Event Horizon

i remember that being the only scary movie i watched in the theater where i actually sat on the end of my seat with a nervous feeling in my gut. most scary movies are utter crap. event horizon, however, was truly frightening.

great flick.
 
The comment that it is "too scary" is pretty common. I however feel that the sheer terror and suspense is what makes it a great movie.

I first saw it at home on my big screen, alone and with the lights out and it gave me the hebbie jeebies.
 
Friend of mine went to see it at the $1 theater after it had been out for a long time. It was him and an old lady in the entire showing. About half way he got up and went to sit next to her. Safety in numbers I guess.

that was a scary *****.
 
I've really never been a fan of scary movies. I went to see this with a friend when it came out thinking it was a sci-fi flick. It shocked the **** out of me.
 
I will never forget the scene where Weir is fixing the computer in the crawl space and the power flashes on and off. Ever.
 
I remember it being really messed up. I also bought a car that day too.

The wikipedia entry says they had to cut like 30 minutes of graphic violence to get the R rating. I don't want to even know what was in those 30 min.
 
Wow are all of you serious? I thought Event Horizon was tame. Great cast, interesting premise but there was so much left out that in the end it just kinda sucked.

I still don't get why that lady was so emotional about her perfectly alive (though cripple) kid back home or why the doctor had that huge scar...obviously there was some story behind it but it was never developed and that made their actions seem ridiculous. Huge waste of potential.

Not a top 10 scary movie. Give me In the Mouth of Madness or the Ring (minus the stupid ending where she crawls out of the tv) for two movies that do a damn fine job of developing suspense.
 
There's only one scene in Event Horizon that even registers all this time later, and that's when they are able to view a videotaped message basically giving an indication of the fate of the ship's original crew.

Outside of that, it was suspenseful and somewhat creepy but nothing all that special, IMO (granted, I'm not really impressed by "horror" movies to begin with).
 
The dude tore his eyes out so that he didn't have to see any more of the horrors he was witnessing--how can you not be seriously disturbed by that?
 
The eye stuff bothered me too.

Those who think the movie is tame... scare me.

I'm rugged. But this movie is twisted. I was expecting a space movie. I remember I bought a car that day because it bothered me that much.
 
is this the movie where they went through "hell" and it showed a video tape of some zombie/devil with barbed wire around a guys throat raping him?
 
This is one of the few horror/sci-fi flicks that either people absoultely loved or absoultely hated.

It was universally panned when it first came out -- I've always liked it.
 
Try watching the replay of the Even Horizon's decoded video log frame-by-frame on your DVD. That's some pretty disturbing ****, no doubt. "Liberate tuteme ex inferis," indeed.

On the whole, I thought the first half of the movie was terrifying and fascinating, in an Aliens meets Solaris sort of way, but it fizzled out into boilerplate horror cliches toward the end. Great cast with solid acting throughout, though.
 
I rented the movie also not knowing what to expect and I'm not even sure how I ended up getting that one in teh first place. I thought the movie was really pretty creepy, but I'm not the official hornfans badass that some of the posters on here are...

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Finally saw this one. Like others said, it's really, really scary. Oddly, Ebert only gave it 2 stars and Rotten Tomatoes had it at 19%, basically panning it. I think that's only partly fair.

The movie has some problems, primarily from the editing. Weir's descent into madness, or "possession" isn't handled well, and it's the center of the movie. I didn't like the scene where he argues with Miller about scuttling the ship, and then says, "I'm already home", grinning evilly, because he had not yet had his "turning" scene with the phantom of his wife. The movie could have used a little more explanation for Weir's super or mystical powers. The hell on Event horizon only needed a little more explaining- for example, the one guy with the scar down his sternum who was dissected alive by Weir- that looked like a bypass scar and perhaps his greatest fear was more cutting on his body. Maybe that's what hell was going to be for the crew- their worst fears being acted on them.

The movie does some good things. It really covers a llot of ground by borrowing from movie shorthand, i.e. images movie viewers have learned to understand as significant. For example, the gravity drive is reminiscent of the box in Hellraiser, which would creep out fans of horror movies. Also, didn't it look very medieval, and out of place in the 21st century? Weir continually coming back- that doesn't bother fans of various teenager slasher movies where such behavior is expected without explanation. I really liked how Weir ended up looking like a character from a medieval image of hell.

I thought is was a good movie. Better editing could have made it a very good movie. Maybe there will be a remake someday.
 
i thought it was OK to mildly interesting. I agree the first half was better; the ending was too pat.

Horrible title to a movie though. Too non-descript and forgettable of a title..
 
Event Horizon is an awesome title if you liked a Brief History of Time, which probably covers the film's viewing audience pretty well.
 
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