Anyone who visited the GD recently, may have noticed that this movie ranks high in the 'scariest movie ever' thread.
That, and the fact that Laurence Fishburn plays the lead(that guy is a great actor), made me a bit curious.
Can anyone tell me what this movie is about, and if it is any good?

Well, the movie is kind of hard to explain. A crew is sent into space to find an abandoned spacecraft with a sort of dimensional door onboard. Sam Neill plays a doctor, or some sort of scientist.. I'm not too sure. Anyway, he is the supposed designer of the door, and is transfered off of the ship before it becomes lost. This retrieval crew, with Sam part of it, manage to find the ship, with the entire crew missing. They find a video, well, little pieces of footage of a sort of video diary. In the video they mention something's been going wrong around the ship, and a few people have turned up dead (or gone crazy, I can't really remember which). After that, strange things start happening again; the crew starts seeing and hearing things that aren't really there. And after a few poke around the dimensional door, they find that they weren't prepared for what's in store.

This is all basically how I remember it, you might be able to find a better review off of a search engine. I wouldn't say it's one of the best movies, I'm not really a horror fan (it's more of a psychological thriller), but the film does rank up there in overall disturbingness ;)

[ 11-01-2003, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: Nanobyte ]

Its a by-the-numbers horror film, but its got an angle that hasn't been done before. Not to give too much away its about a rescue mission of 8 people (Laurence Fishbourne as the captain, Sam Neill as the specialist/outsider) going to check out the wreck of a space ship called the "Event Horizon" in the year 2047. The ship was designed by Perry Weir (Neill) to be able to travel over vast distances by folding space. However the first time it tried it disappeared for seven years and has only just reappeared, leaving a cryptically scrambled SOS message. Hence the rescue mission...

I think its great. The tension is slowly built up, the sets are all brilliantly designed (which makes a big difference with a sci-fi film like this one), the actors pretty much all perform adaquately (although sometimes they look like they rolled a dice before the scene; if its odd they act stoic and if its even they act terrified), and the script is snappy where it needs to be yet formulaic (sp?) where the formula works.

My problems with it are pretty numerous though. I won't even go into the science issues involved... mostly because the film doesn't even try to be credible in that respect. I suppose the reason it hasn't exactly garnered any Oscars is that its not really saying much about the human spirit, to put it bluntly. Its just a B-movie when all's said and done. A well made, well acted, well scripted, B-movie but nonetheless never really getting out of the genre.

And Sean Pertwee kicks ass. I've yet to see him act badly in a film...

Good sci fi effects though. It's worth watching once. I agree it is a formula movie.