Event Horizon [Blu-ray] by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones: DVDNear.com

Event Horizon [Blu-ray]

Event Horizon [Blu-ray]
by Paul W.S. Anderson

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Actor: Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Laurence Fishburne, Richard T. Jones, Sam Neill
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Brand: EVENT
Producer: Colin Brown
Producer: Jeremy Bolt
Producer: Lawrence Gordon
Producer: Lloyd Levin
Producer: Nick Gillott
Producer: Sarah Isherwood
Writer: Philip Eisner
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-12-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Event Horizon [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: The Love Hate Sci-Fi/Horror film gets the HD Treatment
Summary: 5 Stars

It seems that this is one of those movies that people either love or absolutely despise it. In my own group of friends its always been that way. Myself, I'm a fan of the movie, and have been since it came out in theaters and on VHS. I still own the 2-Disc special edition on DVD.

Story-
Essentially the story (where most people love or hate it) revolves around a crew of rescue techs that are sent on a code black assignment to a "lost" ship. The ship itself can create black holes that can transport the ship to the most distant regions of the Universe. An idea I find interesting because scientists are already theorizing how to create wormholes to different parts of space so for me it adds some realism to something that theoretically could happen. If you can't buy into this idea at all, you'll hate the remainder of the film. As the story progresses the horrors of the ship are revealed in many different fashions. This is the other part people seem to love or hate. Most deaths are quite grisly and can involve a bit of squirming on the viewers part. As well, some of the scares come from quiet moments followed by loud noises or a door suddenly opening, some people find this tacky. To me, the most frightening bit is what isn't even shown. Where the ship went. I still wonder what it looks like!

Presentation-
The Blu-Ray presentation of this film is quite good considering the age of the source material. Early on, the edge enhancements can be seen easily in the motion of the crew moving around. This quickly goes away. The CGI effects have aged nicely and the high def treatment doesn't really give them away. The black levels come through nicely. The color palette is dark. Ideally its supposed to be this way, considering the tone of the film, so don't expect the colors to necessarily jump off the screen. The explosions in particular the sparks look leaps better than they did on SD.

Sound-
The sound track to the film stays constant throughout the picture. Loud when it should be and doesn't drown out the actors voices during the more chaotic sequences. The screams and creepy voice of the man-thing speaking in Latin come through excellent.

Extras-
The extras are the same as from the 2-Disc Special Edition which include a comprehensive commentary with the director, a few making of specials and an un-filmed storyboard sequence that was cut from the final process. All of these are presented in SD. The only HD special feature is the theatrical trailer.

Love it or hate it. I love it. I wish more horror films would be like this.

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Summary of Event Horizon [Blu-ray]

Its name: Event Horizon. The high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal form the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne, The Matrix and Mission: Impossible III), to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. Accompanying Miller is his elite crew and the lost ship?s designer (Sam Neill, Jurassic Park); their mission is to find and salvage the state-of-the-art interstellar horror. Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13) and Joely Richardson (TV?s Nip/Tuck) also star in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Lawrence Fishburne and Sam Neill head up a strong cast as the reluctant leaders of a rescue mission sent to find out just what in the hell (literally) happened to the crew of a long-vanished experimental spacecraft in this dark and thundering descent of a horror film. Although this extremely stylish haunted spaceship movie may be guilty of ripping off half a dozen better films (including Don't Look Now, Hellraiser, and especially Andrei Tarkovsky's great Solaris), it's difficult to deny the gothic razorblade effectiveness of the end result. Not a "fun" film by any stretch of the imagination, but a thrillingly ruthless shocker that may leave more susceptible viewers in need of a long shower and a high-voltage night-light. For the full effect, watch it with all the lights off and the volume cranked up to 11. --Andrew Wright

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