Event Horizon is STILL Disturbing

What was a film that ruined YOUR childhood? :D Let me know so I can check it out!

Beyond tragic that all the cut footage has been lost and we'll never get the director's edition 😭

"You know nothing. "Hell" is just a word... The reality is much worse."

I still consider the brief glimpse of the footage from the previous crew to be one of my all-time traumatic cinematic moments

watching the full raw uncut version of this movie will always be one of my wishes.... devastated when i learnt that the physical media for those is destroyed

I believe the color/temperature in the film is a nod to Dante's Inferno. Dante's vision of Hell was not the traditional "lake of fire", instead having 9 levels, each with its own unique characteristics. The deepest level of Hell is not an inferno but a frozen wasteland where the Devil is trapped in ice.

The most surprising thing for me is that it was made by Paul WS Anderson, who hasn’t ever come close to this again. I wonder if the hellish post-production process damaged him too much to be this brave again. Great video, thanks.

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see". Makes you wonder what the hell that even means, like you gotta FEEL your way around or worse? I really love the idea/theory that Event Horizon is somehow connected to the Hellraiser universe. The core of the ship is basically the Lament Configuration. You do get transported to a realm that could be argued to be made up of extreme sado-masochistic fetishism, pleasure from pain infinitum.

I worked in the film industry in the UK while this was being made. I knew people on set and would hear stories about what they were up to and how crazy it was. Several crew reported that they’d shot reels and reels of the hell scape and many scenes that were cut from the film. They said they were some of the most fucked up practical effects they’d ever witnessed. The version we see is apparently a massively edited final cut and that the horror element would have been possibly the most gruesome ever to be put on film. The mind boggles.

Event Horizon is somehow both very of its time and also ahead of its time. The 90s tropes are apparent, but the themes, visuals, and existential dread fit in so well with modern sci-fi & horror.

Can we stop for a moment and appreciate Neptune, the unsung co-star of this film? I always loved the fact that they chose Neptune as the setting, rather than just making up some planet xyz lightyears away. It gives it a sense of familiarity and grounded realism, but on the other hand, as a setting for a story of any kind, its probably the most violent and alien planet in our solar system: 1) Its super far away (remote, lonely) 2) stupid-cold (inhospitable, devoid of life) 3) much bigger than Earth (intimidating) 4) has winds that break the sound barrier (i.e. violence of a scale our brains are incapable of understanding) 5) a gas/ice giant, so no solid surface (another unfathomable quality - why should "hell" have the convenience and comfort of solid ground?) 6) its blue, but not in any soothing, life sustaining, or tranquil way, which makes it uncanny and unsettling (people don't typically associate blue with hellishness). IDK, I just think it really added something to the film. Neptune just gives that vibe of being on the threshold of what we know (and it sorta is)... between that and everything I mentioned above, I think its got a very underutilized and underappreciated spookiness. I mean, just watch the film and appreciate that shot of Neptune from orbit when the first get there, with the flickering lightning and churning storms. I immediately was like "yeah, they shouldn't be here, they're about to go off the literal deep end of our solar system".

this movie was simultaneously so close to being amazing and so close to being awful

'You ever seen fire at zero gravity?' 'No' 'It's beautiful. It's like liquid. It slides all over everything. It comes up in waves...and they just kept hitting him. Wave after wave...he was screaming for me to save him...' This movie has a lot of problems, but you can't deny that Laurance Fishbourne was excellent as Captain Miller.

YES! I'm glad I'm not the only child this traumatized. As the youngest with a 4 year gap, I saw this wayyyyyy too early. My brother used crack open my door at night and whisper "Liberate Tuteme Ex Inferis" - I did not appreciate the joke

I would argue that one of the most terrifying moments is right at the beginning when you first see the Event Horizon appear after the crew ship comes out the other side of the storm…everything becomes still and you just see it sudden, up close, and floating there in space. I am glad it now has a cult following. My Mum and I (she’s also a horror fan) went to see it at the cinema when I was 14. It has stayed with me ever since.

Bro posting at 2:00 am about hell ☠️

Dead Space took a whole lot of the atmosphere from this movie and I think that’s part of what makes the Ishimura so memorable as well

“Event Horizon” is one of my favorite movies of all time and I was reminded of it immediately when I watched “The Witch.” It really hones in on the idea that you, the people around you, etc, aren’t as “normal” as you once thought. I also love the Hellmouth references!

"I have such wonderful, wonderful things to show you" is something I will never forget.

love event horizon so much, which maybe because I saw it some time after already being traumatized by other movies at the time this movie didn't mess me up That much. Also, props to Sam Neil adding in an aboriginal flag to his character's uniform back in the late 90s.