Product Description

Disc 1: Film with commentary by Director Paul WS Anderson and Producer Jeremy Bolt. Disc 2: 5 Part documentary : The Making of Event Horizon. Deleated & extended scenes. The unflimed rescue scene storyboard montage with director's commentary. Conceptual art montage with director's comments. The Point Of No Return featurette.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6439 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-01-01
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 92 minutes

Synopsis
In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their arrival triggers contact with something beyond human experience--and more dangerous than ever imaginable. Similar in plot to Andrei Tarkovsky's eponymous screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's science-fiction novel SOLARIS, EVENT HORIZON provides some truly potent moments in its often potent combination of horror and sci-fi.

Customer Reviews

where we're going, we wont need eyes to see...
Event Horizon is one of those films that falls victim to the Marmite effect. Some utterly hate it while personally I love it as for me it easily ranks among the best horror movies of the 90's.

In the year 2047 a signal has been detected from the research vessel event horizon, which disappeared on it's maiden voyage years earlier. Captain miller and his crew accompanied by Dr. weir, the lost ships designer, head towards the signals source with hopes of salvaging the craft and learning just where it has been for all these years. Upon arrival on the ship they find the crew missing and the ship badly damaged, however these are just the beginning of their problems as the event horizon hasn't come back alone.

Event horizon proves to be a very bleak experience, amidst the cold and claustrophobic atmosphere of the ship, which adds greatly to the film, the harrowing trip proves to be enthralling particularity as the crew become consumed by their fears. The slow drip fed tension building up intermingled with lashings of gore proves frightfully entertaining. The actors give fine performances in their respective roles particularity Sam Neil whose decent into madness is disturbingly good. The special effects have aged fairly well and still stand up more than a decade on.

The film, quite obviously, borrows from older science fiction and horror classics like Alien and the Haunting, but despite this it has it's own unique identity making it so damn good, standing out in the horror crowd.

This special edition contains commentary for director Paul Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt which is an interesting enough listen giving some deep insight into the film and the pair still clearly bubbling with enthusiasm about the end product. On the second disc is the 5 part feature length documentary on the making of event horizon, well worth a watch giving insight into studio problems with excessive gore and the cuts that were to follow. A variety of deleted scenes, storyboard sequences and art montages, and a small feature on the trailer.

Defiantly worth checking out if your a fan of the genre, bearing in mind it does borrow from some classic sources but it establishes itself. It's influences can still be seen today in the likes of Sunshine [2007] and Dead Space (PS3). Overall a great DVD backing up a suspenseful, eerie and gory horror film.

Cooler than zero kelvin! Buy this film and watch it with the lights off.
I'm a big fan of this movie. Okay, so there are going to be plenty of people who won't like it but then, if you're reading this in the first place you'll be the kind of person who probably will.

Set about 50-60 years in the future the film deals with a ship called the "Event Horizon" with a new propulsion drive based around a gravity well that can fold space time to form a wormhole allowing the ship to shortcut it's way around the universe thus allowing faster-than-light travel.

The only problem was that the ship disappeared until a distress beacon was picked up around Neptune...the Event Horizon was back.

A salvage ship with the ubiquitous crew of misfits and oddballs lead by Lauwrence Fishbourne Are sent to bring her back to find out what went wrong. Tagging along is Dr. Weir, the ships' designer.

Once there, the crew start seeing visions and then all hell breaks loose...

Buy this movie. simple as that.

Confused and Horribly Clichéd
Event Horizon is a movie that can be neatly divided into two halves. In the first, the screenplay is effectively a scene-by-scene facsimile of Alien, 20 years later, with no discernible improvement. The sets and special effects, if anything, look worse.

In the second half, the script dispenses entirely with its threadbare haunted-house-in-space conceit and delves into the murkily opportunistic realms of psychological horror, a get-out-clause by which director and writer alike are able to mash together any number of arbitrary plot twists and remain unaccountable to the audience's incredulity.

This movie's claim to any kind of critical respectability within the field of science fiction is frankly laughable. It is an amateurish rehash of a dozen better films, two-dimensional and neutered for the mainstream multiplex crowd - whom it failed to impress back in 1997.