Synopsis
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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Cast
- Laurence FishburneMiller
- Sam NeillWeir
- Kathleen QuinlanPeters
- Joely RichardsonStarck
- Richard T. JonesCooper
- Jack NoseworthyJustin
- Jason IsaacsD.J.
- Sean PertweeSmith
- Peter MarinkerKilpack
- Holley ChantClaire
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The screenplay creates a sense of foreboding and afterboding, but no actual boding. - 50
ReelViews
Half of what's going on is never explained, and what is explained, doesn't make much sense. And that's just the beginning of the problems encountered in director Paul Anderson's ("Mortal Kombat") poorly executed endeavor. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
It's not a great film, but Event Horizon produces an intense sense of visual involvement. The hallucinatory, almost 3-D-like scenes stick in the mind. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
But in its own overblown, melodramatic way, complete with hideous and obtrusive music by Michael Kamen, clanging sound effects that will leave your ears ringing and a penchant on the part of director Paul Anderson ( "Mortal Kombat" ) for quick flashes of blood-drenched gore, Event Horizon is kind of a hoot. - 50
The New York Times
This unwieldy amalgam of science fiction and horror, directed by Paul Anderson, douses almost every scene with glitzy special effects in a futile attempt to cover up a paucity of thought. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Contraryto its exciting advertising, Event Horizon is not the most frightening movie ever made. If anything, the conventional pop-up scares and gross-out effects of this British haunted-space-ship story seem less terrifying than quaint. - 40
Austin Chronicle
From its marketing-impaired title on down, Event Horizon is a steadily churning debacle that promises much more than it can deliver and ends up drowning in a crimson sea of gore and maddeningly out-of-place steals from other, better genre shockers. - 40
The A.V. Club
The movie looks great at first, with interesting spaceship designs and genuinely creepy abandoned interiors, and the initial idea had plenty of potential. But by the time the story gets rolling, the filmmakers are trying unsuccessfully to scare the audience with sudden loud noises and gallon upon gallon of fake blood.
