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Event Horizon movie storyline. In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years before and mysteriously reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched to look for survivors and determine what happened.
Captain Miller of the Lewis and Clark – along with second in command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, Doctor D.J., and rescue technician Cooper are also joined by Dr. William Weir. Dr. Weir, who designed the Event Horizon, briefs the crew on the ship’s experimental gravity drive. The drive generates an artificial black hole and uses it to bridge two points in spacetime, reducing travel time over astronomical distances.
Upon boarding the Event Horizon, the crew finds evidence of a massacre. As they search for survivors, the ship’s gravity drive automatically activates. Justin is briefly pulled into the resulting portal. The activation also causes a shock wave that damages the Lewis and Clark, forcing the entire crew to board the Event Horizon. After Justin is pulled out, he is in a catatonic state, terrified by what he saw on the other side. He attempts suicide, forcing the crew to place him in stasis.
The team begin to experience hallucinations corresponding to their fears and regrets: Miller sees Corrick, a subordinate he was forced to abandon to his death; Peters sees her son with his legs covered in bloody lesions; and Weir sees his late wife, with missing eyes, urging him to join her. The crew soon discover a video log of the Event Horizon’s crew going insane and mutilating each other.
The video log ends with a shot of the Event Horizon’s captain, who has apparently gouged out his own eyes, holding them up to the camera and saying in Latin, “liberate tuteme ex inferis” (“save yourself from Hell”). Miller and D.J. deduce that the ship’s gravity drive opened a gateway into a dimension outside the known universe. Starck theorizes that the Event Horizon has somehow become a sentient being which is tormenting its occupants in an attempt to kill them or lure them back through the portal.
Miller decides to destroy the Event Horizon. Peters is lured to her death by a hallucination of her son. Weir, who has gouged his own eyes out & is now possessed by the evil presence, uses an explosive device to destroy the Lewis and Clark. The explosion kills Smith and blasts Cooper off into space. Weir kills D.J. by vivisecting him and corners Starck on the bridge. Miller confronts Weir, who overpowers him and initiates a 10-minute countdown until the Event Horizon will return to the other dimension.
Cooper, having used his space suit’s oxygen supply to propel himself back to the ship, appears at the bridge window. Weir shoots at him and is blown into space by the ensuing decompression. Miller, Starck, and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the ship’s bridge. With their own ship destroyed, Miller plans to split the Event Horizon in two and use the forward section of the ship as a lifeboat. He is attacked by manifestations of Corrick and a resurrected Weir. Miller fights them off and detonates the explosives, sacrificing himself.
Event Horizon is a 1997 British-American science fiction horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The screenplay was written by Philip Eisner, with an uncredited rewrite by Andrew Kevin Walker.[citation needed] The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.
The film had a troubled production history, with filming and editing rushed by Paramount when it became clear that Titanic would not meet its projected release date. The original 130-minute cut of the film was heavily edited by demand of the studio, to the consternation of director Paul W.S. Anderson. Upon release, the film was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $26.7 million against a $60 million production budget; critics compared the film unfavorably to Alien, Hellraiser, The Black Hole, Solaris, Stargate, Fantastic Voyage, The Andromeda Strain, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Despite its failure at the box office, the film began to sell well on home video; its initial DVD release sold so well that Paramount contacted Anderson shortly after its release to begin working on a restoration of the deleted footage.[3][4][5] However, it turned out that the footage had either been lost or destroyed. In the years since, the film has slowly built a dedicated cult following and is often referenced and parodied in other works of pop culture.
Event Horizon (1997)
Directed by: Paul Anderson
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee, Peter Marinker
Screenplay by: Philip Eisner
Production Design by: Joseph Bennett
Cinematography by: Adrian Biddle
Film Editing by: Martin Hunter
Costume Design by: John Mollo
Set Decoration by: Crispian Sallis
Art Direction by: David Allday, Philip Elton, Mark Harris, Michael Lamont, Simon Lamont, Giles Masters, Malcolm Middleton, Tony Reading
Music by: Michael Kamen, Orbital
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, language and some nudity.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: August 15, 1997
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