Very few films lack room for improvement. EH is no exception

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 1998)

What I liked about Event Horizon was that the evil was primarily an unseen enemy (although I must agree with an earlier comment that it was unfortunate that Sam Neil's character had to embody the evil, thus putting a face on the enemy, in my opinion making it less scary. Loved EH's exterior design, very reminiscent of illustrations in my Terran Trade Authority Handbooks by Stewart Cowley of the late 70s.
EH using concepts in films like The Black Hole and 2010 didn't necessarily bother me; I liked the imagery then, I like it now. The similarities this film has with Alien is that it's a horror flick, a derelict spacecraft, and the entire sequence where two of the crew gather CO2 scrubbers/life support coolant (would that be the same thing?) with the woman behaving incredibly stupid and the guy with her being dumb enough to let her.
This film is like no other in my collection (just bought it on video, saw it for my 3rd time) in that parts of it are intriguingly sickening (well, maybe Alien is as well). I watched the quick grisly segments with hesitant fascination using shuttle and jog, after which I've had to remind myself why I bought such a disturbing film. Those scenes genuinely do SCARE me, a quality I can't easily separate from suspense in a horror movie, and is part of what makes this film work for me.