Torture, gore and death are the three elements that are required in order to produce a high-quality bloodcurdling scary movie. My whole life I have enjoyed watching horror movies, although I will admit that I am terrified of zombies!!!! My name is Jackie and I am a student at the University of St. Francis. In my blogs I will give my opinion as well as little known facts on various scary movies, both new and old.
Although this movie is more science fiction, I can honestly say that I truly enjoyed watching it. The movie I am referring to would be none other than "Event Horizon" (1997), directed by Paul Anderson. The focus of this movie has to do with the infinite vastness of space and what could go wrong when mankind decides to tamper with what they do not yet understand.
It is the year 2047 and a signal had been received from the starship Event Horizon. The eerie thing is that the ship disappeared without a trace seven years earlier beyond Neptune, making it the worst space disaster on record. The rescue ship Lewis and Clark is dispatched to investigate and bring back any survivors. The ship's crew is commanded by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne). Also upon the ship is the designer of the Event Horizon, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill).
When the crew reaches their destination, they are informed that the ship was created to test a secret, experimental gravity drive. The drive creates an artificial black hole which when traveled through can significantly reduce journey time. When the original crew was set to try and use it to travel to Proxima Centauri, something went wrong.....very wrong. The last transmission they sent out is replayed to the crew. One crew member, D.J. (Jason Isaacs), identifies one message being spoken in Latin that said "save me".
Attempts are made to locate any survivors using sensor reading, but they are inconclusive and the crew has no choice but to board the ship and search for people room by room and deck by deck. The Medical Tech Peters (Kathleen Quinlan) discovers a froze
n human corpse floating on the bridge with both eyes gouged out. Engineer Justin (Jack Noseworthy) enters the ship's core and has an experience that forces Rescue Tech Cooper(Richard T. Jones) to save him, although in the end Justin is left in a catatonic state. As all this is going on, the core emits a large shock wave that is so strong it damages the Lewis and Clark. They are all forced upon the Event Horizon, which only has 20 hours of oxygen.
n human corpse floating on the bridge with both eyes gouged out. Engineer Justin (Jack Noseworthy) enters the ship's core and has an experience that forces Rescue Tech Cooper(Richard T. Jones) to save him, although in the end Justin is left in a catatonic state. As all this is going on, the core emits a large shock wave that is so strong it damages the Lewis and Clark. They are all forced upon the Event Horizon, which only has 20 hours of oxygen.
Soon after boarding the ship, the crew begins to experience hallucinations of their own personal fears and regrets. Their fears are only worsened when a video log is recovered to show horrible sights, including one of the original captain, as well as his intended message, being"save yourself from Hell". It is discovered that the ship's drive opened a gateway to an unknown universe and dimension.
One by one the ship tries to kill all the crew, with the help of it's creator Dr. Weir. He himself goes mad, gouging out his own eyes. The ship not only traveled to Hell, but also seemed to be alive. A battle to live begins, and in the end only three make it out alive: Cooper, Justin and Lt. Starck (Joely Richardson).
Honestly I really got into this movie not only because it is good, but for some reason it seems to scare my mother so bad that she refuses to watch it! I loved how the director put in gore and death scenes without making them look trashy. The space idea is one that can be kind of old, but if you have a good enough twist on it, true fans will enjoy it. 
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