Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

kevl-453 Watched this when it was released, got it on bluray, watched it today. Is it perfect, no. Is it starting to show it's age, yup Is it one of the best space horror films, yup. Give it another go, it's awesome

Davis P Event Horizon (1997) is for sure one of my favorite science fiction films, I can also count it as one of my favorite horror films because it fits into both genres. It contains strong elements of both horror and sci fi, I love the ways in which it incorporated two kinds of films and combined them into one, never really seen one do it in the way this one did. I like a supernatural element in my horror films, and this film had a very strong supernatural/evil element to it... especially towards the end. I applaud that aspect of the film of the horror side because it just makes everything more interesting. Just hearing the plot really interested me in this film and I'm so glad it didn't disappoint! Basically this film can be summed up as an interesting horror flick with a supernatural element set in space. If that sounds interesting or appealing to you... Then I highly suggest this one! The acting is very well done by each cast member... I was especially impressed by Sam Neil and Laurence Fishburne! They really give captivating performances here. 9/10 overall for Event horizon, I would caution though that if you're easily offended by gore then you may wanna be careful lol.

rgs927 I first saw this movie in 1998 and it has always stuck with me. While certainly not perfect, there are some excellent (albeit gory) visuals, much of the acting is solid, and the first half of the film does a great job building up suspense.The story does play around with mind games, hallucinations, and drawing on the characters' past traumas. At times, if you're unable to suspend disbelief, this can make characters appear foolish as they chase after a character that couldn't possibly be there or otherwise see things they should logically know are not real. But if you can wrap your mind around this being much more than horror-character stupidity, you begin to realize just how insidious the evil in this movie is.Sam Neill has done other horror and I think he's underrated when it comes to his appearances in the genre. He does a great job throughout here, adjusting his performance well as his character goes through major changes.There aren't many decent sci-fi/horror films out there. While this one certainly doesn't surpass classics like Alien, it is a suspenseful, creepy film that continues the genre's tradition of asking big, frightening questions. I definitely recommend it to any fans of dark science fiction.

James I strangely failed to catch up with British Director Paul Anderson's sci-fi movie "Event Horizon" until 20 years after it was made. And now I think I understand why, as this piece does not please the viewer as well as it might. This is a more intriguing failing than it might seem, given quite-adequate special effects on the spacecraft in orbit around Neptune (certainly so for 1997), a pretty reasonable cast (Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee and Jason Isaacs to name but four) and a creepy-enough core plot idea (with a nicely enigmatic little twist at the end).Admittedly, quite a bit of the dialogue here is hammy, the theme music is simply a mistake, the plot realisation is at times predictable, and quite often members of the "Lewis & Clark" crew seem to act in slightly unlikely ways (the traditional sin of withholding information from Captain and crew being quite well at work here at regular intervals, for example).But does even this list of misdemeanours account for what happens with this film? I'm not quite sure.What is interesting is that the Neill character Dr William Weir sums up the evil of Hell by reference to eternal chaos and - surprisingly - the film offers up a little slice of that chaos, and it's not pleasant. And, while unpleasantness is not necessarily a crime in a film, or indeed in any other piece of art, the turnoffs here somehow just seem to outweigh any possible rewards of watching, even in a whole that comes in at just 96 minutes.