What a disappointment ...

Rating: 5/10 (29 November 2014)

Let me preface this by saying this movie has, or had, so much potential. The concept is great: A crew investigates a ship that has gone missing for many years only to discover its been in Hell. You would think that this would make for a gripping, terrifying, unique film. Instead we are forced to watch flat characters stroll around an empty ship where the actual "horror" aspect of the film takes nearly an hour of the movie's 96 minute run to take into effect. This is one of those movies that feels much longer than its actual run time.
This movie had so much going for it: a great cast, a great plot, great effects that still hold up 17 years later, etc. Unfortunately, nothing actually interesting or "scary" happens. This is just another movie that relies on gore to be scary, and guess what, it just doesn't work. I was left thinking that so much suspense and atmosphere was created to reflect the horrors that the Event Horizon experienced in Hell that the writer did not know how to live up to it. So instead, we are left to be scared of visions, fire, guts, and torn out eyeballs.
And that just isn't scary.