Haunted Space...
Added 11/19/2009
Yes, EVENT HORIZON is a horror movie. It's basically a haunted mansion tale set in deep space. So, if you're looking for a lesson in astrophysics, you're out of luck. On the other hand, if you want to be scared and filled w/ that delightful sense of dread, then EH is your nightmare come true! Filled to bursting w/ bleak, suffocating atmosphere, this grabber is a nice, cold hand on the heart. It's also one of the few films by Paul Anderson that I will actually watch. He utilizes paranoia and unknown horrors to build this monster piece by grusome piece. Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix trilogy, "CSI") and Sam Neill (Omen 3: The Final Conflict, Jurassic Park, In The Mouth Of Madness) do most of the heavy lifting, w/ Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers), and Kathleen Quinlan (Twilight Zone: The Movie) filling in most of the gaps. So, if you are in the mood for chills, EVENT HORIZON should get those shoulders shaking...
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Disturbia
Added 10/20/2009
E.H. came and went in movie theatres in about a week, the victim of an un-evocative title, under-budgeted marketing campaign and needless confusion about what genre it belonged to. The truth will generally out, however, even in Hollywood; and so this flick has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of classy sci-fi/horror.
E.H. is the story of Dr. Weir (Sam Neill), a scientist who designs the first-faster than light spaceship, the Event Horizon. Obsessed with his creation, he so neglects his wife that she commits suicide, leaving him half-mad with grief. To make matters worse, the ship, disappears on its maiden voyage, presumably lost with all hands. Seven years later, however, a signal is suddenly received from the vicinity of the planet Neptune which indicates the Event Horizon has survived after all. A rescue ship from Earth is launched under the command of the hard-nosed Captain Miller (Lawrence Fishburne), with Weir joining the small crew (including Kathleen Quinlan and the excellent Joely Richardson) as scientific advisor. Arriving at the planet, they find the Horizon intact, but seemingly empty, which poses our heroes with two questions: where has the ship been all these years, and what has happened to the crew? Exploring the tomb-like ship, the mystery deepens. Frozen bodies...or parts of them...are discovered, but not enough to account for the crew. Records are half-destroyed. Inexplicable sounds emit from everywhere, and one by one the crewmembers begin to experience horrible hallucinations that may not be hallucinations at all. Before you know it, the rescue ship's been sabotaged and the whole lot of them are stuck on board the ghost ship with no way off and only 24 hours worth of air. All that in the first half hour. Then the murders begin...
EVENT HORIZON is a combination of many influences; stylistically it is reminiscent of Gothic horror films crossed with ALIEN (especially the "S.O.S." which is discovered, too late, to be a warning) but there are classic themes as well. Wier's gravity-drive represents Forbidden Knowledge, the stuff you tamper with at your peril. The ship itself is the classic Haunted House and/or Cursed Tomb, and the crew the Ten Little Indians, each of whom possesses dark secrets that are forced to the surface by the pressure of events. However, in most horror, there is a very clear dividing line between Who Is Safe and Who Isn't; in EVENT HORIZON, this line is totally obliterated. No sooner do you invest emotionally in one of the characters than they suffer a horrible and gory end. And some of those gory ends are tough to watch. While hardly a splatter-fest, E.H. isn't sparing on the red stuff when push comes to shove: we get glimpses of flaying, cannibalism, open sores, patricide, burned flesh, and decompressed eyeballs. When Captain Miller promises his crew "Everybody goes home!" he might have added, "but not necessarily alive or in one piece."
The real star of the movie is not Fishburne, Neill, or Richardson, however, but the Event Horizon herself. If I am a fan of one thing in my horror movies, it is atmosphere, and E.H. has it in spades. The production designers used an old Gothic cathedral as the basis for the ship, and between its green-lit, gray-stone-like interiors, echoey hallways and deep, brooding shadows, it has the worst elements of haunted house, hedge maze, and Dracula's castle.
The downside of E.H. rests largely in things that happen during the climax; there is some ridiculously unnecessary exposition and some badly-timed humor which really undermine the ending. I sense the interfering hand of a Studio Suit in some of Sam Neill's final dialogue. Despite this, however, E.H. is a disturbing, brutal, well-acted, beautifully designed film with a first-rate cast, and it deserves your attention.
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Grab-bag of 'supernatural' horrors in space
Added 10/9/2009
EVENT HORIZON
(USA/UK - 1997)
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Panavision)
Theatrical soundtracks: Dolby Digital / DTS
In 2047, an interstellar rescue team boards a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune which has been missing since disappearing through a black hole, and they're stalked by an alien presence which uses their worst fears against them.
Paul Anderson's overblown space shocker has a great cast (including Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson and Kathleen Quinlan) and some eye-popping space vistas, but the storyline doesn't amount to very much, and the set-pieces are variable in quality and effectiveness. Fantastic visual effects, gruesome HELLRAISER-style imagery in places. Well made, and certainly watchable, but equally missable.
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You can't leave, she won't let you!
Added 9/12/2009
Great concept with very frightening consequences. The maiden voyage of the Event Horizon takes it to the far reaches of space and returns with unknown secrets and warnings. Transversing space and time is a fascinating theory that apparently has been achieved but not without a tremendous toll on the crew. Graphically disturbing, this film really attempts to visualize the concept of pure evil and truly exemplifies how curiosity can indeed kill the cat! Alien (The Director's Cut)
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Event horizon blu ray
Added 9/12/2009
This is a great horror/sci-Fi movie. Even better on blu ray. Seller was excellent.
Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
From [...]:
"Event Horizon folds onto Blu-ray with a quality 1080p, 2.35:1-framed transfer. Though this transfer doesn't necessarily jump off the screen with a barrage of realistic, deep, and clear imagery, there is nevertheless a solid level of visible detail. Paramount has delivered a solid transfer that will please this film's fan base."
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Haunted Space...
Added 11/19/2009
Yes, EVENT HORIZON is a horror movie. It's basically a haunted mansion tale set in deep space. So, if you're looking for a lesson in astrophysics, you're out of luck. On the other hand, if you want to be scared and filled w/ that delightful sense of dread, then EH is your nightmare come true! Filled to bursting w/ bleak, suffocating atmosphere, this grabber is a nice, cold hand on the heart. It's also one of the few films by Paul Anderson that I will actually watch. He utilizes paranoia and unknown horrors to build this monster piece by grusome piece. Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix trilogy, "CSI") and Sam Neill (Omen 3: The Final Conflict, Jurassic Park, In The Mouth Of Madness) do most of the heavy lifting, w/ Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers), and Kathleen Quinlan (Twilight Zone: The Movie) filling in most of the gaps. So, if you are in the mood for chills, EVENT HORIZON should get those shoulders shaking...
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Disturbia
Added 10/20/2009
E.H. came and went in movie theatres in about a week, the victim of an un-evocative title, under-budgeted marketing campaign and needless confusion about what genre it belonged to. The truth will generally out, however, even in Hollywood; and so this flick has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of classy sci-fi/horror.
E.H. is the story of Dr. Weir (Sam Neill), a scientist who designs the first-faster than light spaceship, the Event Horizon. Obsessed with his creation, he so neglects his wife that she commits suicide, leaving him half-mad with grief. To make matters worse, the ship, disappears on its maiden voyage, presumably lost with all hands. Seven years later, however, a signal is suddenly received from the vicinity of the planet Neptune which indicates the Event Horizon has survived after all. A rescue ship from Earth is launched under the command of the hard-nosed Captain Miller (Lawrence Fishburne), with Weir joining the small crew (including Kathleen Quinlan and the excellent Joely Richardson) as scientific advisor. Arriving at the planet, they find the Horizon intact, but seemingly empty, which poses our heroes with two questions: where has the ship been all these years, and what has happened to the crew? Exploring the tomb-like ship, the mystery deepens. Frozen bodies...or parts of them...are discovered, but not enough to account for the crew. Records are half-destroyed. Inexplicable sounds emit from everywhere, and one by one the crewmembers begin to experience horrible hallucinations that may not be hallucinations at all. Before you know it, the rescue ship's been sabotaged and the whole lot of them are stuck on board the ghost ship with no way off and only 24 hours worth of air. All that in the first half hour. Then the murders begin...
EVENT HORIZON is a combination of many influences; stylistically it is reminiscent of Gothic horror films crossed with ALIEN (especially the "S.O.S." which is discovered, too late, to be a warning) but there are classic themes as well. Wier's gravity-drive represents Forbidden Knowledge, the stuff you tamper with at your peril. The ship itself is the classic Haunted House and/or Cursed Tomb, and the crew the Ten Little Indians, each of whom possesses dark secrets that are forced to the surface by the pressure of events. However, in most horror, there is a very clear dividing line between Who Is Safe and Who Isn't; in EVENT HORIZON, this line is totally obliterated. No sooner do you invest emotionally in one of the characters than they suffer a horrible and gory end. And some of those gory ends are tough to watch. While hardly a splatter-fest, E.H. isn't sparing on the red stuff when push comes to shove: we get glimpses of flaying, cannibalism, open sores, patricide, burned flesh, and decompressed eyeballs. When Captain Miller promises his crew "Everybody goes home!" he might have added, "but not necessarily alive or in one piece."
The real star of the movie is not Fishburne, Neill, or Richardson, however, but the Event Horizon herself. If I am a fan of one thing in my horror movies, it is atmosphere, and E.H. has it in spades. The production designers used an old Gothic cathedral as the basis for the ship, and between its green-lit, gray-stone-like interiors, echoey hallways and deep, brooding shadows, it has the worst elements of haunted house, hedge maze, and Dracula's castle.
The downside of E.H. rests largely in things that happen during the climax; there is some ridiculously unnecessary exposition and some badly-timed humor which really undermine the ending. I sense the interfering hand of a Studio Suit in some of Sam Neill's final dialogue. Despite this, however, E.H. is a disturbing, brutal, well-acted, beautifully designed film with a first-rate cast, and it deserves your attention.
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Grab-bag of 'supernatural' horrors in space
Added 10/9/2009
EVENT HORIZON
(USA/UK - 1997)
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Panavision)
Theatrical soundtracks: Dolby Digital / DTS
In 2047, an interstellar rescue team boards a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune which has been missing since disappearing through a black hole, and they're stalked by an alien presence which uses their worst fears against them.
Paul Anderson's overblown space shocker has a great cast (including Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson and Kathleen Quinlan) and some eye-popping space vistas, but the storyline doesn't amount to very much, and the set-pieces are variable in quality and effectiveness. Fantastic visual effects, gruesome HELLRAISER-style imagery in places. Well made, and certainly watchable, but equally missable.
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