First time impressive second time scarey as hell (pun intended)

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2000)

Ever since the beginning of the days of "psychological" films people have not been exposed to a true horror hence an entire generation of people have been created who's idea of a horror movie is a mute mask wearing knife wielding retard. This is not horror in even the loosest term but rather another attempt to pander to teenage egos that the world both good and bad revolves around them.
It is nice to find a writer who is able to return horror to its glory days of the seventies and eighties through the use of tension and gore we have a pure horror classic.
Now a confession I was not very keen on the idea of watching this film the first time I saw on rental but a friend of mine wanted to see it so we got it, ten minutes into the film I knew I was in for a classic. What put me off was not the genre as I am a great fan of both sci-fi and horror or even the horribly overused plot but rather the people involved, having previously seen Sam Niel in Jurassic Park any movie fan with taste will understand my meaning.
I was not overly familiar with Laurence Fishburne at the time either. After renting it I eagerly awaited my chance to buy it and finally I did.
My only gripe is with the studio that they refused to release a director's cut with the missing forty cut minutes put back. Still we can always hope they will see sense and undo the damage that they did to this possible hit in time for the DVD release.
A further gripe with the users of IMDB as I mentioned earlier about the generation of people who were hand reared by films such as mrs Doubtfire I believe they slagged off Event Horizon because it was the first so-called horror film which didn't feature a tangible "bad-guy" or teenage girls screaming in every other scene but rather this film actually had the audacity to scare right out of their push chairs.
P.S. the first time I watched this film after I bought it I was in the house alone at night and I was scared s**tless.