I saw “Event Horizon”
back in 1997 and thought it an ugly, silly mess with good actors – Sam Neill
and Laurence Fishburne star – mucking about in a spaceship so familiar one
keeps waiting for John Hurt to lose his lunch. (Hurt does not appear.) The
plot: Neill is a scientist leading the salvage of the spacecraft Event Horizon that
went missing seven years prior with no clear explanation. The ship appears as
if every ’80s slasher villain has run through it: Blood smears and grisly bodies
abound, floating in micro-gravity. Why? How? I won’t spoil it. Naturally, though,
the crew ditch the buddy system and split up because in 2047 no one has seen “Alien.”
Made by Paul Anderson (not Thomas, but W.S.), “Event” smacks of a film that’s
dead certain that pouring on guts, gore, eyeballs, and blood all means horror
and scares, not aware that the opposite is true. The paces Neill is put through
makeup-wise brings my truest pity. The scenes with men holding on by fingers to
bending, twisting iron brought my continuous, unpitying laughter. Time has not been kind at all. D
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Event Horizon (1997)
Labels:
1997,
Event Horizon,
gore,
hell,
horror,
Laurence Fishburne,
makeup,
Paul W.S. Anderson,
Sam Neill,
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