Welcome to Satanists on Cinema. We are your hosts Satanist Cameron John and Reverend Campbell. Satanists on Cinema is a film review and commentary series that will open a gateway through space-time, unleashing evil itself, just to bring you our review of Event Horizon. So pack an extra pair of socks, grab your meat cleaver and join us in the gravity drive. Glasses and contacts are optional because where we’re going, you don’t need eyes.
Discussion
- Log Line: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board.
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Writer: Philip Eisner
- Budget: $60 million
- Box office: $26 million (US)
- The original 130-minute cut of the film was heavily edited by demand of the studio, to the consternation of director (ended being 96 minutes)
- Its initial DVD release sold so well that Paramount contacted Anderson shortly after its release to begin working on a restoration of the deleted footage
- script, which involved the cruise ship Event Horizon experiencing a series of hauntings by “tentacular” aliens having crossed the threshold of their planet or “dimension”, was that it bore striking resemblance to Alien
- Anderson disliked directing a mimicry of Alien so he gave the script a major rewrite.
- Anderson had in mind a “classic haunted house movie”, incorporating significant influences to moderately successful horror films such as Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963) and Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)
- he was interested in the concept of Hell, as well as the idea of “the ship itself being possessed rather than going ‘Oh, it’s an alien consciousness that is doing this,
- Many fans of Warhammer 40,000 consider Event Horizon to be an unofficial prequel
- In test screenings, the cut was poorly received. There were complaints about the extreme amount of gore, and Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt claim members of the test audience fainted during the screening.
- Real-life amputees were used for special effects scenes in which Event Horizon crew members were mutilated, and pornographic film actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic
- 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Event Horizon
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- The entire ship including the gateway machine were one massive symbol.
- The role of Dr. Weir was originally offered to Scott Glenn and Bill Pullman who both turned it down.
- The extended cut of Hell was inexplicably scattered and has since been destroyed.
- Sam Neil’s character Dr. Weir is named after a Dutch physician, occultist, and demonologist.
- The Hell scenes and visions were all inspired by Renaissance paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.
- The Hell scenes were actually much longer and more graphic than released.
- In August 2019, it was reported that Paramount Television and Amazon Studios were developing a television series based on Event Horizon. Horror filmmaker Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and possibly direct the series.
- I love the gritty look and feel
- Bad bits:
- cgi
- Smoking in a ship
- Massive spikes on walls of the core
Cast
- Laurence Fishburne – Captain Miller
- Sam Neill – Dr. William Weir
- Kathleen Quinlan – Peters, Med Tech
- Joely Richardson – Lt. Starck
Links
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/
- 6.7/10 stars
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon
- 27% Rotten with a 61% audience score
Ratings
Satanist Cameron John
Reverend Campbell