Scared the #@*% out of me!

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 1999)

"Event Horizon" scared the livin'... well you know what I mean. The taglines say "Infinite Space, Infinite Terror". It doesn't say much, and it gives you the wrong impression of what you will see in this film. After the poster and the trailers, I wrote this one off. Then I caught it on HBO, so decided to check it out. I suffered from insomnia after that. IT'S THAT SCARY!!! It's not the ship or the characters that caught my attention. I thought the characterization was very poor (it's hard to tell or care about who's who). But what scared me was the movie's "monster". There really isn't one. Instead, it has a demonic spirit from hell! Many people say that this borrowed from "Hellraiser", but I think this was pulled off better. It's a bomb in characterization, but it's a masterpiece of horror. I can't remember the last time I was this scared. I mean, it really scared me! Plus, the problem with "Hellraiser" is that they show you too much of the "Hell" stuff. "Event Horizon" blasts its hell in our faces, as quick and as fierce as a strobe-light flash. It's mean! And at the end of the film, instead of a resolution, we don't quite get an ending. Nor an implication of a sequel. We get the idea that the demon was never really defeated, that the crew was never really saved. And with that, the intense buildup of fear that is at it's peak at the climax of the film, never really leaves us! We can't leave the fear thrown at us after the movie is finished. "I told you she won't let me leave, she won't let anyone leave." I honestly believe, that when the film is finished, that notorious line is true!