If I was filthy rich I'd personally fund any reshoot required to restore the film to its original version. Rebuild the sets and props, get the cast back, use as much practical effects as possible and only use CGI for touch ups and de-aging. A man can dream.
Well Paul Anderson actually wants to do that exact thing. He stated the last time in 2021 that the only way to properly restore the missing footage is by reshoot the whole thing, brining back the actors and using de-age tech. Paul is very optimistic about this possibility and he seems very compromised about create the extended cut through the years, but ultimately it depends of Paramout to make it happen.
agreed ... and yet not so agreed ... in case of Blade Runner for example, i prefer the producer version (with VO narrated by Harrison Ford) more than Ridley Scott's own version ... but well, maybe that's just me ...
Studio : So, this is a very graphic horror movie? Director : Yeah! So you dig it? Studio : Sure! Director : Cool! Studio : But, can you make it PG13? Director : ...
@@mac1862but they did cut it down because there was over the top gore in the scenes. Plus people were really disturbed during the test screenings. Gore was definitely a factor aside from run time.
I like Anderson's style from the 90s and early 2000s, even AVP is one of my favorites (guilty pleasure) but after 2010 his movies became tremendous garbage, I don't know what happened to him
@@joacodamasco3265 I heard him and his wife Milla are not good people with huge egos that lead to the death of a stunt person. But yes their last film monster hunter was garbage.
@@joacodamasco3265 It might have been the experience of this movie. Putting this much of your soul into something only for it to get gutted is not something I would expect you to come out of the same afterwards.
I really wish it kept the intro scene of Weir insiting to join the crew. I think it helped setup his dedication to the ship ad how he forced his way into the crew uninvited before he even greets them.
Exactly my point too. Maybe some of the other scenes were just "flavour", but the briefing scene really sets the tone and hints at the obsession Weir retains for his ship, almost like the true love of his life. Shame he was forced to cut it off
then i for one, am so glad you're not filthy rich! ;-) really though: great special effects and production etc here but in terms of content, this is not a good movie really ... wanna know why, then please read my original comment ... (you're welcome!) :D
I'd say keep out the event horizons transmission and keep that for the full crew reveal to keep that unnerving feeling but keep the rest just so the transmission scene doesn't get repeated and can keep the tension much higher come Lewis and Clark crew seeing the EH and then hearing the hell sounds
The 90s were a weird time, studios pushing the cookie-cutter movie lengths. This movie absolutely never needed to be 90-odd minutes long, 2 hours+ would've made sense so the rumored 2 hour 15 minute version would've been perfect. A lot of the scenes that were deemed as "not advancing the plot" add a a lot to the disturbing atmosphere of the movie.
I think movies today are often too long at 2:15. Too much exposition, too much backstory, overly long action scenes, convoluted climaxes. A lot of mediocre filmmakers using longer runtimes to mask that their films don’t really have much to say.
@@theussmirage Well, not exactly. Event Horizon has a big Hellraiser vibe, and Hellraiser 4 is set partly in space, but the fourth isn't considered as one of the best.
Not anything to Do with dimensions but Pandorum is a great double feature with event horizon. It is even more atmospheric than event horizon with its sets and has some intense moments with a great little twist at the end. All taking place in a ship of course.
If any films or shows are made about the Warhammer40k universe, they could easily include humanity experimenting with entering the Warp and learning the hard way that you need protection fields in order to not be driven suicidally insane by the chaos.
i swear I couldn't sleep with the lights off for almost a month after seeing this film, that voice recording in latin just on replay in my mind, every time i closed my eyes getting flashes of hell. the world needs the full vision of this film
That speaker was right. Not every scene has to progress the plot. Sometimes they create atmosphere or give us insight into the characters or situation. Studios should say out of it more and let artists be artists. I think their interference ends up costing them money, not saving it.
Someone needs to make a movie about a group of people searching for missing footage from a horror movie. They go missing after searching a mine in Transylvania.
Just make a movie about Wes Anderson trying to re film the missing footage but it goes horribly wrong for mysterious reasons. A bit of a movie inside a movie thing like 'The Final Nightmare'.
I always thought that Weir's enthusiasm to get on the ship was to see if his wife had survived. The early indication that she had died and that he missed her gave me the sense that she may have been on crew for the Event Horizon. He blamed himself for getting her killed by him failing to design the ship to properly return. Though the later realization that she had killed herself, and the popular idea that people that commit suicide go straight to hell also checks out with her begging him to join her. Both ideas end up leading to her being in hell, but it always seemed more interesting to have her been a crew member on board the event horizon.
In the interview parts Anderson states just that: first movie cut was slightly more "biblical" and had more Hell references, which were instead more nuanced from then on. I think nuancing those was actually a good idea but I would've kept the initial briefing scene which hinted at Dr. Weir's obsession with the ship!
This was the first R rated film I ever saw in the theater. There was 6 people in the audience besides myself and my friend who also just turned 17. We were freaked out 😂. So wish they would have kept the cut footage. Still an epic film for what they had to work with.
@@RedfishCarolina It was kind of by chance too. Since it was a small 8 screen theater, our choices that day were limited for R rated films. I seem to remember just picking a movie once we got to the theater. We didn’t talk much after the movie that I recall. 🫣
Can we make the Movie PG13? The moment both of my middlefingers would’ve came up. The real horror these days are greedy studios butchering all the creativity for profit.
These aren’t all of the deleted scenes. Some have been lost permanently, including a much longer scene of what happened to the original crew. Execs weren’t happy with the reaction at a test screening and destroyed the footage.
Me and my friend saw this when it came out. Our theory was that the ship actually did go to hell, but that hell is just the anti-version, the mirror side, of our reality and therefore drives everyone who goes there insane. All the historical and biblical accounts of hell are in fact based on people who'd experienced it, and the human reaction to it is complete perverted carnage.
I've always wanted to see the true Scenes of the Event Horizon Crew as they went crazy. I could only imagine... I remember seeing Stills in Fangoria, but I always wanted to see how it went down. You could tell it was some crazy shit that was happening there.
Ever since I first saw it as a teenager I was bummed because they didn't show the crew/chaos that happened in its entirety because of how much it would've added after he deciphered what the captain had said in Latin (I think Latin). Either way hearing that recording, then seeing flashes of the crew but then towards the end having Sam Neal watching that footage from the captains chair while he's all cut up you know? It would have been that last gut punch to take it to another level instead of the somewhat cliche reveal of his face under the helmet or what not.
Actually just to throw another zinger in about the footage, it would have been awesome to have him playing the crew footage while in the captains chair projected on the wall in front of him but we only see the back of the chair and hear him give a monolog as he's carving/cutting bits and pieces of himself off ( quick flash close up shots of him cutting) and setting them down at the side of the chair with a bunch of surgical tools on a little table that we see then right at the end of his speech he stands up to face the camera while the crew footage plays on him like a projector and he ends the speech with something cheesy like "I've found the beauty in pain" or something really iconic and over the top for the reveal. 😆 I still love the movie though.
@@accuser_of_the_brethren7816 honestly we didn’t have to see it completely. Sometimes things are better and scarier left to our imagination. The movie is not supposed to be some gore porn.
you can see the tooth in the scene that shows what happened to the crew. I believe its from the captain. he gets a pike driven through the back of his head that pops the tooth out. you have to watch it in slow motion to see it well
XD Jason asked if he could keep the mannequin of himself flayed open. We told him he was very sick and that he couldn’t keep it. Imagine the chaos you could sow at family gatherings with one of those though.
would honestly love a modern sequel to this film set thirty or so years later with the only surviving member from the rescue team being Justin (Jack Noseworthy), still heavily scared from the events of the movie both physically and mentally but managing to maintain his own search and rescue crew as their captain. On the periphery of Saturn where a major space station manages a majority of space traffic in the sol system picks up a phantom signal and sends a patrol to investigate. They find the husk of the event horizons back end among the rings of saturn in a perfect sphere of no debris. They Tow it back to the space station and soon after a no fly zone emergency quarantine fail safe is enacted and all comms go dark. Being a large station 3 S&R crews are sent this time: The Mary Celeste, The Roanoke and The Alkimos (Heh)
This movie could've been a whole lot better if they hadn't cut all these scenes out of it. I wish we could get a directors cut but I know we never will.
You know the whole deleted scenes might have never existed at all. In our minds it creates a unknown horror that will send our imagine running that creates a scene far more terrifying than what can be filmed.
@@nixxlr35 Well, dear degenrate, i guess you just got a bad taste. It meant to be one but after having a huge part of it cut out it`s not a horror movie anymore.
@@rednek666 I'm not the one who is talking shit about this movie. Yes those deleted scenes looks great, I'm a big fan of gore and body horror in general, but it still showed a lot and that slow descension into madness was briliant, not many movies are able to do this. I'm not claiming that this is the best horror movie ever, no. But it's a great horror movie
This was the last movie I saw that made it so I couldn't sleep at night. Thinking of all the things that could have happened that you didn't see but were alluded to made this movie incredibly terrifying.
Saw it on release ….scared the crap out of me but loved it. The panning shot from Gateway station at the start on a big screen is vertigo inducing. I thought all of this footage was lost so very interesting to see (I realise a lot more was lost). Still one of my favourites.
12:30 Interesting how in this early version they (Paramount) used the Praxis explosion from Star Trek VI as the effect for the Event Horizon's drive activating.
I truly believe that Paul WS Anderson has vision, he's just not always in complete control of his creations (Event Horizon) or entirely sure how to implement or refine his ideas (Resident Evil film franchise; the first one was pretty good, in spite of its flaws, though).
Love this film. It's so horrific and disturbing - An absolutely appalling concept and brilliantly done. The ship itself is stunning too. And Weird coming down that ladder..... Oof.
Say it is morbid but Paul Anderson is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT when he mentions they wanted to portray beauty in terror with the way they shot those scenes. The video revealing the fate of the original crew and the visions of Hell are all blurry, flashy qnd go by fast to catch real detail but when you start going frame by frame, it truly is a disgusting spectacle. And while it was freaky in some parts, the story and level of detail of each of those scenes is beautiful and i wish we could've seen that!
I would have liked an alternative ending where we see the ship go to the chaos dimension and all the crew are being tortured around the gravity drive...then Miller blows it up. Then a scene before the credits where the ship ends up back in our dimension and sends another distress call...7th circle of hell from Dante's Inferno... violence
Eh thats how most modern movies end.. with a setup for a sequel or a dark ending.. tbh I liked that Event Horizon stuck to the spirit of the 90s where movies most often ended on a positive note.. with a closure to the story.. no matter how dark and how horrific the incidents in the movie, the audience feels satisfied and comforted walking out.. Now its just become a trend to have dark and depressing ending where the cycle of whatever horrible events in the movie occurred, it continued forever..
@@LupusInfernum Idk about that.. sometimes its best to leave classics the way they are.. because you know what they'll do with it.. they'll turn it into something like Saw, Final Destination or Hostel.. full on torture/gore porn where everyone gets sucked into the hell dimension and have to fight their way out or survive and then at the end only one person survives and they realize that the gateway is open forever and now the chaos dimension is spilling into the real world, ending it all.. or something dark like that.. its how they handled the stupid The Thing prequel.. If they can find a director who can maintain the subtle horror and disturbing nature of the original, I'd be more than happy..
@@arkenstar3979 I didn't think EH ended on a positive note. I thought the airlock door closing on them when they were calling for sedatives meant the ship was still sentient. Also, what was wrong with The Thing prequel(other than cgi'ing the crap out of the wonderful practical effects they made)? I thought it was a good lead in to the 80's version.
@@LetsGoFlyers2011 honestly it was meant to serve as an open to interpretation. In my opinion the best way to end horror stories is leave them open ended. Like “maybe they are okay or maybe it’s not over” type of situation which is how event horizon ended.
Studios sucks so much. So much of horror is not about progressing the plot but progressing an ever increasing sense of dread. Horror as a genre needs moments that are not always plot centric but are atmospheric because the plot does not work as well unless you are fully submerged in the sense of building terror
I never liked the idea that it was supposed to be Hell in the classic biblical interpretation. I always found it way scarier and lovecraftian that the ship had simply gone to a dimension so utterly foreign and twisted and ALIVE that this happened. ‘Hell’ is a kinda boring concept in comparison, I think
i wish they had retained the scene where the event horizon ended up near a dying red giant surrounded by black planets. and the closeup of the planet where the octopus like aliens were fighting each other.
Yes, exactly, the could have nailed that Lovecraftian/warhammer 40k type grim dark horror of unimaginable giant gods/monsters the knowledge/understanding that mere existence of which could destroy normal people mind. And that giant monsters could hold their fight and turn their gaze to camera and whisper Suaron style "We see you..." or even complete silence would work even better, so viewer could thought that with these intrusions you've reveal mankind for them for the taking/corrupting OR like in Diablo IV trailer "with this blood sacrifice we call them home" and some diabolical shit like Lilith are going to be born in the realspace throw portal/gate. The dread would be... exquisite.
Dr. Weir's scene with the Admiral is so powerful, really sets up this character, and shows how genius crazy, and obsessed this guy really is. This guy's life is ALL Event Horizon... Personally, I still feel, they should cut the Traumas from the movie, Dr. Weir lost his wife to suicide because of his work, Mama Bear's character lost her child, and Miller left a friend to burn alive in space. It is scientifically and thus statistically improbable that three people enter a living nightmare ship at the same time, as part of the same crew, a ship that has the power to specifically use those traumas against them and that actually comes from a hellish dimension so it loves to do so. It is where a lot of it goes wrong in my taste. especially for the released cut.
Most writers and directors would attempt to show "The Dark", referring to Baby Bear saying "He's coming - The Dark", it would be the first impulse. Event Horizon went next level and we don't see The Dark, some evil being, it's much much worse, which seems impossibly frightening.
I never thought about the possibility that the original crew of the Event Horizon sent that message after they came back from the hell dimension. That first deleted scene with Weir and the admiral implies that the crew actually filmed that recording after they returned to our solar system. I'm beginning to wonder if, perhaps, 7 years in our world was only equivalent to a few moments to the crew in the hell dimension.
@@deletedmovies Well that`s not very good, nice they remastered what they could tho. Maybe it`s time for a remake with a directors cut as the only cut Thanks for the answer man, appriciate it.
The director has said that the footage has been either lost or destroyed. The only way we’ll ever see his Director’s Cut is by rebooting it or reshooting it with the actors being de-aged
@@hellcatdave1 correct. The cut footage was not stored correctly and it deteriorated to the point that it couldn't be salvaged for a director's cut. My understanding was that it was mostly the murder orgy scene of the original crew, which pushed the film to NC17 from R rating so it had to be edited out so that it could be released in public theatres. The original cut was so graphic that it could only be viewed in private theatres. IT's unfortunate too. A lot of the films in the late 1990's right when CDs / DVDs technology became available were not preserved properly and of course everything before that.
I took a couple of dates to see this movie just to get their reaction and it was almost the same: "You said this was a horror movie but I did not expect that", and never heard from them again.
The deleted scenes were amazing and much more outstanding of what happens from the beginning. we'll liked to see what happened with the first tripulation, the main and only one of spaceship EH... a feast of blood, orgy, viscerals etc. This kind of movies about cultism, hell should have more in detail scenes (cut version), like one my my favourites called The Avoid (eldritch horrors)
