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Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.49 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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A dimension of pure chaos
I wish I had more than five stars to give this movie. It ruled. It involves a starship, the Event Horizon, that circumvents faster than light travel by traveling through folded space via the manufacture of a black hole. The ship sails out on its test voyage, enters the black hole, and disappears. The movie actually takes place seven years later, once the Event Horizon has reappeared just beyond Neptune. A team, including the scientist that built the ship, is organized to retrieve it. Once they do, they soon realize that the ship had in fact stumbled onto hell when it entered the black hole, and now the Event Horizon is supercharged with sentient evil. The idea of a haunted ship is just a mind blower. You've got a crew, out at the end of space, bottlenecked in a ship possessed by the powers of hell. The evil influence takes their fears and secrets and creates physical demons. Another powerful element is the disembodied narrative of the Event Horizon's former crew--that kind of jounal-entry-style horror formula---a distress call with an ominous verse of Latin, and the eventual log that shows the crew turning on itself. Meanwhile, the scientist behind the Event Horizon, Wier, ignores the fact that the ship effectively murdered its former crew in favor of the ship itself. Wier becomes the easiest gateway for the evil to enter, and eventually becomes the avatar of that evil. His ultimate plan is to reopen the black hole, the gateway, and to take the ship back into hell along with everyone abaord. My only complaint with this movie was the fact that it wasn't longer. I would have liked so see a little more of the phantasma, and hear a little more as to the nature of the dark realm that possessed the ship. But, as much as I'd like to see more, I think any kind of sequel would efface the integrity of this perfect, seamless movie.
Original in its UN originality
This movie is a hybrid of so many different films its embarrassing. Its like a cross between Alien (they even duplicated several shots from this one- such as the female officer coming up the ladder just like Ripley did in Alien...), Dune (folding space), The Shining (the alive ship/dwelling), Hellraiser, the Exorcist, The Abyss, Aliens (Fishburn's character reminds me alot of Sgt. Apone), The Black Hole (for obvious reasons) and possibly Star Wars/Star Trek influenced alot of the visuals. I like this film, but it isnt the best sci fi film ever made. The characters are one dimensional, and speak mostly in cliches and inane one liners. The CG look a bit dated now (eg- the floating debris in the corridor looked incredibly fake), but as others have said this kind of adds to the campy, cheesy sci-fi value of the film that actually makes it entertaining. I like watching this film occasionally, but i wont rate it higher than 2 stars because thats all that it deserves. Its just not that great of a movie, but ironically, thats what makes it entertaining (Plan 9 from outer space syndrome i guess). Plus, it's always awesome to see Sam Neill play this kind of character, that being a complete wack-o. I do think that the premise was pretty unique...a man-made two-way gateway to "hell" If they wouldnt have tried to copy every other sci-fi film and exerted a little more effort, or heck, imagination, this would have been a really cool film. Definitely for the hard core sci-fi geek only though.
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