History Film / EventHorizon

* CanisLatinicus: [[spoiler: "Liberate tutame ex inferis"]] literally means [[spoiler: "[You all must] save "yoersel"[sic] from [to] Hell"]]. The correct translation would be [[spoiler:Libera tutemet ex infero[[hottip:*:although "infernus" is the more commonly used term for Hell]]]].

* CoveredInScars: [[spoiler:When the ship brings Weir back for the final showdown, he is bald, naked, and covered in freaky scars]].

->''"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."''

* RecycledInSpace. ''Film/{{Solaris}}'' [-AS HORROR!-]

* RecycledInSpace. ''Film/Solaris}}'' [-AS HORROR!-]

* DramaticThunder: InSpace! Lightning illuminates the ship interiors occasionally, justified in that the ship is in orbit around Neptune which has storms with wind speeds up to 2000 km/h. The thunder being heard however is pure artistic license for further effect.

* CanisLatinicus: [[spoiler: "Liberate tutame ex inferis"]] literally means [[spoiler: "[You all must]] save "yoersel"[sic] from [to] Hell"]]. The Correct translation would be [[spoiler:Libera tutemet ex infero[[hottip:*:although "infernus" is the more commonly used term for Hell]]]].

** Cooper may be an intentional subversion of this, in that he manages to survive multiple things that really should have killed him with not a scratch on him

** ''Event Horizon'' is extremely popular among fans of the ''Warhammer40000'' SciFiKitchenSink universe. In ''Warhammer40000'', [[TheEmpire Imperium]] starships travel at faster-than-light speed by travelling through [[EldritchLocation the Warp]], although exposure to the Warp can [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cause crew-members to go insane]], or worse, [[TheLegionsOfHell invite daemon attacks]]. Now, does that sound anything like this film?

* 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.

* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Averted [[spoiler:especially in the final scene]].

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: ''"We're leaving."''

* MeatMoss: some on the ''Horizon'''s bridge

* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: this role is filled by [[spoiler: the Event Horizon herself, Dr. Weir's brainchild.]] Fortunately, it becomes [[spoiler: his {{Lifes Work Ruined}}]]

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

--->'''Cooper:''' Why's this shit always gotta happen to ''me''?!
--->'''Cooper:''' ''(when the ship fills with blood)'' ...Oh, fuck me.

* OutrunTheFireball: Miller.

* RecycledInSpace. ''{{Film/Solaris}}'' [-AS HORROR!-]

** Alternatively, his redemption moment might be when [[spoiler: Miller saves Starck from being sucked out the ship's broken window into space. If that was his redemption, then it's an instance of {{Must Make Amends}}, or {{My Greatest Second Chance}}.]]

* {{Self-Destructive Charge}}: leading to HeroicSacrifice

* SequelHook: What happens when [[spoiler: the drive of the ''Event Horizon'' returns?]]

** Even the writers probably couldn't figure out why anyone wouldn't [[spoiler: destroy the Event Horizon on sight.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Possibly the darkest example in cinema. [[spoiler:When Weir starts his rampage, his first act is to blow up the Lewis and Clark. Cooper survives on a piece of wreckage, but is blown clear. He blows his air supply to try to return, but we don't see him again until much later.]]

* ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource: in the Engine Room [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom.]]

* SpaceIsCold: Partially-averted as the ship is in the upper atmosphere of Neptune.
* SpikesOfDoom: In the DVD commentary the director states that the spikes in the gravitational drive room weren't just there to look scary, they originally engaged with the core, but this wasn't possible due to budget constraints. They were left in due to the RuleOfScary.

** A subversion may be Justin: after he [[spoiler: is saved from tossing himself out an airlock]] he is put into stasis and is not referred to again. However, at the very end [[spoiler: the rescue crew remarks that he has survived along with Cooper and Starck]]

* ShownTheirWork: Look closely at some of the details. For example, the film takes place roughly 50 years in the future, and Weir's Australian flag badge has Union Jack being replaced with the red and black with yellow disc of the Aborigine flag. Some years after the film was released, there is a movement to change the current flag to include the Aboriginal flag. The US flag badges has additional stars as well, bringing the number to 55, and if you look at the flag patches of the English Starck and Smith and Irish DJ, you can see they have what appear to be EU flags with significantly more stars on them than there are currently

* ShownTheirWork: Look closely at some of the details. For example, the film takes place roughly 50 years in the future, and Weir's Australian flag badge has Union Jack being replaced with the red and black with yellow disc of the Aborigine flag. Some years after the film was released, there is a movement to change the current flag to include the Aboriginal flag. The US flag badges has additional stars as well, bringing the number to 55, and if you look at the British crewmembers' flag patches, you can see they have what appears to be EU flags with significantly more stars on them

* ShownTheirWork: Look closely at some of the details. For example, the film takes place roughly 50 years in the future, and Weir's Australian flag badge has Union Jack being replaced with the red and black with yellow disc of the Aborigine flag. Some years after the film was released, there is a movement to change the current flag to include the Aborginal flag. The US flag badges has additional stars as well, bringing the number to 55.

** The rescue ship ''Lewis and Clark'' has a drive that produces 30 gees of acceleration, so [[InertialDampening the crew spends the trip sealed into fluid-filled pods to avoid becoming wall-gazpacho]]. Yet when they exit at the end of their journey, [[YouFailPhysicsForever the clothes, towels, and coffee cups they casually left on the table and chairs in the pod room didn't end up smashed against the opposite wall]].

** The rescue ship ''Lewis and Clark'' has a drive that produces 30 gees of acceleration, so [[InertialDampening the crew spends the trip sealed into fluid-filled pods to avoid becoming wall-gazpacho]]. Yet when they exit at the end of their journey, the clothes, towels, and coffee cups they casually left on the table and chairs in the pod room didn't end up smashed against the opposite wall.

''Event Horizon'' 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.

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

->''Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.''
-->--'''Dr. Weir'''

''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.

* UncleTomfoolery: Cooper, all the damn time. "HERE I COME MOTHERFUCKEERRRS!" Used for ComicRelief and a foil to Captain Miller's dour seriousness.

* CompleteMonster: The ship. Or else the malevolent entity who posses it. Its MO is also using its telepathic abilities to use the crews fears against them, killing them in the process.

* RecycledInSpace. ''Solaris'' [-AS HORROR!-]
** ThePhiladelphiaExperiment [-IN SPACE!-] might also work.
** According to [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/trivia IMDb]], it was pitched as "''Film/TheShining'' in space."

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

** "We're leaving."
* TechnologyMarchesOn: All of the monitors are CRT and the ships log is stored on a CD Rom.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity. Poor [[spoiler:Weir]].