After the horror show, last night at the Cardiff City stadium I am talking about the two missed injury time penalties I was not over watching more horror so I dug up a copy of the 1997 film “Event Horizon”. It may have received a bit of a kick-in with some reviewers but I liked it! I really did I was entertained.
In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years before and mysteriously reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune. The Event Horizon was fitted with an experimental gravity drive. The drive generates an artificial black hole and uses it to bridge two points in space, reducing travel time over solar distances, faster-than-light travel.
When they arrive, they discover that no one is on the ship, but of course, it doesn't mean they're alone. The crew of the Lewis and Clark discover a video log of the Event Horizon's crew going insane and mutilating each other. The video log ends with a shot of the Event Horizon's captain, who has apparently gouged out his own eyes, holding them up to the camera, and saying in Latin, "liberate tutemet ex inferis" ("save yourself from Hell").
When the ship's gravity drive automatically activates one of the crew is briefly pulled into the resulting portal. The activation also causes a shock wave that damages the Lewis and Clark, forcing the entire crew to board the Event Horizon. Some of the crew manage to pull the crewmember back; he is in a catatonic state, terrified by what he saw on the other side. He attempts suicide, forcing the crew to place him in stasis.
No sooner had they arrived, the crewmembers begin witnessing horrific visions as the ship begins "toying" with their minds, searching deep down into their minds projecting their secrets and fears and turns them into horrifying reality.
A decision is made to destroy the Event Horizon but plans have to change when the Lewis and Clark is blown up. Those left decide to split the Event Horizon in two and use the forward section of the ship as a lifeboat and a 10-minute countdown is activated. One of the crew possessed by the evil entity on the Event Horizon gouges his own eyes out and sets about returning the ship back through the Black Hole to the other dimension.
The gravity drive activates, pulling the ship's rear section into a black hole while the remainder of the crew in the forward section enter into stasis. Of the eight members of the Lewis and Clark only three survive including the comatose injured crewmember.
Seventy-two days later, a rescue party, who discover the remaining crew still in stasis, boards the forward section of the Event Horizon.
The mix of good actors, great music, great filming, and great surroundings makes this a good thriller. People who have to analyse every scene of this 1997 movie will find logical gaps in the story, but hey, why watch sci-fi in the first place? For me this is a very good thriller. It is the feeling I get inside that I like about Event Horizon. The ship, the build-up of the story, the feeling of something bigger (or more evil) on the "other side" is very scary! The scenes of the planet Neptune and the scenes of the spaceship from the outside is great. Also, the "heart of the ship", the engine room is great. If you like good sci-fi this could be your kind of movie.
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