A terrifying journey into space

Rating: 9/10 (29 June 2001)

I know a lot of folks don't like Event Horizon, but I found it to be one of the few truly chilling sci-fi horror films that I have seen in the past two decades.
A rescue mission is sent out after a long-lost spaceship (the Event Horizon) reappears in orbit around Neptune. The ship was actually the first attempt at faster-than-light travel, and used a unique method of bending space developed by Sam Neill's scientist...which inadvertantly sent the ship and its original crew outside the universe, and into a world of complete chaos that approximates Hell. Unfortunately, the rescue party doesn't know this, and doesn't know that the ship wants to go back.
Both Sam Neill and Lawrence Fishburne given outstanding performances. Neill is excellent as the scientist who has given all (including his wife's life - by suicide) to create the Event Horizon, and gradually loses his mind to the haunted ship. Fishburne is the commander of the rescue mission who refuses to leave any of his crew behind, and wants to destroy the ship before it takes them all back to the other dimension. His own dedication to that ideal rivals Neill's insane desire to go back with this ship.
There are many similarities between this movie and other science fiction works (including Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and particular Sphere, which came out years later), but I believe that Event Horizon stands on its own as a masterpiece of horror.