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[Movie] Event Horizon

Event Horizon (film)

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Event Horizon
Picture of spacecraft with the text "Infinite size, Infinite Terror"
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul W. S. Anderson
Produced byLawrence Gordon
Lloyd Levin
Jeremy Bolt
Written byPhilip Eisner
Andrew Kevin Walker
(uncredited)
Starring
Music by
CinematographyAdrian Biddle
Edited byMartin Hunter
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Golar Productions
Impact Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • August 15, 1997(United States)
  • August 22, 1997(United Kingdom)
Running time95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$60 million[1]
Box office$47,073,851[2]

Event Horizon is a 1997 British-American science fiction horror film. The screenplay was written by Philip Eisner (with an uncredited rewrite by Andrew Kevin Walker) and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. The film initially received negative reviews upon release with most critics comparing the film to Alien, Hellraiser, The Black Hole,Solaris, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film was also a box office bomb, grossing $47 million against a $60 million production budget.

Plot[edit]

In 2047, the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched to answer a distress signal received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years prior. Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) and his crew — Lieutenant Starck (Joely Richardson), pilot Smith (Sean Pertwee), Medical Technician Peters (Kathleen Quinlan), Engineer Ensign Justin (Jack Noseworthy), Rescue Technician Cooper (Richard T. Jones), and Trauma Doctor D.J. (Jason Isaacs) — are joined for the mission by the Event Horizon's designer Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill). Dr. Weir briefs the crew that the Event Horizon was built to test an experimental gravity drive, which generates an artificialblack hole to use the immense gravitational power to bridge two points in spacetime, greatly reducing travel time over astronomical distances.

Upon arriving at the ship's decaying orbit around Neptune and boarding the Event Horizon to search for survivors, the crew finds evidence of a massacre. During the search, the ship's gravity drive activates automatically. Justin is pulled into the resulting portal, returning in a catatonic state. He is later placed in stasis after a failed suicide attempt in apprehension over the events he witnessed during his crossover. The activation of the gravity drive causes a massive shockwave, which critically damages the Lewis and Clark and forces the entire crew to board the Event Horizon.The crew then begins experiencing hallucinations of their fears and regrets: Miller sees a subordinate, Corrick (Noah Huntley), he was forced to abandon in a fire; Peters sees images of her son Denny (Barclay Wright) with his legs covered in bloody lesions; and Dr. Weir, a widower, sees his wife Claire (Holley Chant) with missing eyes, urging him to join her.

After deciphering a warning from a video log of the Event Horizon's crew going insane and mutilating each other, Miller and D.J. deduce that while the ship's gravity drive did successfully open a gateway in spacetime, it leapt outside the known universe and into another dimension, described later on by Dr. Weir as "a dimension of pure chaos, pure evil" (and implied to be Hell). The Event Horizon has since then gained an evil sentience and telepathic abilities, tormenting its occupants with the aim of compelling them to return to Hell.

Miller decides to destroy the Event Horizon despite objections from Dr. Weir, who is seduced and eventually possessed by the evil presence and uses an explosive device from the Event Horizon to destroy the Lewis and Clark. Smith is killed in the explosion, which also launches Cooper from the ship and into space. Peters dies from a long fall after being lured into the engineering section by an apparition of her son. Dr. Weir kills D.J. byvivisecting him and corners Starck on the bridge. Miller tries to rescue Starck but is caught by Dr. Weir, who activates the ship's gravity drive, initiating a ten-minute countdown, after which the Event Horizon and its passengers will return to the other dimension. Cooper, having used his space suit's oxygen to propel him back to the ship, tries to contact those inside, and Dr. Weir retaliates by shooting out the bridge window. Dr. Weir is blown out into space by the ensuing decompression, while Miller, Starck, and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the bridge area of the ship.

Miller then resolves to detonate the explosives installed on the Event Horizon to split the ship in two and use the forward section of the ship as a lifeboat. He is attacked by manifestations of Corrick and Dr. Weir, who shows Miller horrifying visions of the Lewis and Clark's crew being tortured and mutilated once they return to Hell. Miller fights off the manifestation and manages to detonate the explosives, sacrificing himself, so that Justin, Cooper and Starck can escape. The gravity drive activates, pulling the rear of the ship into a wormhole. Starck and Cooper join Justin in stasis and wait to be rescued.

72 days later, the Event Horizon is located by a rescue party who discover the remaining crew still in stasis. A newly-awakened Starck sees a nightmare image of the scarred Dr. Weir posing as one of the rescuers and explodes into a state of extreme terror. Cooper restrains Starck, and one of the rescuers calls for a sedative as the doors ominously close.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

After directing the successful Mortal Kombat in 1995, Anderson was offered the job. The release date had already been set and Anderson agreed, despite that the deadline meant that the post-production period was severely reduced. On the commentary, Anderson cites this as the main cause for the many troubles faced during production and especially when Anderson was to make decisions on the final cut.[3]

In the commentary Anderson mentions the wish he had to direct an R rated picture after the PG-13 ratedMortal Kombat and also mentions that he turned down the opportunity to direct X-Men, Alien Resurrection, andMortal Kombat: Annihilation in order to make Event Horizon.[3]

Deleted footage[edit]

Anderson said that his initial cut of the film, before the visual effects had been completed, ran to about 130 minutes in length. The film was even more graphic in this incarnation, and both test audiences and the studio were unnerved by the gore. Paramount ordered Anderson to cut the film by thirty minutes and delete some of the violence, a decision that he regrets. Some of the lost scenes were offered as special features on the 2006 DVD but were taken from poor quality video tape, the only format in which the scenes now exist; the studio had little interest in keeping unused footage and the film has since been lost.[3]

The original 130 minute cut including all the missing footage was reportedly found on a single VHS tape by producer Lloyd Levin as announced in an interview by Paul W.S. Anderson when he was at ComicCon 2012.[4]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

The film received generally negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 24% based on reviews from 37 critics.[5]

Roger Ebert gave the film a negative review giving the film 2 stars out of 4 stating "The script creates a sense of foreboding and afterboding, but no actual boding". [6] Owen Gleiberman at Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade of B-.[7]

Empire magazine gave the film a score of 3/5 stars.[8]

Box office[edit]

Event Horizon was a box office bomb. Domestically the film only grossed $26,616,590 and $20,400,000 internationally for a total of $47,073,851 failing to recoup its estimated $60 million production budget.[1][2]

Legacy[edit]

Despite being a critical and commercial failure, the film has gained a cult following.[9] Trey Parker and Matt Stone cite the film as an inspiration for their Satan-worshipping woodland critters who engage in gory acts and orgies in the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas".[10] The film was also a strong inspiration for thevideo game series Dead Space[11]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b "Event Horizon - Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Event Horizon at Boxoffice.com
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b c Special Edition DVD Commentary
  4. Jump up^ UK Editor (28 August 2012). "Infinite Space, Infinite Terror: A 15th Anniversary Look Back at Event Horizon". Brutal As Hell. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  5. Jump up^ Rotten Tomatoes (Event Horizon)
  6. Jump up^ Roger Ebert (August 15, 1997). "Event Horizon (1997)". Roger Ebert.com.
  7. Jump up^ Owen Gleiberman (Sep 5, 1997). "Event Horizon (1997)". Entertainment Weekly.
  8. Jump up^ http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/event-horizon
  9. Jump up^ Gibron, Bill. "Event Horizon: Special Two-Disc Collector's Edition". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  10. Jump up^ South Park Season 8 DVD Commentary, episode 814
  11. Jump up^ "Dead Space = Event Horizon? A comparison between a movie and a game". ScrewAttack. Retrieved27 November 2014.

External links[edit]

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