Mr. Spikima 🙏🏼
Great analysis. Though I noticed you used the sound FX but never talked about it in the video. I think it plays just as big of a role in creating the uneasy, foreboding atmosphere of the movie. It creeps up slowly to build tension and crescendos to make the scenes of gore more visceral and intense. This movie definitely scarred me as a child.
Great video! For me, this was like Hellraiser in space. And I definitely loved both.😁
Its the direct influence towards the dead space game series. The front of the ship in this movie is literally Isaac's helmet in dead space.
And it's been confirmed by he creators that this movie is what inspired dead space.
One of my favorite horror movies
damn i want to see the 130 minutes version.
I remember thinking when I first saw this, it had more in common with Hellraiser or Lovecraft than any science fiction movie. One of my favorites because of this.
Sam Neil been terrifying generations of kids who shouldn't have stayed up late.
In the mouth of madness, Possession, Event Horizon.
Love that for him.
I always felt like the director of Event Horizon would make the perfect Dead Space movie
I too was not prepared for what this movie had in store but goodness its been one of if not my favorite ever since.
One of my favorite things about it is that Dr. Weirs connection to the Event Horizon and what happened during its development makes him the perfect avatar, for lack of a better word, for *whatever* is in that torture dimmension.
I need sleep but Spikima comes first
This movie scared the shit out of me, despite its flaws. Finding out how much footage was cut makes its weaknesses make so much sense.
I could not sleep the night after I saw this. And I was a 30-year old grown man! God, those images were so GRUESOME.
This must have really influenced the hell montage and overall depiction of the sequence in Talk To Me. It was also cut from a longer and more visceral version to the one we saw in theaters.
This was really good film analysis and I’m definitely going to rewatch this movie again noting these things.
watched it for the first time when I was around 17. Definitely still one of my favorite Horror sci-fi movies!
I’m so happy to see one of my favorite channels discussing one of my favorite movies so currently!! Childhood trauma from this movie is REAL bro omg… I was ELEVEN. Cosmic horror became my obsession and I’m a closeted movie junkie… anyone I’ve shown this movie or in the mouth of madness is like how have I never seen this?? It’s absolute cosmic horror body horror psychological horror GOLD. Love you Spikima, so cool to know we share a childhood experience 😂🎉
One of the scariest movies I have ever seen still feel that way. Especially if you were raised catholic or christian I imagine it hits harder
The core.. the way you express it reminds me of Returnal for PS5. Around 3:00you explain it just like the way Selene. I have no idea if this was planned, but the dichotomy is eye opening
The kid that goes through the portal and comes out with his mind broken is a perfect representation of every kid in the 90's that stumbled across this movie flipping through channels.
One of my favorite movies, sparked my love for the cosmic horror genre
Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better pal.
This is legit something that stood by me.
I wish they found the lost pre release version for us to check out
This was one of the most intense movie theater experiences I've ever had
I need to know more about all that cut footage
I saw this in the theater with a bunch of edgelords who complained it wasn’t scary and I felt like a big baby for feeling true terror
They went into the warp without gellar fields i tell ya .
I was remembering this movie and the dread I felt from it just yesterday.
I’m a seasoned horror fan, but this film unnerved me on a whole other level when I finally watched it in my mid 20s. The lost crew footage is undiluted nightmare fuel.
The umbilical wasn’t a tunnel to the ship: it was a portal to Hell.
I'm so glad someone else went through this! I watched it at 11 in the cinema because it got labelled as the equivalent of PG-13 in the first week by mistake, they moved it to the equivalent of NC-17 the week after 💀I haven't recovered.
I have loved this Anderson film since '97. It made me extremely uncomfortable, especially the guy in the depressurize chamber, and that hell footage, that was cut by at least a minute, which would have, I dunno, added to the mute chaos. I still love this flick despite the faults, which don't matter anymore since it was the 90s; one of the best decades for cinema.
Freaking Event Horizon is a masterpiece. thank you for the wonderful dissection.
I was like 13 or 14 when this came out and even back then as a kid I laughed at the cheesiness and 90’s “extreme” vibe it gave out, but still couldn’t deny its terror inducing scenes. Found out about the original cut years later and man I can definitely believe some audiences fainted watching it. Had I watched even the 96 min theater cut in a cinema back then I’d probably had a panic attack and would have left the cinema in front of my friends getting embarrassed. The movie is extremely flawed but it’s hard to ignore it when it works. When it gets scary, it gets really scary.
This is one of my favorites!!
It was my first horror I watched alone... It s still one of my favourites, the premise is just amazing. Where can we find the lomg version?
I love this movie so much. It was my first forray into gorror and really fell in love in the worst way. I always bemoan what it could have been, as its so great with its faults. Thanks for doing this essay, it really helps me realize what I loved about it as a cinematography lover.
Destroyed me around the time it came out and remained my no1 "nope" movie. Tried to watch it again recently and it's still nope for me.
Not only do I love this movie, and have purchased multiple releases, but I convinced my mom to take me to go see it when I was a kid. Have loved it ever since it came out. Praying to the movie gods the director's cut surfaces some day.
It got destroyed in a transylvania salt mine. We are never going to get a directors cut.
Love ur videos man, and yea I like event horizon. I feel like it was so before its time. It needs a remake even tho I hate all these remakes and reboots. Just good movie THAT COULD BE ALOT BETTER
Real reason we watched it when we were kids is because the director was the same guy who directed Mortal Kombat.
Ah yes, the thematic background audio to 90's-era metalcore band "ZAO" (specifically their album "Liberate Te Ex Inferis," which is awesome.)
Watched this for those first time in my 29 eyes of existence and it was nuts lol
Wow, my experience with Event Horizon is so similar. I watched it as an early teen, thinking I was going into a sci-fi mystery. I couldn't sleep for three nights and the memory of it haunted me for years, scaring the heck out of me when I'd wake up at night or when my parents left me alone at home in the evening. I'm still unnerved at the thought of watching it again as a middle aged man.
Dude that movie freaked me the fuck out when I was younger
I had a very similar experience seeing this movie! My father, sister and I saw the commercials and thought it would be a sci-fi thriller. We proceeded to watch the film in the theatre and were hit with the graphic violence... and ended up leaving. Even so it was clear things were missing in the story, so learning about the production woes makes sense. Despite not being able to handle scary films at all, I think there's a good story in here, as good as a game like Dead Space or Satoshi Kon's Magnetic Rose.
paused this video to watch the movie and man is it good!! that scene where they show what happened to the crew is stuck in my head, truly disturbing 😳
I am happy that this movie now regains attention.
I saw it as a kid, Star Wars and Stargate fan back then, I stumbled upon it by mistake and got traumatised and couldn't sleep for days.
Years later I could only remember...the lights and gore scenes.
I was actually amazed to find the name a few years ago and rewatched it, this movie is so Amazing and unique.
I watched it a couple of weeks ago. That scene where she sees her son on the table with his legs exposed was absolutely spine-chilling.
It’s giving me heavy System Shock 2 vibes.
Dead space
Last time I watched this movie I got a call about six hours later hearing that my uncle passed away suddenly and totally unexpectedly. One in a million chance. The feeling will never leave me about this movie. Hoping this demystifies it for me
The core of Event Horizon kind of reminds me of the Ophanim
My biggest shock from this movie was the fact th Jason Isaacs is so freaking tiny 🤏. He looks taller in his other movies
He is 180cm tall, not so tiny. About average height I’d say
5:15 YES, OMG yes !
Having coherent, not utterly stupid characters actually makes them reliable and engaging. Go figure..!
There is also the movie Sphere that had this very quality.
This movie traumatized and terrified me too and I never forgot it. Idk how my parents let us watch this, I had to have been 11 or 12 and my siblings 10ish and 8ish. 😂
I saw the film when it came out on a submarine that I was stationed on. That gave the whole thing an extra something.
I watched this maybe 10 years ago for the first time, recommended to me as a thriller by Netflix. It absolutely blew me away.
Rewatching it years later, all its flaws were glaring when not being engrossed in pure confusion and suspense of “what is the world is going on.”
I loved that movie as a kid. I watched it a bunch of times when it came out in 1997, I was 12 years old. Still have my VHS copy home. I somewhat forgot about it during my teens until I played Dead space for the first time.
Event Horizon is one of the few movies that I think genuinely deserves a remake. As long as it’s done thoughtfully of course
Saw it in the theater. Thought I was going to die of fear right in my seat. Intense.
I was allowed to watch any movies from any age.. i grew up unparanted in a family that loves horror.. so when I was around 8 i was living my gramdma and she loved sci-fi & horror and would watch event horizon often.. and i would also ask her to put it on all the time at one point, even though it absolutely terrified me. Then all the sudden i didn't watch again and it freaked me out too much to never want to watch again.. only horror that's ever done that.. and i spend most my leisure time consuming horror. I finally watched it again at age 27 or something.. (couple of years back) and wow.. was not as terrifying as i remembered 😂 at ALL was meh at best
I'm SO glad somebody is able to succinctly put in words how I feel about Event Horizon. Especially the acknowledgement that - for the most part - when not being influenced by an unknowable outside supernatural force, every character in this film is rational and "normal", like you said. There's no stupid horror movie logic to the way these characters behave. In the context of the film it feels REAL, and EARNED in a way that's so lacking from most horror films.
You also cannot beat the tone and atmosphere of this movie.