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Event Horizon (1997)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:7
Rotten:26
Average Rating:4.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a... [More]
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Director: Paul Anderson
Reviews for Event Horizon
Top CriticYou look at Event Horizon as you would something that fell out of someone's nose.
04/24/09
...a tremendously entertaining, flat-out disturbing horror effort that boasts a number of justifiably indelible sequences...
02/10/09
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01/09/09
High-tech ghost story takes a grip until credibility goes into orbit.
12/31/08
Paul Anderson shoots things to look cool, but he has no grasp on how to modulate the visuals to carry the audience into the deepening nightmare of the plot.
12/30/08
Paul W.S. Anderson's outer space horror Event Horizon is an example of a potentially great and complex idea given a simplistic and ultimately ridiculous execution.
12/30/08
It's disheartening to see how quickly this movie degenerates from an intriguing premise into an absurd gore-a-thon.
12/24/08
The perils the actors face would be far more shuddersome were their characters more sharply delineated from the outset.
07/16/07
... incrível como um filme que suga tantos elementos de clássicos como 2001, Alien e Solaris pode ter resultado em uma besteira tão grande. Mas é este o talento de Anderson: dirigir besteiras colossais.
05/12/06
a retarded Goth version of 2001.
04/17/06
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01/26/06
Top CriticA B-movie with an A-quality production, Event Horizon still haunts me.
01/09/06
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11/20/03
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03/16/03
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10/15/02
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08/21/02
In its first hour, "Event" is startlingly beautiful and compelling... its last half-hour (is) a gore-drenched free-for-all, with images of Hell that seem to have been lifted directly from a Nine Inch Nails video...
06/23/02
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06/05/02
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04/12/02
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