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Genres:
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Adventure /
Fantasy /
Horror /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Paul W.S. Anderson
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Actors:
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Peter Marinker,
Noah Huntley,
Robert Jezek,
Holley Chant,
Barclay Wright,
Laurence Fishburne,
Sam Neill,
Kathleen Quinlan,
Joely Richardson,
Richard T. Jones,
Jack Noseworthy,
Jason Isaacs,
Sean Pertwee
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)118
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Plot Summary:
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A deliverance crew in interval comes to investigate and if possible, freeing a government spaceship gone missing concerning seven years. When they board the ferry, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.
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I always suspect 'horror' films set in space.
I always suspect 'horror' films set in space. They always turn out to be a big disappointment. Event Horizon though was not.
Sam Neil is a scienist haunted by the past, his wife who commited suicide. He throws himself into his work, a space vessel capable of bending space to travel instantaneously from one point to another...The Event Horizon. One its first trails the Event Horizon engaged it's drive and disappeared...The problem being, it never came back.
Years later the Event Horizon emerges near Jupiter. Calls to the ship are not returned. The Search and Rescue ship, the Lewis and Clarke with her captain (Fishburne), crew and Sam Neil set out the find out if there are any survivors, what happened... and where has it being for the past number of years.
Th...
Stolen But Simply Outstanding
I watched this film as part of a double bill one afternoon at a local cinema. On the end of this I watched The Exorcist. Event Horizon left me feeling truly disturbed.
A crew venture into space to recover a vessel that has been fitted with a device that can bend time (fitting with recent theories on space travel). They find a ship that appears to be quite lifeless. Unfortunatly for them it isn't
As the other reviewer says if you slow down the log files you'll appreciate why this was rated so heavily, we didn't have that luxury in the cinema, but even at that time enough of the flickering images remain in the brain long enough to make you shudder, and they aren't the half of it.
A thoroughly taught blood and guts thriller, the like of which are rarely se...
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