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Event Horizon (1997) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

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2026-02-26 00:00:10
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2026-02-27 01:04:27
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What an interesting movie. 👀 Great cast, freaky concept. Looking forward to talking about this one with you all! Thanks so much for watching. 💙

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Event Horizon (1997) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Tyler Foster

A Sunshine fan should love Event Horizon. :)

Nathan Jasper

Sam Neill was incredible in this film. Legit unnerving and frightening and so different from his usual roles. The effects might be a little dated but the acting is what really carries the horror.

Steve Mercier

While this is definitely my favorite Paul W.S. Anderson movie, it certainly helps that every other movie he's directed is a festering bowl of herpes-infested dogshit. I think there's a great concept here. The cast is...phenomenal. Sam Neill and Jason Isaacs all the motherfucking way (and Laurence Fishburne, and Joely Richardson). And there are some truly disturbing visuals--next level shit. And then...and then...and then it just kind of devolves into an action...thing...in the end. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand *splat*. There was some truly great scaffolding here for a truly great cosmic horror story, and then Paul W.S. Anderson turns up and is like, 'Wouldn't this be great if it was a Resident Evil movie instead?' Sorry to all the people out there who love this one (feel free to chuck internet tomatoes at me), but for me this one rockets off a cliff only to dive headlong into that festering bowl. Ah, well. Sam Neill and Jason Isaacs, though...

Vincent Hollow

Okay...I have some thoughts on this one. Please don't come for me. 😬 Gotta admit, when I first saw this movie, I did love it. I watched it multiple times and recommended it to so many people. Now, whenever I think about this movie since my last viewing, I have trouble finding the things I initially enjoyed. Maybe I've just matured as a moviewatcher and this just doesn't do it for me anymore. Even the nostalgia bug has no effect. I find it leans way too heavily into comedy/goofiness, and the horror, for the most part, is cheap jumpscares. And no shade at the cast, I respect all the actors in this movie, but some characters felt miscast or one-dimensional (ironic, since this movie centers around multiple dimensions). The script feels really weak and it didn't seem like the actors were fully in it at times. The CGI is usually a miss, but the body horror was insanely good. I am aware there was a lot of it that was supposed to be in the film, but it got cut, then lost, so whatever could have improved my viewing experience, even slightly, no longer exists, which is a bit of a bummer.

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Event Horizon is not even close to the same level as Sunshine for me, but I can see where it influenced Sunshine (if it did, it feels like it did).

Tyler Foster

Correcting my previous comment: I should've said "a Sunshine fan should enjoy Event Horizon." I agree that Sunshine is much better for many reasons; a rough equivalent here would be something like... Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow. They're both good, but one is a much richer and more sophisticated version of its conceit, and one is more like a broad crowd pleaser. Connecting Event Horizon to Sunshine looks forward by a decade, whereas director Paul W.S. Anderson was looking backward, as you correctly guessed, to The Shining, another ghost story that switches the haunted house for a different isolated location. A ghost story in space? Why not? As you said, the most obvious homage is the blood wave. As far as Sunshine goes, I doubt Boyle was drawing on this, but you never know. (Fingers crossed you have Mike Flanagan's incredible sequel to The Shining, 2019's Doctor Sleep, on your radar for this year, and even though it's another long one, I absolutely recommend the director's cut for the additional character material.) Event Horizon is notorious among genre fans for being massacred by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original cut of the movie was 130m, meaning about 33 minutes of material was chopped out. Event Horizon was unsuccessful at the box office but its reputation grew on home video until Paramount released a 2-disc DVD in 2006. Alas, in 2006, in 2021, and probably a couple of other times, searches for the bulk of the lost footage have been unsuccessful. Naturally, horror fans are most focused on cuts to the visions of Hell seen on the monitor near the end of the movie, but other changes included the removal of Dr. Weir reforming inside the blood wave (explicitly showing his return to the ship, which happens off-screen in the finished film), and some of the backstory for Jason Isaacs' character DJ. Personally, while I would like to see the blood wave bit (which feels very abrupt in the film) and the DJ backstory, I think the Hell stuff probably better off being cut down. It's already pretty gross, and I think the room it leaves for the imagination to run wild is scarier than seeing something definitive, so the scenes never turning up is probably a blessing in disguise (even if it's always a tragedy when footage from a film people want to see is lost forever). The movie's horror, which rests on the idea of this mysterious Hellish "other place" that we can hardly fathom, is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Some other great horror movies based on or inspired by Lovecraft include John Carpenter's great In the Mouth of Madness (1994) and Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986) -- many will probably suggest Gordon's other Lovecraft film Re-Animator, but as much as I like that movie, it's not big on ideas as opposed to gore, and I think From Beyond is the better movie. Another similar film here (albeit one where Lovecraft would be filtered through creator Clive Barker, a notable horror writer on his own) would be Hellraiser (1987). My belief is that Weir's proximity to the gravity drive has started the corruption process, long before he gets on the Lewis and Clark. He is not necessarily an evil person, but he's been essentially infected by the "dark."

Vincent Hollow

You and I are in the same boat, my friend. Paul WS is pretty much a studio suck-up.

Chris Thom

I would imagine even the biggest and best writers and directors like Danny Boyle steal quite a bit from movies like this. Using a lesser known work is a great opportunity for them. Even the biggest box office bombs have great nuggets of ideas. After watching reaction channels for some years now, it's wild to discover all the different references that JK Rowling stuffed into her Harry Potter series.

Chris Thom

Very much feels like a B movie through and through. But that's part of the charm.

Tyler Foster

Main reason I doubt Boyle was inspired by this is because I think his references are just older. He talked a great deal about Alien's influence on Sunshine when promoting the movie, but a search of "Danny Boyle Event Horizon" doesn't bring anything up except fans making the connection.

jimmy2k4o .

If you like the expanse then For all mankind is a must watch! It’s the unofficial prequel to the expanse and shows how things would be better if the space race never fizzled out. Starts in 1969 and goes from there. Maybe watch it for the channel, you’re one of my favorite reactors and for all mankind is exactly the type of intelligent science fiction show. With an alternative history tone.

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That definitely sounds like my thing! I'll keep it in mind. Thank you!