A promising start - and a major letdown

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2003)

*Minor spoilers, probably?*
Event Horizon had all the potential to be a great movie - and proved not so good in the end. The first hour was excellent - the whole set-up with the haunted spaceship was nothing new of course, but still it was executed excellently: dark, twisted and scary as hell. However, two-thirds into the movie Event Horizon suddenly dives head-on into the bloodied waters of cut-n-slash horror - the only reason for that being the writers' inability to come up with a worthwile explanation of all the weird goings-on, I presume. It is still beyond me why it was necessary to turn a first-class sci-fi shocker into a rather bland and second-hand horror, a sort of (very inferior) Hellraiser In Space. Too bad - the opportunity was golden.