Current Events > Im a huge fan of sci-fi horror but I'll be honest: Event Horizon isn't great IMO

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Now don't get me wrong: I think there's a lot of really cool ideas in it, some cool scenes and moments, etc. The cast is pretty fucking dope too.

I do think it could have been a fantastic sci-fi horror if the studio hadn't gutted it of most it's really gory, fucked up scenes, and the movie suffers greatly from that gutting.

That said, I think the only reason genre fans defend it so heavily nowadays is purely out of such a slim number of truly good sci-fi horror films to choose from. Especially ones that actually go truly gory. So I get it, especially as a fan of the genre, but it just doesn't hold up IMO.

Overall, I think it's a sci-fi horror that had a lot of potential, but got irreparably damaged by studio meddling, and if I'm gonna rewatch a sci-fi horror movie, I'm far more likely to hit up Alien, The Thing, Annihilation, Sunshine, hell, probably even Slither if I'm being honest.

I'd absolutely love a remake done well though; it has a fuck ton of cool ideas that I'd love to see someone go all the way with. Same with Pandorum, another sci-fi horror with wasted potential IMO.

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Excellent observations on a glance

Event Horizon benefits of the Ending Is Greater Than The Sum syndrome ~

try Mouth of Madness4 a gud tym

yea, it really didn't do anything for me.

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Pandorum really wasted so much built up potential

Xethuminra posted...

Excellent observations on a glance

Event Horizon benefits of the Ending Is Greater Than The Sum syndrome ~

try Mouth of Madness4 a gud tym

Mouth of Madness is solid, I need to give it a rewatch, it's been a hot minute since I've seen it.

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Ruvan22 posted...

Pandorum really wasted so much built up potential

I agree completely. It has some really good shit in it, some cool ideas and lore, and I don't even mind the twist honestly, but the execution was... rough, at best.

And good god it has some of the worst editing I've ever fucking seen. Like, painfully bad editing. I don't know if I can even sit through a rewatch just because of the atrocious editing in that movie.

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Solid opening tho

Really, really solid

for Pandorum

I've never really been able to put my finger on what went wrong with Event Horizon. It looks so cheap, but had a huge budget for a horror. The script is weird. The direction is flat and lacks any sense of cinema.

I really, really want to love it, because "Lovecraft x Heart of Darkness in Space" is great in theory.

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Both it & Pandorum were too big for their britches

Imagine if Peele had kicked off his show with Us

it's not a very good movie

i don't know how it got praise, or where, or when, or why

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Sunshine
2001

jason X
leprechaun in space
critters 4

those are the greatest sci fi horror movies of all time!

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yusiko posted...

jason X
leprechaun in space
critters 4

those are the greatest sci fi horror movies of all time!

lmao, Yusiko pls

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alien? never heard of it
but can it really compare to the time a sex robot karate kicked jason through a wall?
i dont think so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8YbyZwVeQ

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RLM recently did a re:view on it and they kind of tear it apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0aYVYJrfQ

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Fight me

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I really liked it as a kid, but i rewatched it earlier this year and its probably one of the worst movies ive ever seen

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It's basically a prequel to Warhammer 40k

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I read the book and liked it, and kept reminding myself to see the movie which i had never seen. I still haven't seen it years later.

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s0nicfan posted...

RLM recently did a re:view on it and they kind of tear it apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0aYVYJrfQ

Oh fuck, tag for fucking later

I'm a bit of an Event Horizon fanboy, though I fully admit it has a lot of flaws. I enjoy people ripping into it just as much as I do throwing it on in the background and enjoying the ridiculousness

IIRC the movie really got sliced up and cut down before release.

I think it had potential to be a brilliant movie, but it's one of those films that really needed to be a slow-burn to build up the atmosphere and terror, and in a bid to cut it to a 90-odd minute run time, they left in all the scares, but cut out everything that would have actually made them scary.

The film we got was an absolute mess, but it could have been so good.

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Virus (1999) is a really underrated flick as well

regina1914 posted...

Virus (1999) is a really underrated flick as well

apparently jamie lee curtis doesnt like that movie


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regina1914 posted...

Virus (1999) is a really underrated flick as well

Is that the one with electronics forcefully grafted onto the humans?

same. its a nice b tier flick...

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JKwaffle posted...

I agree completely. It has some really good shit in it, some cool ideas and lore, and I don't even mind the twist honestly, but the execution was... rough, at best.

And good god it has some of the worst editing I've ever fucking seen. Like, painfully bad editing. I don't know if I can even sit through a rewatch just because of the atrocious editing in that movie

I'm trying to figure out exactly where Pandorum went wrong...the set up was amazing, and even the gradual exploration of the ship... the pay off of *what* happened wasn't terrible but just.. meh? Then the ending with the fights (especially the child getting the guy killed) just seemed.. unnecessary?.

Bump.

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