I know I'm a bit late on this since I've been bust with other things, but last Tuesday was Event Horizon's 20th anniversary in which I wrote this tribute/review on that day. This is easily one of my favorite sci-fi/horror films (I've seen over a thousand films) while being from one of my favorite directors. INFINITE TERROR at its finest. Plus, this was a huge inspiration for the Dead Space games.
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"You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."
20 years ago, today...
Paul W.S. Anderson released a revolutionary film for the science-fiction & horror genre full of terrifying brilliance and a disgusting set of imaginative hell left for dead in a wasteland of psychological damage, but only in the form of a word is it deceiving. Continued by the flow of time and evolving madness, this film remains and magnificently holds up for the most past while its major cult following further grows, leaving me happier and faithful for what science-fiction can become as true dead insanity begins here and flat-out amazing, it is.
Trauma disgustingly eaten by a wildly severe, but everlasting, image of "hell" and its imaginative strains forwarding itself into the horror creature of all horror creatures of which that being the ship itself, Event Horizon bashes death straight into the inventive notion of the unknown in a travesty where no screams shall be heard as it requires the audience to strap in for a horrifying ride of intelligence and ominous disturbances bringing about effective thrills infused with a taste of sci-fi goodness and pure horror energy seen in the phenomenal direction.
Criminally underrated in all of its threatening glory moving in the dark along side a sinister world of the film being incredibly entertaining, its massive range of supreme quality consists of great performances, amazing visual effects/imagery (mainly when referring to the ship), a beautifully creepy score, the perfect production design to go with its grand adventure through nightmares, and provoking within its cursed awe. This is magnificently wired together not only from its consistent forms of terror and the particular way it feeds off fear, but from Paul W.S. Anderson's astonishing direction creating the best atmosphere of psychological terror beyond the unknown and frights to this day as its easily of the most well-crafted atmospheres that flawlessly binds and forms all the film's terror which undoubtedly earns an extremely high level of praise for Paul W.S. Anderson.
"forget this ship!"
And now as I rewatch this masterful film 20 years after its release, riveting from beginning to end behind its haunted psychological horror and gore as well as an eternity of clever suspense and scary hints this remains.
Once again, thank you Paul W.S. Anderson. You'll always be a truly phenomenal genius in my eyes.
(I would still kill someone for a copy of the rough cut.)
/discuss - Has anybody else seen this film or feels the same way about it?
