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By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 19 Jan 2019

A movie where the contours of the cut ideas are more interesting than what ended up on the screen…

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By Leah Rozen (146) for People Magazine (358) on 14 Dec 2018

Despite a few nifty special effects, this sci-fi horror film, in which grisly things happen to a space crew after its members board an abandoned…

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By Chris Kridler (9) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 14 Dec 2018

With high production values and low aspirations, Event Horizon begins as a mildly intriguing science-fiction movie and degenerates into yet…

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By Dennis King (67) for Tulsa World (603) on 14 Dec 2018

But unfortunately, Anderson can't seem to decide whether he's making a sci-fi thriller, a ghost story, a gory horror film or a metaphysical…

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By Roger Hurlburt (59) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 14 Dec 2018

There is little to recommend in this nonsensical, repulsively gory outer-space yarn other than moody interiors and a few adequate special effects…

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By Matthew Sweet (2) for Independent on Sunday (201) on 14 Dec 2018

But, to its credit, Event Horizon never pretends to be anything other than a series of highly efficient rip-offs…

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By Total Film Staff (2) for Total Film (3,532) on 14 Dec 2018

Whether all the mind games, blood 'n' guts and loud bangs scare you or not depends on your tolerance of gore and horror, but director Paul…

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By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 16 Nov 2018

A misunderstood movie I loved on release and am thoroughly enjoying being smug about, now the rest of the world has realised its grave error…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 15 Jul 2018

For a movie this heavily compromised, Event Horizon remains the very best entry on Anderson's otherwise questionable filmography…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 30 Jan 2018

It's too bad, then, that Anderson (whose only other major credit is Mortal Kombat, but of course) and first-time screenwriter Philip Eisner…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 06 Jul 2016

The worst thing about Event Horizon--written by Philip Eisner, directed by Paul Anderson--isn't all the gore decorating the 21st-century space…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Aug 2015

The settings and visual effects are imaginatively done, but the dialogue is silly and the plot is a mishmash, with echoes of everything from…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 31 Mar 2015

But in its own overblown, melodramatic way, complete with hideous and obtrusive music by Michael Kamen, clanging sound effects that will leave…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 14 Jan 2015

Superbly styled in techno-Gothic space-grunge chic, this sci-fi/horror cross-breed is a directorial triumph of reference and homage…

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By Scott Rosenberg (28) for Salon.com (2,725) on 28 Nov 2014

Trying to figure out just what went wrong in the creation of a movie as dreadful as this may ultimately be as futile as trying to ascertain…

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By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 02 Jul 2013

If I were a psychologist hired to analyze the people who made this, I would conclude that everyone involved needed to take their inner child…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 07 Jun 2012

Half of what's going on is never explained, and what is explained, doesn't make much sense…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 12 Apr 2012

The film is content to relentlessly scream Boo! behind the audience's back rather than provide any real thrills…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 01 Nov 2011

One moment a raging horror film, the next a restrained examination of psychological inanity, Event Horizon takes its genre schizophrenia to…

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By Gregory Weinkauf (347) for ÜberCiné (57) on 24 Jul 2011

Where's the application form for the job where you get paid to rip off the lamer and more bombastic aspects of Barker, Kubrick and Scott…

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Film critics gave Event Horizon (1997) an average score of 48%, indicating generally mixed reviews.

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