So I decided to lay off of the foreign movies for a bit (for like an hour and a half) and watched Event Horizon at the request of a friend. Normally I am a bit cautious when it comes to movie recommendations, but I have to admit that this one was actually pretty good. Aside from the cheesy dialogue and the completely unnecessary comic relief character, everything else was entertaining.
If Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and Sunshine by Danny Boyle met and had a baby together, then Event Horizon would be the result of that unprotected coitus. In 2040, maybe a bit earlier, the brilliant Dr. William Weir (played by Sam Neil), developed a space ship, which he named The Event Horizon, that is capable of traveling at near light speed. He created a machine that essentially bends space and time allowing us to travel from one point in the universe to another in an instant. The machine inside the ship creates a small worm hole which "teleports" the ship to the second location. On its maiden voyage however, the ship goes missing and for seven years, nothing is heard from the crew. In 2047 a distress beacon is picked up, and The Lewis and Clark is sent out to investigate. On board The Lewis and Clark is Captain Miller (played by Laurence Fishburne), Dr. Weir, Peters, Starck, Cooper, and and the rest of Miller's Crew. Once they find the Event Horizon, they go on board and start to investigate what actually happened to the previous crew, since no bodies seem to be found other than a frozen corpse a disembodied hand, and an audio recording that says "Liberate Tutemet Ex Infernis", which apparently is a grammatically incorrect way of saying "Save yourslef from Hell" in Latin. While on board, the portal opens by itself and sucks in one of the crew members. He is pulled out by the crew but is left in a catatonic state, this also causes the gravitational drive to send out an electromagnetic pulse which damages the Lewis and Clark and forces the crew to live off of the Event Horizon while they undergo repairs. While on the ship, the crew begins to experience violent hallucinations while Dr. Weir develops an unhealthy obsession with the ship.
I try my hardest not to spoil any movies I talk about, because I honestly want people to watch them so I try not to ruin the fun. So without going into too much detail, what happened to the ship, was that it was successful in its first voyage, however they did not end up in their desired destination. They had opened a portal to a universe of unimaginable pain and chaos. They discovered that other universes do in fact exist, but we do not belong there. The universe that they encountered was hyperviolent and cruel, and caused the crew to become cannibalistic sadists.
Aside from the corny lines and forced CGI, it was made in 1997 so most of the CG was still in its infancy and it looks a little dated. It was a lot of fun to watch. There was a good amount of violence and gore, but it wasn't in your face "LOOK AT THIS SHIT" type of gore. It was fast, and left a lot to the imagination. I even went back to freeze frame on the part where they find the ships video footage too watch all the torture. The comic relief character I was talking about? Yeah, completely unnecessary. He played a pretty big role in the plot, however I feel like it was completely unnecessary to make him that goofy. Whenever he was on screen and said something, I just shook my head and said "Why would you say that?". Then I remembered that this movie was made in the 90's, so I let it fly. Fishburn was ok, although a bit lame, but the over all concept behind the movie was what really sold me. If you like space madness, hallucinations and violence, then give this movie a try.
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