A good sci-fi horror film.

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2018)

I didn't get to see this on the big screen, it was either on video or on TV that I first saw it, either way it was a TV edit for old squarer TVs, but the film was made in panoramic, so you lost more than half the film with a TV edit having to pan around the original footage to try to pick out the action. TV edits like that have too much poetic licence and too much of the fuller scenes are lost. You have to watch it in full panoramic to enjoy films like this. Now, with the much bigger HD widescreen TVs that people have, I'd encourage the doubters to watch this film again as it should be watched, in all its glory. Some films don't transfer well to the old square TVs as edits, but the TVs we have now do them justice. A lot of older films are worth watching again in Blu-ray on these new TVs. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are some other good examples, but Event Horizon also fares well with modern tech. Watch it as it should be watched, all of it, with none of the wider footage edited out because of screen size. The cinematography is excellent and the film itself stands up well, even today, after 20 years. Not many films can do that without seeming dated. It is much better than a lot of films that are released today. It was ahead of its time when it was released, it still is, and for me, it is a classic sci-fi film.