Event Horizon

[jester47]

I am watching this on Scifi right now while I am getting ready to go to an Xmas party.

I have seen this movie several times before and it always freaks me out.

What bugs me though is that I am never sure what is goin on with the gate and the people...

I think it might be one of those plausible deniability movies (like Shey's Unbreakable or Signs) but any thoughts would be nice...

Aaron.

PS, it is interesting when you watch lauence fishburne in Event Horizon and Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnumonic and you can sort of see thier later matrix characters in earlier forms.

 

[jester47]

I think I got it...

Ship gets sucked into a locale between the spaces that we know and comes back as a thing that should not be.

The ship comes back possesed and is attempting to possess an agent by feeding on people's desires, oftentimes working on the emotions related to an the loss of someone. The weak link is the scientist and once it has a body it starts to make the necessary preparations to move back to the demention of chaos and evil.

Interesting in that is sort of crosses over Warhammer 40k Chaos with HP Lovecraft like mythos. Still, it has a very WH40K style in that the warp is somthing that is very dangerous and only the emperor can keep the people in the warp safe from the corrupting influence.

Interesting flick.

Aaron.

 

[Aaron L]

Great movie

 

[rbingham2000]

Ah yes...

According to what I've read about it from the net, the movie was meant to be some sort of haunted-house movie in space, with the ship itself looking much like some gothic cathedral, and the interior looking like some dark medieval dungeon when the lights go out.

It's not exactly a sci-fi fan favorite, mainly because of Weir's wonky FTL theory and the theory of a lot of fans that it ripped off ALIEN to some degree. Still, with all its flaws, the movie creeped me out in my late teenage years. I really loved

Spoiler

the freaky look Weir takes on for the final battle in the gravity chamber

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Some memorable quotes:

MILLER: Smitty, have you seen...anything unusual at all?
SMITH: No, I haven't seen anything, and I don't need to see anything, sir. But I can tell you...this ship is f**ked.
WEIR: Thank you for that scientific analysis, Mr. Smith.

SMITH: When you break all the laws of physics, do you seriously think there won't be a price?!

D.J.: Look, if what Dr. Weir says is true, this ship has traveled beyond the boundaries of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been...what it's seen...or what it's brought back with it?
MILLER: From hell.

WEIR: Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.

 

[Aaron L]

The problem a lot of people have with Event horizon is that they wwcth it as a science fiction movie, when ot's really a Lovecraftian science/fantasy/horror movie.


I, however, watch EVERY movie as if it were a Lovecraftian horror movie It adds a whole new level to, say, the Wizard of Oz, for instance.

 

[Darrin Drader]

The problem a lot of people have with Event horizon is that they wwcth it as a science fiction movie, when ot's really a Lovecraftian science/fantasy/horror movie.

I agree completely! And I see it the same way you do - as Lovecraftian horror with a touch of scifi. There's also some serious (and please don't turn this into an issue) Christian symolism going on as well. I pretty much equate the place the ship went to with the Far Realm in D&D.

 

[Aaron L]

I pretty much equate the place the ship went to with the Far Realm in D&D.

Whoah, you got that too huh? rad I always thought the ship tried to make a teleport, but went past the Astral right into the Far Realm. (in D&Disms, that is) If you're into Dragonstar, Event Horizon is THE perfect example of a Starcaster missjump. (heck, Starcasters even LOOK like the singularity in the movie!)

 

[Holy Bovine]

If you're into Dragonstar, Event Horizon is THE perfect example of a Starcaster missjump. (heck, Starcasters even LOOK like the singularity in the movie!)

WHoa, I must have been blind for not having noticed that before! I really like Dragonstar and love Even Horizon - saw it twice on the big screen and own it on VHS. There are some really scary moments in this film.

Oooooo, now I think i need to run a real horror-esque space ship encounter for my group in Dragonstar

 

[Mog Elffoe]

On a semi-related thought, do you guys ever get the impression that Willard has passed through the Mists right before he reaches Kurtz's camp in Apocalypse Now? Every time I see that film I can't help but think of Ravenloft during those scenes. Weird.

 

[Darrin Drader]

On a semi-related thought, do you guys ever get the impression that Willard has passed through the Mists right before he reaches Kurtz's camp in Apocalypse Now? Every time I see that film I can't help but think of Ravenloft during those scenes. Weird.

That could be because it was based on Conrade's Heart of Darkness, which was originally published in 1902 about, well, pretty much the same thing except that the novel takes place in Africa. Making Heart of Darkness into Apocalypse Now made quite a bit of sense, but that the end, you still had to end up with a man drive mad with power in an extremely primitive culture. The question is whether or not there is actually a culture in Vietnam as primitive as the one depicted in the movie. I agree that the movie becomes very surreal at that point, but then again, so does the book.