"Pinhead" in space?

Rating: 5/10 (20 September 1999)

EVENT HORIZON would have made a watchable addition to the HELLRAISER series of films with a few changes. As it stands now, it's a barely memorable science-fiction/horror potboiler that, like so many other contemporary films (horror or otherwise), has a nasty streak. You don't need plastic monsters and gore effects to horrify; see THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT as confirmation of this. All EVENT HORIZON is missing are the Cenobites and judging by the film's "vision of Hell", they're really not that far away. And Sam Neill once again shows that he still has'nt grasped even the most rudimentery basics of acting.