One of the BEST sci-fi movies in ten years ! They don´t make them like this anymore.

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 1999)

This movie steals ideas from so many movies, that everybody involved in it should be in jail ! But is this a bad thing ? Not at all !
It would be bad if all this amount of rip-offs were badly used, but they´re not. They´re very well blended giving the movie a strange unique atmosphere, that we know doesn´t belong to it. But it works great !
The only thing i didn´t like about " Event Horizon ", was that i would like to see more at the end. It ended too fast for my taste while it promissed much exploration.
But that´s fine because the end, although totaly cliché, works just fine for this movie. I wasn´t expecting it to be any different, when the movie was such a mix of stolen bits from others. Anyone who expected otherwise is more of an idiot, than this movie has been called by the american critics.
Here in Europe, this movie was considered in many reviews, the best american sci-fi movie in 10 years, along with " Contact ". And i couldn´t agree more.
Nowadays it seems that there are no more good scifi movies produced in Hollywood. No more " Dune ", " 2010 ", " Alien ", " Blade Runner ", " Aliens " , " The Abyss " and the same goes for horror movies.
They just don´t scare people anymore. They´re always just about a bunch of teenagers being butchered even when the movie starts by promissing some good ideas. Today they just make us jump on our seats, repeating the same scenes over and over. They don´t frighten us anymore.
I can´t remember when i felt afraid watching an american horror movie. Sin ce " Friday the 13th ", they all became a joke. Probably the last scary one was the first " Poltergeist " back in 83. ( in part because i was 13 ) Since then everything has been a laugh.
Until " Event Horizon " came along. I don´t care what they say about it in the states. This is a very good horror movie. The best in years, and an excelent scifi adventure with very solid and believable special effects.
The atmosphere is perfect and it makes us feel really uncomfortable sometimes. It´s that what frighten us, not the usual scares. You´ll choke, eating popcorns and watching this !
The gothic production design is magnificent although We can see were the designers got inspiration from, but its an excellent work. The soundtrack is excellent with very creepy moments and great use of silence. The sound is perfect too.
The actors should be proud of their work, because all have very believable characters, even when they have small parts.
I´ve seen an interview with Lawrence Fishburn, in a program about the worst movies of the year. The reporter jokes about how crap " Event Horizon " was and i couldn´t believe what i was seeing, because Laurence F. almost apologises and asks for pardon for being in this movie !! The only thing i can say is that the Hollywood system really sucks. The reporter made it sound like if, the actor did another film like this, his career could be in danger. And i only could think, WHY ?!! There is nothing wrong with this movie people !
I even think this is a great achievement, the way their creators stole from every place, but they managed to make a fantastic supernatural traditional ghost movie. Replace the starship with an old house, and we get the same effect. An excellent horror movie.
" Event Horizon " should be praised for this, not put down, like it was done in the states.
I bet if the makers of this movie, had replaced the adult cast, with a bunch of cool teenagers and called it " SCREAM in Space ! ", this would have been a major hit and we would already be watching part 2 right now. Because that seems to be the actual trend in Hollywood this days. I don´t have nothing against a good popcorn movie. The " SCREAM " movies are great and very fun to watch, but why thrash another good movie just because it tries to do something diferent for a change ?
Space is an excellent place to haunt. Let´s have some more ghosts in there please. Forget the aliens.
This is the way to make a good product out of stolen ideas. Producers, take note.