Event Horizon: Space Horror That's Scary Good - Rental Reviews
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- James Rolfe discusses the 1997 film Event Horizon, which is like Hellraiser in Space but better than the actual Hellraiser in space, with pals Justin Silverman, Kieran and Tony from Hack The Movies.
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I remember my parents took me to see this as a kid because it had Sam Neil in it and he was my hero from Jurassic Park....... boy were we wrong.
hahah haha
Not a very bright move from them. Quite narrow-minded.
@RandomStuff Inc. you could say, i was being sarcastic, my dad and i really liked sci fi. The aliens movies weren't as bad.
Hahaha I love this! Same here!
@@psychokinrazalon you’re rude, chill out mate
Event Horizon would've been legendary if we got the director's cut version.
I know man, if it wasn't for the film rot and everything...then yeah it would be too scary and disturbing.
Agreed.
And a fucking salt mine?
Release the Anderson cut.
Release the Snyder cut......
"Release me....release me now...."
I saw this in the theater with friends, and I have to say it scared the crap out of us. One reason was the marketing didn't convey that this film is horror, it made it out to be a regular SciFi film. The scene that always stuck with me was Sam Neil in the bowels of the ship with the lights going out, and then boom, there's his dead wife yelling in his ear. Great movie
I just checked the trailer, and while it didn't show gore, it definitely suggested dark things, possibly supernatural.
@@ThreadBomb Different regions get different advertising.
I may hate the director of this film but I do like how everyone here likes the film and acknowledges that it isn't perfect but had the potential to become one of the most terrifying space horror movie ever had the original scenes remained intact.
This had so much potential. I'm just glad the fans realized it too.
James story about his wife and daughter coming in as he's watching and he pauses it twice at horrible times. XD. Brilliant.
This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid. Best line was Lawrence Fishburne's, "We're leaving."
Most sensible horror movie character ever.
I know the footage only survives on videotape, but I really wish Anderson were given the chance to make his director's cut.
Wait its still around? Shieeet. He should make the D.C. then.
sdmfbastard the footage was put in a salt mine in Transylvania and sustained damage. Unfortunately, it can never happen.
@@guitarguru.3572 In 2011, Levin said that he found a VHS tape of the original uncut version of the movie in his office. In 2017, Anderson was asked about this, but he said that he hasn't viewed this copy yet. So we might still have hope of seeing the director's cut, but one of these days these guys really need to get in the same room with this tape and a VCR.
Edit: missing words
I heard it got damaged beyond salvageability so we'll never get to see it ;_;
@@XenRiddle Really? Oh movie gods, please let this actually be true.
Event Horizon scared the living shit outta me when I was 12
Would've been cooler with all the extra gore and development
That opening was legitimately creepier than the bulk of horror movies I've seen lately and that's both sad and commendable.
for real that jump scar got me
That shit scare the crap out of me
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Kieran scared my ass off
The moment when you realize Paul WS Anderson, a shitty filmmaker, directed a better Doom movie than the actual Doom movie.
How does that happen?!?!
Paul WS anderson is a decent enough director, just not the best writer.
Eh I still still say it isn’t doom but it’s a prequel to warhammer 40k. And the event horizon is basically what happened to KILLFRENZY
and _also_ a better warhammer 40k movie
But that’s not saying much since Doom should’ve never been made. Both Doom and Event Horizon are horrible.
He just does whatever Capcom tells him.
I love this movie. Sadly we'll never get the director's cut with all the deleted scenes.
Still dont understand why they trimmed it down so much. I mean Hellraiser was already pretty old. The audience was ready for this stuff.
I know, so sad the blood orgy footage is gone forever.
what was cut?
@SuperNintendoZach Half of the movie, LOL.
@Jani Akujärvi No, you're wrong. There's a lot more stuff that was cut form the final edit. Just google and you'll see.
"I've never heard someone with the last name Justin"
(James IMMEDIATELY looks to the camera.)
That look gets me every time XD
23:29
Event Horizon is the real DOOM movie :D
There's a fan theory that the Event Horizon actually managed to enter the Warp from Warhammer 40K.
Unfortunately, that's utter tripe.
@@phillydelphia8760 that's why it's called a fan theory.
@@phillydelphia8760 How is it tripe there are a lot of similarities to Daemon hosts and such and a lot of stuff
It was mentioned as a major influence by one of the producers.
@@Scufflegrit Might as well be a prequel to 40k
I have Event Horizon on VHS
One of the few movies that still scares me after all these years.
So you like doughnuts eh? Then have all the doughnuts in the world!
I'm trying to pay attention to what they're are saying, but keep finding myself watching the Simpsons.
Tom S Yep... the moment noticed it, I had to keep watching
The jury of the damned. Richard Nixon "but I'm not dead yet"
I watched it only a few months ago, and it's still pretty good. Classic 90s sci-fi.
I'm glad it is appreciated. Personally I consider this movie as underrated, even if it has some major flaws.
One of my favorite movies.
It’s not perfect, but I really like it. Also, the set design is absolutely wild.
It is NOT a classic. It's barely passable and that's saying a lot considering that the idiot who directed this is a shitty filmmaker.
The look of the film, the concept, the acting are all great. There are a couple of dumb moments (the wormhole explanation, smoking in space) and the nature of the hell dimension should have been made a bit clearer at the end, but It's still essential viewing for every sci-fi horror fan.
My favorite scene is when they review the audio file that they received from the ship and it’s like constant screams of death and sounds like literal hell. Haha.
L I B E R A M E
One of my favourite horror movies. I remember watching this when I was about 16, and I found the monitor scene where the crew are killing each other so disturbing I literally couldn't watch it until I was well into my 20's :)
12:20 Completely disagree with Kieran here. Practical effects IS the way to go for gory stuff, not cgi, which is why The Thing is one of the most digusting movies ever made, and modern horror movies suck a lot.
I agree.
Yeah practical effects are the best in term of horror, it's what it makes the stuff more "real"
I think Keiran is actually talking about the practical effects in it, like they had great tech for practical effects during that time as well as mixing it with CGI. He just words it strangely.
Right now that's the case, but it's pretty much inevitable that CGI will be better eventually. The issue tends to be that they don't budget to make it really good. The best CGI is more or less indistinguishable from real life.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade you can always tell that it is CGI. It feels weightless even the best CGI. Maybe in the future it will fool me
I remember watching this movie at 1 am after being awake for over 30 hours, scared the shit out of me.
I loved this movie. Best thing was the sentence: “Hell is just a word”
Gave me the creeps.
This has always been one of my favourite horror movies of all time. Mostly because I'm a huge fan of both Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne.
Would have absolutely loved to see what was cut.
dead space 1 looks also pretty much like event horizon.
You might already know about this, but Event Horizon was a huge inspiration for the creator of Dead Space.
@@WH250398I don't even think Dead Space would exist without Event Horizon
@@oddballssherman3785 I think Alien would have been enough inspiration.
@@WH250398No Event is the inspiration for the whole tone and vibe. The Thing inspired the creatures and Alien was probably the seed, ship finds something on planet that sets off the horror. Alien is my fav film but Dead Space is pure Event Horizon inspired
@@WH250398 Hello, John Carpenter's "The Thing" would like a word.
Warhammer 40k prequel movie if ever there was one. That hell is pure warp.
you beat me too it!
Been my thoughts for a while, love it.
Stone me man never thought of that but a great why to have the chaos god's come through the wormhole👍
Turned me on actually, the hell orgy.
The Idea of cosmic horror warp dimensions wasn't originally from Games Workshop though. Almost all elements of the Warhammer 40k universe is stolen anywhere else.
- Female crew member sodomizing a male crew member with an iron pipe...
- Uh-huh.
- A girl gets her brest ripped off...
- Okay.
Priceless XD
Staring straight ahead lol.
Brest 😂
That intro is Really Cool. Happy Monster Madness, Cinemasacare Rentals!
@@SmokeymcJoint420 elaborate
Change challenges the small minds on the spectrum
Very cool.
Amen I'm glad I'm not the only one who really enjoyed it d:
I shat my pants
What a relief to hear more people complaining about the problem with audio dynamics of movies, since about the DVD era I think. Or THX/Dolby, like one of you said. This problem isn't addressed enough.
It's a problem IN GENERAL!!! Whether I'm watching UA-cam, TV, movies, whatever. There's no real standard for volume, so everything is haywire. If you take UA-cam by itself, for instance, if you watch multiple videos, you'll instantly notice that all the different videos are at different volumes, sometimes within the same video, ESPECIALLY with video montages. Some clips will be MUCH louder/quieter than others, so it's difficult to deal with sound, even with great speakers!
Its with a lot of things also with videogames that the sounds are so loud that you cant hear the conversation Netflix has it with some movies and its almost impossible too understand so i have too put on the subs.
Underrated movie, it´s great (another great horror with Sam Niel is In Mouth of madness)
Right! It's almost like the same premise
Sam Neil is great in horrors
In the Mouth of Madness is criminally overlooked.
At 20 years old, i walked into the movies, didn't know what i was about to watch...never forgot it ..still one of the best concepts for a movie
and would inspire Dead Space
I kept getting distracted by the TV playing classic Tree-house of Horrors.
I got distracted too in their From Dusk Until Down one when they were showing that episode of the 80's Twilight Zone called Nightcrawlers.
I love how Jack NIcholson is right over James' shoulder for the entire video. Flawless execution
the movies being loud is so damn true. we have a sound system that me and my family watch movies with and when there are talking scenes you cant hear a thing so we turn it up next minute its a really loud music scene or action scene and suddenly our ears are bleeding! its strange since some movies get the audio levels perfect but most suck
LoL and i thought only i have this problem
I don't remember Event Horizon being to bad in this respect. Certainly not as bad as more recent movies.
Geeking Out
Yea, what gives with that? I'm working the volume constantly when watching movies on the TV.
@Oppai Man That would be the Center Speaker, which is part of 5.1 and higher speaker configurations.
Same here and I thought it was just me too. I’m thinking that whispering / soft talking is used more often in modern movies because they assume the higher quality audio and louder volumes for theaters. Seems like old school technique was to make sure actors said their lines loud enough to be picked up clearly, but now they just mumble under their breath the whole time in some movies. In those cases the only way I can hear dialog clearly without blasting my neighbors during action sequences is to just use headphones.
Intro's backward text says "WECAN'TLEAVE" repeated. I think I stumbled on to some Cinemassacre lore.
"I've never heard of someone with the last name "Justin"."
James looks at the camera and laughs.
*looks behind the couch*
Actually the people sent to investigate the Event Horizon are not scientists but rescue technicians who try to find out what happened and bring back any survivors. That means that the scene with the Gravity Drive explanation make sense.
It also implies that space travel is common enough that being in spaceships is viable for blue-collar workers.
Yeah :/ a lot of nitpicking going on early on in the vid -_-
Yeah a bit like Alien with the trucker in space thing
Holy crap, another person that gets this. I thought I was the only one. Its like people dont actually pay attention to the movie or something.
Blue Blue wait, what was the movie about again? I thought it was about aliens.
The hell dimension shares a lot of similarities to The Warp from Warhammer 40K
It really makes me wonder if someone on the team was a 40k fan.
Yes, no one makes that connection.
40k prequel confirmed LOL!
I was about to say the same thing!
was about to say this as well.
I loved this movie. Fantastic horror film.
The lore begins! They all dead trapped in a old rental store haha
Btw, I love seeing Justin in this
Virsu?
In video games you can adjust the music, the sound effects and the talking. Why can't you do that with movies? You should be able to by now
yeah, we have options for multiple audio tracks, i dont know why nobody has ever mastered a film in theateical audio on one track, and a “nighttime” audio track with much lower dynamic range so you can watch at night or on crappy speakers without having to adjust the volume in quiet/loud moments
Comrades across the Cosmos it would only make sense right? The way they have them set up now its almost impossible to watch a movie at night without waking the family, or the neighbors
holy shit ive never thought of this before but youre right!!! this idea can be revolutionary.
Dolby has dynamic compression settings that do that.
I have an E.Q. that can be enabled and used to subtly or drastically alter the sound. I use it when I want a little more bass.
Also, my K70 keyboard has a volume roller on it, that allows me to change the volume on the fly.
I use it when I think a movie's about to change volume too drastically. (I fucking hate jump scares.)
You can look at the film as being in the Warhammer 40k universe and it doesn't lose a beat - the ship went into the warp with no means of protection. Chaos possessed both the crew and the ship. None of them escape at the end. They all die, including the would-be rescuers. Could have been made better, but probably not today.
It's actually really cool how much this movie influenced sci-fi, especially video games.
Great film. Never gets old. If there’s ever a deadspace film, they should take this as an inspiration
I'm sure the game was inspired by this movie.
Alot of things about the beginning plot is similar.
I feel like they should use the deadspace game as an inspiration for a deadspace film.
There's some deadspace animated movies, they're really good. Check out deadspace: downfall
I always thought of Event Horizon as a Warhammer 40k movie.
It is more or less recognized among 40k fans that this is a "what happens if I travel through the warp without a gellar field" movie.
Heretic!
A warhammer 40k movie in the Age of Terra.
Except it's the Doom movie. Literally the only thing different about it is that it's in orbit around Neptune instead of Mars.
medexamtoolsdotcom Doom guy is emperor of mankind :o
The stories about the production of those "hell flashes" and what was left on the cutting room floor is the stuff of legend. There was a great IMDB forum post about it I can't find anymore.
I can't find lots of posts, articles, pictures, videos etc nline anymorre.
And they say whatever you upload to the internet stays there forever.
Event Horizon is what happens when you forget to turn on the Gellar Field projector before entering the warp.
That look James gives after "no one has the last name Justin"
Where?
Ok, found it, 23:25
Lol funny kuz Kyle justin
AVGN theme plays in the distance.
The movie takes place in the future. Maybe someone would have the last name 'Justin' then.
They should redo this movie as a Netflix or Amazon series, that way they can ease in to the horror elements slower and spend more time telling the story.
I know I'm late to the party here, but I believe amazon studios announced this year that they were working on a tv series
They sorta did redo this movie back in 08 as Pandorum
Paul WS Anderson produced it but didn't direct it
It also flopped
And a long, gruesome, completely unhinged hell scene.
They'll probably ruin it..
Funny enough, with a Warhammer 40k Amazon series coming up it would be funny if they were to remake this movie on Amazon considering how many people already say this is a prequel to Warhammer 40k.
Haha, is that the TACO BELL logo from DEMOLITION MAN on his T-shirt?
Watch the back catalog
yep it is lol
Ricky Grimez I can tell he goes to Taco Bell ALOOOOT
It is 👍. He mentions it in the Congo episode I think. There was a big TB Congo advertising thing.
This is the best review you guys have done. The story of the kid coming in is hysterical and very relatable.
I always liked Event Horizon. Never got why it had a bad rep.
It grossed most people out. They couldn't enjoy it.
probably because they expected an alien type movie and they got a psychological horror movie instead
@Retro Storm it's not a good film. Its ALMOST a good film. And that's saying a lot from a director who is a terrible filmmaker. Seriously He started off with some good ideas then decided to just give up and make shit.
In The Mouth Of Madness review please!
Amazing movie.
Did l ever tell you my favorite color was blue?
omg yes
Yessss they need to!! I just love Sam Neil
Love this movie and the Prodigy end credits soundtrack was kickass. Sam Neil made a good bad guy in this and was also good in The Mouth of Madness, Anouther underrated horror movie.
The Piano
Soundtrack was actually by Orbital!
@@mr.hoosteen373 I meant to say Prodigy tune not soundtrack, I got excited
Event Horizon inspired Dead Space...
Those Doom sound effects were used a lot in the 90's. There's even a Smashing Pumpkins song with the Doom barrel explosion sound.
I like in The Fifth Element when one of the zorg's guns malfunctions, and it plays the Doom door sound..or am I thinking of a scene from Galaxy Quest? Whoaaa.
The Doom sounds were just stock sound effects that id Software used
0:40 it says "We can't leave" over and over again. Is Rental Reviews turning into the new Board James?
That would be awesome! James is actually Board James in disguise
Event Horizon like a secret Warhammer 40k prequel.
Monobe Armafers I really wish they would make a warhammer 40k Netflix series.
@@beegwan1893 they would fuck it up. It would either be "imperial propaganda" like the ultramarine movie or they would tone down the horror and violence to appeal to a bigger crowd
@@t.schramm1045 I mean a warhammer guardsmen film in the style of starship troopers could work
Is that exactly what starship troopers is already is though? It's basically the guard vs my tyranids!
I remember being at a friend's house and he said we should stay up until 3am to watch this film on TV. We did, and i was not disappointed. I need to watch it again, it's been a while.
90's were the fucking best
Love the vintage commercials in the back! Really been enjoying the growth and experimentation with this series!
Alien + Hellraiser = Event Horizon
There's also a little bit of "The Shining" in there as well.
Event Horizon,is a classic film,criminally underrated.
Anyone else notice the Simpsons Halloween Special playing in the background on the TV?
CrazyVikingGamer yes!!
CrazyVikingGamer Right now I'm seeing a Hardee's commercial... and Evil Dead II ... in a cinema near YOU!!!!
Totally disagree with the crew needing to know how wormholes work. I think the idea is that space travel has become so normalised in the movies future that the average joe just complies with that narrative. Just like if you asked the average joe to explain how a plane flies while they're in the air.
I agree that's a possible explanation, but if so they should have made it clear in the movie.
Agreed. They’re not scientists anyways. They are a search and rescue ship. Pretty much like a coast guard rescue helo you would see now.
Agree. Nowadays we think we know about the technologies we use on a daily basis, but we usually don't. At all!
@@ThreadBomb Why is that needed though? Cars have been around for over a hundred years and are used by hundreds of millions of people each day, but I bet the vast majority don't know the ins and outs of how they work.
You always know a Working Joe.
I want a remake that includes everything they originally cut out
Such a criminally underrated film. I've seen it a few times and it still creeps me out every time.
This film is terrific. It takes the best things from Alien, Hellraiser, The Abyss, Leviathan and The Thing.
Yep, I just saw The Thing and didn't realize it took stuff from that movie too.
I confuse this with the Abyss so much.
Oh yeah it does borrow from Abyss a little. It reminds me of Doom a lot though.
Watched this movie when I was about 10 or 11. Scared the ever loving piss out of me. Still, to this day, there's something about eyeless people that just makes me shudder.
From a psychological stand point, the human mind is used to the faces of other people being a certain way. It's the living thing we see most through our lives, right from birth.
When they don't correspond to the automatic internal checklist that happens to establish what you're seeing is a face, it creates unease or outright fear. Similar principle to "the uncanny valley".
Adding the fright, at a highly impressionable/developmental stage in life, from the movie and you have are having a correlative experience. Eyeless people take you back to that fear you felt as a child.
THAT INTRO!!!! AWESOMEEEEE!!!!!! who ever came with the idea to do that! my congrats!!!
I can't believe they forgot about Kyle "Couch Hobo" Justin, RIP :'(
I once started watching this as a kid with my father, neither of us knew what it was and man does it lull you into a false sense of security.
I am not big on horror, but I reckon this has to be at least top 3 for most terrifying horror movie.
Event Horizon is really good.
...for landfills
Jani Akujärvi It feels great, dumbshit.
Relatable as shit lol, having to turn that volume down during action scenes or music, and way up when the characters insist on whispering. Ughh.
It works well in theatres, but definitely not at home. Thank god for quality headphones.
im glad they mention the issue with the sound in movies, they can be terribly loud and then fuckin silence..it looks something so simple to solve, but a lot of movies have that problem
It’s called dynamic range. Works great in the theater but not in the living room.
I like the end scene. It's better than a simple jump scare - it suggests that the survivors' minds have been warped by the experience and driven them mad.
That ending, " . . . he won't let us leave." Who else thought of Board James?
Cube was an amazing movie. You should do that one.
All the cube movies were great
Just not the sequels lol
Now you gotta do Pandorum. Event Horizon and Pandorum, a perfect double feature.
Put 'Sunshine' in, too. And 'Sphere' even though it's underwater instead of outer space.
I've seen pandorum at least 10 times and I still have yet to know what the fuck is going on in that movie lmao.
I love Pandorum
That part about the reviewer sharing about the scenes that he paused on when the family was walking in 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This and The Relic are criminally underrated 90s horror
Kinda tragic
Highlight: James dying during the maggot speech.
I remember renting Event Horizon on tape from Blockbuster, good times
We still have one. To rent much to expensive to buy 3D Blurays from ^^ Still loving it.
we rented this too in 97...I was 13. great movie
Same story for me. It was like the most rented movie that year. I thought it was an ok piece even an amateur film maker can do
I remember working at blockbuster. Very good times!
@Tl2aV Nope. This is before Netflix.
Its so underrated. Its the Shining & Hellraiser in Space.
I personally liked it even more than both of those movies! I'm happy to see it getting some attention.
@@Samsquamsh Who are you replying to?
Definitely. Honestly I like it better than both of those.
And the haunting.... open the door
Who's underrating it?
Who was watching the Simpsons in the background and listening to james?
Lawrence Fishburn saying “fuck this ship” is one of the best lines in cinema
Goddamit guys. I almost crapped my pants because that intro :'D
James - "I'm preparing for this Re:View"
Love how he says RE view
Also... Burried
I've always thought of it as H.P. Lovecraft meets Solaris
Stanisław Lem actually wrote other things that are closer to this movie than Solaris.
@@38procentkrytyk Can recommend something? I have only read Solaris
Iä! Iä!
I've read most of his novels, I'd say Solaris is obviously the most like this movie, but Fiasco and The Invincible are a bit like this too, so if you liked Solaris you should read those.
I love this movie. I think it's supremely underrated. Maybe one day we'll get that director's cut, which sounds delectably deplorable!
I remember seeing this movie with my dad when I was 12 at the cinema. We are both sci fi geeks and we were so pumped to see this film. We had no idea what we were getting into. I can’t believe that we sat through the entire thing.
Ok, you made me jump and the very end of the opening. Bravo. That was hilarious.
15:00 what if the ship's interior changed to look demonic after it came back from the evil dimension ?
This scared the bollocks off me when I was 13, I don't really want to see it again because I get the feeling it would be something of a disappointment. I managed to get the poster from someone I knew at the cinema, still have it stashed somewhere. Lord knows why they let me in!
Maybe not a disappointment but it won't be scary and you'll spot some of the stuff they bungled that ruins the atmosphere. I still like the movie but after rewatching as an adult it's more cheesy sci fi than real horror.
Rangda Rangda I'm 17 and I recently watched it. I kinda spooked me.
great freaking movie despite its flaws. probably one of the coolest sci-fi concepts ever. Definitely needs a sequel/reboot
Both Oliver Harper and Cecile of GoodBadFlicks did great retrospectives of this film. Each delves into slightly different areas/tell different stories, so it wouldn't be a waste of time to watch both. ;) Apparently, they were all set to do a director's cut, but they found that all of the original footage was stored in some salt mine somewhere and it was almost completely ruined. I think they were able to save some to show in the home media special features. It's too bad. I would have really liked to see the director's original vision for this film. :(
Love the Rental Reviews. They are all military except for Sam Neil's character (all the other crew have rank insignia on their uniforms, only Dr. Weir has a corporate logo)
Drinking game: Take a drink every time someone sais "like"
That might be dangerous
I did this. I'm dead.
*noise of shattering Glass* :-)
Remember during the movie at the theater, my friends were all pinned to the seats and one friend leaned forward and I looked at him and he was like "OMG this movie is fucked up". We all were dead silent on the ride home. That was too much to take in for us at that time.
I saw this movie in the theater. It was EPIC on the big screen.
Back then I am sure test audiences and opening day viewers were shocked by it...imagine if they saw the full nc17 version
Tony's infamous laugh still cracks me up... LMAO!!!
Please do a review of The Fly. The Jeff Goldblum one.
Cronenberg one would be the good reference. But yeah anyways its a great remake/readaptation ! a classic horror movie
Excellent suggestion.