Event Horizon (1997)

Metaphysica nonsense

What is the point of wasting all that money in good special effects if the story really sucks?

People in Hollywood have no imagination whatsoever anymore. If a movie has no guts and blood spread all over the screen it is not considered a movie!
What is the point? There are thousands of good scifi stories that are begging for a movie adaptation and all they come up with is this pseudo-metaphysical nonsense. It is unbelievable how "anti-sifci" this piece of garbage is.
To make things short, someone builds a spaceship that can fly "faster" than light and the result of its first trip is that it visists a sort of hell, its crew members go crazy and start eating each other.
Well, this is a case of cabin fever in outer space. Deja-vu anyone? Pretty dumb.
How can anybody consider this gore feast entertaining?
Stay away from it.


July 27, 2008

One of the Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies

This is a great horror film. Despite the occasional scene of bad acting, it still doesn't manage to break the overall dark and menacing atmosphere of the movie. While still featuring some scenes with gore in it for those that enjoy that stuff, it doesn't rely heavily on gore and "jumpy" scenes to get its scares. It ends on a unsettling note, leaving you with a lot of questions about "what if". July 12, 2008

Pretentious

This is the most generic, stereotypical, and predictable sci-fi film I've ever seen. The story merely pretends to be smart and interesting, but anyone who truly believes that is only fooling themselves, the story is in fact very dull, and could have been made up by an elementary school student with ease. It could have been significantly better if they provided some kind of explanation, or let you see this other evil dimension, or better yet, build some decent suspense. I could seriously tell what was going to happen throughout the entire movie. The camera work is amateurish and just uses a bunch of stupid tricks that remind me of Amityville Horror. The acting is passable at best. The ending is simply idiotic, and made me feel stupid just watching it. Seriously, stay away from this movie, if you want a good sci-fi experience check out Alien or 2001: A Space Odyssey, not this pitiful excuse for a movie. July 8, 2008

Blood chilling... The most frightening film ever made.

Fear chills the most when you are not expecting it. When you put this film in the DVD player for the first time, you believe you are going to watch a science fiction movie that might have a bit of suspense involved. That is not the case.

Very shortly, the plot begins to subtly darken, and at first, you are invited along slowly, wondering where things are going as you begin to feel things might go wrong. As the events pick up, right when you decide to remember it is just a movie, the film siezes you by the wrist and drags you inside it's hellish world. The pace of the film picks up speed, accelerating all the time as the plot continues to darken. You are not allowed to remember it is just a movie, you are pulled even deeper as things turn horrific, pausing only briefly to hammer in the truth of the matter... There is no turning back...

You want to turn it off, but it won't let you. You want to leave, but there is no escape. This film really puts you in there with the characters, like no other film I have watched.

There is plenty of gore, but it's brief, just long enough to sink into your mind and let your imagination fill in the horrific blanks. The movie preys on nightmares.

A decent understanding of modern physics makes this film even more terrifying, as none of the plot mechanics are neccessarily fiction. The story may not be real, but nothing in it is impossible, none of the science is entirely made up for the movie, and there is no law saying this cannot happen.

Many people have given this film poor reviews. Some were expecting Star Trek, heck, lots of us were. That is one of the films biggest strengths, as you do not know what you are getting into, much like the characters. Some people say it is inaccurate, but they are misinformed. Some people say it is satanic. These people probably still think Led Zeppelin is satanic. Some say there are holes in the plot, but those holes are there for your imagination.

In the end, this is intellectual horror. You have to have a brain to understand it. You don't so much enjoy this movie as you dread it. This is not a film you watch with the family, or even a film you watch for entertainment.

This is a movie that you watch when you need to be seriously frightened, when you want to remember what it was like as a child, staring into that shadow in your closet... Knowing beyond question that something horrific was in there, waiting for you to fall asleep, and somehow, the fact that you never actually saw it... Well, that made it much, much worse.

Go ahead. Turn the lights down, and watch it alone, in surround sound, on a powerful audio system, with a nice big screen, at midnight. I dare you. July 2, 2008

Scariest movie I've ever seen

This movie ranks as the scariest I've ever seen. I saw it when it first came out, then again a few years ago. I think it's the combination of the inability to escape, unknown evil, and nothing you can physically fight that combine to make it so frightening. Plus the situation is at least somewhat plausible.

Highly recommended if you don't want to sleep well. June 23, 2008

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