MC
Marco Castellini
•We are in 2047, at the edge of the solar system: the spaceship Event Horizon, mysteriously vanished into nothingness seven years ago, has suddenly reappeared sending what was interpreted as a distress call. The ship of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), specialized in space rescue, begins its difficult recovery mission, heading towards Neptune with William Weir (Sam Neill) on board, the creator of the Event Horizon and the only one who knows its secret. The Event Horizon, in fact, is not a spaceship like the others: it is the first ship that, on a top-secret mission, broke the light-speed barrier by entering and then exiting a black hole. But where has the crew that was part of the mission gone? And what terrible force has the spaceship brought with it from its journey into the unknown? Director Paul Anderson, fresh from the failure of Mortal Kombat, surprises by directing an excellent film suspended halfway between science fiction and pure horror. The subject and setting are predominantly science fiction but soon blend with purely horrific elements: in the Event Horizon, the fears of the human soul materialize, with anguishing hallucinations that plunge the film into pure horror, gore, the supernatural. Rivers of blood - echoing the famous "Shining" - ghosts, violence (the engine itself, bristling with antennas that look like deadly spikes and blades, oozes malice), and a Sam Neill who would not look out of place in the "Hellraiser" saga. All this, but also some flaws (confusing passages, a couple of excessive sequences) for a film that someone has gone so far as to define as "the science fiction equivalent of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead". A small cult recommended to all fans of fanta-horror.
