A fusion of spacefaring sci-fi and Lovecraftian haunted house vibes, Event Horizon had imagination to spare but is still…
a 100-day project to choose the best horror film of every year from 1920-2019, nor previous ABCs of Horror entries. With many heavy hitters out of the way, which movies will we choose?
Sometimes, all it takes for a tired concept to be reinvigorated is a change of scenery. Take the classic haunted house movie, for instance. Set it in a crumbling, seaside gothic mansion, and it’s something we’ve all seen a hundred times before. Set your door to hell in an abandoned slab of a starship orbiting Neptune, however, and you’ve got something else entirely.
With that said, the film is also a pretty damn silly haunted house ride in the way that studio horror films of its era often were, rife with screeching jump scare sound effects, which clash in a startling way with an over-the-top level of realistic gore that earned the first cut of the film the dreaded NC-17 rating.
The biggest tool in the film’s arsenal, beyond the strength of that nebulous mythology, is the duo of Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill, who anchor the story with their diametrically opposed embraces of heroism and madness in the face of one terrible revelation after another. Neill in particular seems to relish this opportunity to completely abandon subtlety, becoming the living arch-fiend conduit to the forces of an endless hellscape in the process.
before the global pandemic made production schedules particularly unreliable. Is a continuation of this story still gestating in the dark recesses of production hell as we speak? Will they make the mistake of concretely answering the film’s lingering questions, removing the mystique and mythology that helped giveits erratic but effective identity? And is Sam Neill up for another round of eyeball gouging?that is guaranteed to be great.
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