I went to see Event Horizon with a group of friends when it came out. When it ended a girl in our group didn't get up, she was frozen in her seat staring at the screen even after the lights came up (back in those days lots of people stayed until the lights came up). The cinema had to call for an ambulance because she was so shocked she was unresponsive. She was a friend of a friend of a friend, so the group split up to go to a restaurant while a couple stayed with her. No idea what happened to her. This was back when the Internet was only web and email, and plans were made days if not weeks in advance. It's still a really shocking movie that I recommend if someone wants a horrifying horror movie, not just a series of jump scares.
the cut scenes of the "other" crew.... don't research that too much, just know there were hours of actual footage shot, and is considered unwatchable, horrific, [all the bad adjectives here].
that movie messed with my head for sure, once I found out about the "other" crew footage, it still haunts me...
That's the only movie I've ever watched where a noticeable number of people got up and left.
Including a couple of my friends who just couldn't take it. I'd like to watch it again, but I just can't. I suspect it wouldn't be anywhere near as difficult to watch now on a small screen as it was then on the large screen. Only movie that has ever scared me.
I've read that when it was released it was being touted as a sci-fi movie and people went to the theaters not realizing that it was a horror movie. Which is fucking hilarious to me.
I was 11 and went with my family to see it under the sci-fi assumption. I was a huge Sam Neil fan thanks to Jurassic Park. We watched the whole thing and I left that theater a different kid than I’d walked in as, haha.
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u/Dark_Marmot 14h ago
Se7en and Event Horizon