Yeah, "The Thing" is a good movie. The original 1950's movie hardly showed the alien, and it was like a vegetable based creature that needed to subsist on blood. Okay plotline, but I like the isolation-paranoia/distrust-anger type atmosphere Carpenter created in his remake. No campiness, no one-liners, just a straight forward horror film that is now a classic. :)

Absolutly agree with you guys.....the Thing is a modern clasic , and for me one of the best works of J. Carpenter. And I love the OST of Ennio Morricone (this is the only movie where Carpenter do'nt do the OST)

You are correct up to the survivors. There were THREE at the end... The Female (Peters), The Injured Team member (Justin aka, baby bear) and the black team member (Cooper).

This movie is crazy - I love it! It looked to me like another boring sci-fi movie but the shit gets sick up in it. I was surprised.

Quite correct - perhaps if one can't summon up the energy and/or talent to actually make a film, then obsessively organising and labelling everyone else's is the next best thing.

event horizon
 

i just watched this movie and i must say, i loved it but it leaves alittle too much to the imagination. when the movie ended, i was think damn i want to see more!

i wanted to see the other side of hell. this movie will make you think long and hard for awhile! made me sign up on a horror forum.

i remember watching a jack van impe show and he gives his opinion on where hell is. he says that it may be in a black hole that has engulfed billions and trillions of stars thus creating astronomical heat.

fuck i wanted to see more of this movie! there needs to be a sequel, i dont care if that shit goes straight to video i just want to see more of this same story line and plot. i havent watched the deleted scenes and i believe its got an alternate ending. i havent touched the bonus feature.

i consider myself a horror buff and this movie blows away any slasher, zombie, monster flick that ive seen in a long time!

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You just reminded me that I lent that movie to someone and never got it back. :( Great movie, I liked how they left a lot up to your imagination.


welcome to the forum :)

(also modern horror section for threads about horror movies made in the 70's and up.)

If you show it then some people are gonna think it's good, some are gonna think it's stupid and some are just gonna look at it and say..''meh whatever''. If you leave it to the imagination then everybody can individually come up with thier own and it'll be the worst possible thing he or she can imagine which can effect everybody to the same degree.


anyway...welcome to hdc.

The best books are written that way too.

@nova: Welcome

That parting's definitely unbalanced.

Event Horizon question
 

Sorry if there is already a thread concerning this but the "Search" button is not working for me. After reading this plot "A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board." I can only think of some rip-off of Alien or something of that sort. I read that this was disturbing and scary as hell but by the plot I don't see how. Could someone elaborate on why everyone says this movie is scary and disturbing. Debating on whether I should netflix this or not.

Event Horizon is definitely not an aliens rip off. I think it is a rather original sci-fi/horror movie. I has a touch of the supernatural in it, ala hellraiser. I've always found it disturbing, but it's hard to say why without revealing too much info. There's blood and guts, but also hallucinations and supernatural horror. One of my favs. definitely worth a look,

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skip it, it sucks ass

the concept is great, but Paul W.S. Anderson manages to fuck it up... big surprise

It's a haunted house on a spaceship... but not as cool as that description might lead you to believe. Some people love it. Some people drink their own urine. To each his own, but I'd say avoid Event Horizon at all costs.

yeah, it'd say skip it, too.

it sounds cool, and at the beginning it seems cool, but you find yourself becoming increasingly bored throughout.

the basic concept is actiually ripped more from Doom (the game) than anything:

Teleportation technology opens a gate to Hell.

it is a direct rip off, to the point where it had more to do with the doom game than the doom movie did.


It is an interesting mix of casting choices. some excellent (sam niel, sean pertwee, jason issacs, morpheus)

and some truly retarded ones. does anyone not want to hit that blonde freak from dead at 21 in the face with a shovel? i cant stand him anyway, then to have to losten to him get called "baby bear" throught eh whole fucking movie.....



I fyou think that rant is bad, you should find my thread about the dungeons and dragons movie :)

IMO this is a good movie. One of the few Hollywood horror movies i can stand to watch. Some of the acting was pretty bad and the dialog could have been better but for the most part it was good. Definitely worth a watch if you have not seen it.

For those who think it is a rip off of doom, think again.
It took 5 years for him to sell the script to a production company and spent nearly 2 years in production before its 1997 release. placing it roughly 3 years before Doom.

Also the idea of Event Horizon is fairly well known and commonly theorized.
EH basically the idea that a black hole can transport you to another time, tear space, fold space and transport you to another area of the universe, another dimension, or for those who are religious.... send you to hell. All of which have been written about long before either doom or the movie. Given the mans body of work, even if it was written after the Doom video game was released i would still have to say that he took it from scientific theories and ideas.

Its one of the best the 90s produced, IMO. And its ABSOLUTELY NOT an Alien rip-off!

Granted, Paul W Anderson was raw at that time, but the script and the pacing of the movie was really good. The characterisation left much to be desired, except for Dr Weir and Capt Miller. The cinematography was excellent and claustrophobic, and I thought technically, it was a superior movie. All in all...a nice blend of sci-fi horror.

I highly recommend it. One of those movies people have love-hate relationship with, but it has always entertained me to the fullest the 20-odd times I have watched it till now.

Despite the fact that yes, Anderson could fuck up nearly any good idea, its still worth a shot to see if you like it or hate it. I personally thought it was pretty good.

Wow... I had no idea that so many people were hating on Event Horizon.

That makes me sad.

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Honestly, it's not a perfect movie, but I agree with V that it is definitely a standout movie, and is one of my all-time favorite movies - both in the science fiction genre as well as horror.

Points to note:

• This is not an Alien rip-off. While, yes, the crew is on a salvage mission, the "horror" of the film is not monster or slasher.
• This is not a Doom rip-off. While, conceptually, both movies consider the possibility of resurrecting a Hell dimension, Doom would fall under the "siege" genre and be closer to Aliens as opposed to Alien or Event Horizon. Conceivably, Hellraiser revolves around a Hell dimension, but is not comparable to either Doom or Event Horizon within its horror genre.
• As Rod said, Event Horizon can be categorized under the "haunted house" genre (as can Alien, for that matter). However, I take no issue with the archetype of the "haunted house" being taken into space. What is uniquely interesting about space films is that they are ultimately and incredibly Nihilistic. Most religions believing in God consider "God" being "beyond Earth." In space, you are literally "beyond Earth," and there is literally nothing but you, so you are either alone or you are God. It's incredibly alienating and incredibly isolating. What is wonderful about Event Horizon is that it uses super natural elements to emphasize this isolation.
• What specifically separates Event Horizon from Alien (aside from the obvious; monster vs. super natural) is that the "horror" in Event Horizon is "human atrocity," which includes emotional "disturbing" horror as well as torture.
• I have very little problem with the direction. While some aspects of the movie (the ship, in particular), are utterly ridiculous, you either suspend your disbelief or no. I was able to suspend my disbelief, but I can see why that would be difficult for some.

In short, gentle n00b, you should give this movie a try. The fact of the matter is, you're debating whether or not you should Netflix it. If you love it, great. If you hate it, send it back. What's great about Netflix is, amazingly enough, you don't feel like quite as much of a douche when you rent something errantly. You're not out $5, as you would if you had rented it from Blockbuster. So suck up the indecision and just do it.

Excellent post, ChronoGirl, I couldn't agree more.

I think you should watch it if you haven't seen it, definatley, it's not a masterpiece but it is still a good ride.

It wasn't really scary at all.

Someone else should take a stab at the idea.

Seriously Shady. Compared to Danny Boyle's "Sunshine", Event Horizon is a fucking classic.

So if you digged Sunshine you should definitely give Event a chance. ;)

I don't really remember much about this movie at all, I need to rewatch it sometime. I might have blocked it out, or it might just be that I watch way too many movies. ;)

Well... with nothing really more to add besides the fact that uts kinda like the move Sphere(concept-wise), I like it, and I do watch it occasionally still.

Do you often read books and watch movies at the same time, Jen?

That would explain so much. :D

No, I do not. :p I actually saw this one in the theater. But I often have a bad time when I actually venture out and see a film in a theater. Again, that whole people are annoying factor....;) And I haven't watched it since. That I remember.

Me neither. Public people sucks.

Last time i was at the cinema was when Peter Jacksons "King Kong" had premiere... And it sucked.

Thankee. It's actually a theme that I wish was explored more in the scifi/outer space genre.

I couldn't agree more. Sunshine was a total wash... Amazing direction, interesting concepts, but otherwise... Completely borrowed from Every. Other. SciFi. Ever. And the dialogue, at times, was just simply... abysmal.

I fucking LOVED Sunshine and can't stand Event Horizon

Sunshine had a better score, perhaps thats the difference, but I wasn't overly impressed with either, I thought they both had flaws.....

Yea, and i don't get that.

I don't see what there is to like about Sunshine? Thought especially the direction was horrendous. Kept having a helluva time tryin to figure out where the folks where inside and outside of the spaceship. VERY confusing.

And the build up took forever. :rolleyes:

I think the only reason its not, is that its a hard concept for the general public to digest. Alien worked because there was simply a monster stalking people through a ship. A lot of time I try to explain why the film is so terrifying to me (its pure and utter loneliness all the way out there by the Acheron system, and its just you, and 6 others on a huge ship. Damn), and most people don't get it. I have always thought space was scary, its sheer vastness and possibilies inconcievable.

Even Horizon, on the other hand, is scary the same way a Clive Barker novel is scary. The fact that it sort of borrows the setting from Alien (which itself is nothing new, horror set in spaceships was done in some early horror films) serves to make it even more tense. It seens influenced by Barker in its concept of damnation and the idea of other worlds underlying our own, but don't simply think of it as "Hellraiser" in space (thats Hellraiser: Bloodline). Despite having Anderson at the helm, its a very good movie, and one of the scariest films made in the late 90's.

I don't understand why people don't like Event Horizon.... this is Horror.com... how can you NOT love it?? It's a classic.

- Totally not Alien at all. Whoever says that needs their head examined.

- The images stay with you long after you're done watching it.

- For christ's sakes, there's a fucking scene where people are eating each other, one guy slams his fist down another person's throat, and then another guy pulls his own eyes out and holds them in his hands up to the camera as if he's "looking" at us. If that scene isn't horror, I don't know what is.

And Sunshine fucking sucked. I think it's a poor imitation of Event Horizon. Same concept, same situations... hell, they even have the same burnt character who kills people on the ship. It's almost TOO obvious that a lot of things were taken from Event Horizon... so I'm not too happy with Boyle for that. It's his most unoriginal and flat movie ever. I just couldn't find myself caring at all.

And if you watch both movies back to back... you have to admit... there are some very uncomfortable similarities going on.

How the hell did you manage to catch all that?

You stoped, rewind and watched the scene in slow-motion, didn't ya, you sicko? ;)

That's what I did.

Hell yes. I won't deny it.

:D

Excellent

Watch it. It's worth it. I think that it is one of the greatest splice between sci-fi and horror. Won't know till you give it a try yourself though. I vote for you to watch it.

It is disturbing and takes the main charater through a blender. <-- not literally.

Event Horizon is pretty indicative of most of Paul W Andersons stuff, great ideas, sometimes great actors, even great special effects, yet somehow, he manages to make them not work. I love half the actors in Event Horizon, and yet i didnt feel a thing for any of the characters. He tried to make me care, but just couldnt pull it off.

event horizon
 

it is nothing like aliens as there are no aliens in the movie. there are supernatural other dimension type things going on and basically people dealing with their own demons. i liked it and found some parts disturbing which is saying a lot because i've seen plenty of horror movies and i'm always looking for something that is going to disturb me. check it out worst that can happen is you won't like it