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When my wife and I saw this movie, we were the only ones in the theater. It scared the piss out of me, and remains one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen to this day.
Very, very disturbing...the laws of physics breakdown and no longer apply at the singularity at the heart of a black hole..we do not even know if time itself has any meaning there...spooky film but I love it.
"WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE WON'T NEED EYES TO SEE" This movie is a MASTERPIECE, (at least to me). It is a shame that we probably never see the director's cut. I wish there was more movies like this one!
This is the only horror movie that actually scared the sh*T out of me. I watched it late at night - all by myself - the night before my parents were about to go away on a trip for a week. What a bad idea that was. I was alone in a big house for the first time since my grandma had passed and for some reason this movie did something to me that no other movie ever really did. It completely unnerved me. I was so freaked out and I didn’t know why. Every night I would come home from work to an empty house and, before I could go to bed, I had to walk room to room with a knife in my hand to check every closet and every corner to make sure I was completely alone in the house. I even checked the now empty apartment over the garage where my grandma used to live. The idea that a whole part of the house was just empty like that really freaked me out. I was always super freaked out going up there. There are several reasons why this movie freaked me out: the setting (people being in places where something really horrible once happened without knowing about that awful thing - really freaks me out), the religious symbolism (raised catholic), the gore, the strange lighting, and there was something about the people in hell having their eyes torn out that really freaked me out. I was so scared of this movie for so long. It gave me such a terrible feeling. I’ve watched it several times since - both with other people and alone - and I love it now. But that initial feeling that I got from this movie was really rough. I had nightmares. No movie has ever had a similar effect on me and I watch a lot of horror.
I love this movie! Space horror done right, even with its production problems. I always thought this is a great Warhammer 40K Chaos and the Warp movie. It's great to know that it was influenced by it! I just wish they could have saved the original unedited footage.
I really like the fact they used the Dyson Sphere in this film. They even got the science behind it pretty close to the original concept using real physics.
good review, side note: in "the haunting" the person 'haunting' the house is actually eleanor herself. she is actually controlling what is happening because it is indicated early in the movie she caused poltergeist activity as a girl. this is why markway's wife gets lost in the house near the end, because eleanor is jealous of her.
I just LOVE this movie. I'm French and saw it in London during a trip. Later on, as it was going to be (unceremoniously) release in France, the movie livers association I was in, in my University, made previews of the film. So I made sure all my friends could come. They ALL still remember the preview and live the film. You forgot to mention that Soldier is an unofficial sequel to Blade Runner. About the lost scenes it was probably some Paramount executives who chose to "lost" them to be sure they wouldn't be blamed later on if a director's cut proved to be better and, therefore, that they were wrong to cut it down. The same kind who told that the Snyder Cut never existed, or told the director of the 1998 adaptation of the English series Avengers, when he asked for the cut footage to edit the director's cut he was promised by WB for its home release "everything that was shot is on the screen"... To the freaking DIRECTOR who KNEW what he was forced to cut... despite half of the trailers being scenes not in the film ! 🙄😤
One of the most awesome science fiction movies I have seen. The action, the horror, the special fx, the storyline, the acting: it all just flows together in one hell of a ride, literally. That other movie from Paul Anderson ‘Soldier’ suck.ed big-time though. Hope they find the missing scenes so I can view Anderson’s true vision. I’ll definitely be looking out for that TV series from WB/Amazon.
This was my favorite movie when it came out... I still have my vhs copy my best friend gave me for my birthday in the summer of 98. I watched it so much the tape is worn from the vcr heads.
I absolutely love Men in Black and The Fifth Element, but THIS movie? THIS was GLORIOUS! As soon as it was available on VHS (yep) I watched at least 4 times back to back just to catch things I missed the first time in theater! I was 14 when it was in theater and 15 when I bought it.....and to this day it's near the top of my absolute favorite Science Fiction!
Saw this flick in theaters when it came out, thinking it was something creepy in space, perhaps like Alien. We got home at midnight. Neither of us wanted to get out of the car we were so freaked out. That was the only night in my life I actually slept with the lights on I was so unsettled. And I wasn't a child, I was 19 at the time lol.
Sean Pertwee is one of my favourite actors, I remember him in a BBC version of Romeo&Juliette that was a bit Baz Lerma'ish... but was fooooking awesome! He plays a brilliant bastard!
You know, it's funny. I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of media. Doom video games? Love. Hellraiser movies? Hate. Nightmare On Elm Street? Love. Friday The Thirteenth? Hate. I walked out of Idle Hands in the theater. Back and forth. I'm not sure why. But Event Horizon was special. It somehow rode that love/hate line just right, keeping me constantly uncomfortable and watching through between my fingers. It was awful! It was amazing! I hated it and loved it simultaneously. No other movie has abused me so horribly yet kept me just fascinated enough to keep asking for more. I both hope and fear the lost scenes get found some day or get reconstructed with digital remastering. A director's cut would be epic.
My favorite horror movie, period. One of the few that actually scared the shit out of me outside of my childhood. Sam Neil is top-notch, and honestly the whole damn cast did an amazing job.
It was indeed a very dark film, and I've watched it a few times over the years, glad I found this video, thanks for the nightmare memories ;) So now your saying there is a series in the works for this film? hmmmm I don't know if it's a good idea or not. However if they adapt some aspects from the game warhammer 40K, it could work.
The most terrifying horror movie for me personally. The first movie I can remember where the good guys don't actually win. Sure they escape in the end but they do so with the knowledge that nothing they do in life can save them from the hell that awaits. Nihilistic yes, but also horrifying. "Liberate tuteme ex inferis." The moment they realized they heard it wrong, poop hits the fan.
If I recall, the assistant commander, Stark, was still traumatized when she woke up after the rescue team's arrival, even though she was practically the only one nothing had really happened to (compared to the rest of the crew). So I just imagine her as being like Jaws the Revenge's Ellen Brody, constantly sensing and mentally linked to the presence of evils from the other side. And, for that matter, like Ripley at the start of Aliens.
I saw this movie in a theater with expectations of a regular sci-fi movie. I was so surprised by the horror theme and mood that I didn't expect at all. It was great. One of my more memorable theatrical experiences.
One thing that stood out when I saw it, was the ending.. Maybe I remember it wrong but I thought that Starck, the female survivor, had not seen S.Neil´s transformation to «cut up, without the eyes» earlier in the movie. That would mean that «the dream» she was awaken from, was not really a dream..
When I compare it to my childhood movies like The Thing or Aliens, non of those has a creepy impact on me nowadays. But Event Horizon is different and I struggle every time to watch it again :)
I love rewatching Event Horizon when I want to see batshit space horror. It’s perfect for that. :-) (I also like Soldier - it’s one of my guilty pleasures and not what I’d consider a bad film. Can we get a 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Soldier please?)
I always thought, when I watch this movie back in the day, that it remembered me a lot of Doom the game and I always thought this would have been awesome Doom movie and I think this movie looks a lot better then the 2005 Doom movie
This is one of the best sci fi horror movies of all time. Only Aliens beasts it for sheer terror and dread. I wish the directors cut had survived, and i really hope the TV series does it justice.
I liked this movie when it ended up on HBO… I was still a bit younger but hey on weekends I could watch rated R with mom lol. This movie scared and freaked me out a little but I just liked it and had to watch it multiple times 🤣
Fact also: Sam Neill played another psycho role in The mouth of Madness again about a man descent in madness Fact also: The end credit music was by Prodigy wich for me made it from 4 stars to 5 stars..a masterpiece
Thanks Minty. I think the movie is much more powerful being about the supernatural and not just about aliens. Although I admit to being a fan of movies like Alien and Aliens. Apparently, the excellent video game Doom 3 was visually inspired by Event Horizon.
I remember I went to cinema to watch exactly this movie, maybe in 1998 here in Europe and when I arrived, it was cancelled as there were too few people to watch it....😂 What a pity....
I remember seeing this when it came out starts all Sci-fi before going into full-on horror. Then samples of Laurence Fishburne talking about fire in zero gravity started getting used in psytrance tracks at all the raves.
Seriously doubt it was ever considered to be titled " The Stars my Destination" is a very famous novel by Alfred Bester which regularly gets talked about being made into a movie and has nothing particularly similar to Event Horizon , the much vaunted deleted gore footage in the massively mystified original cut is exaggerated and not much different from the theatrical release , the original cut was a massive snoozefest and needed tightening up
So some of the original scenes are likely lost forever, but couldn’t we just have the crew/cast put their thoughts together and describe what those missing scenes were like and recreate them? I’d rather have something than nothing.
Saw this in cinema when it was released, I always thought it was a bit rushed and toned down, have always wondered if the original cut was shown in the cinema, would it have been a bigger hit?
And yes, I regularly use Event Horizon to explain Warp Travel in Warhammer 40K to people that have no clue about the lore. If they have seen Event Horizon I just go "Well, in 40K all interstellar travel is basically like Event Horizon. They take a shortcut through Hell and it is about as safe as that sounds."
I love the exterior too. The design in this movie is inching way above its weight. Never really been a fan of PWSA but what he pulled off here is amazing.
The weird thing is according to Wikipedia and TV Tropes the interior of Event Horizon was designed courtesy of THE example of Gothic architecture….Notre Dame Cathedral De Paris.
Love this movie. Just a note,the Event Horizon was not designed/built to explore other dimensions. It was just meant to travel FTL by folding space. The traveling to other dimension was basically an accident. -
I like how there was such a simple explanation how a space warp works in this movie. It's basically the same concept as the so-called "faster than light" warp speed in Star Trek and hyperspace in Star Wars. Nothing like a little cool astrophysics before the horror starts!
Saw this in the theater with my friends in high school. Was instantly one of my favorite horror movies I’d ever seen. We walked out the theater blown away. So good.
Before my cousin passed away, we would watch this movie at least once a year. We saw this as kids when it first came out, this changed my look on horror movies. Still stands tall today as one of the best horror movies ever!
@@plaidjunky Oh snap! That game was excellent. The story line is better than Doom 3 (Altman Be Praised!) but Doom 3 is waay scarier than Dead Space. I once accidently set off my shot gun, it scared the hell out me and buddy! LOL!
Haha me too...actually the concept of the whole movie scared the crap out of me when watching this as a teen. If you actually think about it something like this could probably happen in the future if we tinker around with science we should be messing with.
Interesting! I never saw this movie, but I'm a big Lovecraft fan. I'm gonna have to watch it now. I'd been meaning to anyway, just hadn't got around to it.
My take isn't that the ship went to hell or any place that's literally malevolent. I think they went to a place where reality simply isn't the same, where they actual laws of physics are toxic to what we consider normal life and even the ordered nature of existence. There's no deacons on the other side, just a world that exists in its own natural state. The issue arose when this ship and crew from one universe entered a universe that wasn't compatible with them, the new universe corrupted the ship and crew causing all of them to break down in terms of what's expected on our side. We see this indicated by the new crews hallucinations, these are not agents from another dimension, they are manifestations of the people as the corruption slowly alters how their very minds work. And our crew is only exposed to this effect second hand, it looks like the original crew suffered more extreme effects almost instantly upon arriving in a universe where entropy logic cause and effect or any number of other constants we are accustomed to simply don't work the same. I dont think there's much of a story there for the original crew.
I saw this in the theater when it came out. I never even considered it was a flop until years later and getting the box office info passed on to me. It was absolutely amazing to me when I saw it. Nothing like it. Then again I've had a habit of liking movies that gain recognition later.
As far as horror Sci-Fi goes Event Horizon is at the top of the list. It is definitely not an Alien rip off. There is another movie I get it confused with that's similar. I think it's Pandorum? But Pandorum came out much later.
@@thetvbaby83 there's more to people seeing movies than just movies being good. A lot of times releases have been blown with lousy promotion. Or a movie will come out while another movie is doing really well. If everyone is going to see a popular movie not many are going to go see anything else.
I also saw this at the theater and was enthralled the entire time. I think that if it hadn't been rushed, a longer cut had been allowed, and it premiered around Halloween, Event Horizon would have done better at the box office. I'm just glad that it's become a cult classic. The film and everyone involved deserve recognition for this masterpiece.
It was date night for me, we were both into scary movies and serious Sam Neill fans. Last showing off the night, in a theatre that I saw Conan decades earlier. So the theatre was empty and run down yet familiar. Totally added to the vibe. Was so freaked out that I had to open and check the trunk yet was too scared to do so. We had to count down and do it together. Was creeped out for a week.
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This is a horror masterpiece. Most horror movies make me laugh because they are ridiculous. This one had me glued to the big screen with genuine psychological terror running through my head. True story time. When I saw this opening night with my buddy we were watching and my buddy's cellphone went off in his pants in vibration only mode and it was right when Dr. Wier was in the green tunnels trying to fix the circuit board and his dead wife shows up. My bud screamed out like a little girl and jumped up out of his seat. I tried so hard not to die laughing but I failed and so did other around us. Great memory of watching this classic.
The previous crew scene played in slow motion is the most horrifying thing I had ever seen in my life at that point. It freaked me out, and that vision of the caption with his eyes in his hands still to this day messes with my head, this film is bloody epic.
Yes absolutely! It wasn't just the footage itself, it was the way they built up to the reveal of it, from a crackly bit of audio which they didn't translate properly to realising what was actually being said and finally viewing the footage, such a well executed bit of writing/film making the way they did that, its definitely the bit which always sticks with me too.
It wasn't used in experiments to travel to other dimensions of the space/time continuum. It had an experimental FTL drive, which was supposed to move vast distances in space very quickly by creating intermittent quantum singularities. It entering another dimension was an unexpected side effect.
He is an underrated actor, though quite capable of pulling off a wide variety of different genres. A movie of his that had a limited audience when it was first released is “ Until the End of the World “.
I talk about In the Mouth of Madness to other people and no one I know has seen it. I was young when I saw both that and Event Horizon and they both terrified me. That scene where he's driving and keeps seeing the guy by the side of the road? I had nightmares about that one for like a week lol
The fact that we're still talking about this movie can mean only one thing..... Absolute Classic. "Where YOU'RE going, you wont need eyes to see!" Still gives me the shivers.
Yep first movie that kept me awake at night as an adult, I actually slept with the lights on the first night after seeing it, for me it was the scenes and audio from the previous crew! Definitely a masterpiece and I hope Paramount learned their lesson with watering down the movie and the series doesn't pull and punches. It would be awesome to have a sequel with flash backs to the prequel content.
@@anydaynow01 Yes i clearly remember that scene where they're trying to decipher the crews logs with not much success and then........as if the ship wanted them to see it....the screaming cuts in. However with the current state of HW right now, i'd prefer them to stay well away from this.
I watched this film not long after it was released, I was about 14 years old and it has stuck with me ever since. Yes, it has it's shortcomings and would have loved to see the original cut, but the idea was there and it was just so original. Then we had Sphere a year later which tried to do a similar thing and failed. I am going to watch this again now with the knowledge of film study I have obtained over the years and see if it still feels the same as it did back then. Also, I picked up at the time that what happened to original crew of the ship is theoretically what could happen if we were able to create a wormhole in space. Up becomes down, inside becomes outside, basically Hell and just add a supernatural element to it. Will always be one of my favourite horror films.
Funny story. Barry Levinson made and released Wag The Dog while cutting Sphere. Talk about crazy. Also, I think Sphere was clearly a lighter movie than Event Horizon.
I'm a little older than you, I'd have been about 17 when it came out on VHS. Horror has never been my thing and that's why it never appealed to me but I can definitely understand why people love it. I would have got Sphere when that came out too and at the time I would have enjoyed them to a similar degree. But each time I watched Event Horizon I enjoyed it less and less, but Sphere got more enjoyable each time.
@@jamesabernethy7896 I couldn't help but compare the two at the time, was like White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen, same premise, but different take on it
I once watched The Black Hole and Event Horizon back to back. They tell such similar stories, yet are wildly different movies! I got to see Event Horizon in the theater, and while it gets weak toward the end when Sam Neil goes full-on slasher, the film as a whole is solid and memorable. I particularly loved Laurence Fishburne's character. He's extremely competent, courageous, devoted to his crew, makes all the right decisions, and ends up more screwed than any character I've ever seen in any movie. Also, his instructions to the crewman who's about to get blown into space without a pressure suit are spot on, and the scene is the most accurate depiction of what decompression does to a human body I've ever seen in cinema. Finally, I play Elite Dangerous, an amazing space MMO. I built a rescue ship in the game and named her Lewis and Clark, and regularly come across fleet carriers (giant ships owned by players) named Event Horizon. I avoid them.
One of my personal "Holy Crap!" moments in revisiting films from my childhood was the realization that The Black Hole isn't really the scifi movie I always thought it was. But rather a horror movie set in space. All the tropes are there. The score is moody and ominous. The set design either dark and foreboding or hellish and chaotic. The Cygnus is a forgotten Gothic castle or cathedral. Rheinhart is the mad scientist pushing the boundaries of human knowledge to places it has never been, having the monomaniacal drive of Dr. Frankenstein and the hypnotic, theatrical baring of Count Dracula. Maximillian is his brooding monster who looks like the unholy mechanical combination of a gorilla and a spider (and might be the one actually in charge.) The crew are zombies. The sentry robots are animated skeletons. Old B.O.B is that hunchback living in the basement who tries to warn those pesky kids to get back in their van and get out of there before something bad happens to them. The effects are a little wobbly in places but do an excellent job communicating the scale and impact of the various set pieces. And while it isn't without its share of action scenes, laser gun fights, and cute robots, the film never loses its sinister and by the end desperate undertones as the crew of the Palomino tries to escape being dragged to figurative Hell by Rheinhart's insane obsession. Definitely worth a watch. Especially if you enjoyed Event Horizon.
I first saw the trailer for this film on my VHS copy of Star Trek First Contact. I immediately was like "My God, this looks scary." It wasn't until I was in my early 20s I finally got it on DVD and watched it. I think it's easily one of the best horror sci-fi films ever. And even though not mentioned, it took some inspiration from HP Lovecraft with its cosmic horror and people being driven to insanity by forces that are never seen, but felt all around. I'm happy it became a cult classic and is seen in a better light. Some movies just aren't appreciated in their time.
I twigged to this movie the same way. I can't remember what movie I was watching the on DVD and it showed this as a trailer. I spun on my chair to my computer and ordered it immediately. Never regretted it.
In Warhammer 40K that alternate dimension is simply called The Warp, and ships have a machine on board called a Gellar Field to try and keeps the demons back. If the Gellar Field fails, you're fucked. Possibly literally.
Why in the community,, those that love this movie, we call it essentially a Prequel to 40k. "This is why we invented Gellar Fields in the first place!" xD
@@dust_bin_gaming7319 Interesting. If this is a prequel to 40k, Disney's The Black Hole is a prequel to this. Similar concept, just nowhere near as dark.
The Director's Cut of the movie is said to have been lost or destroyed, as it contained the Blood Orgy scene, which was so strong, audiences felt sick to their stomach after watching it.
@@dust_bin_gaming7319 I'm one of those massively morbidly curious types, it's why I studied forensic science before moving on to cybersecurity instead haha. It's a curse more than anything else :D
It is a true space horror masterpiece, one that perhaps was a little too complicated to understand for a lot of folks & dumb critics, especially when it came to the subject of accidentally traveling through other dimensions by means of its original intended design and mission (as already mentioned FTL) of folding time and space with its own black-hole generator. Overall it’s one of my favorite all-time horror movies.
I remember watching it when it came out. I liked it a lot, and I'm surprised it took as long as it did to catch on. Just too bad that a good chunk of the movie is missing like that. It's still far better than most garbage coming out now. And as for "critics" they're worse than ever now. I don't know why they even have them either for movies or games or whatever they're all so out of touch... i go by user reviews. If "critics" like it, normal people hate it, and if normal people like something then those morons always just complain and give it bad scores. It's actually worst with "game journalists".... ughh. Who needs them.
@@Chilling_Chilling I completely agree, that is definitely a subject that could’ve been further explored, unfortunately all we got was around 30 seconds of that horrifying footage that was caught on camera.
Im pretty sure that the Event Horizon ship wasn't used for experiments going into other dimensions. It was a prototype for a new type of space travel called folding space. When it was tested it disappeared and didn't appear at its destination. 7 years later it reappeared and an investigation was set. Its found that the ship crossed into another dimension during the space fold and bought something back with it making the ship alive somehow
The Event Horizon would have successfully navigated The Warp if the had The Emperor's Guiding Light across the Astronomicon...(I should have seen the WH40K influence before Minty mentioned it...) I love this movie! It truly is some Funky Shit...
It occurred to me that if the style of the ship is based on gothic cathedrals then that's another pretty big link between Event Horizon and 40K. Would be wonderful to see a director's cut version of this.
I adore this film. It will forever be in my top ten. There is so much more to it, an almost Cameron-like level of detail and nuance. I can only hope that the Anderson cut will be released some day. Thanks Minty.
What's really interesting is that movie's story fits so well into the Warhammer 40K lore of the Warp. It's my head cannon that the movie happens tens of thousands of years before current Warhammer 40K timeline, as it's basically the very first attempt at traveling through the Warp, and not having a Navigator to do it is basically instant fail, horrible, horrible, fail. The ship entered the Warp without a Navigator who can see the...things in the Warp and steer the ship clear of them, the crew got possessed by the Warp entities, and then it came out of the Warp.
There is a nod to it in the newest T'au codex E-H DISRUPTION SUITE Abbreviated from ‘Event Horizon’ Disruption Suite, this highly experimental package employs salvaged alien tech to nullify energy-pulses, signal bursts and other more esoteric energies. Cool bit of colour on one of their prototype systems
When I first saw this movie it was disturbing AF, but like you said it's memorable and distinct. The horrific imagery, the concepts, the characters and the story are all memorable. Most movies these days are forgotten quickly, but this one sticks in the mind and makes you reflect on its themes and concepts long after you watch it. That speaks well of Event Horizon, and so far I've watched it 3 times.
As a 40k fan, when I first saw this film it’s whole theme of travelling through a hellish dimension reminded me of the game. Now I know why! Thanks for this fact Minty!
I enjoyed Event Horizon, it's well written and I love the cast. One thing I noticed this movie was based on Ancient Documents where Ancient Cultures of old had actually opened these Gateways. These are called: Stargates.
I remember going to see this movie twice in theaters! That's a rarity for me. I remember it being out for only like 3 weeks in my theater, and that was a sure sign it was a flop, but I didn't understand why. It fit right in with my love of Hellraiser and Predator and body horror films. It's still one of my all time favorite movies and I wish I had the DVD for it! And while you mentioned that Sam Neill had Jurassic Park fame going for him, it was him in In the Mouth of Madness that sold me on watching this film!
Same here! Pretty much never see movies a 2nd time at a theater. I went to see it with some friends on release, not knowing anything about it, we came out physically shaking from what we just experienced. I knew this had moved the bar for horror, and dragged another friend to the cinema to watch it 1 week later, and it was already in one of the much smaller screems and there were hardly any people in the theatre. Having discovered how much it underperformed financially, I'm proud to have contributed twice as much as usual to the box office release.
I wish I had seen this in theater. Sadly saw it on VHS the first time . . . Still amazing, but getting it on Bluray was a dream (or at least a very pretty nightmare).
Too bad about the missing and damaged deleted scenes, I'd really like to see this the way it was intended. I really don't like super graphic blood baths, but the Hell scenes are the bottom line to the story. I like using my imagination for many things, but this is one movie I'd really like to know the ultimate fate of both crews in very visual ways. You know what I mean.
I got a hold of the copy where they show a one second image of what I can only describe as a blood orgy on the bridge of the ship and boy was it fucked up. It was like an S&M bondage snuff film of sorts. And Minty when you say you watch this movie and you can't forget about it, after seeing that, I still have it burned in my brain, completely devastating, but man, it was a good movie. *Oh yeah I forgot to mention it was the director's cut. I don't know how I got a hold of it but I never seen it again. You know you let someone borrow it and you never get it back. I even look for it in the stores, but could never find it.*
Both Event Horizon and Soldier were excellent films. I still regularly watch both. Both are criminally under-rated for such a long time and are, only now, gaining the recognition they rightly deserve.
if there was ever a movie that deserves a directors cut, it would be Event Horizon. I think that with todays technology the "unusable" footage could become usable and that the poor quality of the footage would actually add to the creepy factor. Someone get a message to Anderson and tell him I would buy a copy of his directors cut.
It’s not just the quality of the original cut but the content itself. Supposedly the scene where we see the original crew mutilating themselves goes on longer and shows the true horror of what they were doing. Tearing each other’s intestines out and raping mutilated people who weren’t dead yet was apparently in the cut scene and was deemed too much for any American rating system.
This movie is one of those that still unsettles me greatly. The evil depicted feel tangible , only a thin layer away from us. Ruinous powers dwell in the places between insanity and dreams.
Go and have another look at "Prince of Darkness" if you need a really good "evil just on the other side of a very thin membrane... that is being broken here and there!"-type of movie! Still giving me the shudders after all these years! 📺🤔😯😱❗Squeam? Scream!
When my wife and I saw this movie, we were the only ones in the theater. It scared the piss out of me, and remains one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen to this day.
This is one of the few brilliant movies which I never want to see again.
That's good I don't like alot of people.
One of the most underrated
and disturbing Horror/Sci-fi flicks ever .
Classic .
Although I would have loved to have seen. Paul WS. Anderson directed X-Men movie.
Very, very disturbing...the laws of physics breakdown and no longer apply at the singularity at the heart of a black hole..we do not even know if time itself has any meaning there...spooky film but I love it.
lol it was terrible . watch the red letter media breakdown of it.
Yeah its not a classic. Get your shit straight.
@@MrDman21 fuck that!!!! You damn well know Paul Worthless Shit Anderson is a HORRIBLE director!!!!!
"WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE WON'T NEED EYES TO SEE"
This movie is a MASTERPIECE, (at least to me). It is a shame that we probably never see the director's cut. I wish there was more movies like this one!
Damn that line sticks with me to this day! It's my bedtime movie.
Its not only to you
@@obriantucker2256 It is only to me, me me me.
I would suggest pandorum
@@jameslarkin750 Yes i saw Pandorum, good suggestion my friend! Also a very underrated movie! I love it! Amazing ending! 👍👌
This is the only horror movie that actually scared the sh*T out of me. I watched it late at night - all by myself - the night before my parents were about to go away on a trip for a week. What a bad idea that was. I was alone in a big house for the first time since my grandma had passed and for some reason this movie did something to me that no other movie ever really did. It completely unnerved me. I was so freaked out and I didn’t know why. Every night I would come home from work to an empty house and, before I could go to bed, I had to walk room to room with a knife in my hand to check every closet and every corner to make sure I was completely alone in the house. I even checked the now empty apartment over the garage where my grandma used to live. The idea that a whole part of the house was just empty like that really freaked me out. I was always super freaked out going up there. There are several reasons why this movie freaked me out: the setting (people being in places where something really horrible once happened without knowing about that awful thing - really freaks me out), the religious symbolism (raised catholic), the gore, the strange lighting, and there was something about the people in hell having their eyes torn out that really freaked me out. I was so scared of this movie for so long. It gave me such a terrible feeling. I’ve watched it several times since - both with other people and alone - and I love it now. But that initial feeling that I got from this movie was really rough. I had nightmares. No movie has ever had a similar effect on me and I watch a lot of horror.
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@@Breakdafunklooseforever I’ve seen it. I liked that one, but it didn’t mess me up like this one did. Lol
This movie is considered to be the closest thing to 40k Warp travel, put to film.
Travel.. without the use of Gellar Fields* xD
Amazing movie, I remember it scaring the crap out of me as a kid and finding it again in college. Held up on the rewatch and still holds up today.
I love this movie!
Space horror done right, even with its production problems.
I always thought this is a great Warhammer 40K Chaos and the Warp movie.
It's great to know that it was influenced by it!
I just wish they could have saved the original unedited footage.
Love your videos Minty! So much information, delivered with such personality and flair. Keep ‘em coming.
I really like the fact they used the Dyson Sphere in this film. They even got the science behind it pretty close to the original concept using real physics.
good review, side note: in "the haunting" the person 'haunting' the house is actually eleanor herself. she is actually controlling what is happening because it is indicated early in the movie she caused poltergeist activity as a girl. this is why markway's wife gets lost in the house near the end, because eleanor is jealous of her.
I just LOVE this movie.
I'm French and saw it in London during a trip.
Later on, as it was going to be (unceremoniously) release in France, the movie livers association I was in, in my University, made previews of the film. So I made sure all my friends could come. They ALL still remember the preview and live the film.
You forgot to mention that Soldier is an unofficial sequel to Blade Runner.
About the lost scenes it was probably some Paramount executives who chose to "lost" them to be sure they wouldn't be blamed later on if a director's cut proved to be better and, therefore, that they were wrong to cut it down.
The same kind who told that the Snyder Cut never existed, or told the director of the 1998 adaptation of the English series Avengers, when he asked for the cut footage to edit the director's cut he was promised by WB for its home release "everything that was shot is on the screen"... To the freaking DIRECTOR who KNEW what he was forced to cut... despite half of the trailers being scenes not in the film ! 🙄😤
Don't remind me about Avengers '98. I actually saw it in theaters, and was highly disappointed. James Bond deserved better.
One of the most awesome science fiction movies I have seen. The action, the horror, the special fx, the storyline, the acting: it all just flows together in one hell of a ride, literally. That other movie from Paul Anderson ‘Soldier’ suck.ed big-time though. Hope they find the missing scenes so I can view Anderson’s true vision. I’ll definitely be looking out for that TV series from WB/Amazon.
This was my favorite movie when it came out... I still have my vhs copy my best friend gave me for my birthday in the summer of 98. I watched it so much the tape is worn from the vcr heads.
I absolutely love Men in Black and The Fifth Element, but THIS movie? THIS was GLORIOUS! As soon as it was available on VHS (yep) I watched at least 4 times back to back just to catch things I missed the first time in theater! I was 14 when it was in theater and 15 when I bought it.....and to this day it's near the top of my absolute favorite Science Fiction!
the first 2 movies we rented in VHS when I was a kid (10-11yo) was this and Flubber lol
I would like the tv series be a scene-for-scene remake of the directors cut. Given the quality of special effects now, I think it is possible.
Saw this flick in theaters when it came out, thinking it was something creepy in space, perhaps like Alien.
We got home at midnight. Neither of us wanted to get out of the car we were so freaked out. That was the only night in my life I actually slept with the lights on I was so unsettled. And I wasn't a child, I was 19 at the time lol.
wish it had an easter egg somewhere saying the ship was made by the union aerospace corporation
it's such a tragedy that they let the archives rot to crap so we never get to see a Director's cut
Sooo gutted we ever got to see the full cut of this film😭😭😭
Sean Pertwee is one of my favourite actors, I remember him in a BBC version of Romeo&Juliette that was a bit Baz Lerma'ish... but was fooooking awesome! He plays a brilliant bastard!
You know, it's funny. I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of media. Doom video games? Love. Hellraiser movies? Hate. Nightmare On Elm Street? Love. Friday The Thirteenth? Hate. I walked out of Idle Hands in the theater. Back and forth. I'm not sure why. But Event Horizon was special. It somehow rode that love/hate line just right, keeping me constantly uncomfortable and watching through between my fingers. It was awful! It was amazing! I hated it and loved it simultaneously. No other movie has abused me so horribly yet kept me just fascinated enough to keep asking for more. I both hope and fear the lost scenes get found some day or get reconstructed with digital remastering. A director's cut would be epic.
Saw it in cinema back in 97. Was terrified unexpectedly. Awesome movie still.
My favorite horror movie, period. One of the few that actually scared the shit out of me outside of my childhood. Sam Neil is top-notch, and honestly the whole damn cast did an amazing job.
It was indeed a very dark film, and I've watched it a few times over the years, glad I found this video, thanks for the nightmare memories ;) So now your saying there is a series in the works for this film? hmmmm I don't know if it's a good idea or not. However if they adapt some aspects from the game warhammer 40K, it could work.
The most terrifying horror movie for me personally. The first movie I can remember where the good guys don't actually win. Sure they escape in the end but they do so with the knowledge that nothing they do in life can save them from the hell that awaits. Nihilistic yes, but also horrifying.
"Liberate tuteme ex inferis." The moment they realized they heard it wrong, poop hits the fan.
If I recall, the assistant commander, Stark, was still traumatized when she woke up after the rescue team's arrival, even though she was practically the only one nothing had really happened to (compared to the rest of the crew). So I just imagine her as being like Jaws the Revenge's Ellen Brody, constantly sensing and mentally linked to the presence of evils from the other side. And, for that matter, like Ripley at the start of Aliens.
I saw this movie in a theater with expectations of a regular sci-fi movie. I was so surprised by the horror theme and mood that I didn't expect at all. It was great. One of my more memorable theatrical experiences.
One thing that stood out when I saw it, was the ending.. Maybe I remember it wrong but I thought that Starck, the female survivor, had not seen S.Neil´s transformation to «cut up, without the eyes» earlier in the movie. That would mean that «the dream» she was awaken from, was not really a dream..
When I compare it to my childhood movies like The Thing or Aliens, non of those has a creepy impact on me nowadays. But Event Horizon is different and I struggle every time to watch it again :)
This movie was disturbing in a way that’s really hard to explain. Like, Hell doesn’t feel far away.
A movie that deserves a modern remake.
I love rewatching Event Horizon when I want to see batshit space horror. It’s perfect for that. :-) (I also like Soldier - it’s one of my guilty pleasures and not what I’d consider a bad film. Can we get a 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Soldier please?)
I watched this movie while high and oh do I regret it
In one of the scenes in Soldier, the Event Horizon (the ship) can be seen in the junk yard.
I always thought, when I watch this movie back in the day, that it remembered me a lot of Doom the game and I always thought this would have been awesome Doom movie and I think this movie looks a lot better then the 2005 Doom movie
This is one of the best sci fi horror movies of all time. Only Aliens beasts it for sheer terror and dread.
I wish the directors cut had survived, and i really hope the TV series does it justice.
I liked this movie when it ended up on HBO… I was still a bit younger but hey on weekends I could watch rated R with mom lol. This movie scared and freaked me out a little but I just liked it and had to watch it multiple times 🤣
Fact also: Sam Neill played another psycho role in The mouth of Madness again about a man descent in madness
Fact also: The end credit music was by Prodigy wich for me made it from 4 stars to 5 stars..a masterpiece
This film is what happens when you fail a "perils of the warp" check in Warhammer 40k.
Thanks Minty. I think the movie is much more powerful being about the supernatural and not just about aliens. Although I admit to being a fan of movies like Alien and Aliens. Apparently, the excellent video game Doom 3 was visually inspired by Event Horizon.
Thanx Minty your vids are great bro
Saw this in the cinema. Brilliant film
I remember I went to cinema to watch exactly this movie, maybe in 1998 here in Europe and when I arrived, it was cancelled as there were too few people to watch it....😂 What a pity....
One of my favourite movies.
Omg i laughed out loud when they theought it was gunna be a darker startrek
One of my favorite movies
“The Stars My Destination” is an Alfred Bester novel, which would have cause serious confusion/angst. Also, Bester’s novel is better.
I still need to check this out
Think I saw this twice. Always forget about it.
I like to think this movie has an in universe connection to Hellraiser.
TOAD OF A MOVIE !!!!
I remember seeing this when it came out starts all Sci-fi before going into full-on horror.
Then samples of Laurence Fishburne talking about fire in zero gravity started getting used in psytrance tracks at all the raves.
I'm glad for the heads up about the gore. I had wanted to see it but now I won't.
Seriously doubt it was ever considered to be titled " The Stars my Destination" is a very famous novel by Alfred Bester which regularly gets talked about being made into a movie and has nothing particularly similar to Event Horizon , the much vaunted deleted gore footage in the massively mystified original cut is exaggerated and not much different from the theatrical release , the original cut was a massive snoozefest and needed tightening up
So some of the original scenes are likely lost forever, but couldn’t we just have the crew/cast put their thoughts together and describe what those missing scenes were like and recreate them? I’d rather have something than nothing.
Saw this in cinema when it was released, I always thought it was a bit rushed and toned down, have always wondered if the original cut was shown in the cinema, would it have been a bigger hit?
" and if you do know it, you're as weird as me" BEST response to those "I already knew all 10" comments
And yes, I regularly use Event Horizon to explain Warp Travel in Warhammer 40K to people that have no clue about the lore.
If they have seen Event Horizon I just go "Well, in 40K all interstellar travel is basically like Event Horizon. They take a shortcut through Hell and it is about as safe as that sounds."
Luckily I checked for a reference to 40k warp travel b4 writing one.
Haha "as safe as that sounds." great explanation.
Ah yes, Space Hulks.. Event Horizon with an optional dash of Alien/s.
Hilarious 😂 my other 40k friend sounds just like you. 👍
In W40K they use a Gellar (sp?) Field to repel the demonic incursions so EH could absolutely fit right in.
I absolutely loved the interior of the ship. It was such a haunting mix of sci-fi and gothic architecture.
I noticed they utilized pneumatic palm sanders as door switches in the long corridor of the Event Horizon.
The gravity drive is also like a representation of the biblical definition of Angel.
Well it was influenced by Warhammer 40k
I love the exterior too. The design in this movie is inching way above its weight. Never really been a fan of PWSA but what he pulled off here is amazing.
The weird thing is according to Wikipedia and TV Tropes the interior of Event Horizon was designed courtesy of THE example of Gothic architecture….Notre Dame Cathedral De Paris.
Love this movie. Just a note,the Event Horizon was not designed/built to explore other dimensions. It was just meant to travel FTL by folding space. The traveling to other dimension was basically an accident. -
I like how there was such a simple explanation how a space warp works in this movie. It's basically the same concept as the so-called "faster than light" warp speed in Star Trek and hyperspace in Star Wars. Nothing like a little cool astrophysics before the horror starts!
Saw this in the theater with my friends in high school. Was instantly one of my favorite horror movies I’d ever seen. We walked out the theater blown away. So good.
You got it!! Great film, he must have missed the pen and paper scene lol
@Krogan Love This response is why I love the internet. ❤️
I name my crew and ship after event horizon in FTL the game
Before my cousin passed away, we would watch this movie at least once a year. We saw this as kids when it first came out, this changed my look on horror movies. Still stands tall today as one of the best horror movies ever!
If you like this moive. Try playing the game Doom 3 (2004) or Doom BFG edition. It is a good horror, gore, space move.
@@fidesign5924 I'll have to check those out, thank you. The Dead Space game was pretty good.
@@plaidjunky Oh snap! That game was excellent. The story line is better than Doom 3 (Altman Be Praised!) but Doom 3 is waay scarier than Dead Space. I once accidently set off my shot gun, it scared the hell out me and buddy! LOL!
@@fidesign5924 I'll have to check that out when I get a chance. Thanks again!
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“Hell is just a word. The reality is much worse…..”
This line gave me chills and stuck with me when I saw this as a young teen… great movie!!
The latin part stay with me since i was a kid.
Liberate tutement ex infernis.
Haha me too...actually the concept of the whole movie scared the crap out of me when watching this as a teen. If you actually think about it something like this could probably happen in the future if we tinker around with science we should be messing with.
One of the very few movies that really creeped me out - brilliant movie.
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@@QuestionEverything562 What if you are vegan?
Event Horizon and In the Mouth of Madness were two of my favorite original horror movies of the 90's. Sam Neill was amazing in both.
One of my creepiest movies. Mouth of madness
Event Horizon is a pure Lovecraftian Horror movie. I would love to see a prequel, to see how the ship went to hell with the original crew.
That would be pretty awesome. I just don't trust Hollywood to deliver these days.
they had to cut that out of Event Horizon the hell scene with the crew recording was a lot longer and more graphic
Interesting! I never saw this movie, but I'm a big Lovecraft fan. I'm gonna have to watch it now. I'd been meaning to anyway, just hadn't got around to it.
It was heavily inspired by Warhammer 40,000 and more specifically The Warp
My take isn't that the ship went to hell or any place that's literally malevolent. I think they went to a place where reality simply isn't the same, where they actual laws of physics are toxic to what we consider normal life and even the ordered nature of existence.
There's no deacons on the other side, just a world that exists in its own natural state.
The issue arose when this ship and crew from one universe entered a universe that wasn't compatible with them, the new universe corrupted the ship and crew causing all of them to break down in terms of what's expected on our side. We see this indicated by the new crews hallucinations, these are not agents from another dimension, they are manifestations of the people as the corruption slowly alters how their very minds work.
And our crew is only exposed to this effect second hand, it looks like the original crew suffered more extreme effects almost instantly upon arriving in a universe where entropy logic cause and effect or any number of other constants we are accustomed to simply don't work the same.
I dont think there's much of a story there for the original crew.
I saw this in the theater when it came out. I never even considered it was a flop until years later and getting the box office info passed on to me. It was absolutely amazing to me when I saw it. Nothing like it. Then again I've had a habit of liking movies that gain recognition later.
As far as horror Sci-Fi goes Event Horizon is at the top of the list. It is definitely not an Alien rip off. There is another movie I get it confused with that's similar. I think it's Pandorum? But Pandorum came out much later.
I have that habit too. The Thing also flopped at the box office - it wasn't a good "date movie" but one of the best sci fi horror films of all time.
So many of the best movies get looked over at release amiright lol
@@thetvbaby83 there's more to people seeing movies than just movies being good. A lot of times releases have been blown with lousy promotion. Or a movie will come out while another movie is doing really well. If everyone is going to see a popular movie not many are going to go see anything else.
I also saw this at the theater and was enthralled the entire time. I think that if it hadn't been rushed, a longer cut had been allowed, and it premiered around Halloween, Event Horizon would have done better at the box office. I'm just glad that it's become a cult classic. The film and everyone involved deserve recognition for this masterpiece.
I love Event Horizon. I saw this movie late one night and it stuck with me ever since. A perfect blend of sci-fi and cosmic horror.
"I want it!".
I saw it yesterday. 😌It’s excellent.😎
It was date night for me, we were both into scary movies and serious Sam Neill fans. Last showing off the night, in a theatre that I saw Conan decades earlier. So the theatre was empty and run down yet familiar. Totally added to the vibe. Was so freaked out that I had to open and check the trunk yet was too scared to do so. We had to count down and do it together. Was creeped out for a week.
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This is a horror masterpiece. Most horror movies make me laugh because they are ridiculous. This one had me glued to the big screen with genuine psychological terror running through my head. True story time. When I saw this opening night with my buddy we were watching and my buddy's cellphone went off in his pants in vibration only mode and it was right when Dr. Wier was in the green tunnels trying to fix the circuit board and his dead wife shows up. My bud screamed out like a little girl and jumped up out of his seat. I tried so hard not to die laughing but I failed and so did other around us. Great memory of watching this classic.
Love this movie. Probably the best blending of sci-fi and horror since Aliens.
The previous crew scene played in slow motion is the most horrifying thing I had ever seen in my life at that point. It freaked me out, and that vision of the caption with his eyes in his hands still to this day messes with my head, this film is bloody epic.
I had no clue those scenes were that f-ed up until recently.
I'm kinda glad I didn't know back then.....
Libera Te Tutemet Ex Inferis!
And the fact those scenes were longer is crazy. But I do think less is more; hence why the video scene is truly fucked up
I agree with everything you said about that scene. It still freaks me out too.
Yes absolutely! It wasn't just the footage itself, it was the way they built up to the reveal of it, from a crackly bit of audio which they didn't translate properly to realising what was actually being said and finally viewing the footage, such a well executed bit of writing/film making the way they did that, its definitely the bit which always sticks with me too.
It wasn't used in experiments to travel to other dimensions of the space/time continuum. It had an experimental FTL drive, which was supposed to move vast distances in space very quickly by creating intermittent quantum singularities. It entering another dimension was an unexpected side effect.
Sam Neil in "In the Mouth of Madness" and "Event Horizon" was fantastic.
I left the theater stunned. And I love it still
He is an underrated actor, though quite capable of pulling off a wide variety of different genres. A movie of his that had a limited audience when it was first released is “ Until the End of the World “.
@@clinttaylor4032 100%
Have you seen Possession? Another Neil creep classic.
@@qohenleth4472 I have not. Sounds like I've got something to check out
I talk about In the Mouth of Madness to other people and no one I know has seen it. I was young when I saw both that and Event Horizon and they both terrified me. That scene where he's driving and keeps seeing the guy by the side of the road? I had nightmares about that one for like a week lol
The fact that we're still talking about this movie can mean only one thing.....
Absolute Classic.
"Where YOU'RE going, you wont need eyes to see!"
Still gives me the shivers.
"Hell is only a word. The reality is far, far worse."
Yep first movie that kept me awake at night as an adult, I actually slept with the lights on the first night after seeing it, for me it was the scenes and audio from the previous crew! Definitely a masterpiece and I hope Paramount learned their lesson with watering down the movie and the series doesn't pull and punches. It would be awesome to have a sequel with flash backs to the prequel content.
@@anydaynow01 Yes i clearly remember that scene where they're trying to decipher the crews logs with not much success and then........as if the ship wanted them to see it....the screaming cuts in. However with the current state of HW right now, i'd prefer them to stay well away from this.
I watched this film not long after it was released, I was about 14 years old and it has stuck with me ever since. Yes, it has it's shortcomings and would have loved to see the original cut, but the idea was there and it was just so original. Then we had Sphere a year later which tried to do a similar thing and failed. I am going to watch this again now with the knowledge of film study I have obtained over the years and see if it still feels the same as it did back then. Also, I picked up at the time that what happened to original crew of the ship is theoretically what could happen if we were able to create a wormhole in space. Up becomes down, inside becomes outside, basically Hell and just add a supernatural element to it. Will always be one of my favourite horror films.
Funny story. Barry Levinson made and released Wag The Dog while cutting Sphere. Talk about crazy. Also, I think Sphere was clearly a lighter movie than Event Horizon.
I'm a little older than you, I'd have been about 17 when it came out on VHS. Horror has never been my thing and that's why it never appealed to me but I can definitely understand why people love it. I would have got Sphere when that came out too and at the time I would have enjoyed them to a similar degree. But each time I watched Event Horizon I enjoyed it less and less, but Sphere got more enjoyable each time.
@@cjplay2 Definitely much lighter, I think they went more for suspense than horror
@@jamesabernethy7896 I couldn't help but compare the two at the time, was like White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen, same premise, but different take on it
@@cjplay2 very much so. The movie Sphere wasn't a bad movie, however the book was so much better.
I once watched The Black Hole and Event Horizon back to back. They tell such similar stories, yet are wildly different movies!
I got to see Event Horizon in the theater, and while it gets weak toward the end when Sam Neil goes full-on slasher, the film as a whole is solid and memorable. I particularly loved Laurence Fishburne's character. He's extremely competent, courageous, devoted to his crew, makes all the right decisions, and ends up more screwed than any character I've ever seen in any movie. Also, his instructions to the crewman who's about to get blown into space without a pressure suit are spot on, and the scene is the most accurate depiction of what decompression does to a human body I've ever seen in cinema.
Finally, I play Elite Dangerous, an amazing space MMO. I built a rescue ship in the game and named her Lewis and Clark, and regularly come across fleet carriers (giant ships owned by players) named Event Horizon.
I avoid them.
Fly safe Commander. o7
Bet your gunna start getting trolled by them lol
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My type 7 was named the Event Horizon, it was the first thing I thought of when I first saw it
Laurence Fishburne is a good actor. IMHO, he underrated.
I liked him/his character in all movies except "Assault on Precinct" remake.
One of my personal "Holy Crap!" moments in revisiting films from my childhood was the realization that The Black Hole isn't really the scifi movie I always thought it was. But rather a horror movie set in space. All the tropes are there. The score is moody and ominous. The set design either dark and foreboding or hellish and chaotic. The Cygnus is a forgotten Gothic castle or cathedral. Rheinhart is the mad scientist pushing the boundaries of human knowledge to places it has never been, having the monomaniacal drive of Dr. Frankenstein and the hypnotic, theatrical baring of Count Dracula. Maximillian is his brooding monster who looks like the unholy mechanical combination of a gorilla and a spider (and might be the one actually in charge.) The crew are zombies. The sentry robots are animated skeletons. Old B.O.B is that hunchback living in the basement who tries to warn those pesky kids to get back in their van and get out of there before something bad happens to them. The effects are a little wobbly in places but do an excellent job communicating the scale and impact of the various set pieces. And while it isn't without its share of action scenes, laser gun fights, and cute robots, the film never loses its sinister and by the end desperate undertones as the crew of the Palomino tries to escape being dragged to figurative Hell by Rheinhart's insane obsession.
Definitely worth a watch. Especially if you enjoyed Event Horizon.
I first saw the trailer for this film on my VHS copy of Star Trek First Contact. I immediately was like "My God, this looks scary." It wasn't until I was in my early 20s I finally got it on DVD and watched it. I think it's easily one of the best horror sci-fi films ever. And even though not mentioned, it took some inspiration from HP Lovecraft with its cosmic horror and people being driven to insanity by forces that are never seen, but felt all around. I'm happy it became a cult classic and is seen in a better light. Some movies just aren't appreciated in their time.
Best is always a hard declaration. Easily among the best. Maybe even top 3 (Alien is possible at the top). A personal favorite.
I twigged to this movie the same way. I can't remember what movie I was watching the on DVD and it showed this as a trailer. I spun on my chair to my computer and ordered it immediately. Never regretted it.
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In Warhammer 40K that alternate dimension is simply called The Warp, and ships have a machine on board called a Gellar Field to try and keeps the demons back. If the Gellar Field fails, you're fucked. Possibly literally.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - Sly Marbo
Why in the community,, those that love this movie, we call it essentially a Prequel to 40k. "This is why we invented Gellar Fields in the first place!" xD
@@dust_bin_gaming7319 Interesting. If this is a prequel to 40k, Disney's The Black Hole is a prequel to this. Similar concept, just nowhere near as dark.
@@saber-jocky3436 Still kinda dark for what we've come to expect from D though! xD
The Director's Cut of the movie is said to have been lost or destroyed, as it contained the Blood Orgy scene, which was so strong, audiences felt sick to their stomach after watching it.
I've wanted to see that cut so much after first hearing that haha
I heard that they hired porn stars for the deleted scenes in question and the original cut of the movie is stored in a Transalvanian salt mine.
@@nicwilson89 Having seen the deleted bits over a decade ago, No... you don't. Unless you've got a really strong stomach.
The orgy scene was filmed next door with eyes wide shut ironically.
@@dust_bin_gaming7319 I'm one of those massively morbidly curious types, it's why I studied forensic science before moving on to cybersecurity instead haha. It's a curse more than anything else :D
It is a true space horror masterpiece, one that perhaps was a little too complicated to understand for a lot of folks & dumb critics, especially when it came to the subject of accidentally traveling through other dimensions by means of its original intended design and mission (as already mentioned FTL) of folding time and space with its own black-hole generator. Overall it’s one of my favorite all-time horror movies.
I remember watching it when it came out. I liked it a lot, and I'm surprised it took as long as it did to catch on. Just too bad that a good chunk of the movie is missing like that. It's still far better than most garbage coming out now.
And as for "critics" they're worse than ever now. I don't know why they even have them either for movies or games or whatever they're all so out of touch... i go by user reviews. If "critics" like it, normal people hate it, and if normal people like something then those morons always just complain and give it bad scores.
It's actually worst with "game journalists".... ughh. Who needs them.
It truly is a masterpiece. I'm glad that it has become a cult classic, as it deserves the recognition.
I just wish there hadn't been so much interference/changing of the original script. I totally wanted to see more of the "other dimension"
@@Chilling_Chilling I completely agree, that is definitely a subject that could’ve been further explored, unfortunately all we got was around 30 seconds of that horrifying footage that was caught on camera.
It's been rumored that its set in the Warhammer 40K universe and they discovered that you can't travel through "space hell" without a psychic shield.
Im pretty sure that the Event Horizon ship wasn't used for experiments going into other dimensions. It was a prototype for a new type of space travel called folding space. When it was tested it disappeared and didn't appear at its destination. 7 years later it reappeared and an investigation was set.
Its found that the ship crossed into another dimension during the space fold and bought something back with it making the ship alive somehow
What a classic, Minty. Great work, sir.
Learning that the original inspiration for EV was Warhammer 40k's Warp just makes it that much more understandable.
Yep, from reports of the contents of the lost footage, the ship must have travelled through Slaanesh's territory
The Emperors light keep you.
This film is a lesson on why you should never travel through the warp without a Gellar Field.
Ha! Very true =P
even if they had their Gellar Field, they lacked a Navigator so the ship would have ended up in the same mess anyway...
The Event Horizon would have successfully navigated The Warp if the had The Emperor's Guiding Light across the Astronomicon...(I should have seen the WH40K influence before Minty mentioned it...) I love this movie! It truly is some Funky Shit...
It occurred to me that if the style of the ship is based on gothic cathedrals then that's another pretty big link between Event Horizon and 40K. Would be wonderful to see a director's cut version of this.
According to Critical Drinker's review (or rather recommendation) video, the film was stored in a salt mine and got too degraded.
I adore this film. It will forever be in my top ten. There is so much more to it, an almost Cameron-like level of detail and nuance. I can only hope that the Anderson cut will be released some day. Thanks Minty.
Absolutely. This was and always will be one of my favorite horror movies. My second fave is another more obscure one: Session 9.
@@entertainmentforall6609 Session 9 is also a fantastic film.
Well it never will as deleted scenes were lost as he said in the video
What's really interesting is that movie's story fits so well into the Warhammer 40K lore of the Warp. It's my head cannon that the movie happens tens of thousands of years before current Warhammer 40K timeline, as it's basically the very first attempt at traveling through the Warp, and not having a Navigator to do it is basically instant fail, horrible, horrible, fail.
The ship entered the Warp without a Navigator who can see the...things in the Warp and steer the ship clear of them, the crew got possessed by the Warp entities, and then it came out of the Warp.
The first human ship into the warp without a Gellar field, ouch!
Not just your head cannon, I think the director linked them as well.
I absolutely think that too! Saw it when it came out - it scared the heck out of me. Great movie! I still watch it once every couple of years.
Head CANON. One 'N' in that context. 'Cannon' always means really big gun.
There is a nod to it in the newest T'au codex
E-H DISRUPTION SUITE
Abbreviated from ‘Event Horizon’ Disruption Suite, this highly experimental package employs salvaged alien tech to nullify energy-pulses, signal bursts and other more esoteric energies.
Cool bit of colour on one of their prototype systems
Minty, I've got to say this is your finest video to date. The level of detail and professionalism in here is incredible. Nice work!
I agree. So glad you put so much into this great movie.
When I first saw this movie it was disturbing AF, but like you said it's memorable and distinct. The horrific imagery, the concepts, the characters and the story are all memorable.
Most movies these days are forgotten quickly, but this one sticks in the mind and makes you reflect on its themes and concepts long after you watch it. That speaks well of Event Horizon, and so far I've watched it 3 times.
The Event Horizon definitely took a trip to a nightmare reality and brought some of it back.
As a 40k fan, when I first saw this film it’s whole theme of travelling through a hellish dimension reminded me of the game. Now I know why!
Thanks for this fact Minty!
There was once a theory that this was a kind of a prequel to 40k.
Event horizon is 40k cannon, fact!
I don't care what anyone else thinks.
I enjoyed Event Horizon, it's well written and I love the cast. One thing I noticed this movie was based on Ancient Documents where Ancient Cultures of old had actually opened these Gateways.
These are called: Stargates.
I remember going to see this movie twice in theaters! That's a rarity for me. I remember it being out for only like 3 weeks in my theater, and that was a sure sign it was a flop, but I didn't understand why. It fit right in with my love of Hellraiser and Predator and body horror films. It's still one of my all time favorite movies and I wish I had the DVD for it!
And while you mentioned that Sam Neill had Jurassic Park fame going for him, it was him in In the Mouth of Madness that sold me on watching this film!
Same here! Pretty much never see movies a 2nd time at a theater. I went to see it with some friends on release, not knowing anything about it, we came out physically shaking from what we just experienced. I knew this had moved the bar for horror, and dragged another friend to the cinema to watch it 1 week later, and it was already in one of the much smaller screems and there were hardly any people in the theatre.
Having discovered how much it underperformed financially, I'm proud to have contributed twice as much as usual to the box office release.
I wish I had seen this in theater. Sadly saw it on VHS the first time . . . Still amazing, but getting it on Bluray was a dream (or at least a very pretty nightmare).
Too bad about the missing and damaged deleted scenes, I'd really like to see this the way it was intended. I really don't like super graphic blood baths, but the Hell scenes are the bottom line to the story. I like using my imagination for many things, but this is one movie I'd really like to know the ultimate fate of both crews in very visual ways. You know what I mean.
I got a hold of the copy where they show a one second image of what I can only describe as a blood orgy on the bridge of the ship and boy was it fucked up. It was like an S&M bondage snuff film of sorts. And Minty when you say you watch this movie and you can't forget about it, after seeing that, I still have it burned in my brain, completely devastating, but man, it was a good movie.
*Oh yeah I forgot to mention it was the director's cut. I don't know how I got a hold of it but I never seen it again. You know you let someone borrow it and you never get it back. I even look for it in the stores, but could never find it.*
I've always liked this movie. Basically a haunted house in outer space.
More like hellraiser in space.!:)
This is one of my go to movies. Love every minute of it! also think Paul WS Anderson is a great director. Definitely misunderstood and underrated.
Highly underrated Sci-fi horror flick.
Both Event Horizon and Soldier were excellent films. I still regularly watch both. Both are criminally under-rated for such a long time and are, only now, gaining the recognition they rightly deserve.
You may already know this, but Soldier was based on a comic called Rogue Trooper.
I'm so happy find other people on this planet that like Event Horizon AND Soldier. Big time Kurt Russell fan. Underrated gems, both.
This movie would be a good candidate for a remake down the road. Love the original but I'd love to see another stab at the subject matter/plot.
It’s perfect as it is.
There's talk of a TV series for one of the streaming services.
if there was ever a movie that deserves a directors cut, it would be Event Horizon. I think that with todays technology the "unusable" footage could become usable and that the poor quality of the footage would actually add to the creepy factor. Someone get a message to Anderson and tell him I would buy a copy of his directors cut.
A perfect way to celebrate a 25th Anniversary Edition
It’s not just the quality of the original cut but the content itself. Supposedly the scene where we see the original crew mutilating themselves goes on longer and shows the true horror of what they were doing. Tearing each other’s intestines out and raping mutilated people who weren’t dead yet was apparently in the cut scene and was deemed too much for any American rating system.
@@brian6391 I will be the judge of my "too much".
@@timothyneiswander3151 I know right it’s just censorship.
This movie is one of those that still unsettles me greatly. The evil depicted feel tangible , only a thin layer away from us. Ruinous powers dwell in the places between insanity and dreams.
One of the times i did DMT the psycadelic drug i had visuals like in this film it was fucked up only time out of many which were all the opposite
Go and have another look at "Prince of Darkness" if you need a really good "evil just on the other side of a very thin membrane... that is being broken here and there!"-type of movie! Still giving me the shudders after all these years! 📺🤔😯😱❗Squeam? Scream!
@@djimma5080 Drugs are goood, mmkay?!