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Event Horizon

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Event Horizon (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 6  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 4.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
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 prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years.... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard Timothy Jones

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

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 18, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case - Sensormatic
  • 2-Disc Set
  • Widescreen - 16.9

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Paul W.S. Anderson - Director, Jeremy Bolt - Producer
  • Featurettes - 1. THE MAKING OF EVENT HORIZON (5-Part Documentary)
  • 2. THE UNSEEN EVENT HORIZON
  • 3. THE POINT OF NO RETURN: THE FILMING OF EVENT HORIZON
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
  • 2. Video Trailer

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

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David Noh
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... 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 03:50 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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a retarded Goth version of 2001.

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04/17/06 03:53 PM
Keith Breese
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01/26/06 03:16 AM
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 09:36 PM
Bill Clark
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11/20/03 12:40 PM
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08/21/02 08:05 AM
Marty Mapes
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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...

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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.

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02/28/02 08:05 AM
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01/22/02 08:05 AM
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Cool actors doing gory things in outer space. I'm so in.

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10/10/01 04:14 PM
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02/27/01 07:22 PM
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