This movie will scare the hell out of you! {May contain spoilers}

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2004)

I am terrified of this movie...or I should say that I WAS terrified of it. I have now since conquered my phobia of this movie and am just now able to write a review of it.
I saw this movie in 1997 when it came out and it is the only horror movie, that in my entire life of watching horror, starting with "JAWS" at age 7, that, as an adult, scared me so badly that it made me sick and I had nightmares over it.
It is graphic, it is gory and there is just something about the dark and evil scenes that pervade this movie that one can't get over. It's not something that "goes bump in the night" but an all out terror that seems to seep into one's subconscious as this movie unfolds.
Being a Goth/Macabre/Erotica author, I am used to gore and graphic death scenes, using them quite often in what I write, but the scenes of evil carnage in this movie are simply something that defy description. Even now I find myself struggling with how to describe something that, once you see this movie, never really seems to leave you.
The cast for this movie was incredible and I can't see any other cast doing as well as this one did. Laurence Fishburne is gruff and business first in his role of Captain Miller. Sam Neill...what can I say about him except that he was one horrifying character as Dr. William Weir, an obsessed and nightmare plagued man, with deranged dreams of his dead wife and wanting to go back to the Event Horizon, no matter what. The ship called to him and his wife called to him...there was no stopping him. I must take a moment to say that Sam Neill was so convincing as the psychotic and murderous Dr. Weir that it took me years before I could watch anything with him in it, no matter what it was, he frightened me so badly. Now THAT is acting!
The supporting cast was just as electrifying. Richard T. Jones, as Cooper, the Rescue Tech gave some of the MUCH needed comedy relief when things became too tense and Jason Isaacs as D.J, Trauma, was ice cold but undoubtedly frightened when he finally deciphers the real message on the cryptic distress signal recording that the crew was allowed to hear, from the doomed last crew of the cursed ship. His fear is realistic, chilling.

Jack Noseworthy, as Justin, Engineer, put in one of the best, if not much too brief performances of his life as the first victim of the Event Horizon's new crew, being sucked into the "gateway" and thus traveling to where the Event Horizon had been...hell. "The dark inside me" he proclaims in a fit of violent convulsion and that is simply the beginning of the trouble, and makes this movie an edge of your seat masterpiece.
Kathleen Quinlan as Peters, Med Tech was tragic, haunted by not being able to be with her son, Joely Richardson as Lt. Starck, Executive Officer was strong and believable and Sean Pertwee as Pilot Smith had probably one of the best lines in the movie, "this ship is f*cked" and his loathing of the damned, Event Horizon is evident from the minute he steps on board.
I now own this movie and watch it often. If you want non-stop action, horrifying special effects, and graphic gore, then this movie is any suspense and horror lover's dream. I would recommend this movie highly...but only if you have a strong stomach. Oh and it might help to have the lights on as well...
"Liberate tutemae ex inferis."