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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  • 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.
  • September 8, 2008
    Watchable at times, but still a silly mess for the most part. Sam Neill saying trippy things about reality and hell while being naked and covered with blood might be cool for a while, but you just can't make a whole movie about that, unless you are doing some new "meme" video for...( read more) youtube. And even that will get repetitive after a while.
  • 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
  • October 18, 2009
    A criminally underrated sci-fi horror hybrid. It's tough to straddle genres but I think it is handled adequately and with precision here. You get going with your deep space mystery, the movie bides its time until it ramps up the intensity at the end. POW. All kinds a shit hits th...( read more)e fan that would make Pinhead proud. This did Doom better than Doom did. I love the supernatural angle. Larry Fishburn is heroic and believable as the crew captain and Sam Niel does well as the fucked up doc. Their chemistry on screen is not something seen often in this genre, really fleshes out the whole thing. Great make up work, great soundtrack, great movie!

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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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