Event Horizon - At the edge of the universe

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Movie
German title Event Horizon - At the edge of the universe
Original title Event Horizon
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Paul WS Anderson
script Philip Eisner
production Lawrence Gordon
music Michael Kamen ,
orbital
camera Adrian Biddle
cut Martin Hunter
occupation

Event Horizon is a science fiction and horror film from 1997 directed by Paul WS Anderson . The main characters are Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill . The film opened in German cinemas on January 15, 1998.

action

In 2047, the Lewis & Clark salvage spaceship embarks on a secret rescue mission near the planet Neptune . The scientist Dr. Weir explained only after the arrival of Captain Miller and his team the company's goal: They are the Event Horizon ( German: event horizon ) involve a since 2040-lost space ship that was to explore the limits of the solar system and has a revolutionary propulsion, which creates an artificial black hole and thus enables the ship to cross space at a speed faster than light .

The crew actually discovers the lost Event Horizon floating in the orbit of Neptune. A rescue team goes on board and finds the ship apparently abandoned. But it soon turns out that all crew members are dead; obviously they killed each other. The ship's defective video logbook is restored; a short, damaged video sequence shows preparations for take-off, a statement by the commander on the research mission and suddenly crew members mutilating each other.

Little by little, the crew of the Lewis & Clark discover the secret of the Event Horizon and are confronted more and more with their own fears. After the first crew members have been driven to their death by horrific visions and the Lewis & Clark has been destroyed by an act of sabotage , Weir realizes that the Event Horizon has flown through the black hole into another universe from which it inexplicably flew transformed when returned as some kind of intelligent, malevolent being who has the ability to make the worst fears of all people on board real. Due to the dimensional jump and the resulting difference in spacetime, the crew lived through a "hellish" scenario and apparently lost their minds.

Captain Miller is haunted by vivid memories of a colleague he left behind in a burning ship years ago to rescue the rest of the crew. Nevertheless, he tries not to be confused by the tormenting visions and to destroy the Event Horizon . Although Weir, who has now been completely absorbed by the spaceship and is no longer in control of himself, wants to keep him from doing so, the rear part of the fuselage can be blown off with the gravitational drive, which then flies through the black hole that Weir activated shortly before. The first officer , Lieutenant Starck, was able to escape with two crew members in the front part of the ship and was freed by a rescue team after the return journey of 72 days.

A member of this rescue team opens his helmet visor and underneath you can see the horrific, geometrically disfigured scarred face of Dr. Weir, but in the form only Captain Miller has really seen on the engine deck. Shortly afterwards this vision disappears again and the real rescue team can be seen. "You are safe ... safe ..." - to Cooper's words, with which he tries to calm Starck, the hatch to the rescue ship closes, and the credits come into play .

aftermath

In order to prevent an NC-17 approval (from the age of 18), which would have brought great restrictions in theatrical exploitation, many scenes had to be cut in post production. Most of these cut scenes have been destroyed. The rest can be found as bonus material on the special edition DVD. The German FSK-16 version corresponds to the American R-rated theatrical version, which only allows under 17s to go to the cinema when accompanied by an adult.

For lead actor Laurence Fishburne , the film was an important step in his film career: Among other things, it helped him get the role of "Morpheus" in The Matrix .

Some later productions show allusions to or similarity to the film Event Horizon : In the computer game FEAR from 2005, there are a few magazines with the message "Event Horizon found". The computer game Mass Effect from 2007 takes over many plot elements from the film such as the spaceship filled with life (the Sovereign ) and the wormhole theory of locomotion in space . Even the main drive of the player-commanded spaceship (the Normandy ) looks more than similar to the main drive of the Event Horizon. The computer game Dead Space , released in 2008, also has a similar plot to Event Horizon . Here, too, they are looking for a missing spaceship on which a catastrophe has apparently occurred.

Individual short sequences, such as a frontal shot of the burning Dr. Weir were, only three months after the premiere of the film in a sequence (Season 4, Episode 10: Random Thoughts ) who is also from Paramount Pictures produced series Star Trek: Voyager used.

Trivia

A Latin mistranslation occurs in the film : The captain of the Event Horizon calls out liberate tutemet ex inferis in the radio message , which is translated as “save yourself from hell” in the English subtitles. The Latin formulation is grammatically incorrect, however, because "liberate" (saves) is plural, "tutemet" (a rare, overemphasized form for you) is singular. So it should be libera temet (save yourself) or liberate vosmet (save you).

According to the DVD commentary, the architectural template for the Event Horizon is said to have been the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral . The name of the space ship Event Horizon (German: event horizon ) refers to the place of the surroundings of a black hole from which its gravitational force is so great that even the light of this force can not escape and is completely swallowed up by the black hole. The Lewis & Clark is named after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition . The curvature of space, which was shown in the film by means of the folded sheet of paper, is based on the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridge (see wormhole ) and is an actual theory.

Reviews

"Science fiction horror thriller that does not know how to bundle its good ideas into a convincing whole and, moreover, does not dispense with speculative set pieces in its many genre recites."

- Lexicon of international film

“A cheer for the ingenious trick technique, a bah for the unimaginative script writer who dumped this intergalactic crap. [...] Anyone who is busy flinching in shock does not think about how outrageous and stolen the story is. Because 'Event Horizon' is nothing more than a stale science fiction cocktail from the ' haunted house ' story and ' Alien ' without an alien: It is not an overpowering monster that decimates the rescue team that is looking for survivors on the giant spaceship of the title, but that Ship itself. And that's the most original twist on this sci-fi horror adventure. The rest are cliché dialogues ('We have to get out of here!' - 'Yes!'), A lot of noise ('Boom!'), The aforementioned shocks and a large number of state-of-the-art effects with the the British company Cinesite Europe proves that good tricks do not necessarily have to be created on the high-performance computers from ILM or Digital Domain . "

- Cinema

“'Event Horizon' is really not a big hit, but at no point does it claim to be more than it actually is - superficial, shock-oriented B-horror . Anyone who can relate to the genre of fear and has seen its main works can therefore have great fun with this film: 'Which film is this blood wave again inspired by?' Some stupid dialogues also add a fun trash factor. However, this description also suggests that viewers who are more at home in other cinematic realms will hardly find pleasure in Paul WS Anderson's only somewhat respected work. "

- Filmstarts.de

More recent reviews of this film (as of 2016) show, however, that there are definitely positive opinions: Revenant Publications calls it the “Most underrated Horror Movie”.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Event Horizon - On the Edge of the Universe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Event Horizon - On the Edge of the Universe. In: cinema.de. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ Jonas Reinartz: Critique of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team
  4. ↑ James Castro: Most Underrated Horror Movie: Event Horizon. In: Revenant Publications. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Looking back at Event Horizon. In: Den of Geek. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .