The Hell from Space

Rating: 8/10 (23 February 2007)

Not being the biggest fan of horror-films I must admit that Event Horizon is an extremely competent production in spite of its unsightly gore. The characters and the concept of space travel, which is interestingly rather accurate, give the film a much needed grounding before the real horror elements start to kick in.
This movie can be considered a lot of things... 'Hellraiser in Space', 'The Shining in Space' but ultimately it borrows from so many sources that it's impossible to name any single source. In this pieced-together fashion the film works the same way casting actors of various types works well. Fisburne and Sam Neill are the dramatic heart of the film and Anderson's regular, Jason Isaacs, gives a typically strong performance.
However, the film does use plenty of conventional horror-film elements and some of these are rather distracting. The ending for instance may not necessarily lack closure, but it may not be the type of closure I was looking for.
All in all, however, a film worth seeing.