![]() ![]() ![]() The crowning achievement of this vessel is the spiky, gargantuan room that houses the black hole drive. The haunted ship is a marvel of production design. The best and worst elements of Event Horizon are in the technical aspects of the film. The film does not always follow the most obvious path which helps make it feel fresh throughout. The film has a lot of ambitious sci-fi concepts in its sights, and it does an admirable job of condensing it into a propulsive narrative. Every member of the crew gets their turn in the spotlight, but the standouts outside of the two top-billed gentlemen include Joely Richardson as Lieutenant Starck and Jason Isaacs as the ship’s doctor, DJ. Anderson evokes some very provocative imagery during some of these horrific sequences, but, based on stories about even more boundary-pushing content that was originally in the film, you wish there was more in the version we got. One by one, crew members succumb to intense hallucinations connected to something unresolved from their past. ![]() Instead, the movie relies on the psychological dread that comes from confronting your fears. The notable aspect of this film is that the horrors that lie within the ship are not your typical alien parasite or other such personified entity. No one quite knows where the ship has been this entire time, only that it went into a black hole and now the entire crew is dead. It does not take long for the movie to arrive at this ill-fated ship, at which time everyone’s lives take a turn for the worse. If movies have taught us anything, it is that it is never a good idea to mess with black holes. The titular ship is full of secrets including the fact that it was built with an experimental gravity drive which generates artificial black holes to bridge two points in space and time – traveling vast distances in the blink of an eye. William Weir ( Sam Neill, Jurassic Park ), the designer of the Event Horizon who suffers from hallucinations of his dead wife. He has a colorful cast of crew members that will make for good horror fodder in the impending expedition. ![]() Miller’s rescue vessel has been assigned the task of reclaiming the ship and finding out what happened. The year is 2047 and a signal has been received from a long-lost space vessel known as the Event Horizon which disappeared nearly a decade ago only to reappear on the outskirts of Neptune’s orbit. Laurence Fishburne plays Captain Miller, the commanding officer of the Lewis and Clarke. While Anderson is no Stanley Kubrick and few can match up to the excellence of Jack Nicholson, the talent involved in front of the camera is nothing to discount. The idea for Event Horizon as described by screenwriter Philip Eisner is a “haunted house story in space” in the vein of The Shining. A rushed production and editing period did not allow for this film to be the best version it could have been, but what we got is still one of the stronger sci-fi horror films to come out of the late 90s. The film was a critical and box office failure, but it strangely has garnered one of the biggest followings of any of his movies due to the strong blend of sci-fi and horror that made for a pretty compelling narrative. Perhaps one of the biggest outliers in terms of quality in his filmography is 1997’s Event Horizon, his second stab at a big budget studio feature. Movies based on video games have seemingly been his bread and butter, from helming the best entries in the Resident Evil franchise to his latest bit of over-the-top fun known as Monster Hunter. His initial international breakout hit was the popular video game adaptation of Mortal Kombat, which is a personal favorite. His films very rarely knock it out of the park, but they are usually packed with enough fun moments to make them worth your time. Anderson is such a fascinating filmmaker to follow throughout his career. ![]()
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