![]() ![]() The point is that this is not a bug movie but a ghost movie - so surrealism is allowed.Īt first, this conjures up some of the most visceral tension seen in a movie since Ridley Scott first let a spiky insectoid go walkabout on the Nostromo, as the crew - Fishburne's taciturn captain, Richardson's stiff XO, Kathleen Quinlan's serious medic, Sean Pertwee's salt-of-the-earth helmsman, Richard T. Problem is, it went somewhere it shouldn't and has brought back an incumbent "evil force" from a place beyond our imagining etc., etc. The ship was a secret government project - designed by passenger Neill - which could create its own black hole and zap across the universe in no time at all. With preamble kept to a bare minimum, Captain Miller (Fishburne) and his crew of salvage and rescue grunts are whisked to deep space to find out where Event Horizon has been since it disappeared seven years previously. Not quite "The Shining In Space" of its aspirations, it works more as effect than concept. And despite script and storyline shortcomings, is sick, nasty and gruesome enough to rattle the cages, frazzle the ganglions and jerk the patellas of those unable to boast lead-lined nervous systems. ![]() Superbly styled in techno-Gothic space-grunge chic, this sci-fi/horror cross-breed is a directorial triumph of reference and homage. As soon as the camera peers around the desolate spacecraft Event Horizon, circling Neptune's storm ravaged atmosphere in a decaying orbit, it's pretty obvious that director Paul Anderson spent his youth swotting up on all the right directors: Kubrick, Scott, Cameron, Hitchcock. ![]()
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