Event Horizon, "realistic" depiction of the Warp?

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**Iron Dragon**

So, I just watched Event Horizon. I couldn't help but compare it to book #4 of the Horus Heresy series, Flight of the Eisenstein. I won't give any spoilers, but for those who have seen the movie, do you feel like this is a pretty good representation of what could happen in the Warp if unshielded?

**d3m01iti0n**

Ohhhhhh yeah it is. And ironically Brother Proteus is in it and he's still useless.

**Ascalam**

It's one possibility, and the nearest Hollywood has gotten to something Warpish IMO. The ship looks like something a CSM would cruise around in anyway , but with less skullz..

The Warp is nothing if not changeable. You can have F-ed up badness happen to you in all sorts of ways, or just get sprayed with cooking oil and curry sauce...

**Harriticus**

Event Horizion is the unofficial prequel of 40k, regarding Humanity's first discovery of Warp travel.

**Veteran Sergeant**

Harriticus wrote:
Event Horizion is the unofficial prequel of 40k, regarding Humanity's first discovery of Warp travel.

Pretty much.

I mean, I don't know if the writer, or the director, were 40K fans, but that movie was definitely channeling a little bit of the Warp in it.

**htj**

Veteran Sergeant wrote:
Harriticus wrote:
Event Horizion is the unofficial prequel of 40k, regarding Humanity's first discovery of Warp travel.
Pretty much.

I mean, I don't know if the writer, or the director, were 40K fans, but that movie was definitely channeling a little bit of the Warp in it.

Certainly how I've always seen it. It's uncanny how well it works.

**FinalAnswer**

Veteran Sergeant wrote:
Harriticus wrote:
Event Horizion is the unofficial prequel of 40k, regarding Humanity's first discovery of Warp travel.
Pretty much.

I mean, I don't know if the writer, or the director, were 40K fans, but that movie was definitely channeling a little bit of the Warp in it.

iirc, Paul W.S. Anderson, the director, was asked if he was a fan of 40k and he said that he wasn't.

**Ascalam**

40K isn't the only universe with a severely fethed-up subspace reality, you know

Still awesome though

**Tadashi**

Ascalam wrote:
40K isn't the only universe with a severely fethed-up subspace reality, you know

Still awesome though

And what are these universes where hyperspace is hell?

**htj**

Tadashi wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
40K isn't the only universe with a severely fethed-up subspace reality, you know

Still awesome though

And what are these universes where hyperspace is hell?

In a vicious assault against your free time, I present this TV Tropes link.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace

**Themanwiththeplan**

You mean people ripping their eye balls out and speaking in gibberish while a posesed crewman goes on a killing spree....yeah, I can see how you got the warp from that, I mean thats what the warps all about...DEATH AND CHAOS! mwhahaha mmhahaha, haha *cough*, sorry, hair ball.

**Flinty**

I think Event Horizon is more the unnofficial Doom film... So much better than the one that actually got made

**Ratius**

GTFO - Doom was awesome!

I thought EH was dead average - great first 45-60 mins and then degenerated into a sci fi horror-gore fest zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

/must try harder

**Darth Bob**

Ratius wrote:
GTFO - Doom was awesome!

...no.

**Ascalam**

Tadashi wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
40K isn't the only universe with a severely fethed-up subspace reality, you know

Still awesome though

And what are these universes where hyperspace is hell?

The setting from the original Doom games for one

The movie less so *shrug*

**MrScience**

What happens to the crew in that video is a pretty good example of what Slaanesh is really about.

**Silverthorne**

Ascalam wrote:
Tadashi wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
40K isn't the only universe with a severely fethed-up subspace reality, you know

Still awesome though

And what are these universes where hyperspace is hell?

The setting from the original Doom games for one

The movie less so *shrug*

I think the original was 'The Philadelphia Project', that's the earliest mention of trans-dimensional travel not ending awesomely that I can remember. And that was 1944.

**Ascalam**

Good one that too.

**Niiai**

I do think that it is a good version of chaos. I felt for a long time that the "warmp core room" must be inspiered by warhammer because of all the spikes. It looks a lott like chaos marines.

On a side note, the dark eldar have been handed the "hellraiser" movies with the haemonculy.

**spacewolf407**

Haven't read the book but Event Horizon to me is definitely a good representation of the Warp.