With an interesting choice of director heading it up…
Critically panned.
A commercial flop.
And yet ’90s sci-fi horror Event Horizon eventually came to be regarded as a cult favourite.
Assessing the film 20 years on from its 1997 release, JOE’s own Rory Cashin would go to bat for the ‘Hell in outer space’ vibe that brought a great deal of terror and gore to the screen, not to mention an excellent cast.
“Event Horizon still holds up to this day, and what it lacks in originality – aside from The Shining, you can’t help but also see shades of Alien and Hellraiser – it more than makes up for with visceral horror and the kind of unique aesthetic you just don’t see anymore,” said Rory at the time.
“That cathedral-like abandoned ship, the massively creepy ‘core’, the truly chilling score playing out over the whole thing, the great cast treating the film with the respect it deserves, and a level of mind-bending violence that, even when scaled back, that is still above and beyond the levels most major horror movies shy away from.”
Despite a famously troubled production that resulted in the final movie being some way off from what was originally intended, the above is pretty damn spot-on.
Event Horizon deserves another look, in more ways than one.
Step forward Adam Wingard, who directed You’re Next (good), The Guest (brilliant), Blair Witch (not good) and Death Note (a mess) and hopes to breathe new life into the hellish property, this time on the small screen.
Variety reports that an Event Horizon TV show is now in development, with Amazon and Paramount Television overseeing the project.
Wingard, whose next venture Godzilla vs Kong arrives in 2020, will both direct and executive produce.
That’s about all the details for now, but Amazon seem busy enough, what with recently signing Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to a new supernatural comedy series.
As for Event Horizon, it really is worth the revisit.
Check out the trailer below if you’ve never gotten involved before…
Clip via FilmTrailersChannel
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