The Overlook Hotel in Space? Not quite

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2002)

I watched this movie yesterday and I really liked it. The performances were all pretty good, I especially liked Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne.
In the beginning of the movie, it feels a bit like the Alien movies, with the crew members being introduced. But the whole history of the Event Horizon, the docking and then the subtle terror everywhere, made it look more like Shining. Very quiet scenes, with the "Something is going to happen" atmosphere, and then, either nothing happens or only for a second. The things that happen might still be illusions and just signs of the crew going crazy.
Unfortunately, that atmosphere is destroyed by the end, when there is actually a "monster", a personification of the things that happen, on the ship. After that its mostly a monster-chase. The End isn't too surprising either, but still not bad. After all, I really enjoyed the movie, but think I'd have liked it more if it had stayed subtle, with the question "Are the things really there or do those people imagine them?", instead of answering it.