History Film / EventHorizon

A movie where astronauts investigate an experimental ship (the titular ''Event Horizon'') that disappeared under mysterious circumstances. [[KillEmAll Almost everybody dies.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Not explicitly, but it just doesn't seem like it's over.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Not explicitly, but it just doesn't seem like it's over.]]

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The ''Event Horizon'' itself. The hallway leading to the engine room is a giant rotating tube lined with spikes. The engine room itself is lined with yet more SpikesOfDoom, and the engine itself is literally beautiful. It's ''cool'', but the actual purpose of the designed is [[HandWave handwaved]] away as "[[TechnoBabble reducing the effects of the gravitational field]]".

* 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.]]"''

* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: things [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] due to the ship "[[OurWormholesAreDifferent folding space]]"... [[ToHellAndBack and returning]]

* LaymansTerms - Weir tries to explain... and TechnoBabble comes instead of simple terms.

* MindRape [[spoiler: Weir projecting nightmarish images to Miller of his crew in "hell."]]

* NoOSHACompliance [[spoiler: and it kills Peters]].

* PhlebotinumAnalogy: the "folding space".

** According to [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/trivia IMDb]], it was pitched as "''Film/TheShining'' in space"

* RuleOfCool: The Captain of the ''Event Horizon'' firmly believed AltumVidetur. After bidding farewell in English, he gave his sendoff in Latin; "Ave Atque Vale - Hail and farewell". The reason he spoke Latin in "the tape" is because, well, AltumVidetur.
* SanitySlippage: When you touch "the beyond".

* SendInTheSearchTeam

* 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.
-->"You break all the laws of physics, and you seriously think there wouldn't be a price?"

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: While averting ExplosiveDecompression, to a point. The blood vessels in [[spoiler:Justin]]'s [[EyeScream eyes explosively decompress]], as do his surface blood vessels, which is more or less correct behaviour in vacuum (or Neptune's atmosphere's near vacuum at that altitude).

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: While averting ExplosiveDecompression, to a point. The blood vessels in [[spoiler:Justin]]'s[[EyeScream eyes explosively decompress]], as do his surface blood vessels, which is more or less correct behaviour in vacuum (or Neptun's atmosphere's near vacuum at that altitude).

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: Uttered by Starck when Weir is blown through the breached window into space; Miller [[GenreSavvy doubts it]]. Weir survives, and comes back a Cenobite {{Expy}}.]]

* 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 make him lose his attachment to reality entirely. 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. The ''Event Horizon'' seems to treat Weir as a special case, probably due to the fact that he was so devoted to it that he caused his wife to go desperately into the DespairEventHorizon and DrivenToSuicide in favor of itself.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Weir. Possibly subverted as it seems he may have been possessed by the ship itself.]]
* FailsafeFailure: The airlock has maybe the stupidest fail safe system in space. If the outer door is opening, the inner door cannot be opened, to avoid depressurizing the ship. But it's also impossible to just ''stop the outer door from opening''. Then again, what isn't affected by the Eldritch force inhabiting the Event Horizon?

* 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.

* FailsafeFailure: The airlock has maybe the stupidest failsafe system in space. If the outer door is opening, the inner door cannot be opened, to avoid depressurising the ship. But it's also impossible to just ''stop the outer door from opening''. Then again, what isn't affected by the Eldritch force inhabiting the Event Horizon?

* DoubleEntendre: Cooper in a ShirtlessScene, offers a woman a cup of coffee.

* BathSuicide: Weir's wife Claire, apparently.

Notable for being pretty much the one PaulWSAnderson movie even haters are willing to recognize as genuinely good, ''EventHorizon'' is a very effective CosmicHorrorStory, basically [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]] [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-] Or as some like to call it, a ''very'' disturbing prequel to the ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' series.

!!This film has examples of:

* SpiritualLicensee: It wasn't called ''Doom'', but this was rather faithful to the background story of the game, which was that some scientists in space were experimenting with teleportation, and they created a portal, but instead of taking them from point A to point B, it led straight to hell. And hell's army comes out of the portal and threatens to doom our universe. That's the plot of the movie Event Horizon to a tee, made in 1997. And then 8 years later some people just had to go and make another Resident Evil genetic experiment gone wrong movie and go and entitle the movie "Doom".

** According to [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/trivia IMDb]], it was pitched as "''TheShining'' in space"

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 [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]] [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-] Or as some like to call it, a ''very'' disturbing prequel to the ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' series.

* BigNo: Delivered by Weir when [[spoiler:Miller activates the explosives, cutting the gravity chamber off from the rest of the ship as it's about to go into the CosmicHorror hyperspace dimension and sacrificing himself to save what's left of his crew]].

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 [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]] [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]

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

* 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]]."
** The Event Horizon's orbit has degraded that the ship is actually in Neptune's atmosphere, not vacuum.

* ItGotWorse: Things progressively deteriorate, culminating in [[spoiler:the destruction of the ''Lewis & Clark'']].

* 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 make him lose his attachment to reality entirely. 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. The Event Horizon seems to treat Weir as a special case, probably due to the fact that he was so devoted to it that he caused his wife to go desperately into the DespairEventHorizon and DrivenToSuicide in favor of itself.

** Whatever happened, the sensor suite on the Lewis And Clarke says that the ENTIRE SHIP IS ALIVE.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film originally ran for about 130 minutes, but Paramount forced director Paul W. S. Anderson to cut around 30 minutes of it (reportedly, mostly gore) after negative reactions at test screenings. Unfortunately, most of the deleted footage was lost or destroyed after post-production.
** TropesAreNotBad: If it really WAS 30 minutes of gore..it may have been made a better movie. NothingIsScarier, after all.