History Film / EventHorizon

** While he gets a bit snide in regard to the unaccountable phenomena, D Weir is generally polite, softly-spoken, and, even when fanatically determined to further explore the ship, is genuinely saddened on finding the recently deceased [[spoiler: Peters]].

* FamousLastWords:
-->'''[[spoiler: Miller]]:''' Yes. ''I see''.

* SexIsEvil: Let's just say it wasn't called a "Bloody Orgy" for nothing. Porn actors were even hired to [[NauseaFuel make it look all the more realistic]][[invoked]].

* BizarreAlienSenses: Wherever the ''Event Horizon'' went, the [[Literature/RedDwarf eyeless look seems to be in fashion]]. The eyeless phantasm of Claire entices Dr Weir to [[spoiler: pull out his own eyes]], seemingly enticing whatever inhabits the ship to possess him.

** The movie never quite works out which pseudophysics handwave it intends to use for the ship's FTL capability: the description given by Weir suggests the ship works by warp drive; his demonstrated metaphor works more like a wormhole; however, the events that actually transpire suggest it was some kind of hyperdrive. Weir talks about how the drive uses focused gravitons, implying that it uses the immense gravity of the black hole in the core to bend space.

** The ship seems to take a shine to taunting the characters with dead loved ones/former comrades, but Weir's nightmares are particularly recurrent/violent. [[spoiler: [[RealityEnsues It eventually drives him insane.]]]]

* Eddy Corrick, whom Captain Miller was forced to leave to burn to death on the ''Goliath'', appears as a [[ManOnFire burning]], raging apparition.

** The phantasms conjured by the ship invoke this; Dr Weir's eyeless wife Claire, serenely keen for him to join her in the "dimension of pure chaos", entices him to [spoiler: pull out his own eyes]].

** The phantasms conjured by the ship invoke this; Dr Weir's eyeless wife Claire, serenely keen for him to join her in the "dimension of pure chaos", entices him to [spoiler: pull out his own eyes].

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Strangely averted, given the liberties taken with physics below: UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} looks like Neptune should look; we see accurate depictions of [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfNeptune Triton and Nereid]], and Miller mentions that they are "three billion clicks from the nearest outpost," which happens to be the orbit of UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} (perhaps a colony on Titan?).

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted. Cooper, who in any other movie would be [[UncleTomfoolery prime fodder]] for this trope, is one of the few to survive the entire film. Miller is the last to "die", though it's actually ''hopeful'' [[FateWorseThanDeath that he did die]].]]

* CanisLatinicus: Notably averted. [[spoiler:The phrase in question, while often misheard as "Liberate tutame ex inferis" (which makes no sense), is actually "Libera te tutemet ex inferis", which is good Latin and means what they say it does ("Save yourself from hell").]]

* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Averted.

* SpaceIsCold: Averted; since the ship is in the upper atmosphere of Neptune, the cold is only natural. It is also definitely pressurized when they first arrive; life support's just been offline for quite some time, so the ship has naturally gotten extremely cold.

* TakeOurWordForIt: Averted. First we see people watching the horrifying slaughter of the original ''Event Horizon'' crew... then a significant chunk of the video [[spoiler:(the part where Captain Kilpack has torn his own eyes out and is holding them up to the camera)]] is shown to the audience.
--> '''Miller''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere We're leaving.]]
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Averted. Though the prop for the ship's log is a CD, in-universe it could be the [[UsefulNotes/BluRay cheap circular medium]] of 2047. Also, the visual displays are flat and feature touch-screens, some of which are wireless and portable. The gadgets used by the crew bear a striking resemblance to the advent of [=IPads=] and tablet technology that couldn't possibly have been foreseen at the time, especially considering that [[Film/MinorityReport movies made years later]] show characters doing things like reading incredibly technologically-advanced newspapers, rather than simply reading the news on their smartphone.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sort of. Weir wasn't exactly a nobody. The other crew members acknowledge he had been a highly accomplished and respected world-class physicist before the disappearance of the Event Horizon. But he was also the adult equivalent of the nerdy wimp with no physical combat capabilities whatsoever. Peters, early in the film, effortlessly subdues him with a submission hold. And he looks like a school boy wanting to cry after getting bullied. That all changes after his transformation into a HumanoidAbomination. He becomes the most powerful and immediate threat to the crew. And he doesn't hesitate to show it, like when he tossed Peters around like a ragdoll with his new power.

* CanisLatinicus: Notably averted. The phrase in question, while often misheard as "Liberate tutame ex inferis" (which makes no sense), is actually "Libera te tutemet ex inferis", which is good Latin and means what they say it does ("Save yourself from hell").

* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: At the beginning of the film, the ship receives part of a signal from the title 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 [[spoiler: "''Libera te tutemet ex inferis''"--"Save yourself from Hell."]]
* ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation: Subverted. The distress signal sent by the titular starship contains the Latin phrase ''liberate me'' ("save me"). It was later realized that the message was very different...

* AmbiguousSituation: The very ending of the film. [[spoiler:The meaning of the door closing behind the character is unknown: it might mean that the chunk of the ship they are in has retained its evil conscience and thus the [[HereWeGoAgain cycle is gonna start again]], or maybe it only symbolizes the wordless trauma they have lived and that they will never get over it, as told by Starck's uninterrupted screaming at the end. In any case, not nice.]]

** Cooper quipping "Ooh, it's time to play Spam in a can!" is a ShoutOut to Film/TheRightStuff.

* CoveredWithScars: When [[spoiler: Weir comes BackFromTheDead for the final showdown]], he is bald, naked, and covered in freaky scars. [[spoiler:It did give him his eyes back, strangely enough.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Possessed Dr. Weir]] fires Miller's nailgun through the bridge's window in a reflexive attempt to kill Cooper outside. It instead shatters the glass, and he gets [[ThrownOutTheAirlock sucked into space]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[Spoiler: Possessed Dr. Weir]] fires Miller's nailgun through the bridge's window in a reflexive attempt to kill Cooper outside. It instead shatters the glass, and he gets [[ThrownOutTheAirlock sucked into space]].

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: The blood vessels in Justin's [[EyeScream eyes explosively decompress]], as do his surface blood vessels, which is more or less correct behavior in vacuum (or Neptune's atmosphere's near-vacuum at that altitude).

* CanisLatinicus: Notably averted. [[spoiler: The phrase in question, while often misheard as "Liberate tutame ex inferis" (which makes no sense), is actually "Libera te tutemet ex inferis", which is good Latin and means what they say it does ("Save yourself from hell").]] [[labelnote:For those interested in the Latin itself]] "Libera" is the singular command form of "free", "te" is "you" in the accusative case (pointing to the object of the action) and "ex inferis" means "from hell". Those are easy enough. "Tutemet" is a bit tricky though--it ''is'' a real Latin word, and it was used by classical Roman writers, but it is kind of rare: "tu" means "you", and "te" means "yourself" (reflexive pronoun). "Tute" is a word on its own, meaning "you yourself; yourself". The suffix "-met" is an intensifier that adds the meaning "himself, itself" to words it is attached to. It is perfectly allowed within the rules of Latin to stack a couple of intensifiers together, thus "tu-te-met" = "you yourself, yourself" (very intensive meaning). It just looks a little odd to the non-native speaker when you dissect the literal meaning of the word parts: the Romans themselves certainly used it to mean "yourself". More commonly "te ipsum" would be used, "te" = "you", and "ipsum" is actually the commonly used pronoun for "yourself". Of course, if they used the much more common and simple "te ipsum", the entire plot point would be lost that the doctor originally misheard the word "tutemet" (he heard "me", which happens to be the same in English and Latin). However, there are three minor issues: first, the script mentions that the actual phrase is "libera'''te tute'''met ex inferis", whereas the grammatically correct version would be "libera '''te tute'''met ex inferis" (the first sentence omits an object of the action ("te") and creates a discrepancy between a plural "liberate" and a singular "tutemet"); however, since it is only spoken and never written in the film itself, it is a mistake or a typo in the script only. Second, "ex" preposition doesn't seem to particularly fit here and should probably be replaced with "ab" or even omitted altogether. Third, as mentioned above, while the film version is grammatically correct, it would still sound a bit unnatural to the ear of the native Latin speaker. So another version has been suggested by the Latin buffs that would address all these issues '''and''' serve the plot purpose better: "libera temet ab inferis" confused with "liberate me ab inferis" (as you can see, here the "t" makes all the very-easy-to-miss difference, whereas in the film it amounts to the much more noticeable difference between "me" and "tutemet" - unless it had been established that Kilpack was a stutterer). Note that all of the abovementioned versions (apart from the grammatically incorrect one featured in the script) contain singular form "libera" which implies that Captain Kilpack actually addressed his plea to a single listener. (Using plural "liberate" would again defeat the whole purpose, as it would be "liberate [vos] vosmet" then, hardly to be confused with "liberate me".)[[/labelnote]]