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Event Horizon
1997
In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their arrival triggers contact with .. Read more
| Starring | Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson |
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| Director | Paul W.S. Anderson |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Event Horizon
In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their arrival triggers contact with something beyond human experience--and more dangerous than ever imaginable. Similar in plot to Andrei Tarkovsky's eponymous screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's science-fiction novel SOLARIS, EVENT HORIZON provides some truly potent moments in its often potent combination of horror and sci-fi.
| Starring | Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Barclay Wright, Jason Isaacs, Jack Noseworthy, Sean Pertwee, Richard T. Jones, Noah Huntley, Holley Chant, Robert Jezek, Peter Marinker |
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| Director | Paul W.S. Anderson |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 36 mins Watch now: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English Watch Online: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, French, English, Danish, German, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Jun 2001 Blu-ray: 27 Apr 2009 Watch now: 08 Apr 2009 Production year: 1997 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
Event Horizon (1997)
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This is a messy (in more ways than one) but enjoyable slice of space splatter from British director Paul Anderson. Named after the area of space around a black hole beyond which matter seemingly disappears, the Event Horizon here is an experimental spacecraft that has been missing for years but has just reappeared off Neptune. A rescue team, led by Laurence Fishburne, is sent to retrieve it, but it soon becomes apparent that it's in the grip of a malevolent force. Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson and Sean Pertwee bring some class to the determinedly B-movie dialogue, and Anderson delivers some eye-poppingly nasty sequences that will please horror fans.
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Creepy horror movie in outer space that delivers the requisite shocks; a little less predictability would have been welcome, though.
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20 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Stolen But Simply Outstanding
I watched this film as part of a double bill one afternoon at a local cinema. On the end of this I watched The Exorcist. Event Horizon left me feeling truly disturbed.
A crew venture into space to recover a vessel that has been fitted with a device that can bend time (fitting with recent theories on space travel). They find a ship that appears to be quite lifeless. Unfortunatly for them it isn't
As the other reviewer says if you slow down the log files you'll appreciate why this was rated so heavily, we didn't have that luxury in the cinema, but even at that time enough of the flickering images remain in the brain long enough to make you shudder, and they aren't the half of it.
A thoroughly taught blood and guts thriller, the like of which are rarely seen. Any criticisms? Well.. they did steal ideas from practically all the best horror movies ever made. Certainly comparisons to a sci-fi version of Hellraiser wouldn't be out of line.. But then why make it a criticism it was all done so exceptionally well!!
Not only do I rate this a 5 but I've rented it on both VHS and DVD twice. The only reason I haven't bought it is because of the lack of extras! -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Scariest Movie
Sitting around a large table with friends recently a question was asked.
What was the last movie that actually managed to scare you?
Everybody answered with Event Horizon.
An extremely disturbing movie.
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Event Horizon
In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their ...
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