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Event Horizon (1997)

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 27

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33

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

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Movie Info

In this sci-fi/horror scarefest, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) is a scientist who has designed a spacecraft called Event Horizon which will explore the outer reaches of space past the planet Neptune; the ship employs a special transport mechanism that, in effect, creates a black hole that the ship can pass through, allowing it to travel tremendous distances in a few seconds. The Event Horizon mysteriously disappears in the midst of a mission with no trace of either the ship or its crew, but it

R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

Philip Eisner

Dec 15, 1998

Paramount Home Video

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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (30) | DVD (24)

Where's the application form for the job where you get paid to rip off the lamer and more bombastic aspects of Barker, Kubrick and Scott? I'm sorry I missed that notice.

July 25, 2011 Comment
ÜberCiné

You look at Event Horizon as you would something that fell out of someone's nose.

April 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comments (3)
Film Freak Central

...a tremendously entertaining, flat-out disturbing horror effort that boasts a number of justifiably indelible sequences...

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

High-tech ghost story takes a grip until credibility goes into orbit.

December 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | Comment
Cinema Signals

Paul Anderson shoots things to look cool, but he has no grasp on how to modulate the visuals to carry the audience into the deepening nightmare of the plot.

December 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | Comment
Cinefantastique

Paul W.S. Anderson's outer space horror Event Horizon is an example of a potentially great and complex idea given a simplistic and ultimately ridiculous execution.

December 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment

...bloody, nonsensical, and largely unmoving, meaning we don't care enough about the characters to worry about what happens to them. (Blu-ray Edition)

December 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

It's disheartening to see how quickly this movie degenerates from an intriguing premise into an absurd gore-a-thon.

December 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The perils the actors face would be far more shuddersome were their characters more sharply delineated from the outset.

July 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment (1)
Film Journal International

... incrível como um filme que suga tantos elementos de clássicos como 2001, Alien e Solaris pode ter resultado em uma besteira tão grande. Mas é este o talento de Anderson: dirigir besteiras colossais.

May 12, 2006 Comment (1)
Cinema em Cena

a retarded Goth version of 2001.

April 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

While this 2-disc Special Edition might not be the Director's Cut we were all hoping for, there's little denying that Paramount's put together an excellent little release here.

April 13, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

A B-movie with an A-quality production, Event Horizon still haunts me.

January 9, 2006 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Event Horizon

Sam Neil shines in this. I think this an extremely underrated movie. Its awesome thriller horror flick

March 21, 2007
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Its brutal, its terrifying and will send shivers down your spine.

November 16, 2011
Samuel Riley
Sam riley

Super Reviewer

    1. Captain Miller: You miss me, you blow out the hull.
    2. Weir: What makes you think I'll miss?
    – Submitted by Joel L (39 days ago)
    1. Captain Miller: This place is a tomb!
    – Submitted by Joel L (39 days ago)
    1. Cooper: I'm back! I'm back, baby! I'm back!
    – Submitted by Joel L (39 days ago)
    1. Captain Miller: Vacate! I want off this ship!
    2. Weir: You can't leave. She won't let you.
    3. Captain Miller: You just get your gear and get back on the Lewis and Clark, Doctor, or you'll find yourself walkin' home.
    4. Weir: I am home.
    – Submitted by Joel L (39 days ago)
    1. Captain Miller: Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?
    2. Weir: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
    3. Captain Miller: What are you talking about?
    4. Weir: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
    5. Captain Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.
    6. Weir: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.
    – Submitted by Joel L (39 days ago)

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