These were produced during the Covid shutdown, so most are conducted via Zoom with varying results. The new interviews are nice, but don’t include a good chunk of the cast (of the main cast, only Kathleen Quinlan and Jack Noseworthy make an appearance). Scream Factory actually delayed this release when rumors surfaced of a source for the excised footage, but alas it didn’t pan out. Sadly, this release still doesn’t have the famed “lost footage.” While some of that seems to exist on a VHS of the initial rough-cut, owned by producer Lloyd Levin, most of it seems to be gone for good. This is a new 4k scan and the Blu-ray contains several new interviews with cast and crew. This past week saw the Scream Factory release of Event Horizon. Certainly I’ve watched it several times at home. I MAY have seen it in the theater a couple of times. I thought it was one of the better horror films I’d seen in the 1990’s – and I still do. Oppressive, gory, dark, unsettling, full of good performances by decent actors. It lets me gloss over the flaws in plot and production that I might not let go if I had high expectations.Īnd man, was I surprised. ![]() All of that is to say I wasn’t expecting much when I went to the theater, and I often have a higher opinion of a movie that surprises me in that way than I would otherwise. Horror felt pretty thin on the ground in general in the 90’s – certainly compared to the almost fevered pitch of releases in the 1980’s. 1997 was the year of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Anaconda, after all. I think Event Horizon is Anderson’s most ambitious and interesting film, and it came at a time when horror films – good horror films – felt really hard to come by. And if the films are never that deep or satisfying beyond the spectacle, well, I’ve had worse. To answer Maximus’ rhetorical question – yes, I AM entertained. Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Aliens vs Predator, Death Race – I always feel like I at least get my money’s worth. With all of that you’d think I hated Anderson’s movies, but I actually quite like them. (Though he did do Pompeii, which I admit I haven’t seen…) At least we’ve never had to deal with Anderson’s version of Pearl Harbor, so there’s that. ![]() He doesn’t have quite the knack for marrying spectacle, camera work and music that Bay does, so he’s never had a budget comparable to, say, Armageddon or any of the Transformers films. They’re also slightly, I dunno, soulless. His films are always fast, slick, and filled with interesting things to look at. “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”Įvent Horizon – one of the best horror films of the 1990’s? Or THE best horror film of the 1990’s? Certainly it ranks high on my list of favorite films (horror or not) from that decade, and Scream Factory’s new release gave me just the excuse I needed to revisit the title ship and the doomed souls that cross her path.Įvent Horizon was directed by Paul WS Anderson, a director I think of as the poor man’s Michael Bay.
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