There has been talk that Event Horizon is a prequel to Warhammer 40,000, and that its "hell" is actually the Warp.
Watching Event Horizon again. OK one little detail that gets me.
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I thought the movie suggested that she couldn't bear Weir being away on a mission or such (perhaps one involving developing the EH; I don't recall the timeline of the film), but I might be way off.
Yeah, Weir says something like "I know I was too busy working when you needed me..."
Edit: Correction...he says, "I know I wasn't there when you needed me, and I'm sorry I...I let my work come between us."
I also flicked through the novelization. In it Weir says this to Starck:
"Claire used to tell me I loved the Event Horizon more than I loved her. I told her that wasn’t true, I just knew the Event Horizon better, that’s all."
The book also seems to imply that maybe Weir didn't just work too much and regret it later, but that he possibly ignored obvious signs that she was in trouble.
She had looked ill when the photograph had been taken, her skin sallow and waxy, aging before her time. She had smiled bravely for the camera despite the way she had felt, despite the depression.
That's just my read of it of course.
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^Thanks for the confirmation!
I like the irony that it was him developing the EH that killed her, but that kind of interferes with my pet theory that it was her suicide that drove Weir to such emotional depths that 'Hell' was able to reach out and touch him.
...though, if we think we was developing the EH but also struggling with the engine, and 'Hell' just gave him a helping hand, that could work...
I like the irony that it was him developing the EH that killed her, but that kind of interferes with my pet theory that it was her suicide that drove Weir to such emotional depths that 'Hell' was able to reach out and touch him.
...though, if we think we was developing the EH but also struggling with the engine, and 'Hell' just gave him a helping hand, that could work...
Weir basically became a Cenobite for the same reasons everyone else in that series did: He suffered from some deep emotional problems (in his case, his guilt) and the "Hell" entity transformed him based on that.
I enjoyed Event Horizon, though it falls apart completely in the last twenty minutes or so.
It starts off as a skiffy movie and finishes as one of the most overbudgeted, overproduced supernatural horror movies ever made.
Event Horizon is one of my favourite sci-fi horror films. How much of this is down to the dearth of halfway decent sci-fi horror films who can say but I love it all the same.
Still the best film Paul W S Anderson ever directed
IIRC I did find the commentary track fairly engaging...as as someone who doesn't care for gore (I doubt I would have seen this if I'd known what I was going into; I expected a sci-fi movie with some horror elements, not a horror movie with sci-fi trappings) it's probably easier for me to watch the film that way too.
The film may be 'overproduced', but I love the look of everything in it. At one point there was a gallery of possible poster art somewhere online, and some of it looked appropriately disturbing.
I tend to agree but it's a very low bar.
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