I really appreciate our crew in this film with how they (and especially Mr. Fishburne) were making the best decisions they could in a bad situation. He makes a great captain!
Yes. Most horror movies have the characters make bad decisions and pay for it. In this movie, most characters make the best decisions they can in an extreme situation. They were just up against something VERY powerful.
That's what I hate about the newer Alien films. All the crew are complete dipshits doing things no one would ever do. Always feels like a lazy way of advancing the plot.
There's a fun little fan theory that this is an unofficial prequel to Warhammer 40K. They're exploring the warp without a gellar field, which allows the madness of the warp to overtake them.
It also functions as an unofficial Hellraiser sequel if the gravity drive opens the same gateway as the Lament Configuration. Dr Weir certainly hits those Cenobite vibes once he gets rid of his eyes.
The horror scenes were originally filmed with such gory practical effects and "creative use of porn stars and amputees" that some of the crew were getting physically ill, and the studio made them do reshoots for the "tame" version we got. But it shocked us when it came out with how graphic it is. Unfortunately when the film was re-packaged for special edition they found out that the cut footage had rotted in storage (in a Transylvania cave, no joke). Happy Halloween 🎃.
In a salt mine! The film did so poorly and DVDs weren't a thing yet so they didn't bother to save any edits and had to scour the world for different edits in different countries including a salt mine where someone had stashed a longer cut away...
Part of the reason you love the CG of the ship exterior shots so much is because it isn't CG at all. That's a model. Hand assembled, painted, detailed, and aged. Shot with a motion control base camera. From a production standpoint this is an absolute top tier film. The set design is on par with anything Alien delivered. Significant practical effects used. The sound and music design is disturbing as hell. Cinematography is amazing. Slow and floating most of the time like you're in space. Also the most realistic visual of what decompression into space would look like. Even have his body puffing up and expanding, the blood veins over his entire body swelling and popping. You can survive about 15 to 30 seconds if you do exactly what the Captain told Justin to do. You're gonna hate life for a while but you will live. What a stacked cast too. I love Jason Isaacs character in this. You can tell he has seen some shit in his time. He never talks about it. He's always quiet and withdrawn, but he snaps into action. And if he is scared... that's terrifying.
@@dancewalkertarot Very few film sets have ever felt as real and lived in as this. And most of those that have are horror sci-fi films. This film is just so unique in every way.
Not a horror fan but really like this one. It's gotten quite a cult following. Especially from Warhammer 40k fans where it really plays into the lore of the universe
from imdb: "Screenwriter Philip Eisner was an avid player of Warhammer 40,000 and revealed in 2017 that Warhammer was a major influence on Event Horizon."
Event Horizon is often called "Hellraiser in space" and it's so accurate, especially if you think of the violence that was cut out. I love the film we got but wish an unrated version was available, sadly the og footage was comepletely ruined.
The main writer Philip Eisner was a massive 40k player and said it influenced him alot. its a story about the first trip through the warp aka (the Immaterium, also referred to as the Empyrean, the Aether, the Sea of Souls, the Realm of Chaos, Warpspace) unprotected by a Gellar field and subjected to the pure influence of the horrors within.
I wish there was a complete version of the ship's log. Always wondered how only one crew member was intact with the rest splattered all over the walls. -- Anyhow, there's a screenplay somewhere that includes the scenes that were cut.
@@gunkid6368 He said that the original script he wrote was too complicated because there were 2 explanations: the crew went insane & killed itself because it experienced time-space detachment and the entity on the ship was an incorporeal lifeform from a dead star, which is where the ship ended up after the tip; the crew was already dead by then. So there were 2 reasons for why everything happened, which made it harder for the audience to understand
The ships are not cgi but extremely well detailed models. The Event Horizon was something like 10-15 feet long and it’s design aesthetic was to emulate the Notre Dame cathedral. There was cgi in the movie, but it dealt mainly with some of the floating objects in the ship. Otherwise, everything else was practical model work. Also, I feel that this Paul Andersons best film. It’s a shame they cut it down and didn’t let him keep his vision.
And if I ever become extremely independently wealthy I will buy that model, hang it from the ceiling in a home theater room and have it lit professionally.
The Event Horizon spaceship when viewed from a distance resembles a cross. From a different side or angle, the ship also resembles an upside down cross.... symbol of evil.
Laurence Fishburne's delivery of "FUCK this ship" is one of my favorite cinematic moments. Smitty's death gets me right in the heart every time I watch this movie. The way Sean Pertwee's face goes through every stage of grief and the scared acceptance... his performance sticks with me. EDIT: I like how giddy you are while watching this movie. It's great to see someone else love Event Horizon the same way I do. I have two recommendations for you. Scifi horror Pandorum (2009), and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994) for more Sam Neill horror.
This movie was SO underrated when it first came out. I'm so glad that more people have discovered it, and enjoy it. Lawrence Fishbourne and Sam Neil 👌💯
I saw this film on VHS with my family and it scared the hell out of us! We couldn't sleep for a week! Lol! Anyway, the original cut of this movie was 130 minutes, but the producers cut out the blood and gore, most notably, The Blood Orgy Scene, which made Test Audiences sick to their stomach, it was removed. It's said to be lost or destroyed in a Transylvania Salt Mine. Director Paul Anderson was going to release a Director's Cut for the 25th Anniversary, but this would never happen.
ANSWERS: - Yes this is where the "piece of paper" thing came from, however, the same thing was done with a branch that same year in an episode of _Stargate SG-1_ - The ship isn't alive, there's a lifeforce from the Antiverse/Hell trapped on it that came back with it. That's why the lifesign detectors noticed it but couldn't localize it--it's everywhere. But the ship is still just a shell, that's why the entity can't just collapse the ship and kill everyone. - The ship seems to feed on fear, so it's powers get stronger the longer people are around it. That's why it's abilities are more powerful as time goes on. - Cooper is the Lifesaver and the Heartbreaker, that's why he keeps killing it. He told you so himself. - Weir didn't see himself in the opening dream; that was the Corpsesicle they found later. It's meant to suggest the ship is communicating with Weir or that it's just a transition to bridge 2 shots.
Story is they left the crew and extras to film the "Hellscape" scenes at night while the main cast and leadership went home. Apparently the scenes were so heinous, and overly graphic that the studio forced their removal because they didn't think they could get a R rating with them included. Unfortunately due to a film mix up the footage was lost :( One day I hope a miracle happens and someone finds the footage and we can have a PROPER Directors cut :)
I saw this movie in the theater with friends when it came out one of my female friends who was with us passed out during it because of one of the extreme scenes😅
Unfortunately, it’s more than that the footage was lost. After the film was cut down, the edited stuff was sent to a salt mine for preservation. But because of improper storage, it degraded beyond restoration. Unless someone comes across an unknown work print, we will never see the original cut.
I have a sudden urge to appreciate my eyes after this movie. Breaking Bad S2 EP 2 & 3 & Edge Runners on the patreon this week! Click here for early access: www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Have a great day everyone!
"Forbidden Planet" movie... The ID the human subconscious and some really great early special effect! Just really love you to do this pop culturally important movie... One of the absolute classic Robots😉
Such a criminally underrated scifi / horror movie. The performances, the directing, cinematography, everything was firing on all cylinders for this movie. Glad to see you watching it, dude.
At 6:20, that wasn't CGI. That was an actual miniature model ship filmed in front of a green screen/blue screen composite but the planet behind it is CGI.
Such an amazing trip of a movie, I love how we start out with Sam Neill's char as our 'main' and trying to understand him and his loss only to find out as it goes on, that he's in league or corrupted by the evil and turn to our captain Lawrence as the main to root for "We are leaving!" . I wish the crazy edited footage they shot of what happened on the ship was intact. You really need to see In The Mouth of Madness (also stars Sam Neill) for a continued trip into Lovecraftian horror. Great reaction James!
This is probably my personal winner of 'films I expected to be bland or unimpressive that vastly exceeded my expectations'. The cast is fantastic. Sean Pertwee who played the pilot is one of my favorite actors. He was in a low budget, British, werewolf film in 2002 called Dog Soldiers that you should definitely take a look at. The character development is amazing. The banter between the platoon of British soldiers is top tier.
One of my favourite Sci fi films. Watching it in the cinema, the booming banging on the door had me ready to nope right out of the screening. The airlock scene, genius.
The set design is such an integral part of the feel of this movie, I love it. The gravity drive chamber looks like it was built by Cenobites, and it practically stands as a character in its own right :D
The "old CGI" look you're describing is called physical models ;) There's some good behind the scenes stuff on the miniatures built by Simon Weisse and crew available on RU-vid.
"You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse" "Do you see? DO YOU SEE?!?!" Shout out to Andy Cooper showing me this movie when I was 8 years old! A childhood classic.
"We're leaving." My all-time favorite horror movie line. I was lucky enough to see this in the theater back in the day. You should read up on the production. It's pretty interesting, particularly all the stuff they had to cut out.
The ship designs on the movie poster are what got me to buy a ticket to this movie when I was a kid, and the surprise horror movie I walked into scared me for weeks. The gritty sci-fi aesthetic is what you get in the show The Expanse. It's not a horror show but the vessels look like they were built with real tools.
Good comparison to The Expanse. Extremely lived in and real looking world. But same... it was the look of the ship that got me into this with zero clue what I was getting into. Messed me up for weeks too. Nothing since has compared to this one.
I still remember paying around £50 to get this from my local Blockbuster on VHS when they used to sell some ex-rentals long before they came out officially to buy...some as crazy priced as £100. Had it like a year before everyone else earning me legend status among friends who were too tight to even rent out videos 😆 Such a great movie though, a quality piece of sci-fi horror. You can see just how much inspiration the Dead Space games took from this too.
Event Horizon is one of my fav scifi-horror films. For me, it’s up there with the Thing and Alien/Aliens. In fact, I think Event Horizon is even way creepier because you’re dealing with demons versus creatures.
This was always one of my favorite sci-fi horror flicks. Fun fact, the original was over two hours long and when they showed it to test audiences and even studio members they said it was way too violent and they ended up cutting over 30 minutes of film from the released version.
I was listening to the Critical Drinker talk about this movie and how some of those most insane stuff ever recorded for a mainstream movie was cut for obvious reasons and possibly lost forever
This was an extremely well-made movie. You don't expect these actors to be in a horror film. The only reason I wasn't completely surprised is because I saw Sam Neill in "In the Mouth of Madness" right before seeing this. The director has said that the editing was rushed and the film wasn't exactly what he wanted. But, holy shit, I think it's damn near perfect.
One movie my mom said she will not touch but is a favorite of mine along with In The Mouth of Madness. Cosmic horror to me is a beautiful marriage between sci-fi and horror. Well done reaction! 👏
One of my favorite things about the Internet is watching underrated movies I loved that flew under the radar decades ago getting new life. I hyped Event Horizon for years as one of the most underrated horror flicks out there, and glad to see it getting new life. Would LOVE to see you look at In the Mouth of Madness or Ravenous as other examples of different and weird flicks that really deserve more of a cult following than they currently have.
This is my all time go-to movie when a horror conversation gets to the "have you seen?" point. Love this one so much, really glad to see it on your channel. Also love the sunshine mention in the intro, this movie and that one really opened my mind to the ... psychological aspect of sci-fi horror where prior to that I mostly viewed things from the action side, with films like Aliens, etc. Great reaction again, Happy Halloween man.
Thank you for the awesome reaction/review of this excellent film. Funny story, some friends of mine saw this at a midnight showing thinking this was just some kind of sci-fi movie. They couldn't sleep afterwards and swore never to watch this at night ever again (F this ship! lol!). And you're absolutely right. Cooper is the man.
One of the few horror films of the time that not only skipped the Token black dude who dies at the start but gave us two really strong interesting characters.
Sci-Fi Horror is such an under-appreciated and underrepresented genre. I love cosmic horror and the pairing of space and scary. I hope in the near future we get some bangers in this genre.
I like how you put it with the unknown elements being what keeps the movie scary, because we don’t know what’s on the other side of that doorway. Is it a dimension of evil and chaos and suffering, that brought the ship to life and made it hostile just for its own fun? Is there nothing there at all except an emptiness that reflects and magnifies human fear until it manifests into reality and drives anyone who ventures there completely insane, while using the ship as a sort of antennae afterward so that it seemed alive to new arrivals but it’s really their minds interacting with the antennae and driving them insane more slowly than actually crossing over would? Or, did the ship truly travel into actual Hell, and everyone is being punished in accordance with their sins, and the ship is possessed by a demon that’s luring in more victims, now that humans have discovered a way to get to Hell without it having to wait for them to die? I’m not sure which is scarier, or which is correct, but it’s no coincidence that the inside of the Event Horizon is structured like a cathedral, and the ship itself is shaped like an upside down cross…
I remember stumbling across this movie just scrolling through the channels on my tv. It was one of those moments where just a few seconds of watching somehow got me hooked to watch it, even though I missed the start. Brilliant movie
This movie is the birth of my love for what i believe is called The Solaris Effect. If im not mistaken there was a book/Movie called Solaris that had people orbiting a planet that was itself alive and using their own fears against them. Ive seen this used so many time, this movie and Silent Hill being the two that i can think of off the top of my head but i have always absolutely adored this concept. And it all started with Event Horizon. God what i wouldn't give to be able to see the Directors Cut of this movie.
I love watching your reviews. Your experience brings a perspective us casual viewers don't have and I for one miss so many things that for you are obvious and you explain them for us to understand.
The thing I love about Event Horizon is that the characters make mostly smart decisions considering their circumstances, but still get fucked anyways. In stupid horror its like, don't go through that door, but they go through anyways and get murdered. In Event Horizon it's like, don't go through that door, and the characters are saying, "fuck no, I'm not going through that door. I'm going to make the smart decision", but then they get completely power-fucked anyhow. I love it.
I love the design of the Event Horizon itself. It's based on huge old gothic cathedrals. If you've ever been in one, or seen one, you recognize the big columns, the archways, etc. In a real cathedral, it's meant to emphasize the glory and strength of the Church and God. Here, it's meant to emphasize that at its absolute worst. Hubris, oppression and fear. Wonderful set work and just incredible cast and crew work all around. Also, got to love the idea, 'we made a blackhole which evidently opens up Hell', to power a starship. Sure, that'll be fine! There's no danger at all. What asshole figured that'd be smart? ...Well, Dr. Weir. And he sells it, because Sam Neil could sell popsicles to penguins with that voice. Also, also they didn't just kill one another, they didn't just kill one another. They engaged in a brutal orgy of sex and cannibalism. It was actually shot with real-life porn actors but was considered by test audiences to be way too brutal, and cut from the film, except for brief flashes. I think the brief flashes work better, it lets the brain make up the gruesome details of what those poor people were doing as they were driven mad.
I never knew this movie existed until 3 years after, when I saw the DVD in sale cheap. Saw the cover, didn't look at the back, and thought "Scifi? Yep, that'll do for tonight". I put it in my computer DVD player, and started watching it, expecting just a scifi movie... When you aren't expecting a horror movie, it makes it that much more intense. Loved it!! Loved the design, the way all the characters had their part to play, loved the strong female character of Starck, and Cooper is just a great source of optimism in such a pesemistic setting. The set designs, the way Sam Neill is a great antagonist without being naturally evil, more a grieving man with nothing positive to live for, and Laurence Fishbourne plays a great star of the show without taking protagonism from anyone else. Baby Bear still gets his moment in the movie later on eventhough we more or less wrote him off near the beginning in a catatonic state... This is such an underrated movie... And of course, the closing music by The Prodigy!! ❤️
I love this film - it goes a little astray at the end but the rest is so engaging. If you look at the Australian flag Sam Neill is wearing you will notice that the British Union Jack has been replaced with the Aboriginal flag.
One of the all time best space horror movies. The funniest thing is the movie that we got to see is a toned down and practically PG version of what Paul WS Anderson originally filmed and wanted to release. Apparently the original cut was 30 minutes longer and involved a lot more what happened to the Event Horizons original crew in hell.
My man I am SO HAPPY you watched this and not only liked it but appreciated it as well. It was very hit or miss when it came out but it is a superbly well done film with excellent set work, beautifully crafted and detailed miniatures, great casting, and writing that other films in this genre need to take a few pointers from IMHO.
It's an absolute classic. It steals beats from everything but makes it its own. Lawrence Fishburne and Sam Neill! Pertwee and Issac. Then there's the stunning "hell" scenes. The studio wasn't even watching the dailies and were shocked at the movie's gore. But wow, what a movie.
yooo my dude you naration was better then allot off the pros that have come and gone, imean there have been some really bad ones. so props for trying and i would have stumbled sooo much haha
In the late 90's, My friends and I would go to the movies literally all the time watching every damn movie that played... We literally watched films at random... Saw lots of crap movies but it was just part of the activity (Air Bud... Gone Fishing... Speed 2...ugh...Yes, I sat through those films)...I think I watched EVERY movie that came out between 96-98... Saw this film during that phase thinking, "so I guess we're watching a space movie today." Needless to say, I was blown away at how scary this film was...I do not recall all the bad reviews this film got because to me, it was one of the best horror films I had ever seen... because no one had ever done a film where a space ship traveled to hell before... I'm glad it's getting the love it deserved decades ago when it first came out... Used to recommend this film and no one had even heard of it before...20+ years of, "have you ever seen Event Horizon?"
A sci-fi horror classic. Makes you really want them to give John Carpenter a shot at Dead Space as a film. Also, just now realizing that Cooper is the police captain on The Rookie.
FTL Side Effects may include: being sucked into the Warp dimension from the WarHammer 40k series or letting things out, or being turned into human jelly or worse.
I saw this at 9. Like, not at night. YEARS OLD. 😂😂 Rented it with my dad. We always had the same taste in films, and we'd have daddy/daughter movie nights sometimes. I was DEVOURING scifi as fast as i could as a kid, and i hadn't seen this one yet. My dad warned me it might be too scary, but absolutely ZERO scifi ever scared me. Boy, was i wrong. Lol It ironically became one of my top faves, because of the novelty of space horror. Never even considered it. I never expected space movies to genuinely terrify me. Although, i could never look at Sam Neil the same way again. Still can't. I stil have a nugget of existential dread when i see him in films, to this day. 🤣🤣 Jurassic Park hits different. Love him, though.
Such an amazing movie. All the great horror, gore and scary as hell idea of a ship jumping to some sort of hell dimension coming back sort of possessed and able to make you relieve our worst fears. When I saw Cooper and heard he was a "Rescue Technician". I thought that was the most badass sounding job in the world. I wish I would have joined firefighters or some sort of group that would allow me to be a Rescue Technician.
Can't believe you reacted to this, my dad took me to see this in the cinema when I was 11 lol!!! The parts they cut out of this movie are even way more hectic, there is a lot of behind the scenes and lore mini docos on this movie
Thanks for this, was always wondering when this one would appear on the channel. Glad you had such a wonderful trip with it. As always, stay awesome and stay genuine... Much love
