Dark, disturbing, space horror!!

Rating: 10/10 (11 October 2002)

This is for those in the world not entirely analytical and without imagination! Those broadsheet readers who slag off films without any real understanding of how to enjoy a movie.
It is about a space ship that has a traveling technique that allows it to travel light years in a matter of nano-seconds. Along the way the ship "Event Horizon" whch has this new technology, goes missing only to be found nearly 20 years later on the other side of a distant planet, but where ahd it been in all that time. Needless to say, a crew is sent to find out where the ship had gone for all that time and save the ship if they can.
The crew (led by Laurence Fishburne) travel that distance with Sam Neill who was the creator of the engine. They of course board the vessel, find themselves unable to escape and start dying, one-by-one.
Even though the story and plot are formulaic at best there are very frightening moments with a cast outshining themselves, Sam Neill brilliant (especially if you watch this after seeing another brilliant film with him in The Dish)and unknowns abound outperforming other actors tipped for brilliance by reviewers (Ben Affleck for instance, poor in all the films I have seen him in).
The atmosphere, in a dark and small room oozes out of the wood work, the directing brilliant, the camera does not stay too long on any given object allowing boredom to ensue.
Overall, Marvellous film, probably fun to make, undeserved of all the slagging off by unimaginative reviewers. For sci-fi horror, look no further. The only problem will be finding a place to find it!!
9/10