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Event Horizon on DVD (1997)

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Average rating: 67%
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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
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Studio: PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 92 mins
Certificate: 18
Collections: 100 Horror Films
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Genres: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages: English
Dubbed: Czech, German, Hungarian
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released: 04/06/2001

Brief synopsis of 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.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

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.

Halliwell's Film Guide

Creepy horror movie in outer space that delivers the requisite shocks; a little less predictability would have been welcome, though.

Time Out

After 35 years lost in the cosmos, the spaceship 'Event Horizon' re-establishes contact. A team of crack astronauts,... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 5 starsStolen But Simply Outstanding

A customer from Milton # , 02/07/2004

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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Rated - 3 starsI always suspect 'horror' films set in space.

orb505 from England , 21/11/2003

I always suspect 'horror' films set in space. They always turn out to be a big disappointment. Event Horizon though was not.

Sam Neil is a scienist haunted by the past, his wife who commited suicide. He throws himself into his work, a space vessel capable of bending space to travel instantaneously from one point to another...The Event Horizon. One its first trails the Event Horizon engaged it's drive and disappeared...The problem being, it never came back.

Years later the Event Horizon emerges near Jupiter. Calls to the ship are not returned. The Search and Rescue ship, the Lewis and Clarke with her captain (Fishburne), crew and Sam Neil set out the find out if there are any survivors, what happened... and where has it being for the past number of years.

The sets in the film are great and the acting by both lead actors is too. Sean Pertwee (son of the third Dr Who, Jon) also makes a good impression.

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Rated - 5 starsVery good sci-fi horror

Gurinder Kular from London , 14/07/2004

I'm not sure why this film is so poorly rated amongst critcis. It is a very decent watch and has a plausable plot. Its doesn't go overboard on the cheese and is very jumpy in parts. Any sci-fi fan will enjoy and like me wonder why there hasn't been a sequel.

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Rated - 2 starsNon-event

Grimmy Grimmy from Up North [Highly rated reviewer] , 14/08/2007

An Alien/Aliens clone without one original idea to call its own. A few pleasant to look at zero-gravity effects at the beginning raise ones hopes that this may be ok, but the script/plotting is aimed at 12 year olds and the film achieves all its jolts by the cheap trick of sudden loud bursts in the soundtrack. Every character is one dimensional, every line a cliche. Really. Watching Aliens for the 10th time would be more entertaining than this

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Rated - 5 stars

blasteron#1 from EXMOUTH , 22/12/2003

This deserves a full rating its got all you need for a film.Suspense,Suprises mystery gore and very good.Final words:WATCH IT you wont regret it.

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Rated - 0 starsAwful! Rip-off!

A customer from Lanark , 12/04/2008

Rip-off of the Alien sets (with better computers) even down to life support machines and life scanners.

I had been looking forward to this film, after hearing how the story was full of suspense. Sadly I kept waiting for the suspense.

I had no sympathy for the characters and some of the plotlines you are expected to believe are way too far fetched for even a science fiction movie.

Laughable, poor man's Aliens.

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
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