![]() ![]() ![]() Noseworthy’s character is singled out for suffering with exploding eyeballs and a suit free spacewalk that is handled in typically bloody manner. Jones and Jack Noseworthy make up the American contingent of great actors who are all given their moment in hell by the script. Joining Richardson is sci-fi veteran Jason Isaacs (who would have a bigger role in Anderson’s follow-up, Soldier) and Sean Pertwee (son of the third Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee). Fishburne’s crew is fleshed out with some of the best British character actors of the '90s. His performance in Event Horizon is a reminder that he excels in horror movies, bringing charisma to a character that goes full-blown crazy in the manner of Possession and In the Mouth of Madness. While Venice and the Overlook Hotel in those earlier films are great haunted locales, the Event Horizon is almost their equal.Īmidst a fantastic cast, Neill is a standout. ![]() In another scene inspired by that movie, Lieutenant Starck ( Joely Richardson) is swept down a corridor by a torrent of blood – an image that is both derivative and incredible. Weir is haunted by the suicide of his wife, whose rotting corpse appears from a bathtub in the manner of The Shining. Medical officer Peters ( Kathleen Quinlan) sees her son in the ship, ultimately pursuing him to her doom in reference to Don’t Look Now. Whatever’s on the other side of the black hole clearly has an excellent knowledge of film history, because the crew’s visions are a tour of horror cinema greats. In the oppressive atmosphere of the Horizon, the rescue team succumbs to the type of hallucinations common to the haunted house genre. The depiction of a nihilistic universe where humans are grist for the desires of unknown forces, whether demonic or alien, recalls H.P. Some of the film’s most effective shocks come in microbursts, flashes of limbs being torn apart and other images of torture that are grounded in hellish imagery. Later recordings show the crew descending into an orgy of violence with Satanic overtones. The last transmission from the Horizon’s crew is a garbled message that contains a warning in Latin. ![]() Giger and the slasher movies of the '70s, Event Horizon’s nightmares draw more on supernatural themed works such as The Exorcist and Hellraiser. Where Alien took inspiration from the biomechanical drawings of H.R. Horror films have their own logic that must be obeyed. The crew didn’t query the ship’s hellish design elements (such as doorways edged with sharpened metal stakes) any more than one should question relocating the family to a spooky old house built over a graveyard. Such a question is beside the point because, beneath its sci-fi trappings, Event Horizon is a haunted house story through and through - it’s just that the haunted house is hanging in low orbit around Neptune. Putting aside the fact that a vessel containing a top-secret black hole engine was given the on-the-nose name “Event Horizon,” it could be asked how on earth the original crew never questioned the medieval look of their ship. It’s reached by a rotating shaft with serrations that one character accurately describes as a “meat grinder” (although, disappointingly, nobody gets ground in it). When the rescue team makes it to the Horizon, the gravity drive is revealed as a spiked chamber covered in symbols with a spinning device in the center. RELATED: From 'Alien' to 'Sunshine': 10 Terrifying But Great Space Horror Movies ![]()
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