Event Horizon is about a ship that goes To Hell and Back. By the time it's over, you will feel the same.
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- Aside from the Eye Scream and Squick elements that keep cropping up over and over, there's the part where we finally see the deciphered message, and it's just blurry enough to make you wonder if you really saw the unspeakably horrible things you thought you saw, or if it was just your imagination.... and the only way to find out is to watch that sequence again. It's not often one is willing to put the remote down and walk away rather than go back and confirm an image, but Event Horizon pulled it off.
- This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the Lewis and Clark uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the Event Horizon's crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his own intestines from his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a steel pipe.
- And this is capped off by Captain Kilpack creepily saying Libera te...tutemet...ex inferis. while holding his eyeballs in the palms of his bloodstained hands (reminiscent of the Pale Man), sporting a huge Slasher Smile...and another pair of eyes stuffed into his otherwise empty sockets.
- What makes the log even more disturbing is how it was produced. As listed on The Other Wiki, real life amputees were used for special effects scenes where Event Horizon crew members had their body parts damaged in many ways, and porn actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic. It's no wonder Paramount had good reason to have that particular part of the movie cut down.
- The way it comes up is scary as well. The activation of the ship's log is fairly casual...until it actually turns on, and you just hear screaming. Then you actually see what's on the log.
- The whole idea of the Bloody Orgy and how the Event Horizon does it is terrifying alone: here you have a crew of perfectly normal astronauts and men of science, some of Earth's most brilliant minds, getting butchered not by some alien monster or spooky ghost stalking them, but through their own means because whatever possesses the ship just ignites a raw, utterly uncontrollable sexual rage in them, any trace of humanity or civilization is wiped out of their skulls as they regress and try everything to please these inhuman needs to the point they pretty much fuck each other to death, not stopping when it hurts, but going in harder until they just start ripping each other apart (and whomever was eventually left alone, inevitably ripped themselves apart).
- Wanna know something worse? A significant amount of footage was deleted from those unspeakably horrible sequences in the final cut of the film. The original version was more explicit; according to some
articles, Effects supervisor Dave Bonneywell described some of the deleted shots, including a female crew member having her breasts torn off, a male having his legs smashed apart by steel bars as he crawls away leaving parts of them behind, another whose arm is broken with a pipe as his hand still wriggled and a woman being held down with her mouth held open by clamps as a man drilled screws into her teeth.- Here are some of the scenes. Watch at your own risk.
- Among other parts (besides the extensions of the Apocalyptic Log and Hell scenes) were additional scenes regarding and further explaining the Gateway, a more elaborate development of Justin being drawn into said Gateway, Miller finding a ripped out tooth floating around during the initial search, further hallucinations for Weir and the addition of maggots seeping around Peters' son's scarred legs. And those are just the ones that Andersen revealed so far.
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- The only thing matching the ship's log would be the visions of Hell that Weir projects into Captain Miller's head, where we see the crew members' bodies wrapped in barbed wire, disemboweled, or impaled on spikes with their bodies crawling with maggots. Since each scene lasts only a fraction of a second, it leaves the viewer thinking "what the hell did I just SEE!!??"Weir: "Hell" is only a word. The reality is so much worse!
- A comparatively little one: when they're first exploring the bridge, lightning from the storm below their orbit briefly lights up the walls near the windows...which are splattered with blood, tendons, and what look like they might be bones. It looks as though someone was smashed against the wall at such incredible speed that the body liquified. It's only for a split moment, but it makes you stop and have to wonder what the hell happened?! Given what we later see of the crew's log...ick is a bit of an understatement.
- The set itself was nightmare fuel. The ship was designed with a kind of "techno-medieval" kind of feel, looking something like a cross between a futuristic spaceship and a Gothic cathedral. When the lights are out and things are going wrong, the place looks distinctly like some kind of dungeon or torture chamber. Many of the cast members refused to stay on set longer than absolutely necessary. What can be best described as alcoves around several of the windows look like blood encrusted teeth. Is it really any wonder why this is considered a Warhammer 40,000 film?
- Weir's Stasis nightmare, while everyone was still in Stasis. Weir suddenly wakes up, he exits his pod, is the only one awake and suspects someone onboard. He walks up to go see who it is: his deceased wife, Claire. He turns her over, she wakes up revealing her empty eye sockets, Weir screams and wakes up while still in Stasis and would have drowned if not for the rest of the crew.
- Weir's disturbing appearances just prior to and especially after his full submission to the Event Horizon: First, we see his eyes have been gouged out with bloody scratch marks where they used to be, almost looking as if his eyelids have been (poorly) sewn shut. Later, when the ship revives him, he got his eyes back, but he's fully nude and shaven with bloody gashes over every inch of his body like rolled himself up in barbed wire.
- DJ's death. He's ambushed by Weir and knocked out cold, and then placed on the operating table, where upon Weir proceeds to vivisect him alive. When he's found, Weir had already evacuated his entire torso of organs, splaying them on the table, and used hooks and wire to hang the body up like a twisted art piece.
