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Event Horizon (1997)

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Reviews Counted:707

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Average Rating:5.9/10

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

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