It is 2047. Seven years ago, deep space research vessel Event Horizon completely disappeared out around Neptune. Official word was that it exploded, all lives lost, nothing left of the ship. But then: it came back. It didn't explode - its experimental [nonsensical movie science] drive bent space/time, delivering it across the universe in an instant. And now it's back, from wherever it has been.
The search and rescue ship Lewis and Clark was sent to salvage it. The small crew of Captain Laurence Fishburne, First Officer Joely Richardson, pilot Sean Pertwee, medical officer Kathleen Quinlan, mechanic (?) Richard T. Jones, loose cannon Jason Isaacs and some young redshirt are joined by the Event Horizon's designer, Sam Neill, who is, it must be said, rather weird. The crew doesn't much like him and, as they board the derelict ship and progressively stranger things keep happening, they like him much, much less. The crew suffers from hallucinations (maybe); the final ship's log is a garbled mess of shrieks and Latin; there are fluids and secretions exuding from the ship's walls. As it turns out, the Event Horizon did not travel across the universe to [scientific star name] - it broke through space/time and went to a hell dimension. Ooooooooo!
Despite its stacked cast, Event Horizon (1997) is a hot mess, with a confusing through-line, overacting and terrible dialogue. It obviously steals from much better movies - Alien and Hellraiser spring immediately to mind. The ship design is cool (see above re: Alien) but the story is pretty incoherent in places and when it switches over from what looked to be malevolent alien life to hell/evil (sans religion), it just got messy.
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