DVD Movie Rating for: Event Horizon

2 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Event Horizon

In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the crew of the "Lewis and Clark" discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying.

It is the year 2047. Seven years have passed since the mysterious disappearance of Event Horizon, a spaceship that was sent to explore the outer limits of our solar system. Now, it is the time for a rescue mission that will find the ship and bring back the survivors; if any...

DVD Production Details of: Event Horizon

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Paramount Studio

DVD Release Date: December 15, 1998
DVD Features:
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Widescreen letterbox format

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Cast of the movie: Event Horizon

• Laurence Fishburne.... Capt. Miller
• Sam Neill.... Dr. William Weir
• Kathleen Quinlan .... Petes (Med Tech)
• Joely Richardson .... Lt. Starck (Executive Officer)
• Richard T. Jones .... Cooper (Rescue Tech)
• Jack Noseworthy .... Justin (Engineering)
• Jason Isaacs .... D.J. (Trauma)
• Sean Pertwee .... Smith (pilot)
• Peter Marinker .... Capt. Vince Kilpack
• Holley Chant .... Claire (Weir's woman)
• Barclay Wright .... Denny (Peters' son)
• Noah Huntley .... Burning man/Edward Corrick
• Robert Jezek .... Rescue 1 technician

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Reviews of the movie: Event Horizon

Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation Solaris by way of Alien and Hellraiser, this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr. Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt- and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted, but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of Alien and adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and clawlike spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design--it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks--but the special effects are topnotch, and ultimately the movie has a trashy B movie charm about it.

Incomprehensible Mess
" Event Horizon" is one of the worst films that I have ever seen. Very rarely has so much talent and money been squandered on such an ugly mess of a movie. The film deals with an outer space crew who is trying to retrieve a mysterious ship which is trapped deep in the outer limits. The original crew have all been killed and now this crew must find out why. Why? Why? Why? That seems to be the key question of this film. The screenplay is all over the universe. It adds elements from films like "The Exorcist", "Aliens", "The Abyss", "Apollo 13", "Jaws", and just about every other film ever produced. If one idea had been used throughout, then the film would have been admirable and watchable if nothing else. However the references to the aforementioned films make "Event Horizon" a movie that wants desperately to be good, but just does not have the goods to make that dream a reality.