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Event Horizon (1997)

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Reviews Counted:33

Fresh:7

Rotten:26

Average Rating:4.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a... In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their arrival triggers contact with something beyond human experience--and more dangerous than ever imaginable. Similar in plot to Andrei Tarkovsky's eponymous screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's science-fiction novel SOLARIS, EVENT HORIZON provides some truly disturbing moments in its often potent combination of horror and sci-fi. [More]

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard Timothy Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee, Peter Marinker, Holley Chant, Barclay Wright, Noah Huntley, Robert Jezek

Director: Paul Anderson

Director: Paul Anderson
Composer: Michael Kamen
Screenwriter: Philip Eisner
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Jeremy Bolt

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May 5, 2009

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • NTSC
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 - English, French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary: Director Paul W.S. Anderson and Producer Jeremy Bolt

Featurette:

  • 1. Secrets with selectable Director Commentary
  • 2. The Unseen Event Horizon with Director Commentary

Documentary:

  • 1. The Making of Event Horizon - 5 Documentaries
  • 2. The Point Of No Return: The Filming Of Event Horizon with Director Commentary

Trailers:

  • 1. Theatrical Trailer HD
  • 2. Video Trailer

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

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment 1 Comment
04/24/09
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

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

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
02/10/09
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/09/09
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

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

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
12/31/08
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
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.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
12/30/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
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.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
12/30/08
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

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

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
12/24/08
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment 1 Comment
07/16/07
David Noh
David Noh
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.

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05/12/06
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

a retarded Goth version of 2001.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/17/06
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out
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A B-movie with an A-quality production, Event Horizon still haunts me.

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01/09/06
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
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Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
11/20/03
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
03/16/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
N/R

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Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

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Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
08/21/02
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

In its first hour, "Event" is startlingly beautiful and compelling... its last half-hour (is) a gore-drenched free-for-all, with images of Hell that seem to have been lifted directly from a Nine Inch Nails video...

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
06/23/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
N/R

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06/05/02
Christine James
Christine James
Boxoffice Magazine

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Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/12/02
Globe and Mail
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Bad things happen, the kind of things that happen in bad horror movies that attempt to sound smarter than they really are.

Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | comment Comment
02/28/02
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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