Hellraiser

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2010)

"Event Horizon" is a scattershot horror movie which plays like a cross between "Alien" and "Hellraiser". The idea here is that a spaceship breeches the event horizon of a black hole, "travels to hell", and is then spat back out into real space. A rescue party is then sent to ascertain what happened to the ship. They board the ship, realise that the ship's been to hell, and are assaulted and possessed by various demonic forces.
The film's quality is all over the place, but it has at least four very unique visuals, and a couple hellish (and very imaginative) designs. The film was notoriously chopped down after being shown to test audiences. 40 minutes were lost, most of which were packed with various devilish creatures, designs and surreal/nightmarish special effects shots. These shots, which were infamous for being very disturbing, were available on bootleg VHS and various places on the internet for a while, but have now been destroyed (some appear on youtube).
7/10 - Like "Fire In The Sky" this is one of those films in which the art department and production consultants hijack the film and do their own great work independent of the director.