ItÂ´s the Shining in space

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 1999)

It's the year 2047 and the "Event Horizon," a ship designed to bend the space time continuum, has been found after being lost for seven years. A rescue ship, the "Lewis & Clark," helmed by Captain Joe Miller(Laurence Fishburne) and his elite crew and the lost ship's designer (Sam Neill). Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. What they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. What they must salvage are their own lives, because someone or something is ready to ensnare them in a new dimension of unimaginable fear. This is a scary psychological thriller and one of the few Sci-Fi movies in the last 10 years to actually almost live up to its hopes. For those of you who think that "Scream" and other recent horror films are frightening, take my word for it, go see this movie and see what scary really is. Masterfully balancing sci-fi, horror and action, "Event Horizon" is a superbly made film that feels just like a thrilling amusement park ride. With as many jump scenes as a roller coaster has hills, this film elicits the same visceral response.The film also boasts a great cast with Neill delivering a fine, increasingly deranged role and Fishburne making up for his last action role in the "OK" film Fled here, he strongly commands the screen and proves to be a superb action figure. Although some plot elements are never fully explored such as what's behind the "evil" control, and what the deeper back stories are for the characters personal visions/encounters the mystery of these elements only adds to the film's overall uneasy atmosphere. While this is an extremely thrilling, scary film, it's also extremely bloody and hard to watch at some times but that only makes it a better horror film and the best scifi/horror mix for about ten to fifteen years.