Jack Noseworthy, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

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R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson

Release Date: August 15, 1997

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DVD Release Date: December 15, 1998

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  • November 21, 2009
    "Infinite Space - Infinite Terror"

    A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

    REVIEW

    In broad stro...( read more)kes, if you take "The Shining" plus "Solaris" and then add gore-a-plenty, you'll end up with a rough estimate as to what this movie is. However, that hardly does this underrated film the justice that it deserves.

    From the opening shot to the closing one there are a whole bunch of things that make this an effective horror film. There's the setting, a huge derelict spaceship. There's the question of where it has been and why the crew disappeared. There's also the question as to what made them disappear and is this thing still on board. Naturally, for there to be a movie, the answer to the latter is yes.

    An interesting thing about this film is that it plays almost like a typical slasher movie, but the catch is that there is no masked psycho with a knife. The killer is the setting itself. Then, what is possibly the most interesting thing is that the film combines straightforward horror sensationalism of gore and violence with a much more eerie and psychological terror akin to "The Shining." Both of these elements slowly build up in harmony for the climax to a very underrated and under-appreciated horror/science fiction film.
  • October 21, 2009
    Damn spooky film, fucking eerie as hell haha scares me in every viewing I tell ya. One or maybe the best film from Mr Anderson so far, the effects, design, lighting, cast, costumes and score are all perfect and make the film what it is....a very scary sci fi horror.

    Although it ...( read more)kinda descends into a 'Hell Raiser' type affair near the climax that just makes it even better and gets you thinking even more about the outcome, in a sense there is no happy ending here. Like most sci-fi horror's past and new the plot can be a tad confusing and unexplained here and there (Pandorum) and this film is no exception, its weird and almost dream like, a bad dream of course, which adds but also takes away some of the fun as it just made me wanna know more about what was happening and it left me alittle frustrated, but maybe thats a good thing huh

    Good films do that I guess, keep you thinking after the credits role :)
  • September 16, 2009
    Not the best film in the world but for me it's a guilty pleasure. There aren?t enough sci-fi horror films in my opinion!
  • June 19, 2009
    Event Horizon is an interesting movie that does a decent job of keeping your interest. It starts of with a lot of promise but ends up failing and feeling low budget in the end. Expecting a sci-fi space mystery, it turns more into a horror film. Think of this as "The Shining" in...( read more) space. There's even a scene where blood comes rushing at one of the characters, similar to when blood came rushing out of the elevator in "The Shining." I think the special effects were ok for 1989, but obviously not that good by todays standards. The acting was subpar except for Laurence Fishburne who did a decent job. Event Horizon isn't a movie I would go out of my way to see.
  • June 3, 2009
    Deep space exploration vessel Event Horizon reappears after disappearing seven years previously, and a rescue team is dispatched to the outer solar system to investigate. Event Horizon has a rather hokey premise; that a space ship creates a dimensional portal to hell and returns ...( read more)with an evil presence on board. Obviously, if you're not a fan of sci-fi or horror, this is a tough one to swallow, but to fans it is quite a nice marriage of Aliens style wisecracking space jockeys and Clive Barker style imagery. Visually, this film is spectacular; the production design is superb, clearly borrowing heavily from 2001 and Alien, but also some gorgeous art deco style art design. For the first hour the story builds up quite nicely with solid performances from its stars and it has some creepy, atmospheric scenes. Unfortunately the final act sees logical story telling flushed out of the nearest airlock, and it degenerates into nothing but lots of diving around in slo-mo explosions and running about in dark corridors. It's a genuine shame because the first hour is that of a 4 star film, but I'd definitely recommend fans of the genre to check it out, if only for the set design alone.
  • November 20, 2009
    Horror and Science Fiction. This was an interresting combination.
  • November 6, 2009
    Terror. Bastante buena a mi gusto. Buen manejo de los niveles de luz y contrastes. Buena explotacion de los miedos básicos del ser humano. Cumple su cometido.
    "Liberate tu temet Ex Inferis"
  • November 2, 2009
    This movie was alot better then what people have said about this.I jumped so many times.what a great sci-fi supernatural feast (if you like that kinda stuff)
    This was one of those films that keeps you interested from start to finsh.
    a good movie to watch
  • November 1, 2009
    this one traumatized me as a kid for sure...
  • October 21, 2009
    nice dark mixture of supernatural and science fiction

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  • Aritosgold
    November 15, 2007
    Not Bad;;
  • MorpheusOne
    January 27, 2007
    The original trailer for this movie that I saw on tv, about a decade ago, didn't do it justice. I don't remember if the trailer posted, on this movies page, is that same trailer, but this movie is much better than the trailer let on.

    A very good movie, that does have some predictable and SAD acting near the end, unfortunately. But all in all, thankfully, it doesn't take away all that much from the film.

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