Plagiarism and clichés

Rating: 1/10 (9 May 2010)

This is not a good movie. The plot simply is the frame of the first Alien movie (rescue-crew finds a ghost-ship that has been in hitherto unknown areas of space - crew of ghost-ship is found dead - rescue-crew gets trapped on ghost-ship - some evil force starts killing the rescue-team - the inevitable scientist who accompanies the rescue-team turns evil etc.).
When Alien presented this story line, it was new, made sense, the movie had a great pace and was genuinely disturbing. The same storyline, about 18 years after the original was out, is a farce. Event Horizon simply does not even remotely create the dense atmosphere of horror that was created in Alien. The turning-evil of the scientist is very predictable. None of the characters (they all resemble the cool marines from Aliens by the way, including a couple of the typical "weak" women) is described well, and one hardly cares for them. And when you don't care for the characters, you are not afraid that something might happen to them. A great defect for a horror movie, because if you don't care, the movie is not scary. The movie is full of pathetic clichés. When the rescuers hear from the ghost-ship, they get an audio-message with the usual distorted screaming on it. They filter it, and voilà, one of the cool marines finds out that it actually is *Latin* and translates it immediately. Latin sounds spooky to some people, and that's probably why someone in deep space has nothing better to do then sending messages in Latin while he is being massacred. Incredible. The idea to give the ghost-ship an evil consciousness is ridiculous: the ship is a haunted house in space.
If you expect a good horror-movie, avoid this one. YOu will be disappointed.