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Event Horizon (1997) Review — Sci-Fi Horror, Cosmic Terror & Hell in Space | Half Hour of Horror with Love Horror
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This episode of Half Hour of Horror with Love Horror blasts off into the terrifying depths of space with Event Horizon (1997), a cult sci-fi horror that fuses cosmic terror with supernatural nightmares.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill, Event Horizon follows a rescue crew sent to investigate a lost spaceship that has mysteriously reappeared. What they discover is something far more sinister — a gateway to something beyond human understanding.
Initially met with mixed reviews, Event Horizon has since become a cult horror favourite, praised for its disturbing imagery, hellish themes, and blend of science fiction and supernatural horror. But does it still hold up today?
In this episode you’ll get:
- A spoiler-filled synopsis of Event Horizon (1997).
- Honest horror movie discussion and review from Alex and Tom.
- Behind-the-scenes trivia and production insights, including its troubled edit and lost footage.
- Discussion of the film’s themes of cosmic horror, isolation, and psychological terror.
- Our final verdict and horror rating out of 5.
If you’re a fan of sci-fi horror, space horror, cosmic horror, or cult 90s horror films, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
Presented by Love Horror — the UK’s home for horror reviews and features. Subscribe to Half Hour of Horror and rediscover horror cinema, one half hour at a time.
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Transcript
Introduction to Love Horror Podcast
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Speaker
Welcome to Half Hour of Horror with Love Horror, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some truly classic horror movies with delivering insights, facts, opinions and more.
00:00:26
Speaker
And only 30 minutes on the clock. And usually could know we don't. We don't ever really fit the 30 minutes. I think we're always going over. We've done it maybe at least once. Yes. yes um We're back. It's been a little while. um For those of us who know us, those of you who know us, thanks for waiting. It's nice to be back. ah For people who don't know who we are, ah who are Love Horror, you
Hosts Alex and Tom Introduction
00:00:50
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might be saying. ah I'm Alex and I'm joined by Tom. I'm with the editors of Love Horror. We've been running the site for a little while. Say hello, Tom.
00:00:58
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Hello, everyone. I've been lost in deep space since the last podcast. That's why it's been here. I had to i to go out and find him. Yeah, me and the ah Lewis and Clark, we we're trying to find him. He'd gone mad. ah oh Lovely little segue
Focus on Event Horizon (1997)
00:01:13
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there. ah So, yes, this episode, we are here to take on Paul W.S. Anderson's Sci-Horror Event Horizon from 1997, starring pretty great cast Sam Neill, Lawrence Fishburne, Jolie Richardson, Sean Pertwee and Jason Isaacs. It's a great cast. um
00:01:32
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Yeah. When was the last time you watched Event Horizon, Tom? Was it a while ago? It's been a very long time. Really? Yeah, I would say...
00:01:44
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Mid 2000s. Wow. It's another one those ones that doesn't show up very often, you know? No, that's true. No, that's true. Well, there was weird coincidence. Just before we planned to see this podcast, it did show up on streaming platforms, which was great timing. Thank you, Amazon, at the time. Yeah.
00:02:01
Speaker
i yeah I watched it more recently ah for the other podcast I do, the of course Science Fiction Rating System. wearing Wearing the merch right now. Shameless plug. I've watched it. it but Although you you'd be happy to know I made a shameless plug for this podcast on the last episode of the Science Fiction Rating System. I'm at least cross-pollinating.
00:02:23
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I like to hear that. Yeah. um Yeah. So I watched it for that. ah So I watched it more recently, I have to say. But um but yeah. Yeah. i'm i' this is a good I'm excited about this one.
00:02:34
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this is a Without giving too much away. Yeah. just as ah Just as a little teaser. Do you think this is a film that has aged like a fine wine or something that when you rewatched, you felt a little bit like, ooh, yeah.
00:02:50
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i Just generally. I'll say it out the gate, I really like this film. think it's a really good, I think it's a good film. I like it. I think a lot of films, I think it was influenced by films, but i think it did ultimately influence a lot of other films.
00:03:06
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personally i like it we can know we can get into that but um what how we do this like I say we've got 30 minutes
Spoilers and Special Tributes
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that when the clock goes we've got 30 minutes to talk about it do you have ah normally we have a little special word noise what's our what's the special noise this week we do and ah this a bit of a spoiler for obviously there will be spoilers in this podcast as oh yeah yeah there normally are sorry so for anyone who has seen the film this will have relevance it's liberate tuteme Save yourself.
00:03:39
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So that's we're going to hear when the time's up. We'll have to save ourselves when the 30 minute timer. It'll feel very much like in the film when the time is going down. it is. The event horizon's about to start I'll run down the tunnel.
00:03:51
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I'll run down the tunnel and set some explosives. Yeah, run down the tunnel yeah behind you. But before we start, we normally offer a tribute to the horror gods to ah to ah you know to pay our way for for sending us these wonderful films. And my tribute, I'll go first because um this is good, but it's not great. Is it your t-shirt?
00:04:10
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No, it is the 25th edition. UHD and Ultra HD 4K and Blu-ray. It's in this really nice, look, the box where you go whoop, so you get the ships behind. That's pretty cool. And then it's in this really nice steel ah steel tin. was it What are they called? Steel book? Little steel book there.
00:04:33
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Yeah, little steel book. So I've got that. That's my tribute. And that's how I did watch. shirt this was the ah This was the version I watched. So, yeah, it's really nice. I like the way the eye kind of like slots over there. That's my tribute. That is one of the coolest cases I've seen a long time. know. Funny enough, we nearly clashed then because was watching on eBay.
00:04:55
Speaker
It was only a DVD version of it, though, but it was a signed copy of the film by Paul Anderson. Whoa. oh And the only reason I didn't order it was because I was worried it wouldn't get here in time when we were like trying to figure out the schedule for when we were going actually record. So I didn't.
00:05:12
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And now I'm kind double glad that I didn't because it would have been a clash anyway. Yeah, would have been clash. But yeah, so my tribute, one, well, sort of a double one. So in the background, two I've got a galactic lighting effect, which you can't see at all because um the time of day we're filming it.
00:05:30
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And it's an uncharacteristically sunny day in the UK. So it could be that as the podcast goes on, i might be able to do with the camera afterwards that might like bring out the ah effect a bit. But um it's a shame because it's slightly wasted.
00:05:45
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Luckily, though, I do have something you will be able to see. And I'm starting to feel like this is becoming a bit of a thing for me now to bring yeah um ed ah edible stuff. ed aible should Bring some edibles to the podcast. Yeah, to bring some edibles.
00:06:00
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this isn't It doesn't contain that stuff. No. It's an edible tribute, which I will actually eat during the podcast, as long as it doesn't get in the way of make me talking, of course. Yeah. It's is it space ice cream.
00:06:12
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oh You know what? I looked at space ice cream as well. Yeah. thinking about space ice cream. Yeah, that's a great one. I haven't had this in that years, honestly. Oh, no, I haven't had it for years either. No, it's really good. It's like an ice cream sandwi a vanilla ice cream sandwich. So I'm going to open it now.
00:06:28
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You know what? You think that was because all these is ah that there's like a mad craze for like them frozen, no, not frozen, freeze-dried sweets. And they're a bit like that space ice cream, aren't they? Yeah, they are. Is it good? on. Pop some in your mouth. Give us some... This is what looks like. It's always broken when it arrives. I know from my children, whenever they've had space ice cream, it's usually in a million bits.
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Give us some sweet AMS... Was it AMSR? Is it the... Yeah, ASMR. Do you want me to... Yeah, give us bit of that. I'll do that, yeah, because we'll get more followers if I do a bit of ASMR.
00:07:01
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Probably slightly pervy people. ah For the benefit people who are just listening, um it looks very much like a bourbon cream if you're British. It does. With lots of kind of freeze-dried ice cream. And this is sound it makes.
00:07:21
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It doesn't really taste like anything. No. It doesn't really taste like anything. and It tasted better in my head. Poor old spacemen and women. but we Yeah, I know. Dried ice cream. This is what I'm stuck with.
00:07:33
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I bet they can't wait for the real thing when they get back. But um throughout the podcast, if you hear crunching, it's not an audio issue. It's me eating some that while I'm listening along with you guys.
00:07:44
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So, yes, so we're we've we've given tribute. We've done an intro. So we're going to be diving straight in We're going to start that timer and you're going to deliver us an office. Are we ready?
00:07:55
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Are you ready? Ready for takeoff? On board. I'm ready. I'm strapped in. We're going.
Event Horizon Plot Synopsis
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Right. Synopsis. In Event Horizon, a rescue crew is sent to investigate the sudden reappearance of a long-lost spacecraft named the Event Horizon that vanished without explanation on its maiden voyage.
00:08:16
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The ship was designed to travel faster than light using experimental gravity, well, an experimental gravity drive and has drifted back into orbit near Neptune, silent and seemingly abandoned.
00:08:28
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Led by Captain Miller, ah Lawrence Fishburne, the team boards the vessel alongside its creator, Dr. William Weir, Sam Neill, yeah hoping to uncover what happened to the missing crew. But as they explore the darkened corridors, they discover signs of violence and a growing sense that something is deeply wrong with the ship itself.
00:08:51
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It soon becomes clear that the event horizon didn't simply travel through space. Its engine opened a gateway in something unknown and whatever it encountered has followed it back. Yep.
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As the crew begin to experience terrifying visions and their grip on reality starts to slip, paranoia and fear takes a hold. With no escape and the ship exerting a deadly deadly influence over them, the crew must face a force that devise explanation and avoid being dragged into internal damnation.
00:09:22
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and now I like the pause. That was a mouthful. Sorry. and so I've got a bit of ice cream stuck in my teeth. That's good. That's a great note. Great synopsis. I liked it. um Dave, it's funny. This film opens with load of title cards just to kind of get you up to speed. So it says 2015, first permanent colony established on the moon.
00:09:44
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Right. Well, that didn't happen. But it 2032, commercial mining begins on Mars. Isn't it mad that we're quite near 2032 now? Like, to them, that seemed so far away that we could be commercially mining Mars at that point. yeah And I'd say we're not really anywhere near commercially...
00:10:01
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No, i I, yeah. And then it's 2040 when they do Deep Space. That's when Event Horizon disappears. 2047 is now. It does give you that sense of like underachievement, doesn't it? When it is saying, oh, this, this, this happened. This should have happened already. Yeah, we should. Yeah, we totally should have. We're not even close.
00:10:17
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I'm going to dive in. see So I think for me, this film, there's a fact that I need to kind of deliver that is kind of bait. I think which it does say something about the film and it one of the things i find positive about it. So know if you knew, but this film, the original cut of this film ah was, get the exact running time right, just as I want to say it. i don't want to say it wrong. The original running time was 130 minutes. it's probably, this is an hour and a half. It's a very tight hour and a half. This film was a lot longer, the original runtime and basically Paramount ordered that he cut 30 minutes off it. Um, wow and a lot of what was cut was really extreme violence. Um, So basically a lot of what was cut was the, the kind of crazy visions and the cruise, uh, tapes, which we will get to that, but there was a lot more of that. You saw a lot more of that. Now,
00:11:12
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I would say what i would counter in saying is that although it's sad that we don't have a director's cut of this film, one of the things I think is actually really good about this film is it is actually very tight.
00:11:25
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It's a very tight film. You're kind of straight in. There's no messing around. We kind of get the sense of Sam Neill as a character a little bit in the beginning Then he's straight on board the Lewis and Clark. We get it like we get the kind of crew there. We get Jolie Richardson. She's like the first mate, isn't she? got Lawrence Fishburne as the captain. Sean Pertwee's the pilot.
00:11:46
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um You've got these those two guys who are kind of like the Papa Bear and Baby Bear. Those guys who are kind of like the rescue people, I guess, or the one of them's mechanic, maybe. And Jacek Isaac seems to be the doctor, or he's like the kind of medical person isn't yeah he is the yeah the medical doctor yep definitely oh and there's another woman as well can't there's the other lady who's the she's she's one of the rescue people as well I've forgotten her name yeah what is her role because she is a sort of she's like her medic isn't she because i she is called in she goes aboard to begin with doesn't she oh maybe yeah but yeah like i say I think I think that in a way
00:12:26
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the fact that he had to cut this film down and he was obviously told to really just like, you know, really, really pack it all in. i actually think that is a good thing. I think actually, I think it's in the film's favour. And I think it's in the film's favour for the fact that it just goes bang straight in. We're there. We're on board. There's not too much backstory, not too much explanation. I also think it's in favour of the fact that you never really see too much in this film. You see a lot of flashes of really, really, really mucked up stuff.
00:12:57
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But I actually think it's better that a lot of it is kind of jump scares or is hidden or kind of hinted at rather than full-blown horror. I think that's one of the powers of this film. what rating? Is it an 18?
00:13:10
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can't remember. think this is still an 18. Is it on your box? I threw my box over there. No, it's lost. It's in the black hole I'm pretty sure it is an 18, though. I reckon it's 18. wondered if the reason they cut down on the violence was the time plus the kind of trying to get it below the 15, like into a 15 or whatever. I mean, the truth, like say, a lot of that stuff, a lot the cut stuff was those scenes. When they filmed those scenes, they used actual amputees,
00:13:44
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So a lot of the stuff where people are missing limbs, they're actual amputees. So it it looked very good. That's a use phone funny coincidence. We said about that for The Thing in the last episode. Yeah. so yeah They actually use they use porn actors as well. So a lot of the sex is real sex. So, I mean, it was like, basically, it says that actor Jason Isaacs mentioned in a 2023 interview that the scenes that were shot on the adjacent soundstage included things that are definitely illegal to do now and probably were illegal to do then. Yeah. It says some of the crew actually had to leave the set during filming when they started feeling sick.
00:14:20
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um Yeah, it was, it was, it yeah, they basically made it as excessive and as horrible as possible. It was, i mean, it's again, again, and i mean, another thing to throw in there, another little fact, Clive Barker and Hellraiser was a big influence and he he actually, he was actually kind of consulted on the pre-production.
00:14:41
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And the the design of that gate of the gateway machine is supposed to be a bit like the puzzle box in Hellraiser. Definitely. It could almost be from the same universe, actually. oh Oh, yeah. The parallels between the visions of hell in Event Horizon and what you sort of see from the flashes in Hellraiser are very similar. oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's almost a similar concept. but um Yeah. Oh, and ah funnily enough on that, I think ah got one of the guys that was heavily involved in a special effects and makeup, Bob Keen, He was also involved in all of the Hellraiser movies to some capacity. Oh, fair enough. Along with, um and I think there were a couple of other people on the team who were involved in at least one of the Hellraiser films. So yeah there's a bit of a connection in many ways there.
00:15:26
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Yeah. But I really, like I say, I really like the setup. So, you know, like they grab Sam Neill, who's the designer, they fly out there. And although it is, i mean, it's a real, it is a sci-horror, like it's pure science fiction, and a lot of science fiction elements.
00:15:41
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Really, if you strip away the science fiction, it's a ghost ship film, isn't it? Like they're basically there're ah there. it's ah It's a bunch of people who are out at sea, but in space and they discover a ghost ship, but it's a ghost spaceship. yeah Even the fact that that the way when you see Neptune, it's kind of surrounded by clouds and stuff. It's almost like storms that you get in those kind of ghost ship films or very, I mean, and ghost, ghost ship.
00:16:06
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ghost stories have been around since, since, you know, any type of like sea travel or any type of like sailing existed. And again, i like that. I think that he's cleverly tapping into quite an ancient kind of an ancient ghost story here. He's using quite ancient fears and quite old kind of old law really, but just bang up to date, putting it into this kind of sci-fi setting. i think it really, really works. um Definitely. Yeah.
00:16:34
Speaker
Well, from what I heard as well, actually, I was just going say that on on that, actually, the original, like the first draft of the script, I think it was written by a guy called Philip Eisner. It was way more, it was actually about like, had there been an alien presence on the ship that was behind all of this? And it was like Paul Anderson and the other guys he was working with on the project when he got involved that decided to go more in a ghost direction. Yeah.
00:16:59
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And I think it does. There's a lot of similarities and I'll probably talk about that later a little bit. in Spoiler. but um ah But with the actual film Ghost Ship from 2002 as well. Yeah, true. probably ripped it off fair bit. Yeah, true. Yeah. But I like that.
00:17:13
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Well, that's interesting you say about aliens because, I mean, in the beginning, We don't really know when they board what's happened. We don't know whether it's it is just that they just dead, that they went kind of, a you know, like, you know, that there is an alien presence like the thing, like that something got in the ship and started all this happening. We don't know whether it's supernatural. I mean, I think it's interesting when science fiction films play with the supernatural because it's a it's a type of genre where you don't expect the supernatural um because it's science fiction. So you don't expect there to be that kind of thing. But again, I think what's really good about this film is they justify the supernatural by saying that what's happened. And again, we're jumping a bit around in this film, but the gateway, the gravity drive has created this gateway to another dimension. Now, whether that dimension is hell as in literally what we call hell or whether it just is hell because it's horrible or whether it's, something different but that we just understand it as hell because that's what we interpret it as it doesn't really matter but it's a really solid justification for why what's going on is happening i think it's really cleverly done you know and at the beginning all you've got is just this creepy stuff and just like they're going around like the there's the bit when the um the glove like bangs lawrence fishburne's shoulder like that's a really good jump scare and all the blood. There's so many jump scares. are But even from the really early bits, there's a bit where Sam Neill's shaving before he even goes on the ship where you get this shot where like so a shutter goes up or something. It's really loud.
00:18:46
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Yeah. It's just like they jump scaring you for laughs before anything even happens. It's just that. Wasn't... it Didn't he have a weird bathroom? His bathroom is very old-fashioned for such a a futurist. It just looked like a normal nowadays bathroom, if not a bit... It's a very weird... like ill I find this with the ship in general and and a lot of the tech in this film. It's very much the kind of vision that...
00:19:10
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It's what what have I said. It's just like that. Remember that there used to be thing in 80s movies where they'd say, hey, this is what the future is going to be like. And they used to have like really old monitors.
00:19:20
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Yeah. Like they never had the vision that it would be touchscreen yeah or that it would be a big. ah No, no, no. But this is
Design and Symbolism of the Ship
00:19:27
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a newer film. This doesn't have that excuse. And it's still using that tech.
00:19:32
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That's true. Yeah, yeah. But I think it's obviously influenced by Alien. Like, you know, it's got that. ah I quite like ah quite like the ships. I think the Lewis and Clark's quite cool ship. um I think the Event Horizon's a cool ship. I think they look...
00:19:45
Speaker
They look kind of practical. like They do look like there's buttons that work and, oh, that's where everyone you know stands for the hypersleep and, oh, that's that bit. I quite like the design. I don't think it it didn't it doesn't it didn't jar me. i thought was I didn't mind that. I didn't mind all that stuff.
00:20:01
Speaker
It's funny because they they they said they wanted to not be too like other Alien films and other space films, but like you said, it is very much like Alien in terms of the way the ships look and stuff.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, obviously the key big set designs is that tunnel, the tunnel thing that looks like a kind of crazy like meat grinder that looks like, it looks like somewhere you go on when you're in the fairground you go on like the, the crazy house or whatever, like it looks like that. Yeah. And then the actual gravity drive itself, which yeah, like say, its kind of,
00:20:31
Speaker
It's great because it looks futuristic, but it also kind of looks a bit ancient. It looks the the way that it's, they look like carvings all around it, but they're not, but they also could be mechanisms, but it kind of looks like, like say the puzzle box or like a, like some kind of Egyptian tomb or something. I think that's really cool. like modern meets ancient, isn't it? did you Did you hear what they based this this the design of the ship on?
00:20:54
Speaker
No. Not Notre Dame Cathedral. Because there's the whole... but They really wanted to bring a lot of... There's quite a lot of sort of religious kind of imagery in this. Like, even down to... the The one thing that kept sticking out to me was the window at the front of the ship. like a cross. It's like a crucifix. So quite often, night even in the early flashbacks, or flash-forwards, whatever they are, where Sam Neill's characters...
00:21:17
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sort of getting a flash of what's happened to the event horizon. They're sort of floating in front of this window and it makes them almost look like they're Christ being crucified on this cross. Yeah, that's true. But yeah, the layout of the ship was based on they scanned Notre Dame Cathedral and then wanted to make it like a actual, like the long, that you walk along, that' that that's supposed to be like the bit between the pews and then the place of worship being like the where the gravity drive is and stuff.
00:21:47
Speaker
That's cool. That's really good. Yeah, I didn't really notice that. have to watch it again. um There's a good bit where, so I mean, a lot the beginning is kind of them creeping around the ship and like you say, jump scares stuff. And then they kind of, they turn the ship back on, and don't they? And there's that, mean, that effect where the the corpsicle, the frozen corpse, like smashes on the floor and it's just like that. I think that's a brilliant effect. I think that still looks really good. I don't, Like I say, I i think some of the effects in this still look not bad. I don't think it's like, you know. Yeah, the floating stuff looked terrible. It looked really cut out. It looked like from Jaws. It was like the 3D Jaws film. You see these weird things floating around and you're like, what the hell? Yeah. But I think some of it still looks really good. Yeah. And then obviously you've got the bit where they then get the tapes, like I said, and they've kind of
00:22:34
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they get the tapes of what's been going on on the event horizon. And this is when you get all these like mad noises and just flashes of things. And it is like, it's really, really, it's really, really short that, that moment, but it's a bit like, you know, it's like the thing of like reservoir dogs where everyone's like, Oh, you know, he cuts his ear off, but he doesn't like, I think with, within that scene where you see stuff,
00:22:59
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you you think you see a lot of things that maybe you don't see but that's actually really good because i think you don't really know what you're looking at and that's actually more powerful than just oh those people are doing that oh that person's got no arms oh that person's had their head ripped off like i think if you could just see it all which is obviously what was the case in the original version I don't know if it would work as well. It might even get too gory or be a bit silly or might be like, yeah, funny or just too disgusting. Like I think the fact that it is all just these flashes and that the more, and also again, I think what counters that is the actual stuff you do see like, um,
00:23:36
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when you've got the yeah the the woman who's walking around, and she sees a kid in the tent and his legs are all mucked up and you've got like, yeah, you've got like, ah there's that one. There's like, there's a few other things. It's obviously Sam Neill, his flashbacks or his visions with his wife who's committed suicide and then her with her eyes ripped out. And there's those gory moments which are linked to the cast.
00:24:00
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They've got more impact because you actually care a bit more about those people. Like you're kind of seeing, you know, their backstory or like how, what, what, what it's, what the, the, the device or the ship is drawing out of their minds. I think that makes it a bit more scary and a bit more kind of like unsettling.
00:24:16
Speaker
What reckon? Definitely. Yeah, no, I do as well. No, it's funny you're saying that. I noticed that whenever there was a bit of video or um or a bit of audio, they've got to run it through a filter. We're going to run it through some filters. It's going to take some time. You know, this this footage that pretty much looks like VHS, even though that we're talking 24 hours.
00:24:38
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going to run it through some filters. Give me some time, but few filters and then it will become like completely clear exactly what they've said and exactly what they're up to. um And actually, I remember one other thing I just had to go back to. There's the bit where they where they approach the event horizon and they hail it using like a ham radio.
00:24:57
Speaker
but but She picks up this like, you know, it's like the sort thing a trucker has and it's, hello, come in. Come in, have been horizon. Are you there? it's It's Yankee Doodle over. Like, is that what in 24, is that the tech we're going to using to contact other craft? I don't know. Maybe we end up going backwards. Maybe it's all like, maybe it's retrofitted. I don't know. Maybe that's. Maybe it does feel like that. But no, yeah, you're right. I mean, that the the whole simple nature of this film, the short run time of it, um it means that we don't have to explain things too much and having these kind of little tastes of something to make us think, oh, that doesn't look right, but we'll have to wait a little bit longer until more yeah is revealed is key to building that tension, I think, here. And it does work really well.
00:25:44
Speaker
Yeah. And I think, I mean, you get one of the one of the crew gets the baby bear. He gets sucked in, doesn't And then thrown back out again. And he's like in he's he's catatonic. But then he comes round and then he tries to kill himself in the airlock, doesn't he? And the bloke like, does a oh, no, he does he he no he doesn't. get The guy, say ah Lawrence Fishburne manages to save him, doesn't he? Yeah, which is crazy. He does some Princess Leia space survival business. I thought it was only Jedi's that could survive being in space without imploding or whatever else.
00:26:16
Speaker
But um somehow he does it. yeah And then yeah you've got kind of Lawrence Fishburne wandering around and he's having these visions of this bosun that he worked with who was set on fire. And it has that really good a love.
00:26:29
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And it's seen ah I think it's in a drum and bass song. It's definitely sampled in some song. That thing where Lawrence Fishburne does a speech about, oh have you ever seen fire and zero gravity? That bit. and Oh, yeah. It's like a living thing. He does that really good speech about that. that's I think that's really good. I like that bit. Yeah.
00:26:44
Speaker
That is very good. Actually, that's a question I've got for you about this, given that you still love this film. And not saying that I don't, of course. went to the end to completely decide yeah how I feel about it. But um yeah, the whole is a very, very well used kind of yeah idea now. This like people being haunted by their guilt.
00:27:08
Speaker
I mean, you know, like, so, so you end up in something, ah like a haunted place, haunted ship, haunted spacecraft and your inner, like the, the thing you've done in your life that you're most guilty about is the one thing that starts then chasing you.
00:27:24
Speaker
And you're not sure if it's real or not. That's been done quite a lot. I mean, had it been done a lot up until this point? Can you remember? Or is it? yeah I think it well like I would say like the big one that does this that is like you know if I think most people don't be like flatliners does this doesn't it like that's a good one for that the kind of being haunted by the problems you know by the by your life or by your guilt um i think it I think it works in this because, the well, two things. I think it works in this because it's giving us some backstory for the characters. So it's kind of, it's doing a double-headed job of scaring us, but also giving us some context of loss some from like shading of who these people are, which is kind of, but in an interesting way, rather than they all sit around and go, oh, tell us about your family, Peters, or oh, hey, like, you know, that that's boring. My son's not well.
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I just need to see my son. Like, yeah, um we just see it in this kind of horrible, interesting way, which I think works quite well. And I do a a thing again, I do think about this film, which again gives it a bit of an edge as well for me.
00:28:31
Speaker
I don't think if you, from the beginning, and you see those characters, anyone who watches this film from the beginning didn't know it. If they had to say who was going to live, who was going to die, who was the goody, who was evil.
00:28:45
Speaker
I don't yeah think if you've never seen this film, you would predict because it's good spoilers, we're already giving the spoilers away. But I mean, ultimately Sam Neill appears to be the hero in the beginning of the film.
00:28:56
Speaker
He's an archetypal. oh He's the scientist. He's, he's the odd one out. He's going to be the one to save them. And actually he's the villain. He goes mental. He starts yeah like killing other people. Um, he's completely been possessed by the ship. He's, you know, like he's basically the mouthpiece of the ship now.
00:29:14
Speaker
And, the characters who do die you wouldn't really expect them to die the characters who end up completely surviving i don't think you'd expect them to survive at all um and i think it's you get a few people in this kind of playing against type i don't think jolly richardson gets enough but i think she's playing quite against type i think laurence fishburne you'd expect that he's gonna die and he you know he will does he to hold on no he does die doesn't he Yeah.
00:29:42
Speaker
Major spoiler. But he sacrifices himself. Yeah. Well, does he die or is he just in eternal... Yeah. Does he live forever in torture? Who knows? He gets a lot further than you think he's going get, though. But yeah, I think that's another edge to this film is that it doesn't really go...
00:30:01
Speaker
completely how you think it's going to go. And I think Sam Neill being the villain is really good. I mean, he's quite, hot he can be, i think he's a great actor anyway, but I mean, he's quite horrible when he starts to pick them off. I mean, what he does to Jason Isaacs, he's like, he kind of, doesn't he like, he' he flays him, he skins him. And then he's like, when Lawrence Fishburne walks in, his skin is kind of suspendns suspended up the top and the body's like, yeah and again, you only see that for probably like five seconds, but it's horrible. It's a horrible image.
00:30:32
Speaker
Definitely. But it's great. And he's ripped his own eyes out, hasn't he? And he's like, he's bumping other people off. Like, you know, the woman with her son's been tricked into falling down a big hole. Yeah. Yeah. That was horrible. Yeah. That loads of blood as well. And that just sort of explodes everywhere. She falls down. Yeah.
00:30:51
Speaker
And then we're kind of like by that point with it where it's all revealed and they've kind of, they know that the ship's evil and Sam Neill's evil and all that. And they're back to kind of where they've gone from, they've gone from like, oh, we're going rescue everyones on the ship to, all right, we're just going to get out of here to, oh, our ship's broken. We need to use that ship.
00:31:11
Speaker
And then they're like, oh, no, that ship's also, that ship's cursed. We need to use our ship again. Don't they? they delete Oh, no, they end up detaching the front of Event Horizon, don't they? Which might. Which is convoluted. Yeah.
00:31:24
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, is that safe? Yeah. Wait a minute, you've just made me think about the ending. The ending's really weird, isn't it? Are we allowed to talk about the ending? So the ending, for me, yeah it's like, there's the bit, so she wakes up and then they're still there. So she has one of those, like that's like a jump scare sort moment where she wakes up but she hasn't woken up really and then she wakes up for real because they' they've been rescued but then yeah in in the first wake up
00:31:56
Speaker
it's they're still in hell whatever but then in the second one like when it when she has really woken up as the people are trying to help them the door weirdly closes and don't that's just a nice ending or if it's like the door closing on them because he's kind of he's saying oh we need we need help we need help get someone in get someone in to help and then the door weirdly closes so was a bit like is the whole ship cursed even the bit that broke off I mean, I think they had a few endings to it. I mean, I definitely know that. So before that, Laurence Fishburne is, yeah, he's kind of as the captain. He's sacrificing himself. He's Jodie Richardson and Coop. That's the other character, the black guy who's the daddy bear, isn't it? That's the guy. yeah um and the guy and the baby bear who's still in he's still alive somehow don't know how um but yeah lawrence fishburn's like i'm gonna go and detach the thing and blow up the corridor so you guys can go and he ends up in the gravity drive uh and at that point the the the his vision of the edmund corrick the guy who was burnt he kind of comes to life and he has to fight him there but it's It's kind of that guy, but it's also Sam Neill, isn't It's kind of weird amount. It's like it's both of them. And I think that, there was... Sam strong.
00:33:12
Speaker
Yes. And, yeah, I think there was a version where, like, that didn't happen, a version where it was just Sam Neill that he fought, a version where he didn't fight anyone. Like, I think people... I think, like, it was like that was a kind of studio decision that there is a kind of fight at the end, which, yeah you know...
00:33:29
Speaker
im mean and I'm less impressed by that as a, you know, that is a bit, you don't really need that, but I think the effects are quite good of the bloke on fire and stuff that. think it looks good. Um, and the room being on all fire and stuff. There's a, there's a silly slow mo as he's running the, the, the yeah tunnel. I don't really like that.
00:33:46
Speaker
Um, And also, you say about the ending, you have those endings and then the Prodigy funky shit just comes out the credits, which is like, oh my God, that's the funky shit. It's like, it's like a very weird, it's quite a jarring bit of, yeah, kind of feels a weird song.
00:34:04
Speaker
so That feels like it it must be a Paul Anderson thing. Again, it reminded me of he'd done Mortal Kombat before this. And it reminded me of the Mortal Kombat song.
00:34:16
Speaker
Even though you know this is Prodigy, a different level in terms of... but it's very on it With Mortal Kombat, it was more okay, but yeah, it doesn't really fit with the film. A nice slow menacing yeah floating in space kind of soundtrack for the way out would have been nice. No, it's a weird decision for the soundtrack, I'd have to say. But again, that feels like a very 90s thing, I suppose. Maybe that was normal in the ninety s I think it was very normal in the 90s, that kind of music. a lot There's a lot of 90s films where the soundtrack completely, ah I would say ah one of them would be ah Fifth Element. The soundtrack to that film is is kind of so 90s that it kind of almost like you're like, oh, it's really, for a sci-fi film, it kind of dates it because of how bad the the music is. you' like no no I think that is a problem, isn't it?
00:35:06
Speaker
I think that is a problem with a lot of the films from that time where, yeah, whereas, you know, Alien in 79, like oh it was just very classical score. ah Most of the other space films that people now love will have that very same sort of score. And maybe they wanted to, again, go against break tradition and kind of go for something a bit different. But it does date your film.
00:35:29
Speaker
If you're unfortunate and it turns out that that type of music isn't one that ages particularly well and people don't really listen to in the future. i mean, it's like if you're the first time watching this film, if you're like younger than us, like Gen Z or whatever, and you're like, I'm going to check out Event Horizon, you'll find the music probably quite jarring.
00:35:50
Speaker
You'll find some of the special effects a bit weird and a bit like... Maybe. but Yeah, maybe.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's hard if if you if you've seen other films either before or after, you might not see this as being as original as it is. I just think for me, it it is quite original because it does kind of, I love that it slams together this kind of, it really slams together this kind of, yeah, like Clive Barker,
00:36:33
Speaker
kind of horrible, Hieronymus Bosch, like hellish, disgusting stuff with this sci-fi stuff, which I don't think there's that much, that many films that do that. Like, you know, definitely not. One of the only other things I can think that does that is Doom, the computer game, um which does that. But did you know that there's actually a Doom noise in this film?
00:36:56
Speaker
Did you know that? It's not the sort of whoosh, that sort of whoosh. Yeah, it is. It's the weird, is it that noise? Yeah, when he opens his blinds, that noise is the Doom, is one of the sound effects from Doom. That's why it's so weird, yeah.
00:37:10
Speaker
There's also an X-Wing in the antenna array um of the the model of the nver Horizon, and includes a complete X-Wing in its ah ah yeah antenna array, yeah which you can kind of see at one point. But yeah. Like I say, Doom is it's in computer games, they kind of done this idea, but I don't think so much in films. There are that many films that blend the supernatural and the and the sci-fi in this really interesting way.
00:37:38
Speaker
Like I've seen a couple, but not as well as this and not as kind of as impactful as this. And that's why I still think it's got quite a ah good place or it it deserves kind of credit, I think. that's I suppose we were just fortunate to have been able to see it when we did, when it was new and fresh, you know?
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like say, I think a lot of things were influenced by this. It's liberate tuteme. Save yourself. save ourselves we did we did pretty well we were at the end of the film we're pretty much there yeah we did pretty well yeah yeah I think a lot of films like say I think a lot of films were influenced by this and maybe I'd say okay I'd say maybe there are some films out there that are better than this that use these ideas but I don't know, but maybe they don't do everything this does. I don't know. It's a hard one.
00:38:30
Speaker
I mean, we will net we'll never know what that director's cut or that original cut looked like. Basically, they the director um and Paul W. Anderson, him and the producer, travelled around the world looking for the footage. What? They ended up in some very strange...
00:38:48
Speaker
Yeah, they so it says they travelled the world to locate the original footage, some of which was found in the strangest places, for example, an abandoned Transylvanian salt mine. Okay? What? However, they quickly realised that since the movie was made before the DVD era, when alternate versions weren't very commonplace much of the original footage had been destroyed or its storage place had not been documented or had been badly archived and was just degraded so it was no good anymore yeah so although there are few surviving scenes um which there are on the collector's editions and stuff like that most of it was on videotape and stuff and they just they couldn't put together 130 minute version it's just it's not possible that the footage is just gone So we'll never know.
00:39:38
Speaker
But I don't know if I think this being that much longer would be better. I think if we were, I don't think it would have made it to this podcast. And also, I think we'd probably be like, yeah, some good ideas, but it drags out a bit. And, you know, it probably could be cut by half an hour. I think we'd probably be saying that.
Lost Original Cut Search
00:39:54
Speaker
Like, you know, it's it's interesting. I think, yeah, I'm all for films. I think nowadays there's a nasty tendency to try and make a film that's two hours long no matter what. Yeah. Like, yeah, I'm i'm all for keeping it short, simple, chopping out all the guff and just trying to like give people pace. It's all about yeah pace. You don't want like flabby bits in the middle unless you're really confident a film's going have two hours of pure, oh you know, ah good, consistent pace. Then it just gets wasted anyway in most cases.
00:40:25
Speaker
kind of Can I give you some other facts? Yes. Give me facts. I'll give you some other facts. Some spacesuits have flags showing hypothetical future political changes on Earth. oh a Characters portrayed by British actors wear a European Union flag with 22 stars replacing the Union Jack. Wow.
00:40:43
Speaker
ah Sam Neill requested that the Union Jack on his Australian flag patch be replaced with an original an Aboriginal flag. so it's an aboriginal So it's Australia, but an Aboriginal. That's a pretty good idea. um And Lawrence Fishburne's character is wearing a pendant with a Jamaican flag on it. So they're kind of representing like, yeah, different, um yeah, different, ah different kinds of climates and stuff like that. why that now yeah Yeah. And my other one is that Jason Isaacs asked if he could take home the dummy of his likeness with the chest sliced open. The special effects department was quite shocked with his request. So they told him they still needed it, even though they didn't.
00:41:25
Speaker
I love the idea that they like they did it they didn't need it, but they didn't want to give it to him. So they were like, ah we yeah, we need it. That'll be in the Transylvanian salt mine somewhere now Yeah. Probably. um they also there was a lot of ah There was quite a lot of accidents on set.
00:41:44
Speaker
um yeah joey richardson and uh joey richardson and sam neill knocked out by a badly timed explosion and joey richardson foot got jammed in a door they so certain times the um the cast uh kind of thought that it might be a doomed or like a cursed set because of them doing this stuff to do with hell and stuff like that so yeah who knows Do have any facts or have you got any love horror for us? I've got a couple of facts, actually.
00:42:11
Speaker
Oh. I was going to say, you may noticed that some of the music in the film was a bit more... don't know about you, but it reminded me a bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger films, maybe like Total Recall. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got that vibe. But other than the Prodigy song at the end, of course, the score was actually put together by...
00:42:31
Speaker
uh a guy michael cayman i think his name is and he'd be he'd worked on tons of films including like the lethal weapon films so he definitely had more of like an action movie yeah uh background coming into it yeah um still pretty good score no yeah it's not bad it's only really the techno that i've got an issue with um todatada original yeah no i've done that one I've already said about Not Your Drama. I've got one more, which you will appreciate. Well, I sure i think everyone who's listening to this, whos yeah if you if you're british a British horror fan, you'll appreciate this one. And you may know who I'm talking about.
00:43:09
Speaker
And she may even be listening. Emily Booth, British horror ah presenter, appears in the film. Did you know that? Oh, I i think I read that. but I don't know. where Where is she in it?
00:43:22
Speaker
Well, I sort it out, the part that she was in, because it said that she was uncredited. And I managed to track down. And she is actually one of the, I think, one of the crew members in the recording. So one of the people who's kind of getting tortured in oh wow wherever it is. yeah So she knows all about what they were filming in that. Oh, God.
00:43:42
Speaker
Yeah, she probably actually got to see a lot of the secret stuff. but Wow. Yeah, it's funny how she, I think at the time, she had like regular sort of TV horror presenting work going on. And I think quite a few films got kind of got her involved in production. And as this was predominantly filmed in the UK in a very short time period, 90 days, they probably just got together who they could. If you knew someone, they probably roped you in, come along for a day of filming on set. Yeah. Wow. There you go. That's that's this one little tasty morsel.
00:44:16
Speaker
What about your love horror links? What what what were you suggesting that pairs very well with this event horizon? Of course. I think with this, much like a a wine choice with a you know very delicious meal, I think you'd want to accompany this film with, first of all, maybe some more Sam Neill.
00:44:36
Speaker
um Maybe this time trying to prevent someone from bridging the gap. between the mortal realm and eternal damnation. Yep. And in a slightly different setting, maybe not in space. And that would be yeah In the Mouth of Madness. Oh, I love that film. We need to do that on this podcast. I love that film. I think we will do it eventually. Funny enough. Yeah. No, no, yeah, no, we will one day. know it's not the next one. I didn't want to get everyone's hopes up. So that's, that's a good choice. Sam Neill's good in that. And there's, yeah there's lots of hallucinatory kind of hellish weird weirdness in that. So similar. yeah
00:45:12
Speaker
As I mentioned earlier on Ghost Ship 2002. Yeah, can see what you're saying with that. Yeah. if you enjoyed Event Horizon and you want to see basically a similar scenario on a cursed cruise ship ah filled with ghosts and on on planet Earth rather than suspended in space, um yeah, then try that out. And I think,
00:45:35
Speaker
I don't know if the window between the two films was too short for it to have happened, but so much of when I was watching Event Horizon, i was thinking, wow, they really oh shit they really ripped this off in Ghost Ship. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to tell, isn't it, sometimes? It's when it was in production and stuff. That's how it felt to me at the time. And my final one, which I think you might have thought of already, I'm guessing it's going on your list. It'll be one film that I think definitely took heavy influence from it, not only in the sort of style of it, but also in the way it was marketed at the time, which is Pandorum.
00:46:10
Speaker
oh yes yeah yeah yeah um so again it's set in space so if you've watched this and you want a bit more sci-fi um and that one's about um paranoia brought on by a kind of almost like a space sickness almost like a altitude sickness type thing um that makes you hallucinate and stuff and people lose trust in each other yeah um yeah so more spacey fun how about you i had a cup well i put on the 2005 adaptation of the Doom computer game, which has got The Rock in it and Carl Urban and Rose. I don't think I've seen it. Look, it's it's not good film. It's very silly. um ah But i would I would go to bat for it because I think it's got some...
00:46:56
Speaker
I think it's a bit one up on certain video. I mean, it wi looks it's probably hard for people these days. Again, if you're a younger generation, there's a lot of video game adaptations, TV shows, films, things that are very, you know, really, really like honor the the game and are like really well made and things like last of us or like um,
00:47:18
Speaker
ah like ah Fallout stuff like that or like ah Twisted Metal Five Nights at Freddy's there's lots of them now but there didn't used to be lots of these things and if they did happen they were normally terrible like the original Super Mario Brothers film which is hilarious Mortal Kombat Crazy. Well, I like Paul W.S. Anderson's Mortal Kombat. Street Fighter's terrible, the Jean-Claude Van Damme one. The Doom film's not good, but it has some all right ideas in it, and the cast aren't bad. And there is one moment in it where it goes completely first-person POV that looks exactly like the game, and that's kind of worth watching for that. So if you like silly, stupid films, I would say go for it. If you like serious, thinky films, another one I put down was the 1972 and the 2022 versions of Solaris, which are very like thinky, heavy duty, trippy, sci-fi, romance-y films, which also deal with kind of
00:48:18
Speaker
There's obviously an influence on Event Horizon, the 72 version, but the 22 remake's pretty good, actually. They're both good. think that's got George Clooney in it. I don't think I've seen either. No, they're kind of they're quite trippy, quite weird. They're very like, is this really happening? Is it not happening? is it Again, is it supernatural? Is it not? Is it an alien? Is it not? You don't really know what's going on. yeah they're kind of yeah They're kind of like a serious side to this. um So, yeah, again, you've got two choices there. If you want something stupid, Doom. If you want something kind of bit more...
00:48:48
Speaker
thought-provoking, go for Solaris, eat either version. Amazing. So there you Yeah, good recommendation. That's me. that's something I've got to check out Solaris. don't believe haven't. Yeah, I'd say try the modern version first, and then if you really love that, go with the old. think it's it's not. I think it's Russian, the original.
00:49:05
Speaker
ah No, okay. But yeah, but I can't remember is that made this the the remake, but the remake is actually pretty good. So it's not not bad. So yeah. Yeah, there you go. God, we we did get there. We got to the end with pretty good timing. um what's your What's your overall... So come on, lur lu look, look, look.
00:49:22
Speaker
You've kind of been on the fence with this film. Shall I go first or do you want to you want to go first? or I'll go first. You go first. yeah I like this film. I think it's a great sci-horror. So I'm not saying it's a great horror film. I think it's a great sci-horror, great science fiction horror film. um I think a lot of things do copy this and maybe don't do as well. I think the cast is really good. I like the ship designs. think there's some good stuff. Yep, some of of the effects aren't as good as, you know, don't look so good today, but I think some of them really do stand up.
00:49:54
Speaker
I love all the occult stuff, the Hellraiser inference. I think that it doesn't show too much, like I said, in a really good way. i think that you've got characters that aren't who you think they are, and that's really interesting. um and I like that there's no real ruling in the end. Like, like I said, is it hell? Is it not hell? Is it another reality? What we don't really learn too much in ah in a really nice way. It's all kind of left, you know, left unknown. And the fact that, you know, you can link it back to the kind of like the, say the ghost ship stories, or you can see Sam Neill as like a magician or like an occultist or a Frankenstein, you know, he's, he's this crazy doctor who's messed with things he shouldn't have messed with. And he's,
00:50:37
Speaker
created this thing that he shouldn't have and these guys are the ones who have to sort it out i like that you know and i think like i say so i think there's i think there's there's a lot of good stuff in this more good than bad which to me puts it up there with something that you know should be watched it's i think it's a classic yeah so how many stars does that get then because that sounds well you need to say you need to Well, no, i'd I'd say it's, I think it's a four. It's a four or 4.5. I think it's, fair I don't think it's a five out of five. Cause I do think it's, it's got, it it is influenced by things and it isn't perfect. I'd say it's a, it's a solid four, if not a 4.5, maybe I'd give it maybe that 0.5.
00:51:17
Speaker
Come on. What do you, what do you really think? Come on, tell us. but but but So go f for a film that set out to be very different from other films, like from from what I read and stuff, it seemed like they really wanted to, we want it to look different to all the other space films. And actually ultimately it ended up looking quite a lot like a lot of them. I think it borrowed a lot more than it would like to admit from the films before it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
00:51:44
Speaker
But if you're using tech, if you're creating the interior of a spaceship that looks like it might have been in the 1979 Alien film and it's 20 years afterwards and it still looks like it's in the 1979 Alien film. As you said, I think generally the film has aged pretty well. think the gore looks pretty horrible still. A few of the sort of special effects are a bit ropey, but I can forgive that. One thing that gets on my nerves about the film, which always gets nerves about any horror film, but it's a side horror, even if that's more what this is, people keep going solo all the time.
00:52:22
Speaker
And, you know, it's one of those, you know, right. Yeah. That way. I'll go this way and you wait here. Let's split off in three directions. like in this In this situation, in this scenario, everyone is haunted by their own visions, which are a very personal thing. The one way you would survive is by having someone with you going, hey, Alex, it's not real. You're just like hallucinating whatever.
00:52:44
Speaker
And yet they all go off and do their own thing. So I found that frustrating. One thing about that, though. Do you know that the two people that live, they never have hallucinations? Yeah. Ah, but Sean Pertwee, did he have a hallucination, his character? Because he dies, doesn't he? He does die, but he doesn't seem to have one. No, you're right. But Jolie Richardson and the other guy, they don't ever really, they don't see anything. So is it because they've got clear consciousness, consciences? it because they don't have anything need to feel bad about? Is it only punishing people who... Yeah, it's thing. Yeah, is it only punishing those that should be punished? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, only the sinners die. Yeah, that's probably what's behind it, isn't it?
00:53:23
Speaker
But yeah, either that or was that all in the lost footage? Do you see everyone's got something in the lost footage? That's one of those unanswered questions that we may never get the answer to. But um yeah, that said, I totally acknowledge like what you've said is really right.
00:53:38
Speaker
This has had a massive impact on other films. I hadn't seen sci-fi fused with, ah you know, Hellraiser type horror and
Final Thoughts and Ratings
00:53:48
Speaker
all that. It's a great fusion of all that stuff. is very creative. Yeah.
00:53:51
Speaker
Very imaginative. Actors are great. Performances are strong. I'd give it a four. I don't think I could quite go up to four and a half, but a four for me definitely. That's fair enough. Solid four. Good four. Excellent. Well, that was Event Horizon.
00:54:06
Speaker
um and What is going to be next time? Is it going to be something completely different? How do you feel about... Do you want to come back down to Earth for the next one? I'd like come down to come back to Earth. Yeah, I would. So let's make it an Earthbound. Would you like some giggles rather than... I would. so this was a bit This was a bit heavy going for me. How about a laugh? Should we lighten the mood with something a bit funny? this Yeah, let's lighten the mood.
00:54:32
Speaker
What should we have? How about if we have something that's, ah which always sounds um a bit of a dangerous thing, but a parody film. Oh, well. Parodies are always a bit ropey, aren't they? There's a lot of bad parodies. A parody horror?
00:54:48
Speaker
is it? That's coming, that's having a resurgence this summer. Is it vampire? Is it um Dracula dead and loving it? Sadly not. No. What is it? What is it? That'll be for a future one. It's Scary Movie. nearly called it Scream. Scary Movie, guys. So really, really changing track and getting off a comedic direction. So looking forward to that.
00:55:13
Speaker
Something different. Excellent. Well, that will be next time. Thank you for coming back. Sorry we took a little bit of break. We'll be back again soon. We'll try not to be away for so long. Thank you for loving horror as much as we do. And anything else anything else to say? Well, save yourself. That's what we should be saying.
00:55:30
Speaker
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00:55:40
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Bye. See next time.