Event Horizon Limited-Edition Steelbook [4K UHD]
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "MISCONCEPTION ABOUT THIS MOVIE: I've seen quite a few reviews say the airlock scene in this movie is unrealistic. In this movie, a person is exposed to the vacuum of space for about a minute and survives. The general consensus among many reviewers is that this is inaccurate. On the contrary, however, if you expel the air from your lungs before exposure to vacuum, you'll likely survive but with potential injuries. So, this movie's portrayal of space exposure is actually quite accurate! This is the main reason I decided to write a review, I feel the need to hopefully get others to realize this is not a problem in the movie. Certain animal studies in the 60's by NASA exposed dogs and chimpanzees to near-vacuum for 90 seconds up to 5 minutes with surprising results. I recommend reading about them.\n\nMY REVIEW: If you're looking for your usual sci-fi flick with aliens and space battles and gunfights, this isn't it. This is, however, an excellent sci-fi film that I HIGHLY recommend you go into blind. I knew a little bit about the story and I wish I hadn't - would've made it that much better! I still highly enjoyed it, however; one of the best sci-fi flicks I've seen in a very long time! And this was the first time I've ever seen it.\n\nYou will likely be spooked and, if not, at least a little disturbed by this movie. But in a good way."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I have the original Blu-ray that was released years ago. I pre-ordered this in the hopes of getting something that I did NOT get. But it wasn\'t a complete loss...\n\nThe obvious bad news, that I\'m sure anyone who was excited for this already knows, is that there is no extended or director\'s cut here. Nor any signs of new footage. The "extended and deleted scenes" are simply the regurgitated 3 scenes from the previous release.\n\nSadly, MOST of special features are from the previous blu-ray.\n\nThat\'s the bad news.\n\nThe semi-good news is that the interviews are all new. Unfortunately there is no sign of Sam Neil or Laurence Fishburne, but there is some interesting bits here and there. All in all, they amount to about a little over an hour, and even with the interesting bits, sadly, they can still be skipped.\n\nAnd the good, actually great, news is the movie itself....\n\nThe 4K transfer is leagues above the previous release. To me, the movie actually had a completely different feel to it, as the improvement was that noticeable. Much sharper, and, surprisingly much more colorful, where you actually notice all the colors in this otherwise dark movie. It IS worth the upgrade for this transfer alone...\n\nAnd the movie comes with a slip cover.\n\nHowever, while the transfer is worth the upgrade, and a must own for the fans of the movie, I would still suggest waiting until the price drops. Shout has good sales every once in a while, and their movies do drop in price eventually.\n\nI would wait until this one at least dropped below the $19.99 mark.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I had never seen Event Horizon before and decided to watch it because I had folks comparing the core in the movie to what CERN has been doing with the opening of portals to other unknown dimensions. Most movies like this aren\'t for entertainment purposes, as the sleeping sheep believe, but are predictive programming for what\'s coming upon the earth in these last days. CERN\'s main LHC is located is directly over where Apollyon is supposed to be held, in the bottomless pit. If this movie is any indication, then CERN, in fooling around with antimatter (which is nothing more than utter chaos and darkness), will end up unleashing that same chaos and darkness onto the earth. A darkness that the Creator of All Things purposely separated from the earth, to protect mankind. All human beings have good and evil within them. But for most of us, that good keeps the evil at bay so that it doesn\'t consume us. That antimatter will bring out the darkness in every human being that doesn\'t have a relationship with the Most High, and the LIGHT of His Holy Spirit comforting, guiding and protecting them. It will cause the evil within these people to grow and overtake them, making them physical demons, committing all sorts of wicked acts. People will be faced with their worst fears. That\'s a very scary thought. So if you don\'t know the Most High (whom the world calls "God"), may I suggest that you get to know Him NOW, while the window of His mercy is still open?? Because WHEN this time comes upon the earth, and you don\'t know Him, you\'re going to wish that you had. But it will all be far too late.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'WTF did I just watch? Hellraiser In Space!\n\nThe year is 2047 and Dr. William Weir (Sam Neil) is a scientist / engineer on board a space station in low Earth orbit. He has just gotten word of a distress beacon being sent from the spacecraft Event Horizon in orbit around Neptune. He designed the spacecraft and its unique time-and-space-bending engine core gravity drive and sent it on its way seven years ago. Then he lost contact with it and it was assumed all aboard were dead in some tragic accident.\n\nNow it seems to have returned, and he’s got to get there and see what happened.\n\nHe catches a ride there on the Lewis And Clark, a ship run Captain Miller (Lawrence Fishburne) and a crew of six. Nobody on the Lewis and Clark want to go on this mission because they haven’t had a vacation in a long time, so they are less than welcoming when the good doctor boards.\n\nThey are even less pleased when they get to the Event Horizon and seriously messed up things start happening. Apparently, this engine core gravity drive has opened a gateway to Hell, and each member of the crew is faced with their greatest fears.\n\nRandom Thoughts:\n\nSam Neil should not have been allowed to run around shirtless. Nobody wants to see that.\n\nThe ship log on the Event Horizon was on a CD Rom. Really? The prop people couldn’t imagine a more futuristic solution to data storage?\n\nWhy doesn’t anyone on board have a gun? The weapons they choose are knives or saws.\n\nFor the most part the design of the space ship and various props was pretty darn good, but there were several consoles and a scanning device that looked embarrassingly dated and cheap. The same goes with the special effects – most were well done but the ones that weren’t really take you out of the moment. The design of the core gravity drive was spectacular. The “special effect” of the crew creeping along in zero-g with “gravity boots” looked really stupid.\n\nThis is a good film that could have been a great film with a little more time, and a bigger budget … and a little more of the scenes from Hell (it goes by so quickly). Perhaps they should have “run it through a few filters”.\n\nRecommended.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Note this is a review of the disk, not the movie.\n\nHaving owned the original release from the 2008 era, the new disk is a vast improvement in PQ and AQ\n\nColors appeared more balanced and accurate, and an uptick in fine detail due to the disk being from a fresh 4K scan\n\nRecommended for fans of the film'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "In the distant future, a rescue team is dispatched to a ship found in a decaying orbit around the planet Neptune. The pleasant surprise is that the ship turns out to be the Event Horizon, a ship launched from Earth with an experimental propulsion drive, and reported missing seven years ago. The unpleasant surprise is that the entire crew is either dead or missing, but there is something still alive on the frozen ship, which slowly but surely begins either effect or kill the rescue team itself.\nLaurence Fishburne stars as the captain of the rescue vessel, and Sam Neill plays the obsessive designer of the lost ship, who has accompanied the team. In addition, Joely Richardson is cast as the rescue team's second in command, and Jason Isaacs makes an appearance as the head doctor. This is a horror movie set in space. The production values are first rate, the acting is superb, and the script is wonderful. The only problem this film may have is with the editing, which was rushed by Paramount to fill a gap in their release schedule. For this reason, it tends to be a little choppy, but this does not effect the storyline. There is a lot of violence and gore in this film, along with some strong language, so this is not recommended for young children. However, it is a fantastic movie, and one that any sci-fi and/or horror film fan will love."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "If there is one thing you take away from this move, under no circumstance leave the film without taking: Lawrence Fishburne's Captain's Chair. The premise of this film, the set construction, the special effects, makeup, sound effects...Vanessa...all of these things can be symbolized by the swiveling, unsteady, out of place construction of that chair as it hangs from the ceiling, utterly unwieldy - but completely awesome."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I avoided this film because I heard the studio butchered the final cut and Paul Anderson wasn't happy with the final edit... But in all fairness: this is a hell of ride!.... I was never bored, I bought into the mood and atmosphere, the SFX are solid to great, and all the actors are excellent in their roles (though I do wish a few of them had been fleshed out more, and apparently they were, but that was cut by the studio).... I'm sure the more I think about it I'll find some plot holes or few things I thought could have been better, but my initial reaction: This is a great sci-fi horror!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Most space thriller and horror movies are extremely cheesy. This one is wonderfully true. Instead of the woman saying "I\'ll go back in the crazy room of Satan", this movie has a real reaction: "I\'ll do what needs to be done, but I will not go back near that room". Like any smart person would do. I really liked it, and have seen it a few times. Even knowing what comes next, it still holds it\'s own.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'If you like science fiction movies about space travel, a great crew on a mission and a crazy genius doctor who unkowingly bent the laws of relativity creating a horror beyond your imagination, then this is your movie. It certainly was mine, the cast was fantastic! Oh I love movies like this'}]