a great, chilling horror movie.

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2002)

Although this movie wasn't liked by many people, I found it to be fantastic and I wished it was longer. For anyone who is going to see this film, I suggest to keep an open mind and hopefully not be eating anything while watching it.
(Warning:Review is one big spoiler and is meant only for those who already seen the film)
Event Horizon is about a ship that is supposedly meant to be a research vessel that gets involved in an accident and explodes. Years later, it reappears and a rescue team is sent in, though the crew isn't briefed at all. Dr. Weir(Sam Neil) reveals that the event horizon is a ship made to test faster than light travel by bending space and therefore defying human laws. He also reveals it didn't explode, it just dissappeared into thin air and now its back. The rescue team is then given orders to salvage the ship and rescue survivors, but all they find are bits and pieces of the crew everywhere. Before the crew can pull out, though, their own ship is damaged in an accident and they are stranded with the ship, and the horror its brought back with it.
While this may sound like your typical sci fi thriller, I found it to be different as there were no aliens, there was no form of physical being that was the antagonist. What I found about the movie that interested me was that by bending space fabric, it therefore passed through a dimension not known to humanity. This would be called Hell. i think its good how the movie didn't at all show what Hell was like, but instead left the viewer to find out why it made the crew kill each other. Its because that by entering a new dimension, human scientific laws do not have to apply in it. This is the case in what the Event Horizon has infected itself with. The ship entered a dimension of pure chaos, where it was complete madness on the crew for as long as they were in it. Its actually quite disturbing when you think about it. A dimension where nothing we apply to science is there, a dimension which the video recording of the event horizon's crew describes perfectly. Having said that, it is possible that any scientific impossibilities with the ship would be excused by the fact that the Event Horizon became a vessel of Hell within the solar system. The grisly images of Hell are truly terrifying, as they clearly represent the more realistic image of Hell. Instead of a place where lava spews from the ground and fire rains from the skies, we are shown images of people going through what seems to be something worse than pain and death. And thats correct because thats what hell is all about, continuous, eternal suffering of the worst kind. But what exactly does hell look like? We shall never know, and nobody can imagine it. The film doesn't even go into showing us, and all the better because chances are, it is a place our minds and eyes are not ready for.
So, while many consider it a bad, typical horror flick, I consider it to be a creative masterpiece. I'm not contradicting anyone here, this is just my opinion and what i think of the film. I havn't seen a movie that really frightened me, or made me think about its plot's content for days. Event Horizon though, while it didn't shock me silly, left some very disturbing thoughts in my head and left me thinking about the implications in the story.