Event Horizon

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2015)

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Pompeii), I had heard about this film many times, I knew it was sc-fi horror, and I knew one or two names in the cast, so I was hoping it would be something I'd like. Basically in the year 2047, humanity has successfully colonised on the Moon and other planets, and starships have managed to travel and venture deeper into space than ever before, one such ship was the "Event Horizon", an experimental government starship, but it mysteriously disappeared seven years ago going beyond the planet Neptune, this loss was considered the worst space disaster on record. However a distress signal was picked up that appeared to come from the Event Horizon, so an astronaut crew on the rescue vessel "Lewis and Clark" has been dispatched to investigate, salvage and rescue any living survivors on the ship, they are led by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), and guided by the Event Horizon's designer Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill). The Lewis and Clark crew consists of Executive Officer Lieutenant Starck (Joely Richardson), pilot Smith (Sean Pertwee), Medical Technician Peters (Kathleen Quinlan), Engineer Ensign Justin (Jack Noseworthy), Rescue Technician Cooper (Richard T. Jones) and Trauma Doctor D.J. (Jason Isaacs). The ship is found in deep space, the crew manage to dock with it, but with limited supply of oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide they do not have long to find out what happened to the ship and its crew, it is not long though until the rescuing crew members realise the unimaginable and terrifying secrets lie within the ship. One by one each crew member experiences what is either a hallucination or an apparition that messes with their minds and causes them to panic or go mad, and it is all caused by a gateway, created on the ship to reach other places in space and time, but something was opened that has caused chaos for anyone that dares to venture in. Also starring Peter Marinker as Captain John Kilpack, Holley Chant as Claire and Barclay Wright as Denny Peters. This is obviously a B-movie, full of big names in the cast, but produced with a moderate budget, there are some good special effects and gory moments to satisfy the fans of things nasty, but the dialogue and storyline is rather hammy, and it is often predictable, but if you like to see things going wrong in space and many people going mad thinking they are seeing things, then I suppose it's not a bad science-fiction horror. Worth watching!