This may be the worst sci-fi horror movie i've ever seen. Which is terribly unfortunate as the subject matter about what lies beyond the Event Horizon of a Black Hole lends itself well to so many interesting (and fantastical ) possibilities that in the right hands has the potential to be a great film. The film moves very slowly but does not deliver any kind of reward for those who are patient enough to wait for it to unravel. One of my biggest criticisms of the film is that is doesn't explore what happened to the crew of The Event Horizon sufficiently to make it engaging and interesting enough. All those "flash back" scenes of the crew only serve to frustrate the viewer as it is not sufficiently fleshed out tat the end. We can only surmise some terrible "thing" happened to them. It both frustrating and yes becomes boring. Also almost as a homage to Alien(s) it borrows scenes directly from the movie. For instance the scene where Sam Neil is sucked out of the airlock. The scene where the rescue vessel discovers and boards the pod from the Event Horizon ( so similar to start Aliens go check it out) and the scene where one of the survivors "dreams" the evil Sam Neil is one of the rescuers........well it seemed pretty obvious to me. Over all terrible film. I wonder when Sam Neil walks into one of those lovely old Pubs in Dunedin New Zealand after a day working on the farm, whether the locals ask him "hey Sam weren't you in that movie , Event Horizon?" Just as he's about to throw a dart just to put him off..........i would! Ha!

Excellent cast, standard set of characters, and a familiar plot are all this has going for it. The music is poor, the "special" effects are laugh-out-loud hilarious, and the editing made a fast paced story seem slow and bogged down in irrelevant detours.Did his wife's suicide mean anything? What happened to her son? Is he now Frankenstein's monster? We'll never know.Watch it if you have nothing better to do, but, beware: anyone watching with you may be unwilling to forgive your choice. You may never hold the remote again.

Movie Review: "Event Horizon" (1997)Even though screenwriter Philip Eisner was not very innovative with his Paramount Pictutres pitched script, which comes along as an mash-up of "Alien" (1979) and "Hellraiser" (1987). But young and demanding director Paul W.S. Anderson (born 1965) has pushed the limits of the 60 Million Dollar budget produced by Lawrence Gordon with further professional cast members, surrounding Sam Neill as scientist Dr. William Weir and Laurence Fishburne as starship Captain Miller, investigating believed-lost spacecraft the title-given "Event Horizon", where thoughts, fears and desires of the astronauts turn into menacing horror-thrilling realities.The picture's editor has done well in cutting the 130 Minutes first cut into 90 Minutes Space Thriller ride of decent special effects and set decorations, where in relentless pace the psychic power of metal gear spiked sphere turning crew members to the dark side in atmospherically created cinematography by Adrian Biddle (1952-2005) with high standard make-up effects, pyro-techniques and in-camera lighting choreographies, which keep the spectre awake and guessing what is next at stakes in constant twisting shock effects."Event Horizon" released on August 15th 1997 on the U.S. domestic market could only find a minor R-rated hard-core loving domestic audience with a box office revenue of 26.5 Million Dollars, which is just an 44.17& rebound on the initial production budget. Nevertheless further international sales and a recovering DVD release in 2001 brought the picture to break even. When I watch again these days, my feeling seconds me that this science-fiction horror-thriller has the ingredients to be a mash-up / copy cat classic.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I wonder if this movie was intended as a horror or just a dark sci-fi because there wasn't anything really creepy except for the look of the ship Event Horizon - its face resembles that alien from the Ridley Scott movies! The effects are quite good and there's also tense moments when the rescue crew docks with the ship and goes in to check for survivors. The performances are OK but I felt the choice of actors could have been better - Laurence Fishburne and Same Neill are the only ones who really held my attention. Some scenes confuse especially how a certain dead character comes back and attack the rest of the survivors. With the effects and the atmosphere they attempted to create, this movie had lots of box-office potential but failed to deliver as expected. Verdict - with lots of misses than hits, there was nothing much even Laurence Fishburne could do to save Event Horizon(ship or the movie)...a forgettable, one-time watch.