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Event Horizon (1997)
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.... 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]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard Timothy Jones
Composer: Michael Kamen
Screenwriter: Philip Eisner
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Jeremy Bolt
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 9, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1 Encoding
- Keep Case - Lenticular O-Sleeve
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Surround - English
- Dolby Surround - French
Additional Release Material:
- Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
Reviews
The perils the actors face would be far more shuddersome were their characters more sharply delineated from the outset.
... 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.
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...
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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