So much style, so little class

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2001)

The visuals of the movie grate and grate. My fiance noted that no engineering piece in history he's seen has ever looked so 'human unfreindly'. And that's GREAT. It's a wonderful, horrifying world that Event Horizon presents, filled with so many 'guns on the wall' in the way of pointy, crushy, blender like items in the ship, you know they aren't ALL going to be used.
It's a shame this so called 'psycological horror' turned out to be a plain, boring gore fest. Sure, it builds up, but then it shows pointless images of messy, mucky people, which really ruin the feeling of aprehention the movie tries to build. You KNOW what they're going to show you, after a while. It becomes predictable. ("Oh, here comes some sort of, um, horribly mutilated person, I bet!")
I don't say this as a spoiler, but as a person who doesn't want people going in the movie expecting better.
With all the obvious effort they went into for mood, I'm surprised they didn't bother much with the plot.