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 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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
@@KetzerkaterContent 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
"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
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
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.
@@RBKeown, for whoever sees this three years later and is scared by this, I wish to mention that King intentionally misspells cemetery in the title, so the name you used is correct, and sematary is also not a thing, including not a special type of cemetery.
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.
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.
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!
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'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.
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.
"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.
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.
"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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
"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! ;)
"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.
@@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.
"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 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.
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.
@@SympatheticStrawman 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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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?
Weir: " You can't leave. She won't let you." Miller: " You just get your things and get on the ship or you will find yourself floating home." Weir: "I am home." (Fades into darkness)
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.
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 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 seeing this in the movies with my parents when I was 11 years old. This movie scared the shit out of me. I was no rookie to horror movies at that time either. I wasn’t able to sleep easy for at least a few days afterward.
I saw it as a rental as a teen and it scared the shit out of me too. I didnt feel comfortable turning on the lights or having them off when I was walking through the house afterwards. Brilliant.
@@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.
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.
@@SoullessAIMusic It certainly disguised itself with the thin covering of techno music, dodgy 90s CGI, "the funny black dude" and perhaps some of the stuff left on the cutting room floor to fit in more with the other late 90s horror movies.
This one scared the shit out of me when my dad took me to the cinema when I was 9 years old (and actually wasn't allowed in, but who cares on the country side when there is only one cinema and your dad knows the guy at the box office?). Looking back I think it's a master piece.
what's great too is it's always there, coming out in the flashes of lightning. the characters are far too slow to realize they are in the middle of a charnel house; honestly it's the least believable part of the movie, because the smell alone would be unmissable.
@@hz.kemalpasa2997 He's still right though. This hell dimension is really tame compared to the warp. But maybe it was because the cameras couldn't capture it and just captured what they were able to. And yeah, I'm aware that the old knife-ears murderf*cked Slaneesh into existence. ;-)
@@thedragon133 Yeah this could only be a faint glimpse of warp, I agree with both you on that. But it is also not creative and sick enough to compare to commoragh.
@@lebensraummetal Only because you did not understand it back then. The horror of Event Horizon is on another level. How could one be scared by Species? I was always to distracted by her sex appeal. haha
@@quecksilber457 I understand it now but the gore and misanthropy presented as "horror" by event horizon still wasn't groundbreaking when compared to contemporary films. Not to say that I still find Species scary but as a horror film I think it presented itself better.
@douchemanextreme gotta love laughing at jump scares and other situations that supposed to scare you, tho I love the movie and seen it 3 times in very healthy amount of time between
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!
@@amsfountain8792 warhammer has been around since the 80s. This is more of an homage to warhammer if anything, not a ripoff. Or maybe the warp is real and wh40k and event horizon are both just describing something we don't know about 🤷🏿♂️
@@HerrSheeps That's what happens when you don't pull your punches. They wanted to show Hell, so they showed Hell. Not a middle school theater set for a scene in Hell. Hell was supposed to be the worst thing imaginable, and they did their best to show the worst thing imaginable. And then they showed it only in short bursts. Split seconds, almost too quick to properly grasp. And they still didn't half-ass the scene. They didn't throw together some bare minimum because "it's only on screen for a second". In short: This is craftsmanship!
I want to disagree with but I can't which is sad. I enjoy his resident evil movies and can rewatch them with just as much enjoyment but that my Subjective opinion, the objective fact is that there not very good.
@@shadowphoenix1696 I liked them with slightly less each time. RE1 was a tight pretty well made film, the second added to the plot but it seemed like they started to lose their way as time went by. They were still enjoyable until the last one which is terrible in my view.
@@ptonpc I got the sense that the first Resident Evil was the last time he tried to make a good film and put in the time and effort that requires. Since then it feels like he is just there for the pay check and leaving as soon as possible.
*I got the sense that the first Resident Evil was the last time he tried to make a good film and put in the time and effort that requires.* ^Same feelings here. But i also had the opportunity to meet Mr Anderson back in 2002 when Resident Evil had a special showing in London's Prince Charles cinema in London's Leicester Square. An extremely nice person who i felt was robbed of how Event Horizon could've had far more success at the box office than it did have. Agreed, things have felt real different after he did the first Resident Evil movie since then sadly! And Resident Evil 6? my god what happen Paul?!, where was the continuity after part 5 man what the hell...agreed man he became the paycheck guy for the past 16 years or so!
This was the first R rated movie I saw in theaters. Loved it. Had nightmares for a week. It's such a masterpiece on the big screen. Really sucks you in.
That's why I rarely ever trust rotten tomatoes or film critics in general. They often times tend to over-analyze things and critique every minor detail of the movie, rather than sit back and enjoy it for what it is. Event Horizon is easily one of my favorite horror films of all time
So glad i found this video 3 years later. Just watched for the first time. Thank you for the recommendation drinker! Love that the "aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" was from this movie
I've seen it as an 8 years old... This is literally the only and the last film to ever leave an impression of dread on me. :) Still one of my favourite also. So much philosophical depth in its relation between fiction and reality.
@me fuckyou interesting effect but not entirely impossible. It is known that we have the power to adept, maybe your brain, after reading the book, just accepted the Nightmares as part of reality and does not consider them as serious as before. Who knows...
@me fuckyou oh boy, you went in deep, I can only hope you have some masochistic tendencies because all of those, especially combined can really put a dent in ones "optimism". At least do me a favor and "Arm" yourself with the following quote: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw " It will come in handy if you get too deep into the abyss.
Random Sources: "In test screenings, the cut was poorly received. There were complaints about the extreme amount of gore,[7] and Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt claim members of the test audience fainted during the screening.[6] Paramount, which had stopped looking at the dailies before any of the gore was shot and were seeing the completed film for the first time along with the audience, were similarly shocked by how gruesome it was and demanded a shorter length time with a decreased amount of gore. " Source 2 - www.mandatory.com/culture/1263775-heres-youll-never-get-event-horizon-directors-cut-sequel "There was a lot more that was shot that isn’t in the movie. But you’ll never see the messed up version because we made Event before the kind of DVD revolution. You know, DVD ushered in this era when you had to have additional footage, deleted scenes, things like that. There was no call for that back when we were just doing VHS cassettes and LaserDiscs. So the material just wasn’t archived very well, and since the movie became a big cult classic, Paramount have asked us to come back in and do different versions and we looked for the material, and it just doesn’t exist." Source 3 - Wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film): "Anderson believes that while his first cut was justifiably considered too long, Paramount forced him to make a cut that was instead too short, and that it would benefit by restoring around 10 minutes of missing footage, including some of the deleted gore.[6] After a successful initial DVD release, the studio and Anderson became interested in assembling a director's cut but they quickly found out that the excised footage had not been carefully stored and that much of it had gone missing. The deleted scenes were stored in a salt mine in Transylvania and had rotted away due to how they were stored in the mine. The plan to assemble a director's cut was abandoned and instead a special-edition two-DVD set was released that featured one deleted scene, two extended scenes, and a few shots of deleted material in the included making-of. The footage is of "video" quality.[6]"
It's a shame there wasn't a director's cut with all the extra footage. The video logs were some the nastiest stuff I've ever seen in a relatively mainstream movie.
So, bottom line,..there was over half an hours worth of fucked up, stomach churning ,blood orgy shit that they just threw away and lost cos it was too nasty to watch,.... now THAT is a pity! That was all the porn actors and amputees stuff, what a waste..
This movie is underrated as fuck. It captures that essence of sci-fi horror that the first Aliens movie established so strongly with that supernatural twist.
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.
One of my all-time favorites. It was a real WTF moment when I looked it up years later and found out it didn't do well in the cinema. I'm also gutted about that lost footage. If any movie deserves a remastered directors cut its this. I can only imagine how good the full thing would have been.
It sounds like the total footage is nearly four hours long as the director tried many different takes and had multiple ideas and let his actors be creative. Maybe after paring it down it's 3 hours and fifteen minutes. Allegedly Michael Mann's The Keep also has extensive lost footage as well.
*watches log of what happened to the previous crew*
Miller: We're leaving.
My favorite sensible reaction in a horror film.
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 .
Weir: "We cant leave...our orders were simple"
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 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.
The Drinker Imposter 🤣
Nah, it wasn't fine.
Well it's not a date movie for sure.
But as it turns out, it won’t be fine!
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
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".
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Dude, it was the FIRST movie to use that trope. All other "fold space time" uses in other movies owe it to Event Horizon.
@john smith
No he's right. That's exactly what the Navigators do.
@@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.
"Fuck this ship" is an amazing line
A great man once said : "practical effects age like gold, digital effects age like milk".
Lawnmower man
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.
@@shadowpriest2574 well each to their own I guess, for me it's the opposite way round.
not true i grew up in the 70s 80s there were a lot of films with awful practical effects only a handful are still remembered today
Yeah, who was this “great man” anyways?
'We're leaving.' Most reasonable line in any horror movie ever.
or " This ship is fucked ."
Completely. No "We should split up" or "We need to figure this out!". Just a simple "Nope!". Gets me every time
VictorKane115, almost as good as Bill Paxton in Aliens "Game over man, game over!"
Junker Designs or “Fu&k this SHIP”!
@@TheGuy030770 'We are leaving' is also an Aliens quote funnily enough.
"Where we are going we won't need eyes." Doctor Wiere
"Oh God, we're going to the cinema to watch Rise Of The Skywalker aren't we?" Me
😂😂😂👌
I don't know. It was a good joke but it seemed a little... Forced.
Mac Mcleod haha. Ha. Niceeee
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Me & the missus are always quoting that line!
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.
Watch Pandorum. You won't walk in the dark again.
@@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.
This happens! Too right. Happened with Exorcist III for me
I watched it when I was 10...I wonder why I'm immune to most of the movie gore these days
@@christiangauthier727 well said
"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.
Lovecraftian shits
I concur.
“You won’t need eyes where we’re going”
"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."
And, “fuck this ship”.
If nothing else this movie gifted us THAT Sam Neill scream which Drinker uses regularly, to hilarious effect.
Now the last thing I'm missing is the Sam Neill scenes where he's going insane that Jim uses.
@@The_Crimson_Fucker That might be from In The Mouth Of Madness - the one where he’s screaming on a bus?
@@SheldonAdama17
Yes.
@@The_Crimson_Fucker yeah, that's from In The Mouth of Madness, not Event Horizon
A scream that feels like a performance rather then a real scream...... ;)
Basically, a movie about the Imperium's first encounter with the Primordial Truth.
Where we're going, we won't need Gellar Fields
It is why space condom fields are a thing.
Sounds interesting. But don't know what you're talking about. Enlighten me.
Super High Doug Judy Go read Horus Heresy or Luetin09
@@emperorcokelord1021 right right
Who else loves it when Drinker says,
"Naaaaaaw it'll be fine."
We need to figure out how to spell that exactly the way he pronounces it in his slurred brough...
DarkOnyx “But it *won’t be fine...” lol
@@jt4369 No, it won't. I really won't.
Me.
Me. :)
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.
7:02 "If you could see the things I have seen, you wouldn't try to stop me." Maybe he went to 2019 and saw the end of all franchises?
He saw what they did with Star Wars!
He saw the remake. With an empowered all female or etc gender cast, loads of fart jokes and critical acclaim. Which nobody will ever go and watch.
Event Horizon 2019; starring Melissa McCarthy, Brie Larsen, and I don't know, the cast of Black Panther or something.
@@alexandernorman5337 I would want to die too if I saw it in the 90s
Grey Troll like a black female Bond :(.
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.
because 20 year ago woke jordan peterson fanboy incels didnt get trigered everytime they saw it.
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 People who are "woke" think Jordan Peterson is a Nazi.
@@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.
One of the creepiest lines I've ever heard in a horror movie.
" You don't need eyes to see where we're going"
Is that a play on "Where we're going, we don't need roads." from Back to the Future?
@@xnetpc No.
"Where we're going we don't need eyes to see!" Is the quote. "Do you see? Do you see?"
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.
@@xnetpc
Nice catch.
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.
FOR THE EMPEROR!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
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?
latent psyker: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"
*- everyone looks at inquisitor -*
inquisitor: "naah.. itll be fine."
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
MILK FOR THE CORNFLAKES!!
Watching this made me think that Event Horizon really is a secret Warhammer 40k movie.
When i heard the "a cathedral theme ship" i was pretty sold on that idea
@@anxioussamurai9017 I mean I could see how the ship design could evolve into a 40k frigate, it even has the flat Mechanicum nose.
Random Commissar Appears!
*BLAM! HERESY!*
Warp travel without a Gellar field?
“Nah, it’ll be fine!”
The only race who get to do that without worrying are the Orks.
@@RolfHartmann Just believe!
@@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!"
You know for all the horror of it, it is ironic that 40k turned Hell into an expressway.
The Emperor protects!
*Unless he doesn’t.
3:41 The main corridor of the Event Horizon is shaped like an eye to give the feeling that you are always being watched
Wow, this makes so much sense!
Yiiikes
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
NO WAY.... I never even made the connection but it is bloody obvious now u point it out
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.
@@KetzerkaterContent 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
"Hell is just a word; the reality is much, much worse" - Dr. Wier
I so remember that line
"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
Unfortunately though hell is not just a word.
NOW LET ME SHOW YOU!!!
That is one unforgettable dialogue of this movie.
Fun fact: the core of the ship looks like a biblical angel, the ophanim. It's so similar it's scary.
Given the thematic elements of the film, that's probably not an accident.
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
@@rhysoneill7399 Clearly the ship ran into Slaanesh
@@krald8421 makes sense to me.
so true
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.
@@RBKeown, for whoever sees this three years later and is scared by this, I wish to mention that King intentionally misspells cemetery in the title, so the name you used is correct, and sematary is also not a thing, including not a special type of cemetery.
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.
Yes. Im one of those fans who choose to see it as such
Damn, that is so cool!
@@timothygrulke1308 to me it seems so obvious, I don’t know how it can be seen differently.
Man, here’s a testament to how good this movie was: your 20 minute review is enough to creep me out.
Scariest movie I EVER tried to watch 😭😮🤯😱
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.
My favorite line is "We're leaving". The most rational thing anyone has ever said in a horror movie.
@Jules Winnfield
Hicks says almost the same line in Aliens.
_"Marines! We are leaving!"_
That delivery is solid hehe
I think mine was, "here I come, motherfuckers!"
"Apparently they used porn actors and amputees for this sequence." Now that is one hell of a sentence.
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.
Your comment has 69 likes. Irony knows no bounds
"cast the expert"? 🤔😐
These days it would have to be "amputee porn" actors for maximum intersectionality. Yes, that exists.
@@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!
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!
Space horror is a vastly underrepresented genre, love Event Horizon.
It does have its own special niche, doesn't it? There is something very unsettling about the thought of space.
If u haven't seen it, you could give a try to "Life" (2017), not as good as Event Horizon, but quite enjoyable :)
Verum Vindex Wholeheartedly agree! Any other space horror recommendations?
@@j.p.9522 Sadly I don't :( Basically all are kind of actually baaaad movies, like Ghosts of Mars xD
Well, maybe "Pandorum" (2009)....
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.
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.
You are correct sir.
Thanks for typing this so I don’t need to 👍
"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.
Shit, never realised how well this movie fits into WH40k.
Even the ship looks like a predecessor of the battlefleet gothic ships.
I always head canon this as a 40k prequel from when Humanity first discovered Warp Travel.
The most 40k-ish movie I know which is not a short fan projekt. Good comment m8!
Its so true. I’ve always thought about how well event horizon fits with the narrative of the warp. It’s perfect.
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?
He was great in Gotham, I'll say that much
Hopefully gets some more screen time and development as Alfred in the new batman movies.
I think he would be great as The Doctor.
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.
"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"
Sounds like 40.000 universe where ships travel throught another dimension inhabited by demons.
Idiots didn't know they needed a Gellar field.
@moparmon that explains a lot
@@neilrobinson4494 And a navigator. And an Astronomican. And a revealed Emperor of Mankind.
@@neilrobinson4494 I am thinking they had one and it failed when they transitioned into the warp.
Event Horizon aka Warhammer40k : First Warptransit without a Geller Field.
If they were Ultrasmurfs, they'd be completely fine!
i mean the writers clearly understood how fucked we'd be without an Emperor.
@@lebensraummetal ¡¡¡The Emperor Protects!!!
@@bryanmanuel4945 Yea He protecc
@@lebensraummetal But Loaded Bolter doesn't hurt either.
First drinker recommends "Falling Down", now this gem.
Reminds me that Hollywood used to be much better then nowadays.
sooo true
To quote TvTropes: Viewers are Goldfish.
Faling down is GARBAGE!
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.
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.
Agreed. This one just haunts you. It's like a classic Vincent Price movie. Scares you because of what might happen, not what does.
I always figure that the gravity drive just sort of... eats some of them liek they do the crewmember. It just didn't spit him out afterwards.
I like to think that she ship absorbed the bodies inside its walls, it explains where the blood fountain came from near the end imo.
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.
One of the best genres there is! And I agree, it gets far too little love in general, especially nowadays.
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.
Liberate mi hahahahahahaha
@James Smith stfumy internet still comes in via phone line.
thank you for your comment.. I laughed for 5 minutes..lmao..
And maybe nuke the site from orbit? Or, in this case, out of orbit and into Neptune?
Wrod of Dog
Only way to be sure 🙃
Event Horizon is such a criminally underrated movie.
@Jimmy Rustling I was born in the 70s, heh.
@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 actual reactions to this movie:
1997: What is this piece of hot trash
2020: What is this masterpiece of cinema
It wasn't as scary as the exorcist as the trailer said. That said, it was still a great psychological thriller.
@@robertfitzgerald3118 To this day, the Exorcist is still the most terrifying movie I've ever seen.
Sean Pertwee is one of those actors that cements as good plot into a great plot. Love his contributions to film!
The un-official 40K prequel. Class!
Good call, excellent movie.
Supposedly the producers couldn't get the rights from GW for the 40k IP so they made their own version.
Reminder: Traversing the warp without a Gellar Field is not advised. The Emperor Protects.
Even if you aren't a 40K fan, still a great movie.
... i never saw it that way. But now I truly believe this is basically a 40k mashup
@dembro well, remember that this movie happens millenia before the DoT
@@nothingtoseaheardammit Yeah, that's definitely not true.
"You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse"
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
The Event Horizon looks like 2001: a Space Odyssey's Discovery if it was built in the Warhammer 40k universe.
The second he said “dimension of chaos”.....
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.
@@HughMansonMD yeah. And it all went well. Nothing to see here Inquisitor.
If there was ever an Event Horizon video game, it’d be Dead Space
@@clongshanks5206 actually, the creative director of Dead Space said that their biggest influence was Event Horizon.
Pure Gothic Horror in space....expert review my man...thanks...
It’s a Warhammer 40K prequel. They went into the immaterium.
Somebody didn't turned on their geller field. H E R E S Y
At this point the empiror thinks "oh crap I knew I forgot to tell something to those spaceship designers"
Adeptus mechanicus:" Feels like we forgot something."
Emperor:" Nah, it'll be fine."
The warp:" Oh look, new meat to play with."
An' datz why ya use da WAAAGH-tubes, humies.
@@yetipotato8567 Actually it is possible the events of the film are what spurs the Emperor into action.
"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! ;)
@@BarkingCur too small to be a Space Hulk but i get your point.
@@fbussier80 True.
"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.
I love how The Drinker keeps using the Sam Neil scream in his videos.
*Dr Weir:* "Hell is merely a word?, the reality is far far worse!"
That's what made the film really unsettling; it left it more up to your imagination by hinting at how bad the other dimension is.
@@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.
@@mydogskips2 They showed what hell drove the crew to do, not the hell itself.
@@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.
"I'd be asking HR for a transfer."
For some reason I thought he meant Giger, not Human Resources.
That is so geeky, I can't even make fun of it. It came around full circle and impressed the hell out of me.
Same. And then I thought of Alien and Aliens, and got sad at how crappy the sequels were. Trains of thought are dangerous.
I thought Lovecraft, but that's HP. Giger definitely works, though.
Thought i was the only one lol
I salute your wit sir. Bravo.
"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 read somewhere that it IS indeed inspired by WH40K, particularly the warp drive room with all its spiky bits and demonic look.
Does have a 40k vibe demons of the warp asthetic about it
well i mean its pretty obvious the guy like videogames, so maybe
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.
"Okay, so you're in a situation where you have to choose between boarding the Event Horizon or the Ishimura..."
"I kill myself. Next question."
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 40k is probably the only sci-fi universe that no one in their right mind would want to be in.
@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.
@@SympatheticStrawman 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.
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.
When I first got with my now fiancé, he explained dead space to me, and I immediately thought of this movie.
Great game series that.
Dead Space 1 is a masterpiece
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.
My favorite film theory is that Event Horizon is a prequel to the Warhammer 40k universe, and the place the ship goes is the Warp. Fits perfectly.
I always saw it as a prequel to Doom and the company responsible for the development was actually UAC.
@@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?
@@secretlythreeducksinamansu3546 Only God-Emperor knows why.
In The Grim Darkness of the Far Future....
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.
I love this movie, because it's the only movie that my wife is afraid of.
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.
Bald Brad LOL
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.
Same. I'm banned from watching it
A Ship that wants to take you to hell,is Terrifying.
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.
Yes!! Same here.
i didn't sleep for roughly two weeks after seeing it
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.
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.
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@@bluehatboi4273 shut your god damn mouth!
Event Horizon was trying to rip off Alien, much to Event Horizon's benefit. Those were professionals dying after exploring a derelict ship in Alien.
@@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’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.
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?
@@JakeKoenig What's wrong with kids meeting with trans people?
@@davidkoudelka10 drag queen story time
@@davidkoudelka10 you should keep children safe from predators of both mind and body
@@bocchithean-cap3404 But not all trans people are predators, that is just a transphobic stereotype. They are people like us.
Weir: " You can't leave. She won't let you."
Miller: " You just get your things and get on the ship or you will find yourself floating home."
Weir: "I am home." (Fades into darkness)
@Turd Ferguson Creepy Sam Neil could make even a T-Rex retreat. Like, "I don't know who this guy is, but finding out can't be worth the protein".
Cabela's employee:" sir you need to go home, we're closing in 5minutes".
Me:" IAM home" fades into darkness
One of the few horror movies that actually scares me.
Me too!
Yep. Same.
Yep. Same here. Great movie
Same here!!!
Agreed. Pandorum came close but was still good.
This and Sunshine are 2 of my favorite space-horror films
Ellen Ripley: let's get to orbit and nuke the planet, is the only way to be sure
Burke: Nah, it'll be fine!
Looking at UC Berkeley from orbit. 50MT or 100MT? Once or twice? Can only be sure from orbit.
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.
Nice 😆
@@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.
Event Horizon: what it’s like to travel through the warp without a Gellar Field
The Emperor Protects
Just as Planned
Blood for the blood god!
Reminds me of more misadventures aboard the Occurrence Border. Good times.
Huh?
One of the best modern sci fi “cosmic horror “ classics. Love craft would have loved it
I would add Prince of Darkness to your excellent list. My favorite Carpenter film after Halloween and The Thing.
All good examples of cosmic horror
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
"When the Gellar Field fails" a short story featuring Slaanesh degeneracy
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_
We like a bit of Slaanesh degeneracy here. Sex For The Sex God! hehe :D
Hi Emps, how's the dark gods treating you
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?
@@thanksfernuthin Yup. That is a Stephen King short story. Do not remember the title though.
I remember seeing this in the movies with my parents when I was 11 years old. This movie scared the shit out of me. I was no rookie to horror movies at that time either. I wasn’t able to sleep easy for at least a few days afterward.
Edwin Betancourt the concept is indeed pretty much the most horrifying possible
@@patinho5589 flying a spaceship through hell sounds pretty silly, but somehow they made it work
Dude, same here. The scene of a guy offering up his torn out eyes to the viewer still haunts me.
I saw it as a rental as a teen and it scared the shit out of me too. I didnt feel comfortable turning on the lights or having them off when I was walking through the house afterwards. Brilliant.
This film was accidentally released as PG at my local theater for a few days. Poor kids.
Moral of the story: install a freakin' Gellar Field if one wishes to travel through the Warp.
If the warp is real the only option is a grand crusade and an iron fisted inquisition on earth
@@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.
The Emperor protects
@@douglasfreckman8190 lol stay assblasted, the Emperor Protects
@@G.SPIES24 yes. He does.
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.
Event Horizon: The first feature film set in the Warhammer 40K Universe.
Event Horizon: Doom The Motion Picture
@fuckface unstoppable The writer asked for permission to actually set the movie in the 40k universe. But was denied, so he made the next best thing.
Dark angels is slightly older but event horizon indeed does more justice to chaos
fred uncle, ya dummy, they are talking about games that influenced the movie, not what games the movie influenced.
It’s definitely one of those movies that constantly conveys an uneasy feeling of dread from start to finish.
They really dont make them like this anymore.
they barely made them like this back thn.
@@SoullessAIMusic It certainly disguised itself with the thin covering of techno music, dodgy 90s CGI, "the funny black dude" and perhaps some of the stuff left on the cutting room floor to fit in more with the other late 90s horror movies.
sad isn't it ? You would never see gore like this in most mainstream hollywood films, even R rated ones.
Thank god. This movie was a pile of shit.
@@OpeningSalvo Get out.
This one scared the shit out of me when my dad took me to the cinema when I was 9 years old (and actually wasn't allowed in, but who cares on the country side when there is only one cinema and your dad knows the guy at the box office?). Looking back I think it's a master piece.
11:22 - *_In answer to your question, Drinker, check the walls of the bridge, you'll find the rest of the crew._*
what's great too is it's always there, coming out in the flashes of lightning. the characters are far too slow to realize they are in the middle of a charnel house; honestly it's the least believable part of the movie, because the smell alone would be unmissable.
This was a scary, scary movie. Like Hellraiser in space. I still watch this every once in a while. Very suspenseful, and gory.
Yes
Clive Barker was an advisor on this film, so yeah...
"Warp engines online, gellar field not holding" -The movie
Cathedral ship?!?!?! This IS a ship that was lost in the warp... that has returned!
@Wignat Fedposter Dude you are aware that Eldar created the murderfucking warp god of orgies and torture?
@@hz.kemalpasa2997 He's still right though. This hell dimension is really tame compared to the warp. But maybe it was because the cameras couldn't capture it and just captured what they were able to.
And yeah, I'm aware that the old knife-ears murderf*cked Slaneesh into existence. ;-)
@@thedragon133 Yeah this could only be a faint glimpse of warp, I agree with both you on that. But it is also not creative and sick enough to compare to commoragh.
Another great film with a cast that happens to be diverse rather than a diverse cast.
when this movie was released the whole no eyes thing was truly terrifying.
Yup as a kid, it scared me to death but i still loved this movie!
The old fellow's reaction was gut-bustingly funny.
AAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwe!!
😱
I was a kid when i saw it and the scary parts made me laugh. Unlike Species which was so scary that I had to leave the theater lol.
@@lebensraummetal Only because you did not understand it back then. The horror of Event Horizon is on another level. How could one be scared by Species? I was always to distracted by her sex appeal. haha
@@quecksilber457 I understand it now but the gore and misanthropy presented as "horror" by event horizon still wasn't groundbreaking when compared to contemporary films. Not to say that I still find Species scary but as a horror film I think it presented itself better.
“It’s a movie I’ve watched plenty of times” - that explains a lot.
@douchemanextreme gotta love laughing at jump scares and other situations that supposed to scare you, tho I love the movie and seen it 3 times in very healthy amount of time between
@Logan Waltz We get it you didn't like the movie 🤦🙄
the only thing that explains is that he must be somehow biased towards this very mediocre flick. Maybe "Member Berries"? Nobody is immune to those.
“Emperor save us” - Imperial Guardsman probably
Fun fact: this movie was part of the inspiration for the first Dead Space.
It also inspired star trek discovery
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!
@@birchvand Play it with your headphones on, it's so damn creepy.
@@James-mb3je Dead Space is still one of my favorite horror games. One of the few to actually scare me. R.I.P. Visceral Games.
My enjoyment of this movie increased tenfold when I viewed it in the subtext of Warhammer 40K and the warp.
6/10 needs more purity seals and incense.
Wait...this wasn't a 40k movie? 🤣
Who copied who?
@@amsfountain8792 warhammer has been around since the 80s.
This is more of an homage to warhammer if anything, not a ripoff.
Or maybe the warp is real and wh40k and event horizon are both just describing something we don't know about 🤷🏿♂️
@@Tinfoiltomcat I think the writer was a 40.000 player. :)
The hell scenes in the movie genuinely freaked me out.
HELL yeah
The first and only horror film that's properly disturbed me.
@@HerrSheeps - Oh Yeah, me too !!!
Well that’s why we are here I guess. I’m 40 and it freaks me out.
@@HerrSheeps That's what happens when you don't pull your punches. They wanted to show Hell, so they showed Hell. Not a middle school theater set for a scene in Hell. Hell was supposed to be the worst thing imaginable, and they did their best to show the worst thing imaginable.
And then they showed it only in short bursts. Split seconds, almost too quick to properly grasp. And they still didn't half-ass the scene. They didn't throw together some bare minimum because "it's only on screen for a second".
In short: This is craftsmanship!
Seeing this movie in the theater is still one of the most intense film experiences I've ever had
Agree, I saw it in an old cinema, big screen. It was terrific. A privilege.
Holy shit, my guy loves Event Horizon. He's in the good books of all good books now!!
Poor Paul Anderson, probably stopped caring about movies after what they did to Event Horizon
I want to disagree with but I can't which is sad.
I enjoy his resident evil movies and can rewatch them with just as much enjoyment but that my Subjective opinion, the objective fact is that there not very good.
@@shadowphoenix1696 I liked them with slightly less each time. RE1 was a tight pretty well made film, the second added to the plot but it seemed like they started to lose their way as time went by. They were still enjoyable until the last one which is terrible in my view.
@@ptonpc I got the sense that the first Resident Evil was the last time he tried to make a good film and put in the time and effort that requires. Since then it feels like he is just there for the pay check and leaving as soon as possible.
*I got the sense that the first Resident Evil was the last time he tried to make a good film and put in the time and effort that requires.*
^Same feelings here. But i also had the opportunity to meet Mr Anderson back in 2002 when Resident Evil had a special showing in London's Prince Charles cinema in London's Leicester Square. An extremely nice person who i felt was robbed of how Event Horizon could've had far more success at the box office than it did have. Agreed, things have felt real different after he did the first Resident Evil movie since then sadly! And Resident Evil 6? my god what happen Paul?!, where was the continuity after part 5 man what the hell...agreed man he became the paycheck guy for the past 16 years or so!
before RE he actually tried making good films, and most flopped, so yeah afterwards he changed
Event Horizon is definitely one of my all time favourite horror movies. Such a travesty that it didn't do so well in the box office.
It's what happens when gore chases people out of the movie theater.
The box office has rarely been a good indicator of the quality of a movie.
This was the first R rated movie I saw in theaters. Loved it. Had nightmares for a week. It's such a masterpiece on the big screen. Really sucks you in.
@@MrDeVooluff Look no further than Marvel movies.
That's why I rarely ever trust rotten tomatoes or film critics in general. They often times tend to over-analyze things and critique every minor detail of the movie, rather than sit back and enjoy it for what it is. Event Horizon is easily one of my favorite horror films of all time
So glad i found this video 3 years later. Just watched for the first time. Thank you for the recommendation drinker! Love that the "aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" was from this movie
Sam Neil carved out a small horror career: being the Antichrist in omen 3, writer in the mountains of madness, and Event Horizon.
dont forget Possession by Polis director Andrzej Żuławski
In the mouth of madness was great in the cinema,a real experience.
Possession was so demanding on the actors, that when viewing it, you wonder why Isabelle Adjani didn't lose her mind.
Watch a possessed Adjani.
m.ruclips.net/video/l7PuXAsPl9c/видео.html
The pure genius of Sam Neil and arguably Carpenter's 2nd best film.
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The only horror movie that genuinely scared the living crap out of me as an adult
I've seen it as an 8 years old... This is literally the only and the last film to ever leave an impression of dread on me. :)
Still one of my favourite also. So much philosophical depth in its relation between fiction and reality.
It gave me an epileptic seizure. The bit where Weir stabs the bloke triggered me haha.
read Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipel". There you will find true Horror.
@me fuckyou interesting effect but not entirely impossible. It is known that we have the power to adept, maybe your brain, after reading the book, just accepted the Nightmares as part of reality and does not consider them as serious as before.
Who knows...
@me fuckyou oh boy, you went in deep, I can only hope you have some masochistic tendencies because all of those, especially combined can really put a dent in ones "optimism".
At least do me a favor and "Arm" yourself with the following quote:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw "
It will come in handy if you get too deep into the abyss.
"Since it's the season for horror movies..."
Me: *Checks watch*
Nah, it'll be fine.
Great pic. I always loved this one. Way underrated
Just came out on 4K , and let me tell ya, 4K + OLED + headphones + pitch black room = a fucking WIN ... Great movie.
Random Sources:
"In test screenings, the cut was poorly received. There were complaints about the extreme amount of gore,[7] and Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt claim members of the test audience fainted during the screening.[6] Paramount, which had stopped looking at the dailies before any of the gore was shot and were seeing the completed film for the first time along with the audience, were similarly shocked by how gruesome it was and demanded a shorter length time with a decreased amount of gore. "
Source 2 - www.mandatory.com/culture/1263775-heres-youll-never-get-event-horizon-directors-cut-sequel
"There was a lot more that was shot that isn’t in the movie. But you’ll never see the messed up version because we made Event before the kind of DVD revolution. You know, DVD ushered in this era when you had to have additional footage, deleted scenes, things like that. There was no call for that back when we were just doing VHS cassettes and LaserDiscs. So the material just wasn’t archived very well, and since the movie became a big cult classic, Paramount have asked us to come back in and do different versions and we looked for the material, and it just doesn’t exist."
Source 3 - Wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film):
"Anderson believes that while his first cut was justifiably considered too long, Paramount forced him to make a cut that was instead too short, and that it would benefit by restoring around 10 minutes of missing footage, including some of the deleted gore.[6] After a successful initial DVD release, the studio and Anderson became interested in assembling a director's cut but they quickly found out that the excised footage had not been carefully stored and that much of it had gone missing. The deleted scenes were stored in a salt mine in Transylvania and had rotted away due to how they were stored in the mine. The plan to assemble a director's cut was abandoned and instead a special-edition two-DVD set was released that featured one deleted scene, two extended scenes, and a few shots of deleted material in the included making-of. The footage is of "video" quality.[6]"
do you think that all the cuts made actually resulted in a tighter, better movie?
it always makes me sad.
It's a shame there wasn't a director's cut with all the extra footage. The video logs were some the nastiest stuff I've ever seen in a relatively mainstream movie.
So, bottom line,..there was over half an hours worth of fucked up, stomach churning ,blood orgy shit that they just threw away and lost cos it was too nasty to watch,.... now THAT is a pity! That was all the porn actors and amputees stuff, what a waste..
paft that’s what I thought happened when I paused some of the quarter second flashback scenes and noticed how detailed and amazing the gore was
Ah remember the good old days when we could have a black protagonist and nobody made a big deal out of it.
Happens quite frequently.
Lawrence Fishburne was great, but the other black guy was kind of a token character.
poppedweasel remember the good old days when no one would mention it
I membas.
Hope they make a sequel with Leslie Jones as the lead.
This movie is underrated as fuck. It captures that essence of sci-fi horror that the first Aliens movie established so strongly with that supernatural twist.
This movie is over rated as he'll - the acting and dialog are synthetic
I'd say it is almost definitely a worst-possible-case scenario of science going too far.
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.
One of my all-time favorites. It was a real WTF moment when I looked it up years later and found out it didn't do well in the cinema. I'm also gutted about that lost footage. If any movie deserves a remastered directors cut its this. I can only imagine how good the full thing would have been.
It sounds like the total footage is nearly four hours long as the director tried many different takes and had multiple ideas and let his actors be creative. Maybe after paring it down it's 3 hours and fifteen minutes.
Allegedly Michael Mann's The Keep also has extensive lost footage as well.