EVENT HORIZON (1997) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Hidden Details & Things You Missed
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- Event Horizon Breakdown (1997) | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Hidden Details & Things You Missed. After picking up the 4k blu ray and revisiting Event Horizon for this breakdown, I found a lot of incredible details and hidden things in it that seeped into my subconscious on a first watch, and this really elevated the movie far beyond the appreciation that I had for it originally. In this video, we deep dive into the film. This is a full breakdown of all the creepy hidden details and things you might have missed when watching it.
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down the classic movie Event Horizon. Callisto Protocol and The Dead Space Remake has got me fiending for some survival horror in space so I thought I'd revisit the movie that inspired them both.
Though the film was a critical and commercial flop at the time it's gained a massive following and I think that's because it's something that pretty much burrowed into the brains of every kid who watched it. Back in 1997 this was my first real experience of something that pushed the limits of body horror this much and I think it had the same effect on a lot of people. We're all grown up now and this movie has probably gained a cult following due to it scaring us as kids in a way that left a lasting impression.
Director Paul WS Anderson ended up working with Kurt Russell on the movie Soldier immediately after this and naturally he felt down about the film underperforming.
However Russell said:
“Forget about what this movie’s doing now. In 15 years’ time, this is going to be the movie you’re glad you made.”
And I'm glad he made it too.
Throughout this video we're gonna be going through all the creepy details and things within it that really elevate the movie and hopefully this helps you to appreciate it even more. Now when researching films like this I try and track down the origins for them and see what laid the seeds for the ideas we see on screen.
Screenwriter Philip Eisner appeared on the Overhated Movies Podcast and he said that he came up with the idea for the film when watching The Shining. The Stanley Kubrick Classic is one of my favourite films of all time and incase you haven't seen it it centres around a family put in charge of looking after a haunted hotel for the winter. Due to poor weather conditions there's no escape and Eisner said that he very much wanted to do a haunted house movie in space.
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Do one of Sunshine
yes
Curious about the reddit link showing the hell scenes mentioned at 15:30? Thanks!
Even the docking bay itself looks like an Eye (the docking bay with the Roman numberal 13)
@@theterminaldave let me know when you get it.
The gravity drive also looks like the biblical description of an angel .
Ah nice but if trivia
Exactly ! 🙂
Which makes sense as the front of the ship looks like an old Demon. So a Fallen angel, coming to collect on sins. :P .
An Ophanim, more specifically. Really fascinating little detail, as they are said to guard the throne of God.
Ezekiel 10:10 As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
I always felt like one of the scariest parts of this movie is how Laurence Fishburns character pretty much does what you think he should do. Stuff starts going down and he just says, we are leaving and we are destroying this ship.
Why is that scary to you?
@@BertleMcGertle In the back of our mind we like to think we would make better decisions than the people in a horror movie. It's harder to do in this one.
@caseymcadams6267 exactly, this attitude is key to the feeling of impending and inevitable doom. It heightens the stakes and the horror.
There is nothing they can do, and you know there's nothing you could have done in their place.
@@downfallen Well man is naturally sinful and they are going against the forces of Hell and it appears most are non believers meaning they are very doomed. It's like doing a traditional vampire movie and no one believes in using crosses or holy water.
@@darthbigred22Jesus
My favorite “Easter egg” (if you can call it that) was when Weir was explaining wormholes to the crew, and he called it the “Law of Relativity” instead of the theory, because they actually proved it to be a law with the gravity drive
I'm so happy someone else caught thata
That's not how it works. Theory does not mean what you think.
In scientific discourse, in order for something to be called a "theory" it must first be proven through repeated testing and experimentation.
In laymen terms - "Law" is a perceivable phenomenon( think "what goes up, must come down"), while "Theory" is the explanation of said phenomenon(Theory of Gravity).
When laymen say theory, what they actually mean is "hypothesis", which is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that has yet to be proven.
@@TheKain202 I thought if a theory was thoroughly tested and proven and accepted, it turns into a scientific law?
@@TheKain202 like for an example,
when I was a kid, we were taught that the Egyptians built the pyramids and sphinx at a certain time period and for many years before I was taught that same information that's been handed down for generations and now scientists and researchers are figuring out that that information is bullshit and they(pyramids and sphinx) are much much older than we are taught to believe it is.
@@perrtbaxter7119 Not how it works! When you hear someone talk about the 'Laws of Nature' for exapmle, they're still referring to assorted scienific Theories.
I love how Sam Niell can act in movies like this, the mouth of madness, and other scary films, and then at the same time star in Jurassic Park and such lol very much an amazing actor.
Yeah, he's very convincing in the roles he plays.
Yes, he can play a villain extremely good, here and on the final Omen movie playing Damian, he just owns the film.
Don’t forget Possession. He’s just so damn good.
Watch his entrance in "Ivanhoe"....
I still love the fan retcon that the Event Horizon was one of the first incidents of exposure to Chaos for mankind in the Warhammer 40k universe.
Yeah pretty funny and great that the fans consider it canon when GW didn't want to lol
Fan Retcons, like the great replacement or the moon landing being faked? Yeah, not sure any of this is fan Retcons. More like bizarre theory for magic players
Oooh nice! I can totally get behind that.
Love for this❤❤❤❤❤❤
Blood for the Blood God
It is so sad, that there will never be a Directors Cut of Event Horizon. I would love to see the Original Cut.
I wonder if animation could fill in the scenes that were cut?
@@mainstreetsaint36 lol ..keep wonderin' bud.
Why not is it all lost?
@@paulmurphy8549was originally stored in a salt mine in Romania or someplace and the print got deteriorated badly. A lot of extra storyline lost
I heard the warehouse that stored all the raw footage burnt down. Lost everything.
I saw this movie in the theatre with my brother when it was released. It was crazy and almost traumatizing. My brother and I looked at each other halfway through the movie, almost checking to make sure each of us was ok.
My mom and I rented it just after it came out, I had to have been like 10. We got to _that_ scene, and my mom just quietly turned it off and told me I could finish it in a few years
Did people just not think it was a horror film?
I figured it was a sci-fi horror movie, but was taken aback at how crazy it was...for that time. This was the mid-90's and I hadn't been exposed to this level of crazy in my life yet. @@Novarcharesk
lol she was right, but damn...that's funny. I applaud her! @@bloodyneptune
@@Novarcharesk Not sure about it; I think there was a lot of confusion at the time; I saw it with my brother, too, in the theater, and just loved it; we both did, but we were a bit older than @jubjub7101
I love how almost PERFECTLY this fits into Warhammer 40k lore. The blackhole generator even has an Eight Pointed Star, the symbol of Chaos, which is exactly what you get when you go faster than light through hell....
It also strongly resembles all the things the warp (a parrellel hell like dimension needed for space travel to simplify it) is said to do to humans unless they use special techonology to ward against the influence. there is also a mention in the lore that first attempts to do warp travel without the mentioned shields had gone more or less just like that and lead to the galler field technology then being developed and actually working 100% of the time till (as things in 40k do) all went to shits
Philip Eisner, who wrote Event Horizon, said in several interviews that Warhammer 40k certainly had a big influence on him. So it's not an official 40k movie but the story was inspired by it. For some reason people still claim it has nothing to do with 40k or that it actually is a 40k movie 🤷♂️
@@Azhalan This movie is clearly a WH40K prequel.
Fun little fact, there is a warhammer 40k pen and paper rpg called dark heresy, and one group of players (The all guardsmen party) thought the same thing... to the point that they go to buy a used spaceship called... The Occurrence Border...
The screenwriter - Paul Eisner - is a 40k fan and was at the time. Which is notable because 40k didn't have anywhere near the following it does now at the time. I've seen some claims that there was an attempt to make it official but the producers weren't able to come to a deal with Games Workshop, but without anything to back it up, whereas Paul Eisner has said many times that he was a huge 40k fan and active player while writing the script.
One of my favorite horrors of all time.
It hits number two on my favorite interstellar horror movie only because of Alien but the plot is better written than slasher in space it felt like vintage science fiction horror with a way better graphic design team, special effects team, and stunt choreographers then 40's to 60's
Ey thanks for watching it mate, much appreciated
I don't know what you saw - I thought it was utter dogshit.
Gave me fukin nightmares for days after I saw it I cinema for the first time I feel like there's something you don't exactly know what's beyond the limits of human intuition and fact and that's what's giving it this eery feel to it how do you start to understand that what you don't
It's a nice take on the human psychi and how it can go of the rails really fast with devastating consequences for all parties involved
Fukin great movie LOVE IT
Just saying 🇧🇻
One of the very first DVD movies I ever owned. Great movie, great actors, and a great space horror movie!
Best Warhammer 40K movie so far. Great depiction of Chaos and why you need a Gellar field if you try to travel through the warp.
Exactly
Timeframe does not check out. You clearly see orgiastic stuff happening with previous crew, while Slaanesh would not form for the next 28 000 years
@@AdamMichalMarkowski time has no effect on the warp stuff goes in and can reemerge thousands of years in any direction remember sly existed in the old world but was birthed into being 50k years later chaos is just that chaotic
@@jeffreygrindle6396 Right! That could explain his influence being felt in those scenes, good explanation!
@@AdamMichalMarkowski love warhammer lore and been play since early 2000s chaos and all the greater demons ate fascinating once you really dive into the lore
One other reference along the religious lines; there is an angel type called an ophanim which is a huge eye surrounded by moving rings that also have eyes and sometimes they can be on fire. The gravity drive core is very similar to one, like it's a fallen angel version of an ophenim which again ties into the Hell aesthetic
Damn! Nice catch there!!
Was lucky enough to see this at a screening, pre-release, so no trailers zero clue what it was about except it was a space horror. It blew me away, particularly the incredible set design of the ship which is really a character all itself. And when Larry Fishburn drops the immortal line “We’re leaving” there was an audible cheer in the theatre and an instant classic was born.
YES. Finally a protagonist in a horror movie who assesses the situation and makes the smart call. It actually makes the movie scarier when the cast is not just screwing themselves over with their own stupidity. They're making the smart moves and still getting screwed because the danger is legit.
Saw it in the theater. Scared the hell out of me. Still watch it about once a year. Thanks for the breakdown!!
This is the only thing that ever made me fear HELL There was a 5 year old kid sitting behind me.
My gf at the time loved horror...we went to see Event Horizon twice...as long as I agree to Titanic 😂
I remember when I would watch science fiction horror at 13 or 12 this might have been new it might have been out of style since the 50s/60s because it being more mythology driven science fiction horror then slasher style that alien horror was popular for at this point in movie history when but despite all the draw backs it worked 10 fold higher than if they went with what was popular science fiction horror at the time because it stuck out not blended in
You like WarHammer 40k? A lot of people say this was the first documentation of the warp. Seems to fit pretty well.
@@nexusdrop7863 A movie about what happens when you go through the warp without a Gellar field.
I truly believe that this is one of the best horrors ever made and I will die on this hill. Glad to see some old school stuff in your breakdowns!
It’s ok, great even but the best ever made?????
Girl bye ✌🏻
@@ivantothemax didn't say the best ever made.
One of the best, agreed. If we got the full gore cut. It would also rival many of the all time gore films ez.
You won’t die alone bro great movie
Move over and make room on that hill for me.
In case anyone didn't know. _Dead Space_ was mentioned a lot. But the gravity drive device was also directly lifted to serve in the final boss fight of _Silent Hill 4._ It's the same grinding mechanism that Eileen potentially walks into, during the timed end battle with Walter Sullivan. Anyway, thanks for the video essay. I wish Sam Neill could get more work in cosmic horror, because he really seems to love the genre. The man has a real talent for depicting madness. Pity Paramount shat the bed so hard.
If you haven’t yet, I’d check out “in the mouth of madness” which starts Sam Neil and has some cosmic horror but less sci-fi
@@terriblej6107 YESSSS THIS! What a great film!!!
"Did I ever tell you that that my favorite color was blue?"
It is suggested that when the original crew of the Event Horizonwere in Hell, they were driven to madness and ultimately turned on each other due to the extreme psychological torment they experienced.
The ship's experimental gravity drive, had inadvertently opened a portal to a dimension of pure chaos and evil. This dimension, “hell," corrupted and traumatized them beyond their ability to cope. The crew's exposure to this dimension led to them experiencing their deepest fears and regrets in a visceral and relentless manner, causing them to descend into madness.
As the crew began to experience these horrors, they turned on each other, unable to distinguish reality from their own personal hellscapes. The crew's behavior was driven by their individual traumas, and the pain they inflicted on each other was an attempt to either force their crewmates to confront their own fears or to distract themselves from their own unbearable torment.
So, it can be said that the crew members were not intentionally torturing each other, but rather were acting out in response to the extreme psychological trauma they were experiencing.
It is possible that time in the dimension of "hell" was non-linear, with events occurring simultaneously or out of order. This could have contributed to the crew's sense of disorientation and madness, as their perception of time may have been disrupted or distorted.
Alternatively, it is also possible that time in the dimension was experienced as an eternal, never-ending present, with no distinction between past, present, and future. This could have added to the crew's sense of hopelessness and despair, as they may have felt trapped in an endless cycle of torment.
Its the warp in 40k, everything you said.
Good take.
@@YourStylesGeneric321 Event Horizon was originally envisioned to be taking place in the 40k universe so... exactly the warp.
@@paulwright774what?? Really?
This is what happens when you enter the warp without a Gellar field
“We’re leaving.” Best movie line EVER. The gravity drive looks like an ophanim, a spinning eye wheel (angel?) mentioned in the Bible.
Cosmic horror at it's absolute finest. This film just hits every little check perfectly. Tone, look, feeling, music, acting. Shows you just enough to leave you deeply disturbed and allow your mind to really run wild. It also has possible the most iconic sci-fi ship ever. The Event Horizon is a freaking work of art. Beautiful ship design. I would kill to have one of the models fully lit as a ceiling display for a theater room.
Also, much of the aesthetic is because a portion of the crew worked on Hellraiser series, so they brought in that gritty industrial hell with them. Love Kurt Russle’s grounded view of things. He knows the potential of hard work and many artists aren’t recognized until way later. Also it didn’t do well either, but Solider is one of my other favorite movies.
This one, and Sphere ( 1998 ) with Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L, Sharon Stone.... are my favourite movies from the '90s. I was so impressed with the effects as a kid
The shadow over the Paramount mountain and that theme song is worth the price of admission itself, amazing movie, Sam Neil kills it, check him out in, in the mouth of madness, another classic.
Yes! In the Mouth of Madness was amazing!
In The Mouth Of Madness!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
"Oh, no. Not The Carpenters..."
The ending, there is no IF the evil is still around. It definitely is. Before the movie fades out, the door closes by itself as the rescue crew is trying to calm a hysterical Clarck.
The core body of the ship transported its blood through the glass tubes to the lifeboat part, ensuring that it becomes & stays "alive"
See I thought that too.
One of my favorite films, was really sad to hear it was a flop.
It's strange how many amazing films weren't financially successful.
You would think word of mouth would have boosted sales, but I guess not many people saw it in cinema
Same with "The Thing (1982)". It's much more appreciated now.
When Sam Neill says that he LOVED being apart of a film, you know you have a gem on your hands.
Sam does alot of good movies, but he's also done some not so good movies that's obviously for the payday. And he never really praises his roles that much, but he's always spoken giddily about Event Horizon and says that he loved being in this movie.
Apart from Alien and Aliens, Event Horizon is up there as one of the best horror/scifi film ever. What adds to its greatness is that it has Jon Pertwee's son Sean in it. Excellent cast, effects and soundtrack.
There is a German Sci Fi horror movie from the 2019 s. Can't remember the name though
Trauma.😅
You can also add The Thing (1982) to that list.
@@SerAkimboYeah, at #1
No mention of 2001?
When Weir's dead wife said, "I have such wonderful, WONDERFUL things to show you" and then gouges his eyes out in the vision. Goosebumps I tell ye, goosebumps till this day. Yikes
Just rewatched this recently. Even knowing what's going to happen it still does a great job of being creepy. One of the best horror movies ever.
This movie was heavily influenced by Solaris, not the re-make with George Clooney but the Andrei Tarkovsky original which was made in 1972. It's definitely worth a watch or two. I've seen it several times.
We saw this in the theater and to this day it haunts me. One of the most horrific movies I’ve ever seen. Hence why I naturally clicked on this video 😂
One of the few films that genuinely scared me, both as a kid and as an adult. Still gets me on edge whenever I watch it.
If this movie scares you, you probably shouldn’t watch a movie called Martyrs because you might end up having to sleep with Mommy and Daddy after he he he 😁
Same, I think it bothered me so much because it wasn’t ghosts or demons or whatever it was the horror of science going wrong causing something as bad as hell.
@@GuardianAngel.. funnily enough, I've seen Martyrs, and I thought it was more dreary than horrifying.
My take on the ending was that the hatch sealing shut as the medic tells the other to go get some gear meant that the ship was still "active" and wasn't going to let the newcomers go either.
The ship is clearly possessed
One of tye scariest scifi movies ever made...the atmosphere, the terrifying visuals and the soundtrack still give me goosebumps to this day when I think about it. The idea alone of a ship being lost in a hell dimension is stuff of nightmares...
Love the theory about it possibly being a prequel to the Warhammer 40k Universe. With the Hell dimension being an early type of the Warp
100% my head cannon
and shows why they've developed gellar fields
And shows what happens to ships lost to the warp...
Yikes
Welcome to the Warp
It's not a theory, it's fact. Event Horizon was intended to be a Warhammer 40K movie.The writer (Philip Eisner) had said so himself. Gamesworkshop (The company that owns Warhammer) is notoriously stingey and didn't want to give the license to make the movie.
The event horizon is definitely a metaphor about death, right down to the core being a visual representation of the pineal gland. Like death, it is only hell for the crew members if they go into it with anxieties, shame, fears and regrets.
Very interesting conclusion there 👏🏼
Wowsers!!!
Event Horizon is a great film and much underrated.
It scared the shit out of me when I watched it back in the day and still sends a shiver down my spine on rewatching.
I don't remember exactly how old I was the first time I watched this movie, but I was a teenager and it became a instant classic to me.
The world needs more movies of this quality 👍🏽
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. This movie inspired the matrix
Laurence Fishburne is my favorite part of this film. “We’re leaving “ is a classic line😂
In that one moment, he became the smartest person in any horror movie. Instead of looking at the complete horror and going, "we have to find out why," he was like "nope."
I think it is an amazing film. We can only wonder what Andersons original cut would have been like. I reckon it would have made this the greatest film of all time (apart from Lawrence Fishburn's wobbly chair)
Wow, fantastic breakdown. I've always enjoyed Event Horizon as a guilty pleasure. It's silly and sometimes ridiculous, but wonderfully entertaining and quotable. Now I've gained a new appreciation for the painstaking details put into it. Thank you for that!
This movie terrified me as a kid. I still watched it several times, though. Something about it always felt special...and totally evil.
Yeah I convinced my father to take me I was really into sci Fi, and we may have screwed up.. I was maybe 10 at most.
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. It was at the early Saturday show (like 6-ish) and there were only 3 people in the whole theater (2 friends and me). We all enjoyed it and I still can't understand why it didn't do better. It ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to sci-fi horror.
Sci fi movies then to not do well. Same for some horror movies. I think with social media those days might be disappearing, M3gan did well (but it was a 'cheap' film). There are some pretty good shorts of sci fi stuff. "Dust Channel" I think on youtube.
Yeah, this is the most memerable horror i can think of that takes place in space. Theres so many angles of fd up goin on that if you see it as a kid, youll likely never forget it. I know i sure as F didnt. And the end shows theres no happy ending for anyone, so yeah, it basically hits every note you want a horror to hit, and also has such a great cast its amazing it somehow didnt get over with audiences at first.
This didnt do well because it was released when sphere was released
@@Haulinbassracing holy crap! I remember that movie as well, being almost as scary and twice as hard to follow,and almost noone talks about it or remembers it i feel like
Saw this in the theater with my friends. Instantly became one of my favorite horror sci-fi movies of all time. Amazing film.
Event horizon got me more as a kid for the psychological horror more so than the body horror stuff. It just really created the feeling of isolation and the fact it was these people basically doing it to themselves and being controlled that was just like wild as a kid. A very visceral fear.
Thanks for this. More like this please. I just watched Event Horizon for the first time last Halloween and I was surprised I had missed it all these years. It was for sure up my alley and innovative for the time. Glad it's getting its due now.
Love the retro movie reviews/breakdowns 🤘 would love to see your views on "The Abyss"
Yeah definitely wanna cover some Cameron at some point
@@heavyspoilers not avatars please, the old stuff, the good stuff.
For retro films, how about Dark City, too?!?
@@ipersuade Great choice! I hope he covers this one
@ there's nothing subtle about Avatar movies so there's nothing to explain. You're all good. Some Aliens or Terminator 2 breakdowns would be cool.
Remember catching this in the cinema back in the day and loving the effects and production design. It's aged very well and is probably Paul WS Anderson's best film. It was pretty much down hill from here on. Thought the soundtrack was worth a mention though, pretty banging melding of Orbital techno/electronica with Michael Kamen's orchestral score. Very cool.
The opening score was just a brilliant scene setter. The perfect soundscape to set up the movie
Yes, Michael Kamen's score for the horror parts does such a good job at making you so uneasy with Orbital's synth whispers making you feel like you're hearing things too, really brings you into the movie and Kamen's solo big orchestral final battle music gives the final battle between Fishburn and Neill an epic, terrifying feel like its the end of the world.
I appreciate your in depth breakdown and the details... I loved this movie back in the day and saw it in the theater. It really unsettled me and stays with me till now. Every movie I see with the *punches pencil through folded paper bit* to demonstrate the idea of a wormhole, black hole or light speed space travel, whatever...I think, ah yeah, Event Horizon. I just watched your Shining movie breakdown and very much appreciate your research efforts. I did not remember nor had I noticed the doorways shaped like coffins in this, thats kind of stupidly simple yet subtle enough I missed it. Cheers mate ✌🏽
Came here after rewatching the movie today. I can’t believe it was filmed in 1997, effects still looking good 26 years later.
back when I was a kid in the 90s I must of watched this on vhs 1000 times. the thing that stuck out to me the most was when they first enter the ship and you see the skulls melted into the wall. I always thought it had something to do with the Doom games cause its the same thing you see in loading screens in Doom.
OMG, this is one of my all time favorite movies! Great review, so glad you made it!
Thank you, hope you enjoyed the video
Same!! It presented me with a point of view/theory about space travel I hadn’t previously been introduced to. If Hell does exist, it would be an alternative dimension and if we create a way of accessing alternative dimensions, Hell would one of the possible destinations
Love the way you started breaking down classic movies as well. Keep 'em coming!
Loved this breakdown so much. I have the same kind of nostalgia for this movie as well also seeing in when I was like 11 or 12, I am surprised I missed so much of the gothic architecture tie ins
My favorite space horror of all time. It’s incredibly creepy and I wish to the movie gods that the cut scenes would resurface in a usuable state (yes I know of the ones recovered from the mine & the VHS ones).
What do you mean "movie gods"? Homie, there's only one God.
Such a great movie, I was terrified as a kid and the older I get the more I watch it the more I appreciate it.
Haven’t seen this one👀Sounds like my jam! Gonna have to check it out now. Thank you for making me aware of this movie Paul!
Paul, I keep coming back for your videos. So, thank you for your uploads
19:44
When this ship is sucked into the planet it make another shape of an eye (can’t believe you missed it) as Weir is saying “do you see?”
Lots & lots of eye references in this awesome movie 👌🏼👁
Proverbs 30:17 - The eye is the window to the soul.
Nice review Paul. This is a very cool movie that I never saw in the theater but recall watching several months after it came out on hbo or something and recently got my wife and daughter to watch again with me as we all Love horror and they had never seen it. They loved it and o was even jumping a few times with some of the crazy scenes. Had never heard of the deleted scenes situation so thanks for that info. Looking forward to your take on the shining. One of my all time favorites
Excellent Video , thanks so much. We have always LOVED EH.
From the very get go, that Paramount logo transition into opening credits with that creepy music is outstanding and sets the tone perfectly.
This is one of those movies you desperately want a sequel but already know a sequel could never live up to the first
I love this film and have seen it countless times... yet I never noticed until it was pointed out in this video that the gravity drive engine resembled an eye that was constantly watching both the characters and the viewers. A whole new layer of scary just got added to this movie for me - thanks! xD
I agree, this film left an indelible impact on me as a kid and will always be among my favorite sci fi or horror movies.
Dude! Some badass breakdowns lately!!
Yep. Saw it as a kid. Seared a mark on my brain and I will never forget it. Nice breakdown.
This is still one of my favorites and the horror still holds up. I had those hands holding the eyeballs in my nightmares for 6 months after this came out. Good times 😅
Sweet thanks, subscribed.
Great work. Thank you.
I saw this in the theater. I thought it was damned impressive. One of my all-time favourite movies.
Digging the retrospective reviews Paul!
Absolutely adore this movie. Has to be in my top 3.
Thanks for the awesome video!
I remember going to watch this twice at the cinema when I was younger. I've watched it multiple times subsequently. It wasn't until a more recent viewing that I noticed something that I didn't pick up on before. After Weir is sucked out in to space, we later see him back on board the ship covered in what looks like cuts. At least I thought they were cuts, maybe caused by the ship pulling him back together. Thing is, that's not what we're seeing. What we are seeing is Weir with demonic symbols carved in to his body. I dunno how many other people noticed that, but I certainly didn't see it straight away. It's just another way this this awesome film can still surprise me after so many years.
Something is even more strange: We see demonic symbols carved on Weir's very flesh and through some parts of the ship...But there are no demons inside it or on the other side of the portal Weir openned. There is just some unknown maligant force that corrupts humans and turn them into something we could call DEMONS. We never knew what exactly created all those horrors and evil and any details of the corruption process itself
I just rewatched this a week ago. Not nearly as scary as I remembered but still such a dope movie…
Great video! That movie was a blast and it's been part of my movie library for dacades!!!
Just WOW man. This is an outstanding completition of the Event Horizon movie and lore/ background. Event when Iam a Dead Space Games and Event Horizon/ Ghistship fan and Veteran, some information were new for me. Great work, solid and complete.👍
This film was criminally underrated!
I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Good writing and acting definitely worth the watch. Also, if you're looking for another a sleeper try Shutter Island. Another film that doesn't disappoint!
Hey Paul, I just re-watched Donnie Darko for the first time in awhile and was wondering if you minded going over this one. It’s a favorite of mine and I’d love to hear your thoughts, theories and inside knowledge on it. I am sorry if you’ve done this already, and would gladly watch if there is an older breakdown vid
Thank you. I saw this movie many years ago. I was confused and remained confused by it. Had no idea what was going on. I never tried to watch it over it again. It was just so strange. I really appreciate this terrific breakdown! It makes so much more sense now. I’m ALMOST tempted to watch it again to see if I can catch some of those things you pointed out--nah. It was enough for it to be explained. LOL.
Signed G’s family member T
Wow that's a great catch to the details of the flag patches on the uniform.
This movie absolutely terrified me. Sam Neil has been in two movies that have scared the shit out of me in my lifetime. The other being “In The Mouth of Madness”
Wish there were a lot more sci-fi horror movies out there. That genre is absolutely fascinating to watch.
Your 100% right i watched this as a kid and always thought this was one of the scariest movies back then. Never noticed the doors or all the eyes before. Great vid.
I remember the first time watching this film. It went in a way different direction than I thought it was going to...and I loved it!
Thanks for making this video. I was one of those kids in the 90s that was scared for months after watching this. It was the scariest movie I ever saw.
Same. 🙈 When I watch the movie today, some of this fear that I had as a child still comes up. His wife without eyes scares me the most.😅
When I was 12, I talked my dad into taking me to see this at the theater. I entered the theater a boy and left a man.
Thank you. I just brought the Laserdisc version a few weeks ago!
Ya know the inspiration for the story came from Warhammer 40k? Cus in Warhammer faster than light travel is done by causing the ship to enter the warp or the "Immaterium" which is the realm of chaos inhabited by demon gods and their servants and not even time works right in the immaterium because it literally is a dimension of pure chaos that warps people and drives them mad.
Ships are shielded against the warp which mostly protects people from it. You can look up the Darktide cinematic here on youtube for reference.
A reference to Event Horizon is made in Warhammer 40k: Darktide. If you have a veteran on the team with the "Professional" personality and an Ogryn, a random bit of dialogue which can occur goes like:
Ogryn: "How does Warp travel work?"
Veteran: "Imagine you fold a piece of paper in half, that's space, yeah? Stick a knife through it and....ah, never mind."
This movie was truly ahead of it’s time. It’s like being sucked into an HR Geiger painting. The end sequence with the rapid shots of gore is the perfect sensory overload.
I remember going to the movies to see this with my mom and let's just say was glad we went during an afternoon showing... this movie still freaks me out
I think i was about 15 when my mate invited me around to his house when his parents were out for a weed and movie session like you do at that age. Of course it was this movie and we were a bit obsessed with demons and horror at the time so we loved it. I remember we paused it at the part where they see the torture stuff on the screen and moved it forward frame by frame to make sure we didn't miss anything. I also remember a few days later sneaking up on him in the art room at school and shouting in his ear " let me show you " while grabbing his head from behind. He screamed and almost fell off the chair and my teacher gave me lines to do at dinner time for disrupting the class. Totally worth it.
Good break down.
Definitely did not know about the uniform flags
I've loved this movie from the start. Forget critics. Event Horizon is a masterpiece.
This was the height of the Prodigy's fame, with their *"Fat of the Land"* album as one the year's best. So it's fitting that their tunes featured in this horror cult classic.
That was a great video. So much i didn't see. I love this movie!
Ended up theater-hopping into this movie a couple weeks after it released and it became one of my all time favorite horror flicks.
Classic. This film makes a lot more sense now. Thank you, Paul.
No problem, really appreciate the support
How’s this comment up since 22 hours ?
Um there was no explanation just describing what happened pretty basic
I remember staying up late at night over the summer when this film was regularly played on HBO or some other movie channel. Was terrifying as a child, especially when the crew finally cleaned up that entry on the ship's log enough to view it.
Even uncleaned up its frickin haunting. That whole log entry ordeal is unforgettable and i still gotta agree when guy immediately says nope-fuck this ship right afterward and sets out to blow it up ,mission be damned lol
Great video and I had never noticed the references to eyes and coffins given how much us going on in this film as one would call it, "a visual feast" I'm not suprised because there is just that much visually.
The panning into the sky after the paramount logo is so awesome and makes sense why cut if you’re going into the sky/space, just pan into the sky/space and start the movie