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Saw this article about how footage was found of the movie Event Horizon and how it could have made it better. I actually didn't mind the movie, but the footage would have made more of an impact...but also reaffirmed my thoughts that it felt like a mash-up of Disneys Blackhole and Hellraiser.

Also note, some of the footage look like something out of a CSM book...

Once again, NSFW.
http://io9.com/new-images-suggest-event-horizon-could-have-been-awesom-1161668923

Event Horizon was a great movie anyway... and like something from a CSM book.
I think it works better if you let your imagination do the work... not that those pictures aren't horrible...

A lot of images in that link are in the movie - they're just seen as part of some brief montages during visions that you'd have to freeze frame to get the entire scale of the gruesomeness. Overall I enjoyed the film and what it brought to the table of sci-fi horror.

I loved Event Horizon, and have followed stories about the lost footage for many years. I'd love to finally see all that allegedly too horrifying stuff, although indeed, like 75% of the pictures in the gallery are visible in the movie as is.

 Ouze wrote:
I loved Event Horizon, and have followed stories about the lost footage for many years. I'd love to finally see all that allegedly too horrifying stuff, although indeed, like 75% of the pictures in the gallery are visible in the movie as is.

The galley video in the movie was my favorite scene. Fishburne was all hardass in this movie, then he saw the decrypted video... he's like "feth this, we're getting off"!

Event Horizon is all kinds of awesome. It's the last horror film I've seen that made me go "wtf!?, that's freaky" and it gets kudos for that..

I always thought of this as a sort of a 40k movie. A cautionary tale on warp travel without a geller field.

The first half of this movie was great, the latter half was unremarkable from what I remember. I loved the movie nonetheless, and feel that I have to watch it now. Maybe tonight after Breaking Bad.

A prequel would be cool...

I am in agreement with some of the comments I saw under the pictures, especially the one that states 3,2,1 BOO!
It could have been a far better movie than it was and the extra gore wouldn't really have added anything.

I can't help but feel less is more when it comes to horror, better to be suggestive and let your imagination fill in the gap for a lot of it. I can't say I wouldn't watch a directors cut but sometimes directors cuts just aren't as good as the original, like the directors cut of donnie darko.

I loved that movie. I prefer my horror to be more psychological than simply throwing blood and guts around, so I don't think the found footage would really add much for me personally.

This is wicked awesome. I love Event Horizon. I liked how it kind of effed with your head.

Almost all of that actually is in the film, with maybe 4 exceptions.


I honestly don't think the new stuff would have improved it (I really liked the movie as is, and I am not a Paul W. S. Anderson fan. At all). The maggots would have distracted me too much. Even with the suspension of disbelief required for the film, I just cannot accept that there could be maggots on a spaceship and the inclusion of them is lazy set design.

I enjoyed Event Horizon (saw it in the theaters), but I agree with others here that I'm not sure extra gore would've improved it dramatically.

Also, yeah, I definitely recognize a bunch of those shots from the theatrical cut. It's possible some of the sequences or flashes would've been longer, but a ton are in there.

Tv tropes already has this stuff covered...

Including its allusion to 40k, at least by 40k fans that is. Apparently its thought of as a prequel in all but name for the game.

I thought the movie was stupid. It had a great idea that went to crap. The only good point was Fishbourne talking about the effect of fire in zero G.

I thought it was a good movie. One of the most interesting bits was Sam Neill's flag on his uniform. It was a cool interpretation of an altered Australian flag.

It was yet another horror movie with a really interesting set up, that turns to gak when one of the characters starts trying to kill everyone, and they all spend the last 20 minutes running around.

Loved this movie. The only thing preventing this from being at least a fan considered part of 40k is the inclusion of a date. Otherwise it could be exactly what Humanity's first steps into the Warp was like.

The extra images could have made more of an impact for whatever realm the ship had been to. Like have a character running through the ship and they keep getting flashes of images in their mind. That way it keeps the pace and urgency to get away.

I dunno. The movie had a great buildup, but broke its own internal logic and consistency near the end.

It's an hour and a half of old-fashioned haunted house stuff -- noises, atmosphere, strange happenings, possession, unseen enemies, apparitions that may or may not be imagined, etc. -- and then the ship resurrects Weir with magical flame powers so he can have a fistfight with the captain. That whole sequence is simply excrement and really feths up the film. It may be that that's where the producers stepped in, because in fact you can't get more Hollywood than thinking that there has to be a fistfight between the good guy and bad guy at the climax.

That's the section that the director's cut would need to fix to make it a more complete film. I agree with others that more gore wouldn't (and many of those shots were indeed in there already), and IMO would be counterproductive to the good stuff that's there already.

Regarding 40K, my guess is that it didn't really inspire anything in the screenplay. The idea of black holes/wormholes/etc as a gateway to some kind of nether region has been out there a long time, and was seen in film as early as Disney's The Black Hole. However, I'm now willing to believe a designer on the film somewhere was a fan or familiar with it. That opinion has nothing to do with the Hellraiser-y stuff and everything to do with those near-Chaos stars seen in the posted pics. Those are genuinely striking.

I think the idea of 40K influence also stems from the gothic feel of the ship - the interior apparently being based on Notre Dame cathedral; but I suspect that was to service the film's themes rather than being 40K inspired. It's an interesting comparison, however.

So, for as long as I can remember, I've been thinking that the movie Contact with Jodie Foster and Matthew McUnspellablename was Event Horizon. I just realized this today. I just. . . I just felt like I should confess.

EH was a great movie. We had a party back in the day called the captain miller party. We hooked up a number of TVs to the DVD and then looped the scene where he grabs Fishburne and 'shows' him what was happening to his crew. The party was named that of course because of the cry of 'Captain Milleeeerrrrr' of the kid.