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Starck and Cooper enter stasis beside a comatose Justin and wait to be rescued. The gravity drive activates, pulling the ship's stern section into a black hole. Miller fights him off and detonates the explosives, sacrificing himself. He is attacked by manifestations of Corrick which turn out to be the resurrected Dr. With their own ship destroyed, Miller plans to split the Event Horizon in two and use its forward section as a lifeboat. Miller, Starck and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the ship's bridge. Weir shoots at him, shattering the window and is blown into space by the ensuing decompression. Miller confronts Weir, who overpowers him and initiates a 10-minute countdown, at the end of which the Event Horizon will return to the other dimension by activating the gravity drive.Ĭooper, having used his space suit's oxygen supply to propel himself back to the ship, appears at the bridge window. by vivisecting him and corners Starck on the bridge. Weir, who has gouged out his own eyes and is possessed by the evil presence, uses an explosive device to destroy the Lewis and Clark, killing Smith and blasting Cooper off into space. Peters is lured to her death by a hallucination of her son. translates as "Liberate tutemet ex inferis" ("Save yourself from hell").ĭeducing that the ship's drive opened a gateway to a hellish dimension outside the known universe, and that the Event Horizon has somehow attained sentience, Miller decides to destroy it and orders an evacuation. The log ends with a shot of the Event Horizon 's captain, holding out his own eyes gouged from their sockets, speaking the complete Latin phrase from the earlier distress call, which D.J. They discover a video log of the Event Horizon 's crew fornicating and mutilating each other shortly after first engaging the gravity drive. Miller sees Corrick, a subordinate he was forced to abandon to his death Peters sees her son, who she left with her ex-husband, with his legs covered in bloody lesions and Weir sees an eyeless vision of his late wife who killed herself, urging him to join her. The crew begins seeing people from their pasts that only they can see, hallucinations corresponding to their fears and regrets. He attempts suicide by decompression, but is saved by Miller, forcing the crew to place him in stasis. Justin emerges in a catatonic state, as a result of what he has seen on the other side. As they search for survivors, the ship's gravity drive activates, briefly pulling Justin into the resulting portal and causing a shock wave that damages the Lewis and Clark, forcing the entire crew to board the Event Horizon. Upon boarding the Event Horizon, the crew finds evidence of a massacre. believes he can discern the Latin phrase "Liberate me" ("Save me").
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The distress signal seems to consist of a series of screams and howls but D.J. He briefs them on the ship's experimental gravity drive with a simple visualization of how it folds space-time. William Weir, the Event Horizon's designer. Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, doctor D.J., and rescue technician Cooper-is joined by Dr. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched.

In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier, and has mysteriously reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune. In the years since, the film has slowly built a cult following and is often referenced in other works of popular culture. However, it began to sell well on home video its initial DVD release sold so well that Paramount contacted Anderson to begin working on a restoration of the deleted footage, but it had been either lost or destroyed. On release, the film was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $42 million on a $60 million production budget. The original 130-minute cut of the film was heavily edited by the studio's demand, to Anderson's consternation. The film had a troubled production, with filming and editing rushed by Paramount when it became clear that Titanic would not meet its projected release. Searching the ship for signs of life, they learn that the Event Horizon was a test bed for an experimental engine that created a rift in the space–time continuum and left our universe entirely, allowing a demonic force to possess it. Set in 2047, it follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing spaceship, the Event Horizon, spontaneously appears in orbit around Neptune. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan and Joely Richardson. Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W.
