History Film / EventHorizon

Notable for being pretty much the one PaulWSAnderson movie even haters are willing to recognize as genuinely good, ''EventHorizon'' is a very effective CosmicHorror story, basically [[HPLovecraft Lovecraft]] [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]

* HPLovecraft: One of the inspirations, according to WordOfGod.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: While averting ExplosiveDecompression, to a point. [[spoiler:Justin's]][[EyeScream eyes explosively decompress]], [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay as do his blood vessels]], even though another character says earlier on that "[[RuleOfScary Decompression wouldn't do that]]."

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Miller's]] fate, deliberately unanswered by the film.

** Fans of the Warhammer 40,000 universe love to point out that this movie could easily be set in the pre-Imperium days, and the Event Horizon just accidentally went through the Warp without a Gellar Field.

* AbsentAliens

* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: At the beginning of the film, the ship receives part of a signal from the titular vessel containing a message in Latin. As the signal is partly corrupted, they initially take the message to be "''Liberate me''" - "save me". Upon acquiring the full signal and inspecting it closer, they find that the message is actually "''Liberate [[spoiler:tute]]me[[spoiler:t ex infernis]]''" - "''[[spoiler:Save yourselves from Hell.]]"''

** Fans of the Warhammer 40,000 universe love to point out that this movie could easily be set in the pre-Imperium days, and the Event Horizon just accidentally went through the Warp without a Gellar Field.

* EyeScream: This movie basically runs on this trope. It might hold some kind of record for most injured eyes/sockets in a major Hollywood movie. In fact, the very ''first'' person we see in this film is missing eyes! This is at, like, the two minute mark mind you.

* FanDisservice: Weir's hallucination with his dead and half-naked wife.

* {{Gorn}}: While the film itself is bloody (the original cut was so unnerving that 30 minutes were cut before release), the ApocalypticLog falls straight into this.
* GhostShip: The ''Event Horizon''

** ShutUpHannibal: "Yes, I see."

* [[LaymansTerms Layman's Terms]] - Weir tries to explain... and TechnoBabble comes instead of simple terms.

** Justin, after being released from his trance and realizing he had put himself in ''an unlocking sequence of the airlock '''without a pressure suit'''''.

* PrecisionFStrike:
-->'''Miller:''' I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the ''Lewis and Clark'' to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the ''Event Horizon'' until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. '''''FUCK this ship.'''''

** ThePhiladelphiaExperiment [-IN SPACE!-] might also work.

* RainOfBlood: Type 3, near the end of the movie.

** [[{{Warhammer 40000}} 40,000 years later...]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Miller's]] fate, deliberately unanswered by the film.

* YouFailPhysicsForever: It's noted in the film that the FTL Drive the Event Horizon supposedly has '''can't''' work because of the Law of Relativity stating that FTL travel is impossible. William Weir, as he puts it, had to work around it, which is where Folding Space comes into play and the cause of everything that happen in the movie.

** An orbit in atmosphere would degrade very quickly due to air resistance, especially a stormy atmosphere like Neptune's.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Dr. Weir is constantly obsessed with blaming himself for his wife's suicide, having nonstop dreams and hallucinations of the event while begging her to stop. The Event Horizon abuses his guilt to its fullest degree in an attempt to lose his mind. During a hallucination, he apologizes for putting his work (most likely on his master project, the Event Horizon) before her as she kills herself, states that he feels so alone, and then hallucinates her ripping out his eyes, which he is actually unknowingly doing to himself. He keeps photos of her everywhere, and the film starts with him gazing at a picture of her and murmuring how much he misses her. After the Event Horizon forces him to relive his wife's bloody suicide firsthand with no way of stopping it, he eventually completely loses it, tears his own eyes out as a result of his hallucination that his wife is doing it, turns him into a NightmareFuel eyeless sadistic demon who, while under the influence of the Event Horizon, kills nearly all of the rest of the crew (one by a living vivisection and autopsy, another by tempting her with hallucinations of her son to fall down a corridor to her death), and after he gets thrown back into space, he (or some demonic, purely sadistic form of him) comes back as some sort of invincible figure from hell whose sole purpose is to cause others to violently suffer.

* TheBlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. In fact, one of the black dudes [[spoileris the last person to die]], and the other one [[spoileris the only crew member to make it out none the worse for wear.]]

* TheBlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted.

* {{Gorn}}: While the film itself is bloody (the original cut was so ennerving that 30 minutes were cut before release), the ApocalypticLog falls straight into this.

* [=~When Things Spin, Science Happens~=]: Used and averted. On one hand, the gravitational drive is always spinning due to [[TechnoBabble magnets]]. Averted in that the real science happens when it stops.

** "[[{{Understatement}} We're leaving.]]"

* ShoutOut: The Burning Man, to ''TheStarsMyDestination''. The working title of the movie during filming was even ''The Stars My Destination''.

Not to be confused with MoralEventHorizon, or DespairEventHorizon. Or, for that matter, the term for the region around a black hole from which light can no longer escape. For the game that was ''heavily'' inspired by the film, see ''DeadSpace''.

* [=~When Things Spin, Science Happens~=]: Used and averted. On one hand, the gravitational drive is always spinning due to [[TechnoBabble magnets]]. Averted in that the real science happens when [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel it stops]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Justin, after being released from his trance and realizing he had put himself in ''an unlocking sequence of the airlock '''without a pressure suit'''''.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Justin, after being released from his trance and realizing he had put himself in ''an unlocking sequence of the airlock '''without a pressure suit'''''. What happens next is of course HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The final confrontation between Miller and Weir.
* BigBad: The ''Event Horizon'' itself, with Weir eventually coming to serve as TheDragon.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film originally ran for about 130 minutes, but Paramount forced director Paul W. S. Anderson to cut around 30 minutes of it after negative reactions at test screenings. Unfortunately, most of the deleted footage was lost or destroyed after post-production.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The end credits features the techno song "Funky Shit".

* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: At the beginning of the film, the ship receives part of a signal from the titular vessel containing a message in Latin. As the signal is partly corrupted, they initially take the message to be "''Liberate me''" - "save me". Upon acquiring the full signal and inspecting it closer, they find that the message is actually "''Liberate tutemet ex infernis''" - [[spoiler: "Save yourselves from Hell.'']]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [The first image of the film is Weir's nightmarish vision of the ship.

* EldritchAbomination: It's unclear just what the fuck happened to the ship, but it's hinted pretty heavily that it took one of these back with it, or became one itself.