liberate tutemae.

So... its nothing like doom...

"Teleporting" technology opens a gateway to hell, eveyone dies a horrible death. it is QUITE similar to doom in that respect.

I cant rememeber much but i rememeber when the lights were flickering and the black eyed woman scared the shit outta me. I wanna see through the mouth of madness with sam neill(is that whats its called) that scared me......u ever seen it? hah with the freaky dude on the bike man scared me.....dont get scared by horror cuz i love them so much but i was younger and it gave me the chills

Mouth of Madness
 

Yeah, I got In the Mouth of Madness. It's pretty good, I think. The old guy/or woman on the bike creeped out my wife a bit.:D

Yeah I can't rememeber much except for, The old man chained to his wife, the church with like the little freaky teeth kids or whatever, and when he keeps driving and it keeps repeating. That movie is good I wanna see that movie again.

In the UK we used to have these adverts for compilation CDs called 'The Greatest BLANK (Rock, Pop, Dance etc) Album in the World...Ever' because it used the favourites from all the genre and Event Horizon is a little like this, it uses the torrent of blood from The Shining, the booming/banging from The Haunting, the SM-ish make-up from Hellraiser and mixes them all up into an excellent, if hardly life-changing, movie.

Wow, nice first post. Welcome to the forum, :)

Haha Yes I agree with Vodstok.


Welcome to the horror forums Mikey.

event horizon had its moments...i.e. sam neill's wife without eyes....in fact i thought it was pretty damn scary after i first seen it....but theres little character development...which is what killed anderson's next movie; soldier. but hes good at shooting action...i mean both predator vs alien and soldier had some great violence.

Hey, first there was "Style over Substance", now there is "action as stuffing":
A flavorless filler that inundates you with flashy, violent imagery to gloss over the fact that the characters are 1 dimensional and boring.

I try to avoid this as much as possible.

i agree totally ... there wasnt one decent performance in that movie .. fishburn was unbelieveably bad .. unheard of.

I cant quite put my finger on what i dont like about most of Anderson's movies.... They are all ones that SCREAM "Love me!", but they feel hollow... Somethings missing....

Yeah.....I mean I just think Anderson's movie SUCK. He just doesn't have it. He just seems to screw everything up.

Blah I don't think he shoulda ever been in the biz :mad:

I thought it was complete turd. How bloody predictable can you get!!??

'Oh yeah.....the ship is in two parts......one can break away.....just incase anythin bad happens.'

Really gay fx as well. That bit where he's got no eyes looks real good.....errr....no!!

Ash x x

I didn't HATE the movie, but, I didnt LOVE it either. I think my problem with the movie is I didnt really give a damn about anyone in it, and unlike the spaceship in say, Alien or many other films, the fact that the ship seemed so damn UN-utilitarian bothered me. I couldnt imagine anyone engineering such an entirely Gigeresque spaceship design....

The acting was a bit flat in places, but, I always attributed that to the way the dialog was written, and not the performers themselves..... I mean, there are points where you know the actors had to be thinking, "They expect me to SAY this crap?"

And as shocking as the revelation of the recording of what happened on the ship was, with its carnage and flashing imagery, the climax paled in comparison. Its almost like the movie blew it's load halfway through and spent the rest of the time playing catch up.

But....truth be known....everytime I see the damn thing in the cable listings, I'll give it a watch.....

Event Horizon
 

Would you consider this more of a Sci Fi Thriller or Horror? This is one of those movies I can watch over and over again and never get sick of it. The gore is awesome!

yes and Director Paul Anderson went on to much better things like:
Soldier
Resident Evil
AVP

Its both, a Sci/Fi Horror which doesn't seem to get the credit it deserves. I watched this film only a few days ago and i'd forgotten how good it is.

What's Alien? What's The Thing? I'm not entirely sure you can draw a clear line between horror and sci-fi. What do others think?

Do you mean in general or just with this flick? In my opinion there is a line between horror and sci-fi, just not with this movie :)

There is indeed a very clear division between SF and horror. This movie, as well as the films that Zero mentioned, just happens to blur the lines a little. Anyway, I'm glad to see more fans of this underrated movie. I too could watch this one over and over again.

This is one of several films Anderson films on
my dvd shelf. Sometimes it makes me wonder
why I decided to have it in the first place. It
only takes one viewing to remind me...

On a sidenote, it was very annoying to watch
Anderson in the AvP extras talking about how
much he wanted to "improve" on the effects
of Predator. Mo-mo-betta isn't always better.

I'm glad to see there are others that really like this movie. It is on my top ten list.

Like others, I believe that there is a firm line between Sci-Fi and Horror. However, this is one of the very few movies that mix the two "sub-genres" perfectly (Alien and The Thing as mentioned in other posts).

It wasn't a bad movie but I just really wasn't into it so much. Could've been better.

still waiting for my special edition :mad:

me too :mad:

Re: Event Horizon
 

pure sf/horror :cool:

The ending was pretty lame though. I usually don't care for those dream-something-bad-happens type endings where they wake up so it's either just a bad dream or perhaps a premonition?

...
 

I don't really remember the ending, but I enjoyed the movie.

If I recall correctly, one of the crew was in one of those cryo-chambers and something was wrong and they were reviving em. Like the whole "Event Horizion" thing never happened and went back to the beginning long before they ever got there.

Not so. Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne were transported to the demon dimension while the surviving members of the crew (3 i think) used the crew section of event horizon as a lifepod to carry them home as their own ship had been destroyed. You may be mistaking the ending with the film Sphere where they all agree to forget anything had happened so not to affect future events (or something like that).

lol N, I saw "Sphere", but I could've sworn the movie went to the beginning when they were all in the ship before anyone event went to the Event Horizion ship, with the difference being that one crew member that passed out like they had a convulsion or something and they were yelling for the medics.

Re: Event Horizon
 

Do you know any good books that feature expansive material on horror films? Well, I found one from the library. It's called the Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror.

Interesting to note is what the editor Phil Hardy had to say about the question above:

Film makers make films. It is the critics -- and in this case, cinephiles -- who worry about genre.

If we must cut and dice Event Horizon in order to put it into clean-cut category (Science Fiction or Horror), consider the "definition".

In terms of the scientific basis (the ship's capability of folding space) from which the horrors are unleashed, this would be science-fiction.

On the other hand, based on theme (Hell), this would be horror.

So...if it has to be one or the other, which is it to be?

Anyone..?

I thought there was a sci-fi/horror catagory.... and what would you consider "The Thing" to be? Alien, mimics living organizms, gore and blood when it's discovered and fights to survive? I would say "The Thing" is more horror than sci-fi, whereas "Event Horizon has a bit of a horror theme but more along the lines of sci-fi.

That's a joke, right?
I mean, I don't hate resident evil nearly as much as the majority...but RE and AVP are by no means superior films...Soldier was a slight improvement over the other two, but I still can't see it being any kind of "better".

**SPOILER**













































Anyways, whatever...To sort it out, what happened at the end was, the ship was heading back, or getting pulled back towards the "hell" dimension, The captain (Laurence Fishburn) Blew up a section of the ship, trapping himself and the doctor guy (Neill) on the side bound for that dimension, leaving TWO survivors on the other side to escape. It was a girl, and a guy who had been unconscious for most of the film after an almost possession-like incident had him open an airlock without a spacesuit.
The female wakes up, and sees the evil doctor guy with his face all fucked up,but it's only a dream, a rescue team retreives the two people when she ACTUALLY wakes up.


Oh, and I'd consider it a "horror themed psychological thriller", if anything, I guess...

Re: Re: Event Horizon
 

a superior tome

Re: Re: Event Horizon
 

I will definately check it out. :)

Exactly.... "horror themed" psychological thriller. I wasn't into it too much, but still an okay movie.

I agree: The Thing fits better into the Horror genre rather than Science Fiction. John Carpenter did the re-make after the 1951 Howard Hawks production, the Thing from Another World which was loosely based on the science fiction novella by John Campbell, Jr. entitled "Who goes there".

If I remember correctly, John Carpenter wanted his re-make to be closer to the novella. Not having ever read it, I don't have any basis for saying how close it is. However, his unique approach to the film is the key element that brings it closer to Horror than Science Fiction.

The fact that they are dealing with an alien being that mimics what it absorbs into itself, this is certainly Science Fiction. But John goes further and brings conflict and paranoia into the equation, among the characters in the film. They are not only isolated from the world, they are also isolated from each other and don't know who they can trust.

The theme of isolation and paranoia, coupled with the virtually indestructible enemy within (furthermore, as a metaphor or commentary on the strange new disease in the blood - AIDS) brings this film to a whole new level of horror.

I'm glad that cinephiles are beginning to take notice of this film, compared to its time of release. It is indeed one of John Carpenter's best.