Scary s**t!

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2000)

Someone was talking about this movie last week, and recommended it to me, so I decided to rent it. I read some reviews and they were pretty positive, so that heightened my anticipation. I was in desperate need of a good sound system -- I had to run a wire from my VCR to my Minidisc, then convert the left channel into two channels, so the sound was horrible when I watched it...oh, don't stop reading now, that was pretty boring. Anyways, Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill did terrific performances as the head crew members of a ship to save Dr. Weir (Neill)'s beloved ship, the Event Horizon. I don't want to get into terrific detail, but what was scary was the jump scenes (that's why I wanted a good sound system) and the eerie silence that comes with every sci-fi movie, but sometimes without good execution. This is not the case for this movie. I loved the fact that you have to ponder a few things about this movie, even after the credits roll. To think about a ship that has been deserted for 7 years and you have no idea where it has been, is some scary s**t. But it is not recommended for the weak: there is a copious amount of blood and gore, and it's somewhat graphic. And if you see it and end up not liking it, hell, the opening credit sequence and the score accompanying it is worth the whole 90 minutes!