A Science Fiction Hellraiser

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2020)

Event Horizon starts out as your typical Science fiction horror movie an experimental science vessel space ship which has been missing for years in the depths of space reamergers but no communication can be made with the ship so they call in a space rescue squad to make the trip and bring back any survivor's and whats left of the ships logs all classified on the highest level of security whilst also taking the scientist and ships creator with them to find out what went wrong and why after a couple of months in Hypersleep the crew awaken and board the science vessel The Event Horizon but they discover more than just the bodies of the ships former crew the ships drive is a experimental gravity engine that in theory allows the ship to open a gateway and travel from one part of space to another in an instant but the gateway doesn't lead to another part of space but to a whole other dimension one that can only be described with one word Hellish and in the time the ship spent in that dimension it changed and it brought something back with it now the ship won't allow the rescue crew to leave as it invades there minds finds there deepest fears, regrets and guilts and shows them horrors beyond imagining that drove the previous crew to claw and tear there own eyes out.
The movie has a slow build up with a lot of dialogue and hallucinations that set up the movies climax which takes the movie from a quiet and intense space thriller to a full on horror movie with characters being cut open disembowelled and hung from the ceiling eyes being torn out and skinless people with cut up muscle tissue the movie changes a lot in it's third act going from 1 to 100 in a short space of time.
If you watch the Unrated version of this movie there are actually more scenes of characters in the Hellish torture dimension rotting and impaled on various parts of the ships architecture.
I recommend this movie to any horror movie fan where the movie takes it time building suspense and horror that leads to a pretty gruesome pay off at the end honestly this movie is worth watching even if just to see Sam Neil play a skinless monster with no eyes.