I always felt like one of the scariest parts of this movie is how Laurence Fishburns character pretty much does what you think he should do. Stuff starts going down and he just says, we are leaving and we are destroying this ship.
@@BertleMcGertle In the back of our mind we like to think we would make better decisions than the people in a horror movie. It's harder to do in this one.
@caseymcadams6267 exactly, this attitude is key to the feeling of impending and inevitable doom. It heightens the stakes and the horror. There is nothing they can do, and you know there's nothing you could have done in their place.
@@downfallen Well man is naturally sinful and they are going against the forces of Hell and it appears most are non believers meaning they are very doomed. It's like doing a traditional vampire movie and no one believes in using crosses or holy water.
My favorite “Easter egg” (if you can call it that) was when Weir was explaining wormholes to the crew, and he called it the “Law of Relativity” instead of the theory, because they actually proved it to be a law with the gravity drive
That's not how it works. Theory does not mean what you think. In scientific discourse, in order for something to be called a "theory" it must first be proven through repeated testing and experimentation. In laymen terms - "Law" is a perceivable phenomenon( think "what goes up, must come down"), while "Theory" is the explanation of said phenomenon(Theory of Gravity). When laymen say theory, what they actually mean is "hypothesis", which is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that has yet to be proven.
@@TheKain202 like for an example, when I was a kid, we were taught that the Egyptians built the pyramids and sphinx at a certain time period and for many years before I was taught that same information that's been handed down for generations and now scientists and researchers are figuring out that that information is bullshit and they(pyramids and sphinx) are much much older than we are taught to believe it is.
@@perrtbaxter7119 Not how it works! When you hear someone talk about the 'Laws of Nature' for exapmle, they're still referring to assorted scienific Theories.
Fan Retcons, like the great replacement or the moon landing being faked? Yeah, not sure any of this is fan Retcons. More like bizarre theory for magic players
I saw this movie in the theatre with my brother when it was released. It was crazy and almost traumatizing. My brother and I looked at each other halfway through the movie, almost checking to make sure each of us was ok.
My mom and I rented it just after it came out, I had to have been like 10. We got to _that_ scene, and my mom just quietly turned it off and told me I could finish it in a few years
I figured it was a sci-fi horror movie, but was taken aback at how crazy it was...for that time. This was the mid-90's and I hadn't been exposed to this level of crazy in my life yet. @@Novarcharesk
@@Novarcharesk Not sure about it; I think there was a lot of confusion at the time; I saw it with my brother, too, in the theater, and just loved it; we both did, but we were a bit older than @jubjub7101
I love how Sam Niell can act in movies like this, the mouth of madness, and other scary films, and then at the same time star in Jurassic Park and such lol very much an amazing actor.
Also, much of the aesthetic is because a portion of the crew worked on Hellraiser series, so they brought in that gritty industrial hell with them. Love Kurt Russle’s grounded view of things. He knows the potential of hard work and many artists aren’t recognized until way later. Also it didn’t do well either, but Solider is one of my other favorite movies.
It hits number two on my favorite interstellar horror movie only because of Alien but the plot is better written than slasher in space it felt like vintage science fiction horror with a way better graphic design team, special effects team, and stunt choreographers then 40's to 60's
Gave me fukin nightmares for days after I saw it I cinema for the first time I feel like there's something you don't exactly know what's beyond the limits of human intuition and fact and that's what's giving it this eery feel to it how do you start to understand that what you don't It's a nice take on the human psychi and how it can go of the rails really fast with devastating consequences for all parties involved Fukin great movie LOVE IT Just saying 🇧🇻
In case anyone didn't know. _Dead Space_ was mentioned a lot. But the gravity drive device was also directly lifted to serve in the final boss fight of _Silent Hill 4._ It's the same grinding mechanism that Eileen potentially walks into, during the timed end battle with Walter Sullivan. Anyway, thanks for the video essay. I wish Sam Neill could get more work in cosmic horror, because he really seems to love the genre. The man has a real talent for depicting madness. Pity Paramount shat the bed so hard.
I remember when I would watch science fiction horror at 13 or 12 this might have been new it might have been out of style since the 50s/60s because it being more mythology driven science fiction horror then slasher style that alien horror was popular for at this point in movie history when but despite all the draw backs it worked 10 fold higher than if they went with what was popular science fiction horror at the time because it stuck out not blended in
This one, and Sphere ( 1998 ) with Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L, Sharon Stone.... are my favourite movies from the '90s. I was so impressed with the effects as a kid
One other reference along the religious lines; there is an angel type called an ophanim which is a huge eye surrounded by moving rings that also have eyes and sometimes they can be on fire. The gravity drive core is very similar to one, like it's a fallen angel version of an ophenim which again ties into the Hell aesthetic
I love how almost PERFECTLY this fits into Warhammer 40k lore. The blackhole generator even has an Eight Pointed Star, the symbol of Chaos, which is exactly what you get when you go faster than light through hell....
It also strongly resembles all the things the warp (a parrellel hell like dimension needed for space travel to simplify it) is said to do to humans unless they use special techonology to ward against the influence. there is also a mention in the lore that first attempts to do warp travel without the mentioned shields had gone more or less just like that and lead to the galler field technology then being developed and actually working 100% of the time till (as things in 40k do) all went to shits
Philip Eisner, who wrote Event Horizon, said in several interviews that Warhammer 40k certainly had a big influence on him. So it's not an official 40k movie but the story was inspired by it. For some reason people still claim it has nothing to do with 40k or that it actually is a 40k movie 🤷♂️
Fun little fact, there is a warhammer 40k pen and paper rpg called dark heresy, and one group of players (The all guardsmen party) thought the same thing... to the point that they go to buy a used spaceship called... The Occurrence Border...
The screenwriter - Paul Eisner - is a 40k fan and was at the time. Which is notable because 40k didn't have anywhere near the following it does now at the time. I've seen some claims that there was an attempt to make it official but the producers weren't able to come to a deal with Games Workshop, but without anything to back it up, whereas Paul Eisner has said many times that he was a huge 40k fan and active player while writing the script.
Was lucky enough to see this at a screening, pre-release, so no trailers zero clue what it was about except it was a space horror. It blew me away, particularly the incredible set design of the ship which is really a character all itself. And when Larry Fishburn drops the immortal line “We’re leaving” there was an audible cheer in the theatre and an instant classic was born.
YES. Finally a protagonist in a horror movie who assesses the situation and makes the smart call. It actually makes the movie scarier when the cast is not just screwing themselves over with their own stupidity. They're making the smart moves and still getting screwed because the danger is legit.
It is suggested that when the original crew of the Event Horizonwere in Hell, they were driven to madness and ultimately turned on each other due to the extreme psychological torment they experienced. The ship's experimental gravity drive, had inadvertently opened a portal to a dimension of pure chaos and evil. This dimension, “hell," corrupted and traumatized them beyond their ability to cope. The crew's exposure to this dimension led to them experiencing their deepest fears and regrets in a visceral and relentless manner, causing them to descend into madness. As the crew began to experience these horrors, they turned on each other, unable to distinguish reality from their own personal hellscapes. The crew's behavior was driven by their individual traumas, and the pain they inflicted on each other was an attempt to either force their crewmates to confront their own fears or to distract themselves from their own unbearable torment. So, it can be said that the crew members were not intentionally torturing each other, but rather were acting out in response to the extreme psychological trauma they were experiencing. It is possible that time in the dimension of "hell" was non-linear, with events occurring simultaneously or out of order. This could have contributed to the crew's sense of disorientation and madness, as their perception of time may have been disrupted or distorted. Alternatively, it is also possible that time in the dimension was experienced as an eternal, never-ending present, with no distinction between past, present, and future. This could have added to the crew's sense of hopelessness and despair, as they may have felt trapped in an endless cycle of torment.
@@AdamMichalMarkowski time has no effect on the warp stuff goes in and can reemerge thousands of years in any direction remember sly existed in the old world but was birthed into being 50k years later chaos is just that chaotic
@@AdamMichalMarkowski love warhammer lore and been play since early 2000s chaos and all the greater demons ate fascinating once you really dive into the lore
This movie was heavily influenced by Solaris, not the re-make with George Clooney but the Andrei Tarkovsky original which was made in 1972. It's definitely worth a watch or two. I've seen it several times.
Cosmic horror at it's absolute finest. This film just hits every little check perfectly. Tone, look, feeling, music, acting. Shows you just enough to leave you deeply disturbed and allow your mind to really run wild. It also has possible the most iconic sci-fi ship ever. The Event Horizon is a freaking work of art. Beautiful ship design. I would kill to have one of the models fully lit as a ceiling display for a theater room.
The event horizon is nowhere near the most iconic sci fi ship. Star wars alone has several like the millennium falcon, star trek with the USS enterprise, then there's the discovery one from space odyssey and the Normandy of mass effect. It's iconic but it's not #1
Event Horizon is a great film and much underrated. It scared the shit out of me when I watched it back in the day and still sends a shiver down my spine on rewatching.
The shadow over the Paramount mountain and that theme song is worth the price of admission itself, amazing movie, Sam Neil kills it, check him out in, in the mouth of madness, another classic.
One of tye scariest scifi movies ever made...the atmosphere, the terrifying visuals and the soundtrack still give me goosebumps to this day when I think about it. The idea alone of a ship being lost in a hell dimension is stuff of nightmares...
Apart from Alien and Aliens, Event Horizon is up there as one of the best horror/scifi film ever. What adds to its greatness is that it has Jon Pertwee's son Sean in it. Excellent cast, effects and soundtrack.
The ending, there is no IF the evil is still around. It definitely is. Before the movie fades out, the door closes by itself as the rescue crew is trying to calm a hysterical Clarck. The core body of the ship transported its blood through the glass tubes to the lifeboat part, ensuring that it becomes & stays "alive"
My take on the ending was that the hatch sealing shut as the medic tells the other to go get some gear meant that the ship was still "active" and wasn't going to let the newcomers go either.
When Weir's dead wife said, "I have such wonderful, WONDERFUL things to show you" and then gouges his eyes out in the vision. Goosebumps I tell ye, goosebumps till this day. Yikes
Event horizon got me more as a kid for the psychological horror more so than the body horror stuff. It just really created the feeling of isolation and the fact it was these people basically doing it to themselves and being controlled that was just like wild as a kid. A very visceral fear.
If this movie scares you, you probably shouldn’t watch a movie called Martyrs because you might end up having to sleep with Mommy and Daddy after he he he 😁
Same, I think it bothered me so much because it wasn’t ghosts or demons or whatever it was the horror of science going wrong causing something as bad as hell.
@@michaelb1478well it was demons too. That's what the ship brought back with it from Hell and what was causing the crew members to experience all of that.
I don't remember exactly how old I was the first time I watched this movie, but I was a teenager and it became a instant classic to me. The world needs more movies of this quality 👍🏽
The event horizon is definitely a metaphor about death, right down to the core being a visual representation of the pineal gland. Like death, it is only hell for the crew members if they go into it with anxieties, shame, fears and regrets.
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. This movie inspired the matrix Laurence Fishburne is my favorite part of this film. “We’re leaving “ is a classic line😂
In that one moment, he became the smartest person in any horror movie. Instead of looking at the complete horror and going, "we have to find out why," he was like "nope."
This film was criminally underrated! I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Good writing and acting definitely worth the watch. Also, if you're looking for another a sleeper try Shutter Island. Another film that doesn't disappoint!
It's not a theory, it's fact. Event Horizon was intended to be a Warhammer 40K movie.The writer (Philip Eisner) had said so himself. Gamesworkshop (The company that owns Warhammer) is notoriously stingey and didn't want to give the license to make the movie.
Your 100% right i watched this as a kid and always thought this was one of the scariest movies back then. Never noticed the doors or all the eyes before. Great vid.
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. It was at the early Saturday show (like 6-ish) and there were only 3 people in the whole theater (2 friends and me). We all enjoyed it and I still can't understand why it didn't do better. It ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to sci-fi horror.
Sci fi movies then to not do well. Same for some horror movies. I think with social media those days might be disappearing, M3gan did well (but it was a 'cheap' film). There are some pretty good shorts of sci fi stuff. "Dust Channel" I think on youtube.
Yeah, this is the most memerable horror i can think of that takes place in space. Theres so many angles of fd up goin on that if you see it as a kid, youll likely never forget it. I know i sure as F didnt. And the end shows theres no happy ending for anyone, so yeah, it basically hits every note you want a horror to hit, and also has such a great cast its amazing it somehow didnt get over with audiences at first.
@@Haulinbassracing holy crap! I remember that movie as well, being almost as scary and twice as hard to follow,and almost noone talks about it or remembers it i feel like
I remember renting this movie when I was 13 years old from Blockbuster in secret from my parents. The scene where they find the one guy strung up with his guts on the operating table, has always stuck with me.
I remember going to watch this twice at the cinema when I was younger. I've watched it multiple times subsequently. It wasn't until a more recent viewing that I noticed something that I didn't pick up on before. After Weir is sucked out in to space, we later see him back on board the ship covered in what looks like cuts. At least I thought they were cuts, maybe caused by the ship pulling him back together. Thing is, that's not what we're seeing. What we are seeing is Weir with demonic symbols carved in to his body. I dunno how many other people noticed that, but I certainly didn't see it straight away. It's just another way this this awesome film can still surprise me after so many years.
Something is even more strange: We see demonic symbols carved on Weir's very flesh and through some parts of the ship...But there are no demons inside it or on the other side of the portal Weir openned. There is just some unknown maligant force that corrupts humans and turn them into something we could call DEMONS. We never knew what exactly created all those horrors and evil and any details of the corruption process itself
I think it is an amazing film. We can only wonder what Andersons original cut would have been like. I reckon it would have made this the greatest film of all time (apart from Lawrence Fishburn's wobbly chair)
Remember catching this in the cinema back in the day and loving the effects and production design. It's aged very well and is probably Paul WS Anderson's best film. It was pretty much down hill from here on. Thought the soundtrack was worth a mention though, pretty banging melding of Orbital techno/electronica with Michael Kamen's orchestral score. Very cool.
Yes, Michael Kamen's score for the horror parts does such a good job at making you so uneasy with Orbital's synth whispers making you feel like you're hearing things too, really brings you into the movie and Kamen's solo big orchestral final battle music gives the final battle between Fishburn and Neill an epic, terrifying feel like its the end of the world.
I appreciate your in depth breakdown and the details... I loved this movie back in the day and saw it in the theater. It really unsettled me and stays with me till now. Every movie I see with the *punches pencil through folded paper bit* to demonstrate the idea of a wormhole, black hole or light speed space travel, whatever...I think, ah yeah, Event Horizon. I just watched your Shining movie breakdown and very much appreciate your research efforts. I did not remember nor had I noticed the doorways shaped like coffins in this, thats kind of stupidly simple yet subtle enough I missed it. Cheers mate ✌🏽
back when I was a kid in the 90s I must of watched this on vhs 1000 times. the thing that stuck out to me the most was when they first enter the ship and you see the skulls melted into the wall. I always thought it had something to do with the Doom games cause its the same thing you see in loading screens in Doom.
Loved this breakdown so much. I have the same kind of nostalgia for this movie as well also seeing in when I was like 11 or 12, I am surprised I missed so much of the gothic architecture tie ins
Same!! It presented me with a point of view/theory about space travel I hadn’t previously been introduced to. If Hell does exist, it would be an alternative dimension and if we create a way of accessing alternative dimensions, Hell would one of the possible destinations
9:55 - do we have confirmation that sound was taken from Doom? Doom itself used very popular library of sounds, so it might as well be coincidence movie used same door sound.
19:44 When this ship is sucked into the planet it make another shape of an eye (can’t believe you missed it) as Weir is saying “do you see?” Lots & lots of eye references in this awesome movie 👌🏼👁
Thanks for this. More like this please. I just watched Event Horizon for the first time last Halloween and I was surprised I had missed it all these years. It was for sure up my alley and innovative for the time. Glad it's getting its due now.
I love this film and have seen it countless times... yet I never noticed until it was pointed out in this video that the gravity drive engine resembled an eye that was constantly watching both the characters and the viewers. A whole new layer of scary just got added to this movie for me - thanks! xD
This movie was truly ahead of it’s time. It’s like being sucked into an HR Geiger painting. The end sequence with the rapid shots of gore is the perfect sensory overload.
This is still one of my favorites and the horror still holds up. I had those hands holding the eyeballs in my nightmares for 6 months after this came out. Good times 😅
Thank you. I saw this movie many years ago. I was confused and remained confused by it. Had no idea what was going on. I never tried to watch it over it again. It was just so strange. I really appreciate this terrific breakdown! It makes so much more sense now. I’m ALMOST tempted to watch it again to see if I can catch some of those things you pointed out--nah. It was enough for it to be explained. LOL. Signed G’s family member T
Wow, fantastic breakdown. I've always enjoyed Event Horizon as a guilty pleasure. It's silly and sometimes ridiculous, but wonderfully entertaining and quotable. Now I've gained a new appreciation for the painstaking details put into it. Thank you for that!
Nice review Paul. This is a very cool movie that I never saw in the theater but recall watching several months after it came out on hbo or something and recently got my wife and daughter to watch again with me as we all Love horror and they had never seen it. They loved it and o was even jumping a few times with some of the crazy scenes. Had never heard of the deleted scenes situation so thanks for that info. Looking forward to your take on the shining. One of my all time favorites
I remember staying up late at night over the summer when this film was regularly played on HBO or some other movie channel. Was terrifying as a child, especially when the crew finally cleaned up that entry on the ship's log enough to view it.
Even uncleaned up its frickin haunting. That whole log entry ordeal is unforgettable and i still gotta agree when guy immediately says nope-fuck this ship right afterward and sets out to blow it up ,mission be damned lol
Just WOW man. This is an outstanding completition of the Event Horizon movie and lore/ background. Event when Iam a Dead Space Games and Event Horizon/ Ghistship fan and Veteran, some information were new for me. Great work, solid and complete.👍
Good breakdown, & a keen eye upon a very special movie. I would like to add something that've never heard anyone reference to date. My notion has always been that the character of Dr. William Weir, but really the whole plot, is very much based on Stanislav Lem's Dr. Kris Kelvin in Solaris: A Dr. gets called to a tin can orbiting a planet, which - or "Something" - seems to be watching (you mentioned the Eye of Neptune, which, as a Gas Giant, is as close to the description of Solaris as we can get within our solar system). Our protagonist is highly capable, but riddled with guilt about his wife's suicide, whom he feels to have failed. The "Something" begins to "read" the crew & starts manifesting projections of people dear to, but lost or abandoned by the crew members, including the protagonist's wife. Every single one of them is ravaged by these encounters & their guilt that they by now had convinced themselves to have had overcome. This sudden confrontation with their obvious denial breaks them apart, as now everyone is fighting his own shadow. Unable to deal with the irrational, our Dr. does the only sensible thing: he gives in to the seemingly allmighty "Something" & accepts the consequences. This act allows him to free himself from his guilt, to be reborn. In Lem's vision, the Rebirth was a disturbing proposition. Just like it was in Event Horizon. Also, regard the names: Kris Kelvin / William Weir. I do see quite the repetition of alliteration here. Also, a "weir" is dam "that alters the flow characteristics of water". Well, so does "Kelvin".
This was the height of the Prodigy's fame, with their *"Fat of the Land"* album as one the year's best. So it's fitting that their tunes featured in this horror cult classic.
I REFUSE to accept we will never get to see the original 130 minute version! It will happen. Someone will somewhere still have a copy of the original print. And they will restore it! Mark my words.
The panning into the sky after the paramount logo is so awesome and makes sense why cut if you’re going into the sky/space, just pan into the sky/space and start the movie
My favorite space horror of all time. It’s incredibly creepy and I wish to the movie gods that the cut scenes would resurface in a usuable state (yes I know of the ones recovered from the mine & the VHS ones).
Creepy whisper "BILLY!" always sends chills down my spine. I love this movie! Edit: I always looked at the escape pod as an "egg" from the demon ship. They can never escape hell.
The sound effects from doom are actually from generic sound effects databases. They also used the door sound in Doctor Who (Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit, among my favorite episodes, also involving a black hole and... Anyway yes I love this movie.
Hey Paul, I just re-watched Donnie Darko for the first time in awhile and was wondering if you minded going over this one. It’s a favorite of mine and I’d love to hear your thoughts, theories and inside knowledge on it. I am sorry if you’ve done this already, and would gladly watch if there is an older breakdown vid
I'd pay a lot to see the original director's cut with all the scenes that got lost. It always amazed me how You can create something fresh and innovative by taking generic, kinda cliche motive and put it in different context. Event Horizon is Your typical haunted house horror movie, but in space, and not a house, but a space ship.
The novelization actually explains the events of the crew's final log after they'd been fully revealed. Honestly, it came as a complete surprise as I hadn't heard anything about deleted scenes before reading.
I remember seeing this film, but I don't recall getting into it all that much. Maybe I'll have to revisit it again sometime to see if it WASN'T as implausibly convoluted as I remembered (though obviously and invariably meant to check all the horror and jump-scare boxes IIRC).
Classic Sci-Fi horrors like this should get WAY more recognition. I'll never forget this movie ever since I first saw it almost 25 years ago. 🤪 scenes. Thx 4 the review!
When Sam Neill says that he LOVED being apart of a film, you know you have a gem on your hands. Sam does alot of good movies, but he's also done some not so good movies that's obviously for the payday. And he never really praises his roles that much, but he's always spoken giddily about Event Horizon and says that he loved being in this movie.
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Curious about the reddit link showing the hell scenes mentioned at 15:30? Thanks!
Even the docking bay itself looks like an Eye (the docking bay with the Roman numberal 13)
@@theterminaldave let me know when you get it.
I always felt like one of the scariest parts of this movie is how Laurence Fishburns character pretty much does what you think he should do. Stuff starts going down and he just says, we are leaving and we are destroying this ship.
Why is that scary to you?
@@BertleMcGertle In the back of our mind we like to think we would make better decisions than the people in a horror movie. It's harder to do in this one.
@caseymcadams6267 exactly, this attitude is key to the feeling of impending and inevitable doom. It heightens the stakes and the horror.
There is nothing they can do, and you know there's nothing you could have done in their place.
@@downfallen Well man is naturally sinful and they are going against the forces of Hell and it appears most are non believers meaning they are very doomed. It's like doing a traditional vampire movie and no one believes in using crosses or holy water.
@@darthbigred22Jesus
My favorite “Easter egg” (if you can call it that) was when Weir was explaining wormholes to the crew, and he called it the “Law of Relativity” instead of the theory, because they actually proved it to be a law with the gravity drive
I'm so happy someone else caught thata
That's not how it works. Theory does not mean what you think.
In scientific discourse, in order for something to be called a "theory" it must first be proven through repeated testing and experimentation.
In laymen terms - "Law" is a perceivable phenomenon( think "what goes up, must come down"), while "Theory" is the explanation of said phenomenon(Theory of Gravity).
When laymen say theory, what they actually mean is "hypothesis", which is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that has yet to be proven.
@@TheKain202 I thought if a theory was thoroughly tested and proven and accepted, it turns into a scientific law?
@@TheKain202 like for an example,
when I was a kid, we were taught that the Egyptians built the pyramids and sphinx at a certain time period and for many years before I was taught that same information that's been handed down for generations and now scientists and researchers are figuring out that that information is bullshit and they(pyramids and sphinx) are much much older than we are taught to believe it is.
@@perrtbaxter7119 Not how it works! When you hear someone talk about the 'Laws of Nature' for exapmle, they're still referring to assorted scienific Theories.
I still love the fan retcon that the Event Horizon was one of the first incidents of exposure to Chaos for mankind in the Warhammer 40k universe.
Yeah pretty funny and great that the fans consider it canon when GW didn't want to lol
Fan Retcons, like the great replacement or the moon landing being faked? Yeah, not sure any of this is fan Retcons. More like bizarre theory for magic players
Oooh nice! I can totally get behind that.
Love for this❤❤❤❤❤❤
Blood for the Blood God
I saw this movie in the theatre with my brother when it was released. It was crazy and almost traumatizing. My brother and I looked at each other halfway through the movie, almost checking to make sure each of us was ok.
My mom and I rented it just after it came out, I had to have been like 10. We got to _that_ scene, and my mom just quietly turned it off and told me I could finish it in a few years
Did people just not think it was a horror film?
I figured it was a sci-fi horror movie, but was taken aback at how crazy it was...for that time. This was the mid-90's and I hadn't been exposed to this level of crazy in my life yet. @@Novarcharesk
lol she was right, but damn...that's funny. I applaud her! @@bloodyneptune
@@Novarcharesk Not sure about it; I think there was a lot of confusion at the time; I saw it with my brother, too, in the theater, and just loved it; we both did, but we were a bit older than @jubjub7101
The gravity drive also looks like the biblical description of an angel .
Ah nice but if trivia
Exactly ! 🙂
Which makes sense as the front of the ship looks like an old Demon. So a Fallen angel, coming to collect on sins. :P .
An Ophanim, more specifically. Really fascinating little detail, as they are said to guard the throne of God.
Ezekiel 10:10 As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
I love how Sam Niell can act in movies like this, the mouth of madness, and other scary films, and then at the same time star in Jurassic Park and such lol very much an amazing actor.
Yeah, he's very convincing in the roles he plays.
Yes, he can play a villain extremely good, here and on the final Omen movie playing Damian, he just owns the film.
Don’t forget Possession. He’s just so damn good.
Watch his entrance in "Ivanhoe"....
Tbh his character was pretty bland and non expressive
It is so sad, that there will never be a Directors Cut of Event Horizon. I would love to see the Original Cut.
I wonder if animation could fill in the scenes that were cut?
@@mainstreetsaint36 lol ..keep wonderin' bud.
Why not is it all lost?
@@paulmurphy8549was originally stored in a salt mine in Romania or someplace and the print got deteriorated badly. A lot of extra storyline lost
I heard the warehouse that stored all the raw footage burnt down. Lost everything.
Also, much of the aesthetic is because a portion of the crew worked on Hellraiser series, so they brought in that gritty industrial hell with them. Love Kurt Russle’s grounded view of things. He knows the potential of hard work and many artists aren’t recognized until way later. Also it didn’t do well either, but Solider is one of my other favorite movies.
If you mean Kurt Russel, who was in Soldier, he's not in this, and to my knowledge had absolutely nothing to do with it in any way.
One of my favorite horrors of all time.
It hits number two on my favorite interstellar horror movie only because of Alien but the plot is better written than slasher in space it felt like vintage science fiction horror with a way better graphic design team, special effects team, and stunt choreographers then 40's to 60's
Ey thanks for watching it mate, much appreciated
I don't know what you saw - I thought it was utter dogshit.
Gave me fukin nightmares for days after I saw it I cinema for the first time I feel like there's something you don't exactly know what's beyond the limits of human intuition and fact and that's what's giving it this eery feel to it how do you start to understand that what you don't
It's a nice take on the human psychi and how it can go of the rails really fast with devastating consequences for all parties involved
Fukin great movie LOVE IT
Just saying 🇧🇻
One of the very first DVD movies I ever owned. Great movie, great actors, and a great space horror movie!
In case anyone didn't know. _Dead Space_ was mentioned a lot. But the gravity drive device was also directly lifted to serve in the final boss fight of _Silent Hill 4._ It's the same grinding mechanism that Eileen potentially walks into, during the timed end battle with Walter Sullivan. Anyway, thanks for the video essay. I wish Sam Neill could get more work in cosmic horror, because he really seems to love the genre. The man has a real talent for depicting madness. Pity Paramount shat the bed so hard.
If you haven’t yet, I’d check out “in the mouth of madness” which starts Sam Neil and has some cosmic horror but less sci-fi
@@terriblej6107 YESSSS THIS! What a great film!!!
"Did I ever tell you that that my favorite color was blue?"
Saw it in the theater. Scared the hell out of me. Still watch it about once a year. Thanks for the breakdown!!
This is the only thing that ever made me fear HELL There was a 5 year old kid sitting behind me.
My gf at the time loved horror...we went to see Event Horizon twice...as long as I agree to Titanic 😂
I remember when I would watch science fiction horror at 13 or 12 this might have been new it might have been out of style since the 50s/60s because it being more mythology driven science fiction horror then slasher style that alien horror was popular for at this point in movie history when but despite all the draw backs it worked 10 fold higher than if they went with what was popular science fiction horror at the time because it stuck out not blended in
You like WarHammer 40k? A lot of people say this was the first documentation of the warp. Seems to fit pretty well.
@@nexusdrop7863 A movie about what happens when you go through the warp without a Gellar field.
This one, and Sphere ( 1998 ) with Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L, Sharon Stone.... are my favourite movies from the '90s. I was so impressed with the effects as a kid
One other reference along the religious lines; there is an angel type called an ophanim which is a huge eye surrounded by moving rings that also have eyes and sometimes they can be on fire. The gravity drive core is very similar to one, like it's a fallen angel version of an ophenim which again ties into the Hell aesthetic
Damn! Nice catch there!!
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I love how almost PERFECTLY this fits into Warhammer 40k lore. The blackhole generator even has an Eight Pointed Star, the symbol of Chaos, which is exactly what you get when you go faster than light through hell....
It also strongly resembles all the things the warp (a parrellel hell like dimension needed for space travel to simplify it) is said to do to humans unless they use special techonology to ward against the influence. there is also a mention in the lore that first attempts to do warp travel without the mentioned shields had gone more or less just like that and lead to the galler field technology then being developed and actually working 100% of the time till (as things in 40k do) all went to shits
Philip Eisner, who wrote Event Horizon, said in several interviews that Warhammer 40k certainly had a big influence on him. So it's not an official 40k movie but the story was inspired by it. For some reason people still claim it has nothing to do with 40k or that it actually is a 40k movie 🤷♂️
@@Azhalan This movie is clearly a WH40K prequel.
Fun little fact, there is a warhammer 40k pen and paper rpg called dark heresy, and one group of players (The all guardsmen party) thought the same thing... to the point that they go to buy a used spaceship called... The Occurrence Border...
The screenwriter - Paul Eisner - is a 40k fan and was at the time. Which is notable because 40k didn't have anywhere near the following it does now at the time. I've seen some claims that there was an attempt to make it official but the producers weren't able to come to a deal with Games Workshop, but without anything to back it up, whereas Paul Eisner has said many times that he was a huge 40k fan and active player while writing the script.
Was lucky enough to see this at a screening, pre-release, so no trailers zero clue what it was about except it was a space horror. It blew me away, particularly the incredible set design of the ship which is really a character all itself. And when Larry Fishburn drops the immortal line “We’re leaving” there was an audible cheer in the theatre and an instant classic was born.
YES. Finally a protagonist in a horror movie who assesses the situation and makes the smart call. It actually makes the movie scarier when the cast is not just screwing themselves over with their own stupidity. They're making the smart moves and still getting screwed because the danger is legit.
It is suggested that when the original crew of the Event Horizonwere in Hell, they were driven to madness and ultimately turned on each other due to the extreme psychological torment they experienced.
The ship's experimental gravity drive, had inadvertently opened a portal to a dimension of pure chaos and evil. This dimension, “hell," corrupted and traumatized them beyond their ability to cope. The crew's exposure to this dimension led to them experiencing their deepest fears and regrets in a visceral and relentless manner, causing them to descend into madness.
As the crew began to experience these horrors, they turned on each other, unable to distinguish reality from their own personal hellscapes. The crew's behavior was driven by their individual traumas, and the pain they inflicted on each other was an attempt to either force their crewmates to confront their own fears or to distract themselves from their own unbearable torment.
So, it can be said that the crew members were not intentionally torturing each other, but rather were acting out in response to the extreme psychological trauma they were experiencing.
It is possible that time in the dimension of "hell" was non-linear, with events occurring simultaneously or out of order. This could have contributed to the crew's sense of disorientation and madness, as their perception of time may have been disrupted or distorted.
Alternatively, it is also possible that time in the dimension was experienced as an eternal, never-ending present, with no distinction between past, present, and future. This could have added to the crew's sense of hopelessness and despair, as they may have felt trapped in an endless cycle of torment.
Its the warp in 40k, everything you said.
Good take.
@@YourStylesGeneric321 Event Horizon was originally envisioned to be taking place in the 40k universe so... exactly the warp.
@@paulwright774what?? Really?
This is what happens when you enter the warp without a Gellar field
Best Warhammer 40K movie so far. Great depiction of Chaos and why you need a Gellar field if you try to travel through the warp.
Exactly
Timeframe does not check out. You clearly see orgiastic stuff happening with previous crew, while Slaanesh would not form for the next 28 000 years
@@AdamMichalMarkowski time has no effect on the warp stuff goes in and can reemerge thousands of years in any direction remember sly existed in the old world but was birthed into being 50k years later chaos is just that chaotic
@@jeffreygrindle6396 Right! That could explain his influence being felt in those scenes, good explanation!
@@AdamMichalMarkowski love warhammer lore and been play since early 2000s chaos and all the greater demons ate fascinating once you really dive into the lore
Just rewatched this recently. Even knowing what's going to happen it still does a great job of being creepy. One of the best horror movies ever.
I truly believe that this is one of the best horrors ever made and I will die on this hill. Glad to see some old school stuff in your breakdowns!
It’s ok, great even but the best ever made?????
Girl bye ✌🏻
@@ivantothemax didn't say the best ever made.
One of the best, agreed. If we got the full gore cut. It would also rival many of the all time gore films ez.
You won’t die alone bro great movie
Move over and make room on that hill for me.
This movie was heavily influenced by Solaris, not the re-make with George Clooney but the Andrei Tarkovsky original which was made in 1972. It's definitely worth a watch or two. I've seen it several times.
Cosmic horror at it's absolute finest. This film just hits every little check perfectly. Tone, look, feeling, music, acting. Shows you just enough to leave you deeply disturbed and allow your mind to really run wild. It also has possible the most iconic sci-fi ship ever. The Event Horizon is a freaking work of art. Beautiful ship design. I would kill to have one of the models fully lit as a ceiling display for a theater room.
The event horizon is nowhere near the most iconic sci fi ship. Star wars alone has several like the millennium falcon, star trek with the USS enterprise, then there's the discovery one from space odyssey and the Normandy of mass effect. It's iconic but it's not #1
Event Horizon is a great film and much underrated.
It scared the shit out of me when I watched it back in the day and still sends a shiver down my spine on rewatching.
The shadow over the Paramount mountain and that theme song is worth the price of admission itself, amazing movie, Sam Neil kills it, check him out in, in the mouth of madness, another classic.
Yes! In the Mouth of Madness was amazing!
In The Mouth Of Madness!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
"Oh, no. Not The Carpenters..."
One of tye scariest scifi movies ever made...the atmosphere, the terrifying visuals and the soundtrack still give me goosebumps to this day when I think about it. The idea alone of a ship being lost in a hell dimension is stuff of nightmares...
Apart from Alien and Aliens, Event Horizon is up there as one of the best horror/scifi film ever. What adds to its greatness is that it has Jon Pertwee's son Sean in it. Excellent cast, effects and soundtrack.
There is a German Sci Fi horror movie from the 2019 s. Can't remember the name though
You can also add The Thing (1982) to that list.
@@SerAkimboYeah, at #1
No mention of 2001?
I still remember watching it in 2001, what a ride that was.
crazy how the best horror & scifi movies are ALWAYS flops in the theatre, but when people get it at home, they LOVE it
The ending, there is no IF the evil is still around. It definitely is. Before the movie fades out, the door closes by itself as the rescue crew is trying to calm a hysterical Clarck.
The core body of the ship transported its blood through the glass tubes to the lifeboat part, ensuring that it becomes & stays "alive"
See I thought that too.
My take on the ending was that the hatch sealing shut as the medic tells the other to go get some gear meant that the ship was still "active" and wasn't going to let the newcomers go either.
The ship is clearly possessed
Also the lights around the hatch looked like the lights around the grav drive when it was opening.
“We’re leaving.” Best movie line EVER. The gravity drive looks like an ophanim, a spinning eye wheel (angel?) mentioned in the Bible.
For real. That delivery was perfect and the entire theatre roared with laughter when I saw it back in '97
From the very get go, that Paramount logo transition into opening credits with that creepy music is outstanding and sets the tone perfectly.
One of my favorite films, was really sad to hear it was a flop.
It's strange how many amazing films weren't financially successful.
You would think word of mouth would have boosted sales, but I guess not many people saw it in cinema
Same with "The Thing (1982)". It's much more appreciated now.
Came here after rewatching the movie today. I can’t believe it was filmed in 1997, effects still looking good 26 years later.
When Weir's dead wife said, "I have such wonderful, WONDERFUL things to show you" and then gouges his eyes out in the vision. Goosebumps I tell ye, goosebumps till this day. Yikes
Event horizon got me more as a kid for the psychological horror more so than the body horror stuff. It just really created the feeling of isolation and the fact it was these people basically doing it to themselves and being controlled that was just like wild as a kid. A very visceral fear.
One of the few films that genuinely scared me, both as a kid and as an adult. Still gets me on edge whenever I watch it.
If this movie scares you, you probably shouldn’t watch a movie called Martyrs because you might end up having to sleep with Mommy and Daddy after he he he 😁
Same, I think it bothered me so much because it wasn’t ghosts or demons or whatever it was the horror of science going wrong causing something as bad as hell.
@@GuardianAngel.. funnily enough, I've seen Martyrs, and I thought it was more dreary than horrifying.
@@michaelb1478well it was demons too. That's what the ship brought back with it from Hell and what was causing the crew members to experience all of that.
Great set design. Really pulled off the creepy vibe. Like Dark City it stands out and leaves an impression decades on
We saw this in the theater and to this day it haunts me. One of the most horrific movies I’ve ever seen. Hence why I naturally clicked on this video 😂
I don't remember exactly how old I was the first time I watched this movie, but I was a teenager and it became a instant classic to me.
The world needs more movies of this quality 👍🏽
The event horizon is definitely a metaphor about death, right down to the core being a visual representation of the pineal gland. Like death, it is only hell for the crew members if they go into it with anxieties, shame, fears and regrets.
Very interesting conclusion there 👏🏼
Wowsers!!!
This movie terrified me as a kid. I still watched it several times, though. Something about it always felt special...and totally evil.
Yeah I convinced my father to take me I was really into sci Fi, and we may have screwed up.. I was maybe 10 at most.
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. This movie inspired the matrix
Laurence Fishburne is my favorite part of this film. “We’re leaving “ is a classic line😂
In that one moment, he became the smartest person in any horror movie. Instead of looking at the complete horror and going, "we have to find out why," he was like "nope."
This film was criminally underrated!
I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Good writing and acting definitely worth the watch. Also, if you're looking for another a sleeper try Shutter Island. Another film that doesn't disappoint!
Love the theory about it possibly being a prequel to the Warhammer 40k Universe. With the Hell dimension being an early type of the Warp
100% my head cannon
and shows why they've developed gellar fields
And shows what happens to ships lost to the warp...
Yikes
Welcome to the Warp
It's not a theory, it's fact. Event Horizon was intended to be a Warhammer 40K movie.The writer (Philip Eisner) had said so himself. Gamesworkshop (The company that owns Warhammer) is notoriously stingey and didn't want to give the license to make the movie.
Your 100% right i watched this as a kid and always thought this was one of the scariest movies back then. Never noticed the doors or all the eyes before. Great vid.
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. It was at the early Saturday show (like 6-ish) and there were only 3 people in the whole theater (2 friends and me). We all enjoyed it and I still can't understand why it didn't do better. It ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to sci-fi horror.
Sci fi movies then to not do well. Same for some horror movies. I think with social media those days might be disappearing, M3gan did well (but it was a 'cheap' film). There are some pretty good shorts of sci fi stuff. "Dust Channel" I think on youtube.
Yeah, this is the most memerable horror i can think of that takes place in space. Theres so many angles of fd up goin on that if you see it as a kid, youll likely never forget it. I know i sure as F didnt. And the end shows theres no happy ending for anyone, so yeah, it basically hits every note you want a horror to hit, and also has such a great cast its amazing it somehow didnt get over with audiences at first.
This didnt do well because it was released when sphere was released
@@Haulinbassracing holy crap! I remember that movie as well, being almost as scary and twice as hard to follow,and almost noone talks about it or remembers it i feel like
I remember renting this movie when I was 13 years old from Blockbuster in secret from my parents. The scene where they find the one guy strung up with his guts on the operating table, has always stuck with me.
Saw this in the theater with my friends. Instantly became one of my favorite horror sci-fi movies of all time. Amazing film.
I remember going to watch this twice at the cinema when I was younger. I've watched it multiple times subsequently. It wasn't until a more recent viewing that I noticed something that I didn't pick up on before. After Weir is sucked out in to space, we later see him back on board the ship covered in what looks like cuts. At least I thought they were cuts, maybe caused by the ship pulling him back together. Thing is, that's not what we're seeing. What we are seeing is Weir with demonic symbols carved in to his body. I dunno how many other people noticed that, but I certainly didn't see it straight away. It's just another way this this awesome film can still surprise me after so many years.
Something is even more strange: We see demonic symbols carved on Weir's very flesh and through some parts of the ship...But there are no demons inside it or on the other side of the portal Weir openned. There is just some unknown maligant force that corrupts humans and turn them into something we could call DEMONS. We never knew what exactly created all those horrors and evil and any details of the corruption process itself
I think it is an amazing film. We can only wonder what Andersons original cut would have been like. I reckon it would have made this the greatest film of all time (apart from Lawrence Fishburn's wobbly chair)
One of my favorite movies, ever.
I found Sam Neil put in dangerous settings in which he'd probably won't survive, is one of my favorite genres...
Love the retro movie reviews/breakdowns 🤘 would love to see your views on "The Abyss"
Yeah definitely wanna cover some Cameron at some point
@@heavyspoilers not avatars please, the old stuff, the good stuff.
For retro films, how about Dark City, too?!?
@@ipersuade Great choice! I hope he covers this one
@ there's nothing subtle about Avatar movies so there's nothing to explain. You're all good. Some Aliens or Terminator 2 breakdowns would be cool.
Ended up theater-hopping into this movie a couple weeks after it released and it became one of my all time favorite horror flicks.
Remember catching this in the cinema back in the day and loving the effects and production design. It's aged very well and is probably Paul WS Anderson's best film. It was pretty much down hill from here on. Thought the soundtrack was worth a mention though, pretty banging melding of Orbital techno/electronica with Michael Kamen's orchestral score. Very cool.
The opening score was just a brilliant scene setter. The perfect soundscape to set up the movie
Yes, Michael Kamen's score for the horror parts does such a good job at making you so uneasy with Orbital's synth whispers making you feel like you're hearing things too, really brings you into the movie and Kamen's solo big orchestral final battle music gives the final battle between Fishburn and Neill an epic, terrifying feel like its the end of the world.
I appreciate your in depth breakdown and the details... I loved this movie back in the day and saw it in the theater. It really unsettled me and stays with me till now. Every movie I see with the *punches pencil through folded paper bit* to demonstrate the idea of a wormhole, black hole or light speed space travel, whatever...I think, ah yeah, Event Horizon. I just watched your Shining movie breakdown and very much appreciate your research efforts. I did not remember nor had I noticed the doorways shaped like coffins in this, thats kind of stupidly simple yet subtle enough I missed it. Cheers mate ✌🏽
back when I was a kid in the 90s I must of watched this on vhs 1000 times. the thing that stuck out to me the most was when they first enter the ship and you see the skulls melted into the wall. I always thought it had something to do with the Doom games cause its the same thing you see in loading screens in Doom.
Loved this breakdown so much. I have the same kind of nostalgia for this movie as well also seeing in when I was like 11 or 12, I am surprised I missed so much of the gothic architecture tie ins
OMG, this is one of my all time favorite movies! Great review, so glad you made it!
Thank you, hope you enjoyed the video
Same!! It presented me with a point of view/theory about space travel I hadn’t previously been introduced to. If Hell does exist, it would be an alternative dimension and if we create a way of accessing alternative dimensions, Hell would one of the possible destinations
9:55 - do we have confirmation that sound was taken from Doom? Doom itself used very popular library of sounds, so it might as well be coincidence movie used same door sound.
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When this ship is sucked into the planet it make another shape of an eye (can’t believe you missed it) as Weir is saying “do you see?”
Lots & lots of eye references in this awesome movie 👌🏼👁
Proverbs 30:17 - The eye is the window to the soul.
Thanks for this. More like this please. I just watched Event Horizon for the first time last Halloween and I was surprised I had missed it all these years. It was for sure up my alley and innovative for the time. Glad it's getting its due now.
Such a great movie, I was terrified as a kid and the older I get the more I watch it the more I appreciate it.
Wish there were a lot more sci-fi horror movies out there. That genre is absolutely fascinating to watch.
I love this film and have seen it countless times... yet I never noticed until it was pointed out in this video that the gravity drive engine resembled an eye that was constantly watching both the characters and the viewers. A whole new layer of scary just got added to this movie for me - thanks! xD
This movie was truly ahead of it’s time. It’s like being sucked into an HR Geiger painting. The end sequence with the rapid shots of gore is the perfect sensory overload.
Yep. Saw it as a kid. Seared a mark on my brain and I will never forget it. Nice breakdown.
I remember the first time watching this film. It went in a way different direction than I thought it was going to...and I loved it!
This is still one of my favorites and the horror still holds up. I had those hands holding the eyeballs in my nightmares for 6 months after this came out. Good times 😅
Paul, I keep coming back for your videos. So, thank you for your uploads
I just rewatched this a week ago. Not nearly as scary as I remembered but still such a dope movie…
Thank you. I saw this movie many years ago. I was confused and remained confused by it. Had no idea what was going on. I never tried to watch it over it again. It was just so strange. I really appreciate this terrific breakdown! It makes so much more sense now. I’m ALMOST tempted to watch it again to see if I can catch some of those things you pointed out--nah. It was enough for it to be explained. LOL.
Signed G’s family member T
Wow, fantastic breakdown. I've always enjoyed Event Horizon as a guilty pleasure. It's silly and sometimes ridiculous, but wonderfully entertaining and quotable. Now I've gained a new appreciation for the painstaking details put into it. Thank you for that!
Wow that's a great catch to the details of the flag patches on the uniform.
Nice review Paul. This is a very cool movie that I never saw in the theater but recall watching several months after it came out on hbo or something and recently got my wife and daughter to watch again with me as we all Love horror and they had never seen it. They loved it and o was even jumping a few times with some of the crazy scenes. Had never heard of the deleted scenes situation so thanks for that info. Looking forward to your take on the shining. One of my all time favorites
Love the way you started breaking down classic movies as well. Keep 'em coming!
I remember staying up late at night over the summer when this film was regularly played on HBO or some other movie channel. Was terrifying as a child, especially when the crew finally cleaned up that entry on the ship's log enough to view it.
Even uncleaned up its frickin haunting. That whole log entry ordeal is unforgettable and i still gotta agree when guy immediately says nope-fuck this ship right afterward and sets out to blow it up ,mission be damned lol
I've loved this movie from the start. Forget critics. Event Horizon is a masterpiece.
This is one of those movies you desperately want a sequel but already know a sequel could never live up to the first
Just WOW man. This is an outstanding completition of the Event Horizon movie and lore/ background. Event when Iam a Dead Space Games and Event Horizon/ Ghistship fan and Veteran, some information were new for me. Great work, solid and complete.👍
I saw this in the theater. I thought it was damned impressive. One of my all-time favourite movies.
Good breakdown, & a keen eye upon a very special movie. I would like to add something that've never heard anyone reference to date. My notion has always been that the character of Dr. William Weir, but really the whole plot, is very much based on Stanislav Lem's Dr. Kris Kelvin in Solaris:
A Dr. gets called to a tin can orbiting a planet, which - or "Something" - seems to be watching (you mentioned the Eye of Neptune, which, as a Gas Giant, is as close to the description of Solaris as we can get within our solar system). Our protagonist is highly capable, but riddled with guilt about his wife's suicide, whom he feels to have failed. The "Something" begins to "read" the crew & starts manifesting projections of people dear to, but lost or abandoned by the crew members, including the protagonist's wife. Every single one of them is ravaged by these encounters & their guilt that they by now had convinced themselves to have had overcome. This sudden confrontation with their obvious denial breaks them apart, as now everyone is fighting his own shadow.
Unable to deal with the irrational, our Dr. does the only sensible thing: he gives in to the seemingly allmighty "Something" & accepts the consequences. This act allows him to free himself from his guilt, to be reborn.
In Lem's vision, the Rebirth was a disturbing proposition. Just like it was in Event Horizon.
Also, regard the names: Kris Kelvin / William Weir. I do see quite the repetition of alliteration here. Also, a "weir" is dam "that alters the flow characteristics of water". Well, so does "Kelvin".
This was the height of the Prodigy's fame, with their *"Fat of the Land"* album as one the year's best. So it's fitting that their tunes featured in this horror cult classic.
I REFUSE to accept we will never get to see the original 130 minute version! It will happen. Someone will somewhere still have a copy of the original print. And they will restore it! Mark my words.
Classic. This film makes a lot more sense now. Thank you, Paul.
No problem, really appreciate the support
How’s this comment up since 22 hours ?
Um there was no explanation just describing what happened pretty basic
The panning into the sky after the paramount logo is so awesome and makes sense why cut if you’re going into the sky/space, just pan into the sky/space and start the movie
My favorite space horror of all time. It’s incredibly creepy and I wish to the movie gods that the cut scenes would resurface in a usuable state (yes I know of the ones recovered from the mine & the VHS ones).
What do you mean "movie gods"? Homie, there's only one God.
This movie is a 90s classic that has stood the test of time. Happy to see you doing a video on this movie. I miss the 90s my childhood.
Creepy whisper "BILLY!" always sends chills down my spine. I love this movie! Edit: I always looked at the escape pod as an "egg" from the demon ship. They can never escape hell.
The sound effects from doom are actually from generic sound effects databases. They also used the door sound in Doctor Who (Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit, among my favorite episodes, also involving a black hole and...
Anyway yes I love this movie.
Hey Paul, I just re-watched Donnie Darko for the first time in awhile and was wondering if you minded going over this one. It’s a favorite of mine and I’d love to hear your thoughts, theories and inside knowledge on it. I am sorry if you’ve done this already, and would gladly watch if there is an older breakdown vid
4:20 also the device seen here very much looks like an Ophanim, a biblical wheel angel being with rotating wheels covered in eyes!!!
I'd pay a lot to see the original director's cut with all the scenes that got lost. It always amazed me how You can create something fresh and innovative by taking generic, kinda cliche motive and put it in different context. Event Horizon is Your typical haunted house horror movie, but in space, and not a house, but a space ship.
Haven’t seen this one👀Sounds like my jam! Gonna have to check it out now. Thank you for making me aware of this movie Paul!
The Geller field failed.....
I love this movie. My son is obsessed with LITTLE NICKY! Nice one! Has no one caught that?
The novelization actually explains the events of the crew's final log after they'd been fully revealed. Honestly, it came as a complete surprise as I hadn't heard anything about deleted scenes before reading.
What does it say?
I'll wait
I remember seeing this film, but I don't recall getting into it all that much. Maybe I'll have to revisit it again sometime to see if it WASN'T as implausibly convoluted as I remembered (though obviously and invariably meant to check all the horror and jump-scare boxes IIRC).
I’m so glad you kept theory time, I love the ideas especially for shows/movies that don’t have a proper ending
Classic Sci-Fi horrors like this should get WAY more recognition. I'll never forget this movie ever since I first saw it almost 25 years ago. 🤪 scenes. Thx 4 the review!
When Sam Neill says that he LOVED being apart of a film, you know you have a gem on your hands.
Sam does alot of good movies, but he's also done some not so good movies that's obviously for the payday. And he never really praises his roles that much, but he's always spoken giddily about Event Horizon and says that he loved being in this movie.