Thursday, February 05, 2009

Event Horizon


A spaceship gone missing 7 years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is set out to investigate what happened and where the ship has been those years.

Now and then I stumble across amazing movies I have never heard about before, and this is one of them. This amazing gem is a basically 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Hellraiser meets The Shining. The story is good, the acting is great and the atmosphere is downright creepy. It has all the elements of a good sci-fi and all the elements of a good horror. It is one of the few movies I was actually scared while watching, flinching in my seat knowing something horrible was about to happen. And it does, every time you think it can't get much worse it does. The only downside is that the character development could have been better, explaining the inner fears of the crew a bit better. But this is a minor flaw, overall its a really good movie that will please the sci-fi fan just as much as the horror fan. 9/10