Event Horizon is light years away from being perfect, but there’s no denying its distinct, evocative flavor. The film’s cult status stems from the way it uses CGI and practical effects to build a disturbing outer space atmosphere with gratuitous gore. In many ways, Event Horizon feels like a spiritual successor to Ridley Scott’s Alien. But instead of a single extraterrestrial threat, it introduces an entire gateway to a dimension that mirrors Hell. This brand of cosmic horror was ahead of its time, but its campy “haunted house in space” vibe is celebrated by sci-fi movie fans today.
That’s not to say everyone hated Event Horizon when it first came out. Even back then, some reviewers like Total Film pointed out its merits and justified its tag of “The Shining in space.” Apart from its obvious influences from Kubrick’s horror masterpiece and Alien, the space thriller also took cues from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, and in many ways feels like an unofficial prequel to Warhammer 40,000. This speaks volumes about the film’s cultural evolution into a bona fide sci-fi nerd classic…
Not everything needs to be remade every 30 years anymore. Especially not things that are still great on their own, like Event Horizon or Scooby Doo.
Completely agree. With the assumption that the same number of movies will be made anyway, I’d rather have a new original than another remake
While I agree I still would be interested to see what someone like Guillermo del Toro or James Wan could do with the event horizon setting.
Hell, it’s not as if the movie ended on a completely closed narrative note. Make a movie about another crew going to investigate the events of the first movie, or someone else experimenting with the same technology. Or just another Gothic horror movie set in space. It’s not rocket surgery.
No. There is no need to remake Event Horizon. It’s a film with Mano flaws and a cult following. Exactly the type of film You should not remake. Like Mortal Kombat. Best thing you can do is realise a directors cut with all the unrealised scenes put back in.
No. We don’t need more shitty remakes. Expand on the universe, hire a competent writer, etc etc.
“Surprise! Somehow, Sam Neill returned…”
There’s so many amazing scifi books out there, it’s crazy how the remake scene is such a thing…
Oh God no. They would go too far into the hell dimension and absolutely ruin the entire thing by giving the audience more of what was so interesting because it was so scant.
They can do a sequel or tell the story of the warp drives test, or better yet they can fuck right off into a black hole and come up with something origional.
Just rewatch Event Horizon. It’s not like the CG or digital film advances are going to improve the movie as it is.
so sick of remakes. and it’s pretty much a guarantee that if they do this one, it’ll be hot runny steaming shit
I love event horizon. I would absolutely watch a remake, but I’m certain that it would be awful and I’d hate it.
That’s the purpose of remakes… (getting you to watch them, that is)
I mean, I doubt I’d pay to watch it.
I would just be happy to have a full hd extended edition with all the cut scenes. Sadly those seems to be gone.
Does it need remaking? Idk, I love it.
No, no they don’t.
They absolutely do not. Thanks.
While the original has flaws, experience suggests a remake would be worse. However, I’d be up for a sequel because they set up an interesting fictional universe where humanity has faster-than-light travel but using the technology drags in destructive entities from outside our dimension. How do various interest groups deal with this and try and make it work. It’d certainly be possible to craft a film or two around this without pissing on WH40k’s shoes.
How about instead of a remake it’s a sequel but set much more In the future , say 39 thousand years from the first one. the type of faster then light travel in the movie is now mostly safe and commonplace, mankind has spread out across the entire galaxy. But to keep it thematically constant with the first movie it would have to be a dark and dangerous future.
Why that far? Just make it 30 years later.
Hell, make it a stealth sequel. A sci-fi film that people think is riffing on Alien until the subtle hints make you realise there’s no Company and no Xenomorphs, but instead their experimental tech goes haywire and Sam Fucking Neill comes through a portal, no eyes and bleeding everywhere.
Sure, you’d need an actually decent script and so on, but Hollywood pays those guys, I’m not doing all the work here.
Why that far?
Why set it in the 40th millennium? In the grim darkness of the far future? No reason. Just an intriguing setting that no-one is using at the moment.
Make it a Demolition Man homage by being set in some TNG or Culture like super neat future and have them deal with hell.
No, they don’t.
Nah, it’s fine as it is.
