Movie Defense Force: Event Horizon - You Won't Need Eyes To See

[ItouKaiji]

Everyone I know who has watched this movie agrees that it was a hard R rating away from being an instant classic.

Event Horizon is very R rated. At least in the 90s they didn't try to sanitize their horror films for the purpose of appealing to a wider audience. I saw Event Horizon in theaters when I was 12 years old and didn't really appreciate it then, other than some of the gore, but I caught again a few years ago and realized what a fantastic film it really was. It's a great horror movie with some really chilling moments. It's really the kind of horror I prefer, deeply atmospheric and no obvious monster to over explain.

I'd also agree with the person that said Pandorum would be a good choice. It's not Event Horizon level of great, but it's a really good survival horror flick. Pandorum is Dead Space the Movie. I remember sitting all alone in the theater when it came up. It's a shame that no one bothered to go see it. It's not a classic, but it's well made, well paced with lonely and claustrophobic feeling to it.

 

[NortherWolf]

...This is horror? Really?
I watched it when I was like 16 and while I found it a bit unnerving it wasn't really that scary. And I'm a rather easily-scared guy.

 

[GebGuy]

That's a great movie, on par with the Alien movies. I certainly didn't enjoy it any less. It needs no defense.

Pandorum on the other hand could have used some spotlight. I liked that one a lot as well, but it's not all that well known, I think. Granted - I saw it on TV, and didn't expect anything of it.

So true. If you stop it at the right place, you see that one guy getting anal fisted.

 

[O maestre]

"Why does this need defending?" LOOK JUST LET ME HAVE THIS, OKAY!?

alright Jim just this once, you wouldn't want to put Moviebob out of work.


Event Horizon is one of my favorite movies of all time, and a great horror movie, and a great and unique movie of borderline eldritch horror... in space!

 

[Evonisia]

I'm surprised there was no reference to Dead Space in this. Other than that I can't really say that the footage shown left me uninterested.

But you've said that Event Horizon is one of your favourite Sci-Fi's before, so it is a favourite horror and a favourite sci-fi rather than a favourite Sci-Fi Horror?

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Loved it when it first came out.
Nice to have you talk about your faves, instead of the Jimquisition

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Love this movie ever since i saw it in the cinema. I think it gets a lot of stick for its director Paul W S Anderson. I think Event Horizon was the best movie he ever made and if he had made Resident Evil with the same tone, then those movies would be epic.

 

[Nuxxy]

I'm not one for horror at all. I approached Event Horizon for it's sci-fi angle, but enjoyed it anyway. I think maybe because of the psychological aspect of the scares, and because you are never quite sure where it's going to take you.

 

[Roganzar]

I love this movie. One of my top five favorites, personally. Though now, I will be thinking that it's a Warhammer 40k universe movie and the Event Horizon went through the Warp instead of just hell.

 

[Nadia Castle]

TV Tropes WMG is always an absolute blast when it comes to this movie. The webs people make connecting 40K, Doom, Event Horizon, Hellraiser and numerous others is always a fun way to waste an afternoon. It's just more fun to believe that the warp swallowed the ship and that Doom Guy is the one sat on the golden throne. Doesn't hurt that the movie is one of the most effective examples of gore and suspense being creepy rather than tedious.

 

[Shaolen]

Event Horizon is what the Doom movie wished it was.

 

[MegaSuperUberMe]

Event Horizon a WH40K prequel? My god, it fits perfectly! Why didn't i see it before?

 

[Tombfyre]

I guess this is what happens when you go into the warp unprotected! Things tend to come back with you...

 

[Callate]

"It's the Event Horizon. It was a scientific breakthrough... they managed to design a ship entirely out of spikes."

 

[TaboriHK]

Event Horizon is very R rated. At least in the 90s they didn't try to sanitize their horror films for the purpose of appealing to a wider audience. I saw Event Horizon in theaters when I was 12 years old and didn't really appreciate it then, other than some of the gore, but I caught again a few years ago and realized what a fantastic film it really was. It's a great horror movie with some really chilling moments. It's really the kind of horror I prefer, deeply atmospheric and no obvious monster to over explain.

I'm aware that it got an R, my point is simply that there are moments in that film that felt like they could have gone further. I agree with Jim in terms of the suspense, and I'm not saying people need to be butterflied directly in front of the camera to make a classic, I'm just saying that there were moments were I expected more ugliness, for it to go just a little bit further.

 

[RA92]

You know, people asking why this needs defending, you should probably look at the critical reviews.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon/

It needs defending because it reviewed terribly.

It's even crazier how John Carpenter's The Thing reviewed badly as well.

At least Event Horizon kinda lost it in the last half hour, The Thing was a... thing of perfection.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

It's even crazier how John Carpenter's The Thing reviewed badly as well.

At least Event Horizon kinda lost it in the last half hour, The Thing was a... thing of perfection.

Critics just seem to have a thing against horror. I struggle to think of very many that reviewed particularly well.

 

[geier]

Never have seen the movie, but always wanted. Jim's defence made me want to watch it even more, but:
On Wikipedia i saw that the same guy (Paul W. S. Anderson) made crap like Mortal Combat, 3 Resident Evil movies and Alien vs Predator.

Sorry, not interested anymore. I watch it PERHAPS when i want a gorefest, but otherwise? Nope absolutly nope.

 

[daxterx2005]

When ever I see her nowadays I see "Yang"

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

And don't forge the Lovecraftian influences on this movie.

So, in a sense it follows this, in that the cum-sho... sorry Climax of the Story can not hold against to the build up.
And Dead Space would def. looked differently without this movie.

Anyway, a great movie haunted-horror gore AND SciFi-themed movie.