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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
Reviews for Event Horizon
...a tremendously entertaining, flat-out disturbing horror effort that boasts a number of justifiably indelible sequences...
The kind of story that early STAR TREK episodes bought the patent on years ago
This film left me completely and utterly unable to sleep. So I look at this film with a great deal of respect.
The perils the actors face would be far more shuddersome were their characters more sharply delineated from the outset.
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...
It's disheartening to see how quickly this movie degenerates from an intriguing premise into an absurd gore-a-thon.
High-tech ghost story takes a grip until credibility goes into orbit.
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