Interesting idea, lousy finish

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 1999)

Having seen the trailer, I wanted to see the movie as I kinda like space action movies. However, the fact that Event Horizon only played for two weeks here should have warned me that something was amiss. When it finally was released on video, I sped to the video rental only to find out that there was after all a good reason why it only played for a fortnight.
The plot is simple: a high tech space exploration ship called Event Horizon goes missing. As in any good space drama (ouch!) all rescue attempts fail, but after seven years the ship miraculously turns up again somewhere around Neptune. A bunch of SAR vets are dispatched to find out what finally happened. Once arrived, they discover that Event Horizon was in fact a faster than light experiment involving artificial singularities (black holes), inter-dimensional gates and space folding (these are the layman terms used by Sam Neill when briefing the crew!).
The whole idea behind the whole movie is that tampering with nature's laws could be detrimental to your health, ie inter-dimensional travel might take you to hell instead of Proxima Centauri. After all, who knows what or who is behind space? Now that is an interesting idea, but who cares? Certainly not the director or the script writer who insisted on making this Hellraiser in Space.
So, as it went along the movie turns out to be a health hazard as my stomach begun to protest in view of the increasing amounts of gore. Too bad for the money spent but one only learns doing things themselves.
PS: Not for the faint hearted!