"This Place Is A Tomb!"...

Rating: 7/10 (8 October 2019)

When the title craft disappears near the planet Neptune, a search and rescue ship is dispatched to solve the mystery. Not surprisingly, the mission doesn't exactly go according to plan, and the crew is thrust into the unexpected and unknown. An intriguing amalgam of ALIEN, SOLARIS, and HELLRAISER, EVENT HORIZON is less of a science fiction yarn, and more of a haunted house in space epic. A stellar cast and impressive sets -especially the gyroscopic "gateway"- help to make the incredible occurrences seem somewhat reasonable. After all, creating and using wormholes for travel is one thing, while "gating in" pandemonium is quite another! Suitably creepy, and sometimes overwrought / overblown, Director, Paul Anderson tosses in several tense emergencies and explosions throughout. So, if you're looking for subtlety, then, well... However, if gory, spooky space movies are your forte, this one is very effective...