During the test mission, they surmise, the ship accidentally slipped into “a dimension of pure chaos, pure evil.” (Hell, perhaps?) Just to make sure the point is hammered home, pic introduces some quasi-religious symbolism, including the conspicuously cruciform shape of the Event Horizon itself.Īll of which makes “Event Horizon” sound a lot more interesting than it really is. Miller and his surviving crew members come to believe that the long-missing spaceship is possessed by evil spirits. Long after the audience has grasped the obvious, Capt. When the Lewis & Clark is destroyed, the crew is forced to stay aboard the Event Horizon, Weir begins to behave very, very strangely - and the body count starts to mount. Weir repeatedly encounters his wife, who committed suicide years earlier. Peters thinks she sees her handicapped son. Miller is troubled by thoughts of someone he left behind during a deep-space disaster. And video images in the ship’s log suggest that crew members quite literally suffered the torments of the damned.Ī bad situation gets worse when Weir and the Lewis & Clark crew are afflicted with wide-awake nightmares. Walls are splattered with what appears to be pureed human remains. Debris floats aimlessly in gravity-free hallways. Just how wrong becomes clear as soon as the Lewis & Clark team boards the Event Horizon.
Shortly before they reach the Event Horizon, Weir spills the beans: The missing ship was testing a new form of “faster than light” propulsion that, in effect, creates an “artificial black hole.” Obviously, something went terribly wrong. (You can’t help wondering: Is this what it’s like aboard the Mir space station right now?) This is a welcome change from the sleek and shiny spacecrafts viewed in most other sci-fi spectaculars.
Even so, the actors credibly establish individual characters and longstanding relationships.īetter still, director Paul Anderson (“Mortal Kombat”) and his production team take great pains to make the Lewis & Clark interiors look believably banged-up and lived-in. The early introductory scenes are fairly routine. (Jason Isaacs) and pilot Smith (Sean Pertwee). Jones), navigator Starck ( Joely Richardson), engineer Justin (Jack Noseworthy), doctor D.J. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), the Lewis & Clark operates with an experienced crew that includes emergency technicians Peters (Kathleen Quinlan) and Cooper ( Richard T. William Weir ( Sam Neill), a scientist who worked on the vessel’s revolutionary design, is eager to board the Lewis & Clark, a search and rescue ship that has been dispatched to the Event Horizon.
Seven years earlier, the deep-space research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace somewhere beyond Neptune. Sort of a cross between “Alien” and “The Shining,” Philip Eisner’s screenplay is set in 2047, and begins with the mysterious reappearance of a long-missing prototype spaceship.
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