![]() Obviously, the guys who bought this big hunk of metal are keen to know what happened, so Weir and a salvage crew lead by Captain Miller (a pre-Morpheus Lawrence Fishburne) are sent out to check out the Event Horizon and figure out what happened. Weir - because amazingly, only six years and 10 months overdue, the Event Horizon suddenly appears around Neptune, broadcasting a distress signal. However, all is not lost in the life of Dr. Oh, did I mention that we learn in the first 30 seconds of the film that Dr Weir hallucinates his dead wife in his dreams? And yet, I still didn’t figure out this film was set to squish my manhood and reduce me to a cowering wretch in the space of a couple of hours. Weir’s life goes down the tubes faster than the suction flush on the space shuttle, and to top things off, his wife tops herself off in the bathtub. But when the ship never came back, well, everyone assumed that the navigator must have had the Fish for his in-flight meal, and the expensive ship was lost forever.ĭr. With a crew of jolly astronauts on board, they set off on the vessel in question, the titular Event Horizon, for a little jaunt around the cosmos, just to make sure everything was shipshape. Weir (Sam Neill) built an experimental ship seven years ago. See, the deal with Event Horizon (you were wondering when I was going to get round to the plot, weren’t you?) is this: in an attempt to get out of the Solar System, Dr. But no, I soldiered on, oblivious to the horror which awaited me. And having seen In The Mouth Of Madness around the same time, Sam Neill’s presence should have set off my “your brain is about to be forcibly liquefied and dribble out of your cranial cavity” alarms. Hands up, who doesn’t find Sam Neill creepy? I thought not. My suspicions should have been aroused as soon as Sam Neill showed up in the cast. Looking back, I realise what a dreadful, terrible mistake that was. As an insomniac, I’d taken to watching late night showings of movies at the local cineplex with a friend of mine this particular Friday, having seen everything that we wanted to, went to see Event Horizon based purely on the premise that it had a spaceship on the poster. The very first time I saw Event Horizon, I went into the cinema knowing nothing about the film at all. I’m getting all goosebumpy just thinking about it now, in fact. ![]() There are sequences I look away from and cringe. There are sequences I watch with one eye through laced fingers. Me, a 27-year-old full grown man can be pretty easily reduced to a mewling frightened kitten simply by putting this video in the VCR and pressing play. Because it has all the elements right, and I mean all of them it absolutely terrifies me. And horror/scifi crossovers with a Cliver Barker-ish feel to them? It could be custom ordered for me. ![]() See, I love horror films and horror films which scare me – well, they should be my bread and butter. Rich’s review: I both love and hate this film, in a way which is hard to comprehend without understanding the way my mind works - and the last person who tried that… well, let’s just say that he saw the Fava Beans and Chianti open on the kitchen counter, and took his leave. Rich’s rating: I refuse to watch this film on my own I’m a big wuss like that. There are no actual pre-censorship screenshots out there as far as we know.“Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.” ![]() Here's hoping some day we get an uncut version.Įdit: This thread keeps getting bumped every few weeks, so in the interest of clarity, those images have been revealed to be shown during the flashes in the original cut. IIRC they cut around 30 minutes of film in the editing room, so who knows else is there. Going by the screencaps it looks like the general grossness of the allucination/found footage sequences ran a bit longer (a good chunk of them are actually taken from there, so it's not completely new material). The cut footage was considered lost forever, but somehow, images of the original version have surfaced. For those who don't know, Event Horizon was seriously mangled during post-production because it was considered way gross and scary in its original state, so what we got was a watered down, more approachable version of the original film that Paul W.S. ![]()
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