9/13/2023 0 Comments Event horizon castDJ (Jason Isaacs) is the no-nonsense doctor, and suitably tough being, according to his accent, part Geordie, part Liverpudlian and part Irish. Justin, known as Baby Bear, is the engineer and has a special bond with Mama Bear. He’s funny and good-natured, and doesn’t appear enough, though you can see why – the comic relief so often ends up taking over a film.Ĭlear-headed Lieutenant Starck (Joely Richardson) is the kind of intelligent, well-spoken British woman you want by your side, whether you’re heading into the fifth dimension of Hell or you’re at Sainsbury’s and the Self Service Checkout voice starts blatantly accusing you, with no evidence, of putting an unidentified item in the bagging area. Peters (Kathleen Quinlan), also known as Mama Bear, has had to leave her young son with her ex for Christmas, though the considerate and calmly effective Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) is still apologetic about having to bring her.Ĭooper (Richard T Jones) is, in his own words, “the lifesaver and the heartbreaker”, and in Miller’s, “a rescue technician”. All except outsider Dr Weir (Sam Neill), who built the Event Horizon and is delighted to be going up. Nearly everyone on board is pissed off about being sent into space at Christmas in the middle of a well-earned leave. Now it’s 2047 and the ship has mysteriously reappeared, so the Lewis & Clark, which sounds like a provincial lawyers’ office but is actually a rescue vessel named after American explorers, is sent to investigate. But she disappeared with all her crew near Neptune. In 2040 the Event Horizon, sporting a new type of technology that enabled it to travel superfast distances in a day, had been launched to explore the edge of the solar system. ![]() Instead it is a vast space, cathedral-like with enormous corridors which should make us feel safer but don’t, as what kind of cathedral holds within it the gate to hell and comes back a tomb? The Event Horizon may follow that tradition of nicotine-addicted astronauts, but the ship itself doesn’t have the dank claustrophobia that the spacecraft in the Alien films do, when the black dripping tunnels and corridors almost mimic those grinning, acid dripping jaws. They always predict technology long before it becomes real, but no one thought we’d finally outlaw cigarettes in government-owned property. Watching old space-set sci fi movies is always interesting: everyone smokes, for a start. Which was a huge shame as it’s a tense and intensely frightening movie even 20 years after its release. ![]() The events on Event Horizon take place in 2047 which was a good 50 years away when the film came out in 1997, to frankly not very much acclaim. But when she came back she was alive” says Dr Weir, a man either possessed or insane, or possibly both, as the horrors on board the newly-reappeared spaceship Event Horizon reach their bloody, fiery climax. But she’s gone much, much further than that… When she crossed over she was just a ship. “I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars.
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