Kurt Russell: Early Proponent of Event Horizon Sam Neill as Weir in Event Horizon.Įvent Horizon has been reappraised in the ensuing years, initially finding its legs on home video which grew its fanbase, and the film is now critically lauded. Richard T Jones as rescue technician, Cooper and Jack Noseworthy as chief engineer, Ensign Justin, round out the crew. The other members of Weir’s crew onboard the rescue ship include Laurence Fishburne as the ship’s captain, Miller Joely Richardson as Starck, the ship’s communications officer Jason Isaacs as DJ, the ship’s doctor Sean Pertwee as the ship’s pilot, Smith and Kathleen Quinlan as medical technician, Peters. What they learn is that the Event Horizon travelled to a different, hellish dimension in which the crew was tortured – seen in flashes during a notoriously briefly seen but horrifying ‘blood orgy’ sequence - with the ship on its return bringing something hellish back with it that terrorizes the rescue crew. Lost in space following its maiden voyage, the ship mysteriously re-emerges seven years later and Weir is part of a team sent to investigate and recover the vessel and its crew. The film stars Sam Neill as Dr William Weir, designer of a state-of-the-art ship called the Event Horizon, which was built with an experimental gravity drive at its core allowing it to manipulate space-time. He’s looking back on the film’s original release, sold with the compelling tagline “Infinite Space, Infinite Terror” that also perhaps compounded the struggle it had with being pigeonholed as an Alien/s copycat (it’s not, though there are intriguing thematic similarities). “ was released up against popcorn movies, like Air Force One with Harrison Ford - you know, big feel-good films, and we were definitely a ‘feel-bad’ film.”Īnderson is chatting with Fandom on the occasion of Event Horizon’s 25 th anniversary and its recent release on 4K. “It’s not really a big summer movie,” continues Anderson. It clawed in $42 million against its $60 million budget. “When it came out, it was a kind of rushed release, didn’t have the best advertising campaign, was released at the wrong time of year … in the middle of the summer,” says Paul WS Anderson, director of cult sci-fi horror classic Event Horizon which was first released in cinemas 25 years ago and, incredibly, failed to make an impact.
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