When the characters make sensible human like reactions your more invested in there story ( and more impacted by there demise ) when its some withering flower of a women going out in her pj's to investigate what most sane people would leave alone you know there dead the horror element is removed to be replaced by a morbid curiosity of how they will demise at best and at worst indifference ( which is about as bad as you can be making a movie show or any medium to tell a story .
I hear many people laughed at that line in the theater because of how undersold the line was. Apparently Laurence Fishburne hadn't seen the final cut of the video log and what made it into the film ended up being way more graphic than what was expected.
@@Edax_Royeaux Fishburne's character is trapped by his own guilt of leaving someone behind in a fire, so he is driven to complete his objectives so it kind of fits that a great danger now seems less threatening to him.
That's what is so good about film. Characters don't try and go out of their way to defeat some unfathomable evil. They don't mindlessly ignore weird shit that's happening around them either. As soon as they smell burnt toast, they try to gtfo off the ship as fast as possible.
I laughed out loud whenever the Captain was like "we're leaving"... "fuck this ship" just because it's a totally realistic reaction and so rare in this kind of movie.
only to be followed by a totally cliche "we cant leave because..." statement. There is even a term for that kind of "gag", its called "bait and switch".
@@Powermad-bu4em On the Dune series Spacing Guild Heighliners the Holtzmann drives fold space. The navigators themselves just guide the ship safely using prescience derived from the Spice.
I took my then girlfriend to see this at the cinema. She was worried it was going to be too scary and intense. I reassured her... "Nah, it'll be fine". It wasn't, and she never forgave me.
Could have been worse, I once took a lass on a date to see Trainspotting 2. On the way out we were both so deflated, I said don't worry, I know a better movie about Glue Sniffers. At least it got a laugh out of her :P
As a kid, I would be afraid to walk home from a friend's house in the dark after watching a scary movie. Event Horizon was the only time I was scared to walk home in the afternoon.
@@mrbuck5059 While Pandorum was quite a good movie that managed to establish a proper ambiance of dread and impending doom with creatures that are actually scary at times, even more so when you start to guess what they truly are AND also managed to pull off a second master feat by including a good mystery with a good twist, it was a bit long due to some pacing issues and had its fair share of plot holes (although understandably, any movie that ambitious, trying to do more than one thing at once by trying to keep a proper survival horror climate while slowly unraveling the mystery will always have some plot holes, even more so if it takes the risk of including a twist at the end). Reading your comment and talking about Pandorum really makes me think: I've got to watch this movie again, I've only seen it once and it's been a while. Which is the sign of a great movie! I just think that it's not as impactful of a horror movie as Event Horizon (also must rewatch this Masterpiece), which really takes the cake by being much more scary. Pandorum, while having a lot of survival horror in its DNA, is focusing more on the mystery elements of the story while being scary at the same time. I can't quite put my finger on it more than I have tried to... Pandorum felt a bit goofy at times due to the creatures and some weird characters appearing out of nowhere that feel a bit out of place, like the "space ninja", and something also felt a bit off in the execution of the climactic scene at the end... As I said, I really have to watch it again to refresh my memory and make a better comparison, but I hope you get the gist of what I'm trying to explain.
That is not true at all. Most practical effects from a decade ago are unwatchable. Digital effects from a decade ago might be noticeable for the experienced but it does not break the experience. A great example of bad practical effects are the Ewoks in starwars.
This movie has a very "diverse" cast and is in line with nowadays political agenda: Two women, two black guys, one is flirting with white females suggesting an interracial interest, the other one is the commander of the ship and overall boss, intelligent and professional. The evil guy is a white middleaged male. Yet nobody cares, everything suggests that each of them attained his position through competence, their racial origin and gender don't matter. Every character is respected, no "higher moral" is pushed down the throat of the audience and everybody is competent in his role. Seems like 20 years ago we were closer to Martin Luther King's dream than we are today.
Same deal with the cast of heroes form Disney's Atlantis, as a kid I didn't notice, but as an adult I realized it's a surprisingly diverse cast, subtly showing off that Prof. Whitmore didn't care about their backgrounds or nationality or ethnicity, he just wanted the best people on the field for his expedition.
Amen, they really were better times when it comes to equality etc. I remember when the phrase political correctness was born I was a kid then and my mom said political correctness was nuts and someday everyone would have to use it in thret of job loss etc she said it will ruin the world as we know it. I'll never forget that because at the time as a kid I just laughed and thought nothing of it. MLK is rolling in his grave!
@@steviegbcool it's not people that like Jordan Peterson that call themselves woke. Idiots who call themselves woke, without using it ironically, are usually Barny sanders or hillary Clinton fans. Soyboys, cucks and cringe Simps from the left side of things. Anyone "woke" will normally hate Jordan Peterson as he goes against everything they believe,from all the silly make believe, fairy land, lies and words they use such as the ists and phobes. Snowflakes and blue haired sjws hate him. In fact you couldn't be further from the truth if you were one of the idiots I've just mentioned.
"If you could see the things I've seen, you wouldn't try to stop me." "This ship has been beyond the bounderies of our universe. Of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been. What it's seen. Or what it's brought back with it." Great lines.
It's very very difficult to convey true horror in just one line of dialogue and that line alone gave me horror shudders n goosebumps..that and the line, "...Where we're going...we won't need eyes." Holy shit, I STILL find that disturbing to this day lol
jesus christ, when they all got onto the set and looked around at each other, they must have thought they were in a snuff film. i suppose they... were.
@@fshn4x4 Yeah, I had the misfortune of seeing one of those at a beer party, once. The host's 12 year old daughter walks through the living room, glances over at the TV in a disinterested way, and, walks on out. Christ, what a home life!
SPOILER Cooper for example gets thrown out into space twice, and manages to come back twice, purely by staying calm in high stress situations and making intelligent decisions. Then survives the whole movie. That's good writing and how you make the audience root for a character.
Best 40K film ever. Also, I have come to believe that it was not Weir covering for what he didn't know about what he had created, he was defensive because he KNEW, but did not want them to find out.
Oh that's 100% it. He knew what they were getting into but had to cover for the weird phenomenons the crew were experiencing with pseudo-scientific explanations that none of them could debunk off the top of their heads. My take on why he did that was possibly to punish himself for the death of his wife and maybe try to "see" her again by entering the hell dimension, or that he felt kind of inextricably linked to the ship and had to go back because of the horrific visions he was having on Earth.
@@asantesamuel13 You guys have gone one step too far. The ship helped him see his wife again. He longed for her and was feeling guilty about her death. In his mind, the ship was giving him a chance to be/ see her again. He just didn't realize it would take him to hell until it was too late. The possessed entity used his shell to entice the others with a familiar face.
Doesn't he say something weird about when he does the paper trick and no distance has been travelled by implying it does actually go somewhere? Or am I misremembering the scene?
@@RolfHartmann I've heard it said that crossing the Warp is like trying to get across a crowded dance floor where everyone's aggressive and things could get violent at any moment. - Most races (including humans) try to quietly slink around the edge of the room, avoiding attention. - Orks barrel across the dance floor yelling "COME AN' 'AV A GO IF YA FINK YA 'ARD ENUFF!"
Sean Pertwee is terribly underrated as an actor. I love Dog Soldiers so much, mostly because of him & Kevin McKidd. I always wanted Sean Pertwee to be cast as TheDoctor. If anyone could rescue the series, surely the son of a classic Doctor could?
Loved the 3rd Doctor. Jon Pertwee was brilliant. Just rewatched his sacrifice to see the queen in Planet of the Spiders, regenerating Tom Baker. Wish Sean could have had the opportunity.
Doctor Who is dead. Maybe people can resurrect it in 10 to 15 years but right now, the best thing to do is ignore it. Don't contribute to the ratings. Just let it fade into obscurity until they have no choice but to cancel it. People who actually care about the show might get a chance to have a crack at it in a decade or so. Doctor Who died twice before and came back both times but it really needs a long hiatus.
I always enjoyed the theory that this was tied to the Warhammer 40k universe I grew up enjoying. And this was humanity's first experience with Chaos and the Warp
I don't know if that theory works. Wasn't the warp a lot cleaner before humans started dumpster diving it with their geller fields? My understanding of it is that it started pristine, as a tool by the earlier races and then became more and more corrupted until the modern era of 40k that we know and love. How else could the golden age of technology have happened?
@@twrecks6279 The now dominant chaos gods were born some time during humans development, most before humans had warp drives. But there were things in the immaterium long before that, for example Enslavers, already found during the war in heaven.
@@thaylonD Yeah but it wasn't a total cesspool. It was like mostly clean water, if we are to go with that analogy. It's a disgusting bog by the time of 40k.
@@twrecks6279 nah, pretty sure the warp has always been a place of chaos fuckery. Before humans the Eldar fed the warp it’s psychic energies. It’s fed by raw negative energies and it’s always been a shitty place to be without yo geller field
It's kind of common knowledge, so sorry if you already know, but just in case you made that reference without knowing - Event Horizon is actually kind of a Warhammer 40k movie. The team originally wanted to make a 40k movie, but couldn't get the licensing for it, so they made a horror movie that could vaguely take place in the 40k universe given the proper context. It could be seen as a movie about the first Warp drive without a Geller Field, and the first interaction with humanity and the Chaos realm.
Like you said, most horror movies have to come up with ever more contrived reasons why the victims don't just leave or call for help. I loved how genre savvy they were that in the moment when many of the audience, myself included, are about to yell "JUST LEAVE!", our captain busts out "we're leaving", followed not long after by "fuck this ship". Yes! Thank you writers for writing characters who make believable decisions, then coming up with why they can't, rather than just having the characters be a bunch of dumb asses because that's what makes the writing easy!
Fun fact about the film and it’s creation. It was as primarily inspired by Warhammer 40,000 by the creator of the films own admission (particularly it was the writer of the film). Particularly (while he personally never gave details) the inspiration mostly comes from what happens when the Gellar Fields(a type of protection shield) fail when traveling through the Warp(aka *Literal* Hell on steroids and the *only* means humanity has of Interstellar travel). And it is so much like 40k that some see it as a (unofficial) 40k prequel when humans first invented the Warp drive, but didn’t invent Gellar Fields yet, and this was what prompted their invention.
Considering it was meant to be a war hammer inspired film (ships are flying cathedrals) but never got the rights to use war hammer brand if I am correct
It's a variation of Pinheads' classic 'we have such sights to show you' confirmed by the Hellraiser box-design of the warp-drive and the fact that Weir becomes a cenobite, covered in lacerations, by the end of the film.
I used to watch horror moves with my boy when his sister was away and he could always handle everything film makers could throw at us with ease. It was our little treat from the local video shop every so often on a Saturday night with pizza. This one cracked him right down the middle and we still sometimes refer to it in hushed reverential tones. Absolutely marvelous!
"I have no intention of leaving her doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance and I will launch Tac missiles at the Event Horizon until I am satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship" - Capt. Miller
@Adrijana Radosevic Correct. Event Horizon is one of the worst movies by a hack director who is slightly better than Uwe Boll. Saw it in the theaters when it first came out. The beginning was promising but the last 2/3 was just a slasher movie in space. Not even worthy of watching to riff on it's so bad.
My cousin and I rented this when we were house sitting once it hit vhs and weren't silly enough to watch it at night, so we waited until Sunday morning when it was all bright and cheery outside to watch it. Even with the sun streaming in the window in all its glory this movie scared the crap out of us (we were 15-16ish at the time) and it's one of the few horror movies I like to this day, pretty much for all the reasons stated in this video.
13:28 shows what happened to at least a few bodies -- they're splattered all over the walls. It doesn't account for all of them, but I assumed there were probably more meat walls through the ship. This fucking movie, man...I love horror movies. I've seen so many that I'm kind of desensitized to them, but this movie gave me nightmares for months. It was nearly 20 years before I could bring myself to watch it again. It's haunting in a way very, very few horror movies truly are.
"And that's the reason why we have a Geller field on our ship, boys." - Naval Lieutenant Jacobi addressing the latest batch of recruits on the Imperial Grand Cruiser "Wrath of Terra" after viewing the ancient holovid "Eventus Horizon" depicting the first attempts of humanity to access the warp cca M3, colorized.
"Gravity Drive" is code word for "Warp Drive" which is code word for "Let's take a dive into hell with only flimsy metal between us and unspeakable eternities of horrors"
I'm hearing good things about The Color out of Space. It's called cosmic horror btw and movies like The Thing, Alien, From Beyond, In The Mouth of Madness, Hellraiser, The Void, The Endless and John Dies at the End all counts as the same genre.
"The 40k movie that isn't 40k" is how I call this movie, because it's not far off from showing what Warp can do to people when you don't have gellar fields..
Exactly! I remember seeing Event Horizon in the theaters with two friends who were also 40K fans. When we came out, we all agreed that was a movie about the first ship to travel through the warp without protective fields. That was a Space Hulk if ever I saw one. Such are the perils of the warp. May the Emperor protect us! ;)
In Hungarian the title was dumbly translated as “Death Ship” (Halálhajó). I was going to the cinema when it was playing, I wasn’t seeing this, I can’t even remember what. At the ticket counter though I heard a kid say “Can I have two student tickets for the 7 o’clock Deathship?” I was laughing so hard I dropped my popcorn and coke, and I was still rolling with laughter as they were cleaning it up XD
What impressed me is the fine detail - Sean Pertwee has a cig in his mouth just before getting blasted across the room & doing the Roly Poly. The ciggie remains between his lips throughout. Sheer class.
When you receive a distress call like that, you tell them politely that they have the wrong number and you hang up. Then you pull out the phone line in case they call back.
I had to find a review of this film after watching the review done by redlettermedia. It left such a bad taste in my mouth. I am so glad to find someone who actually knows this film and understood it. Thank you! Seriously! I've watched this movie myself so many times, and know most of it by heart. But uh, just wanna say... The Prodigy is not shitty techno music. 🙃
I started to watch RLMs re:veiw of Event Horizon…couldn’t get past the first 10 minuted cause I knew I’d started getting pissed. Correction. Even more pissed off.
I know this is pure narcissism but I feel like, once in a while, one or both of the RLM guys decides to take a completely fake and contrarian stance on a film for controversy. Their takes on Event Horizon and Rogue One do not compute.
So I watched the RLM review of Exorcist recently. How the hell do those guys have such a large following? They have zero personality and seem to know nothing more about movies than anyone else, and they no insight into anything whatsoever
I don't quite understand why people would be upset by RLM's reviews. It's free content and they are just giving their personal opinion about the movies they're watching. They don't get a lot of money for their reviews like Siskel & Ebert used to get for their (very short) reviews on TV, and S&E's reviews could be just as bad as some of RLM's reviews. Anyway, I'm happy for RLM that they are successful on RU-vid, although I must say that I always prefer Critical Drinker's videos.
Original few hellraisers and Event horizon were the movies my dad showed me when he said "So you think you can watch horror movies just because youve seen alien?"
My son was the same way. He could handle all the Freddy and Jason and Leatherface you could throw at him, but that Zelda scene in Pet Sematary (1989)....😱
Me as a child loved Alien and nightmare on elm street. So my mom let me watch Halloween.... Needless to say I am scared of it even today. I'm 27 lol 🤣🤣
@Tautha De Danan nah I'm good I tried to rewatch it last year and I had night terrors all over again. I think it's the fact that the original halloween he is human and that could happen. I don't even watch serial killer documentaries since my pregnancy.
Underrated comment. I'd add a third option though: entering UAC Mars Facility - after full-blown demonic invasion, of course. And you're just a regular dude, not Doomguy.
@QuantumEther I dunno... at least in 40k life still exists. By the end of Dead Space there is nothing left in the known universe but the Moons. Arguably even grimmer than 40k.
@@TwiggyShei Yeah, as grimdark as 40K is, Dead Space is just flat out extremely depressing. At least in 40K mankind has Big E and some hope for a better tomorrow
lol, honestly I'd choose the Event Horizon, when I originally watched it. Deadspace was beyond wild and terrifying. As an adult, and learning how weapons work, I'd choose the Deadspace ship, but not the universe. Hope that makes sense. If between the two universes; I'd choose Event Horizon. I'd be calling out doc asap and put him in bindings.
Stumbled upon this movie on Netflix late one night at college when I was hammered drunk a year or two ago and honestly one of the scariest movies I’ve ever watched. Definitely beats out any thing that’s come out from horror genre in the last 10 years
The late '90s, really? The Last Jedi makes way more sense than this movie. 1997 had Batman & Robin, Speed 2, The Postman, Double Team, The Jackal, The Man Who Knew Too Little, An American Werewolf in Paris...how is that much better than nowadays?
@@LinkMarioSamus First I was (much) younger, so no overthinking. Second I don't recall all your mentioned movies sending an agenda like last jedi. Third you knew beforhand what awaits you, even if it was trash - and 90's trash was at least enjoyable when going to cinema with friends. Even with a handful of my best friends and gallons of alcohol - I wouldn't bring myself to watch most of todays movies in cinema.
I haven't seen this movie in a very long time, but the torture scenes, and the design of the Event Horizon and the core of the gravity drive remind me of something out of the Hellraiser films, as if this film would fit into that universe.
That's funny... because thoit's is the only movie I'm afraid of as well. I've watched just about all horror movies... but this... this is a beautiful piece of art.
It's a good horror movie. It does a good job of creating an atmosphere of creepiness to keep the tension up, without having to overuse jump scares. Not that it doesn't use jump scares. But when it does it is usually well done - such as when Weir is in the tunnels.
"Ship was designed to look like a gothic cathedral". In fact it is quite possible Event Horizon was inspired by WH40K to some degree - as that setting has a whole plot dedicated to humans discovering the hellish dimension of the Warp - which is very much this movie.
I’m not going to lie. The sheer cosmic horror of this movie and the implications within it, straight up got to me! And before venturing into watching the movie itself I watched an in-depth analysis of it’s cosmic horror elements because Lovecraft is some of my favorite Horror. So having gone into it with prior knowledge, made me wish that the director could have actually included all the scenes that were cut.
@@jessicab4905 That's what made the film really unsettling, it left it more up to your imagination... really? You are seriously saying it left it more up to your imagination? Wow. This movie has some of the most disturbing images I've ever seen, I mean, there are scenes of people basically eating each other. The shower scene in Psyho left it up to viewer's imaginations, Event Horizon showed us just about everything in graphic detail. You do realize that after Dr. Weir says, Hell is just a word, that the reality is much, much worse, that he goes on to say, let me show you and proceeds to show Captain Miller images of hell, right? "Do you see, do you see, DO YOU SEE?" "Yes, I see. " Showing horrifying and graphic images is a bit more than hinting in my book. Using words would have been hinting, they have limited power, they can describe things, but there is nothing like seeing it with our own eyes, and doing so makes it real. Images are powerful, they create reality in our mind, such is the difference between watching a movie and reading a book. But as Dr. Weir says, and I will concede, hell is only a word, we will never know the true nature and horrors of hell unless and until we experience it for ourselves in full. Yes, there were certainly psychological elements involved, but there was actually very little left to the imagination in this movie, they showed us everything in great(and glorious) excruciating graphic detail, for those who wanted to see it.
@@mydogskips2 Jesus has says in John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
@@tylerbouck3555 - Not many humans are sent to Hell btw, convincing the world (including Christians) that anyone who doesn't go to Church is sent to The Demonic Realm is one of satans' greatest ever achievements over the human race. Nowhere in The Holy Bible does it say that people who don't live as Christians are tortured and tormented for all eternity, our Loving Father is the complete opposite of that and it's extremely sad that such a wicked misconception has taken flight here.
If I remember correctly the ship is in a decaying orbit around Neptune. It's orbiting at a distance where the drag of the atmosphere is slowly decreasing the ship's orbital speed down but not yet creating structural stresses or problematic heating compression. This created a ticking clock for Weir as there would be no time to return to Earth (or somewhere else) and mount a second salvage operation.
As a kid I had this old book from the 90s called Spacewrecks, it was a sci fi compilation of stories about spaceship graveyards, mysterious alien vessels, dying far-flung worlds and interstellar tragedies. One that stuck out to me was similar to Event Horizon- a massive Titanic-style cruise liner that appeared out of Faster-than-Light travel in a shambles, the crew and passengers dead and the ship was a mess. As the story unfolds we (and the rescue party that finds it) realise that the ship's hyperdrive had malfunctioned as it departed on its maiden voyage, causing an exact replica of the ship to appear in the non-space as they traveled at lightspeed. The universe tried to correct this bizarre error in the laws of physics by combining the phantom doppelganger ship with its very real counterpart, but by the time they merged back together the doppelganger ship had become as real and physical as the cruise liner and the two ships ripped each other apart as they collided. It was a haunting thought, even as young as I was- no matter how advanced we may believe ourselves to be as a species the nature of the universe will always be superior, and a single wrong move on our part will spell the deaths of thousands if Man does not curb it's technological arrogance. To anyone actually reading this, sorry it's so long a read.
Devo X I didn’t expect it to be a horror film when I saw it in the theatre. I came in expecting, basically, new Star Trek... lol imagine my complete shock.
@@DJ0045 Same here, I thought it was a sci-fi movie, not horror, what a mistake I made considering how I don't like horror movies, at all. I don't know why, but I still watched it for some reason. I thought it was good, but I'll never watch it again, the same goes for Hellraiser(not that I thought it was a sci-fi film ; )
This movie is a hidden, platinum gem (if there' platinum gems). No one knew sometime ago about this movie on the net, when I found clips here they didn't had that many views. This movie would surely be good for blind folks: - What happened to your eyes? - where we're going, you don't need eyes to see x) Love especially the 5 second scene & we're leaving, also the soundtrack is awesome, though not in the sense you can listen to it by itself but along with the actors it really creates the atmosphere of isolation, spooky shit. I disagree with The Critical Drinker on the end credits music - it's Prodigy - Funky Shit ffs, Prodigy ain't no the techno neither - it's rave. And I love the Prodigy. Wherever I go now they say it's the early stages of the universe of Warhammer 40.000, cause you don't travel without the gellar field (of something like that) - know this cause of my friend, I on the other hand don't like Warhammer in general.
mydogskips2 I’m so glad you said that. All these years, I assumed I was a total idiot for not knowing from the previews that it was horror. I’m happy to know I wasn’t alone in my mistake.
There was an insane amount of realism in this movie which made it hit much deeper. The fact they didnt pull any punches, like the torture orgie scene, not cheesy, pretentious and appropriately offensive to the eyes, as you should expect. When evil is present in this movie, it's like you actually feel it, it's not some bland jump scare, it's not relying on a soundtrack, the build up is appropriate and just has an utter inescapable grim feel to it, that makes the horror mean something. Not to mention, intellectual enough to be thought provoking as well.
One of the truly underrated horror movies of all time. It appears that back then and right now, sci-fi space horror doesn't get that much love and respect which I don't understand why.
sci-fi horror requires strong imagination. not many people have it. this is the reason most horror movies now are body-horror oriented. you don't need imagination for them, the movie shows everything by itself.
@@indifferentone8991 as in, they forgo Hitchcock's school of thought, "the imagined, unseen, is often more horrific than the seen", or something like that. Similar era, the OG Alien was also freakin awesome, for all the same reasons The Drinker describes..
Yeah, not only do you have the problem of a hostile xenomorph or an evil ship, you're stuck there. You're in space. Cold, black, and lonely, with nowhere to go. It just adds to the tension. Jaws? Pfft, don't go into the water. Problem solved. Haunted house? Move. Horror in space? You're effed in the B.
@@hyperguyver2 Doom 3 had similar touches/homages to EH as well. The touchscreen pads, the vivisected corpse stuck to the ceiling where you encounter the first maggot etc. Furthermore they also made a pretty decent EH mod out of it too.
Drinker even specifically talks about how the event horizon resembles a cathedral, with all arching buttresses and edged surfaces. Gee, why does that sound familiar?
He remarked on how the movie had real actors playing real characters straight. First thing to notice - unlike cliched horror, I see adults. Main characters in their 30s and 40s, instead of the usual early 20 somethings college road trip. Even in supposedly "professional" contexts, ,post casts look like a 20 something ensemble a few years past their highschool ensemble movie.
@@Edax_Royeaux There is a big difference between alien creatures and living evil from hell or another demension. I loved both movies. Once your in space then there will be some features that will be the same. The aliens wanted to kill to eat you or use you as living host for their young. I think without evil intent. The entities from Event Horizon were trying to capture the souls of the rescue crew and keep them in hell or a type of hell for eternity. My opionion anyway.
@@watchman56able My opinion was they left it too vague. They say the ship is "alive" but at the same time I never interpreted the hell dimension to be the "biblical hell" so who knows what the heck was going on. Much of the universe is hostile to human biology so it would make sense to me that there would exist a dimension that would cause instant insanity, but why would the ship come back to real space with magic powers?
I watched this movie as a Dead Space fan and had no prior knowledge about this film. It took about 3 minutes for me to realize this inspired one of my favorite games ever.
The video log of what happened to the first crew looks like someone smuggled a camera onto Fulgrims ship and filmed the performance of the _Maraviglia_
I did a search trying to find more about it and only got Warhammer stuff. I remember a short story where teleportation was possible but if you sent a sentient person they would go mad. So everyone is knocked out when teleported. Anyone remember that one?
I remember playing Dead Space and thinking "OMG it's as if I'm in Event Horizon!". A team goes out to a ship to find out what is wrong with the much larger ship. The initial ship they arrive in is damaged and unusable and they have to stay aboard the larger ship to make repairs. Shit goes wrong and everyone starts dying, and there is only one survivor. If I recall, after having watched an interview with the lead designer of Dead Space, they said they were heavily influenced by this movie.
It certainly aided in influencing the horror; the Necromorphs would probably have not been as uniquely frightening if not for the graphic cuts that were sadly cut short of their full potential, and the hallucinations of dead friends and family is a good way to show how the madness is going to only get worse.
Finally played Dead Space for the first time and I'm currently going through 2. Wish I had sooner because this is definitely one of my favorite genres. Station goes dark, go check it out, tension builds as the problem is revealed.
Watched this movie so many times as a teenager. Fell asleep watching it, had nightmares, woke up, rewinded it, started it again and fell asleep to more nightmares
Event Horizon: I arrive at the cinema fully baked and very very thirsty. I bought a big drink ready to quench my thirst. As soon as I went to sit down I spilled ALL of my drink. This is my review of the late 90’s Sam Niel classic. Also Event Horizon is in my top 20 sci-fi movies EVER!
"What happened to your eyes?" "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see!!" Lol! Great creepy moment in the film. I loved how Weir delivered the lines with a menacing relaxed tone with a faint air of camp about them. Brilliant stuff. This is a deeply undervalued sci-fi horror classic with great performances.
Imagine going to Disney and saying "we need a second unit with porn actors and amputees". In the 90s management would've said "no need to hire some, you can use ours except on weekends". These days? Not so much.
Are you kidding? Current-year woke Hollywood and the media promote children doing drag shows, interacting with drag queens, and interacting with trans "women." You think the same institutions who are trying to normalize pedophilia would bat an eye at using porn actors in a movie?
derbuckeyetribe don’t do that. Berkeley is a beautiful town. The weather is great. Use a neutron bomb to kill all the inhabitants and leave the town intact.
@@derbuckeyetribe9789 The whole of San Fran has to go. Irredeemable. And check the ship before you dock. Might have a they/them clinging to the landing gear.
@@kchuk1965 Laughs! I agree. You're also dating how old you are if you know what a neutron bomb is! Have you read Conquistador by S.M. Stirling? the book takes place in that area. A darn good read.
@@illuvitarv5 Its not a warp drive,its a singularity drive.Like a black hole.This one just happened to take them to a place that was literally hell.Interdementional travel between universes not galaxies.Warhammer sucks.
Event Horizon was a film that didn't shock me that badly when I was watching it but, it did something that most horror films can't do; it stayed with me. I would find myself thinking about it days and weeks after I saw it. Great film, good recommendation.
Same thing with me and Bram Stoker's Drac. For days I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me and it was because that film was staying with me. Watching it is the closest thing to a dream state I ever experienced while awake.
I'd actually forgotten this movie existed until today. Then I had to go re-read a summary to remind myself... which also reminded me why my brain didn't care enough the first time to bother storing any of it.
I used to be a completionist, 100% on San Andreas was a real slog. I never finished dead space because I was too scared lol. At least I no longer plough hundreds of hours into games now
@@James-mb3je yeah, I had to stop with Dead Space as well, such an oppressive atmosphere. I know that really makes me sound like a wimp, but there it is!
