Event Horizon (1997)
It was ok.
15 August 2000
Warning: Spoilers
*SPOILERS*

Well it wasn't the best sci-fi/horror I've seen, but far from the worst. Something that a lot of people had problems with, are all the references to other movies within the same genre.

A crew goes away to check out a lost space ship (2001: A Space Odyssey). They have been sent there by the company, and they don't know what the mission is about yet (Alien). Only one person does know, he's the one everyone hates (Aliens). This person get possessed by the evil forces (The Shining), and goes to hell and then back again (Hellraiser). This person even uses the almost exact line ("Let me show you!") as Pinhead used in Hellraiser ("We have such wonderful sites to show you!").

Not very original, but I seriously think these things don't have to be ripoffs. My guess is that these things are simply hommages to the writer's, and possibly the director's, old favorite movies. Something Quentin Tarantino has built an entire career on. 2.5/5
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