One of the best in its genre

Rating: 9/10 (11 July 2006)

I was quite surprised when I saw the average rating (currently 5.8). It seems like a lot of people tends to trash the movie because of the its director rather than the movie itself, which is sad.
But a lot of people trash the movie because they see it as a Alien ripoff. I know I am stepping on peoples toes now, but if you see that connection, perhaps there is a reason why you are hanging around here writing reviews with your own point system DESPITE THE TEN GRADE SCALE AVAILABLE, instead of doing it as a profession. Basically you mean, that just because Alien happened to take place in space, all post-space science-fiction movies is a ripoff on that. Like saying that just because Apocalypse Now took place in Vietnam, all subsequent Vietnamn movies are meager plagiarism.
Well, Event Horizon is in its core, a movie in its way is very primitive; it focus on the lowest of our instincts, survival, and does it very well. Throuhgout the entire movie you have this sense of an evil presence and the subliminal horror really flips over to a crescendo in the end nicely.
Don't let peoples prejudges cloud your mind.