Event Horizon: A Cheesy Cookie-Cutter Gorefest

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2017)

I put very little faith into this film. I heard from a few friends that this was a terrifying movie . With that said, these same friends preferred the TCM remake over the original, gritty redneck docu-style craze-fest that was the original 1974 version, and would coincide visceral shock to 'quality scares'. While I respect everyone's views on film due to the subjectivity of the horror genre, I cannot understand why anyone would have any respect for this movie at all.
Where do I start? Here we have a Director, Paul WS Anderson, which from his interviews seems like a really cool guy, takes influence from first-person video games like Doom and RPG's like Starcraft. THAT was his visual inspiration. Seriously? Formatting the style of a set from a video game? As a kid, I loved the Mortal Kombat movie, but I was 6 years old. I just wanted to see karate chopping and blades shooting out of Scorpio's hand. With Event Horizon, we get the same tongue-in-cheek style of Mortal Kombat, except the source material is a lot more unsettling: a mad-scientist constructed portal that has the power to bring you to other dimensions, one of which is the pits of hell. SUCH A COOL CONCEPT, RIGHT? Well, what we get is a oozing-with-cheese action blockbuster with paper-thin characters with dialogue that is more suitable for interludes on Playstation game.
The gore is copy+pasted from the preceding and much, much better Hellraiser I and II, and the CGI is on par with the dreadful Spawn which came out that same year.
I hate rating movies a 1 because I think it's distasteful and many people that rate 1's are conjectural as means to not get the movie they were hoping for. I hated There Will Be Blood in the theater, but loved it upon my second viewing. I thought The Ring was "ok" when I first saw it, but really loved it upon my second viewing when I was alone on a rainy day. This film, however, I feel deserves a 1. I saw this m3 months ago and was p%ssed off at what I had to sit through. I thought maybe there was something that I had missed. Watched it again; hated it even more! *eek*.. The disingenuous actors/dialogues/stereotypes, the settings, lighting, absurd editing, vapidity of tone made me feel like I really wasted my time.
I'm not an Anderson 'hater', because I appreciated the Resident Evil film.
With that said, I'll just re-watch Aliens or Cube when I need my 'fix' for some scifi horror.