Event Horizon - Is It the Scariest Horror Movie of All Time?

[Carl_Manchester]

Well, my 4k version of Event Horizon arrived in the post last week and I am too scared to watch it.

I have seen it before, I know what's coming and yet, I am not sure I want to do it.

Is there any other film in your collection or, that you have seen that you feel this way about?

Watching the Exorcist (1973) at night, alone comes pretty close to Event Horizon.

[abzmike]

It does have it’s moments. I recall watching it expecting a cosy sci-fi romp - and got something rather different. Good though.

[dundarach]

Yes

The things I saw with my eyes, thankfully still in their sockets!

[Fusion777]

It's definitely very disturbing. Creative though. I'd say it was more sci-fi/horror than a pure horror film.

[Terzo123]

Althpugh not intended as a horror movie, Threads disturbed me more,

Probably not a great time to watch it again either.

[pidsy]

Liberate tu te may.

Ex Iferis.

[darreni]

dundarach said:

Yes

The things I saw with my eyes, thankfully still in their sockets!

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see

[Darkslider]

Just watched it as it's come on Netflix, I didn't find it especially scary and I'm normally a wimp when it comes to horror films.

[Sarkmeister]

I remember this scaring the s&*t out of me when I watched it at the cinema. I then went back to watch it with different friends 5 or 6 times. It's probably my favourite scifi/horror film

[darreni]

Mine too, Sky cinema had the uncut version ( rather than the normal tv version that has a lot of the gore removed) on recently.

I’d love for the fully uncut, extended/ deleted scenes version to appear at some point, but it seems it’s never going to happen.

[105.4]

Terzo123 said:

Althpugh not intended as a horror movie, Threads disturbed me more,

Probably not a great time to watch it again either.

I’m from Sheffield, born and bred. Which made watching Threads hit a little closer to home.

We had to watch that at school, aged ten. It gave me nightmares for weeks afterwards.

I’m an old man now and I still refuse to watch Threads again. Not because it was crap. But because it was soul-sappingly depressing and frightening.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

I always found it fascinating that EH was so good and yet Paul WS has done absolutely nothing of merit since.

Saw it when it came out in the US on holiday knowing nothing about it. Certainly a tense film.

[speedking31]

The original "Friday the 13th" and "Assault on Precinct 13".

[Smoggy XJR]

The Lost Boys?

[pquinn]

There's some really nice little details in the sets and costumes and story, shame all that edited footage is probably gone forever.

That said I must have seen the 'extended' bits at some point when it was originally out because I can definitely remember the floating tooth and a couple of the other bits that have been salvaged into the extended release. Might well have been an early cut, wouldn't be the first time I'd seen something that included bits removed from the proper release.

(Weirdly the film I definitely remember seeing 'intact' was Back To The Future 2 - when I saw it all those years ago the 'deleted' bits like Biff collapsing & fading and the burned highschool were still in it.)

[PHZero]

Smoggy XJR said:

The Lost Boys?

Really?

If that scared you, don't watch Event Horizon.

[generationx]

It is a great scary movie, but loses its edge after a few viewings obviously. Certainly seeing it at the cinema was quite the experience.

[Vickers_VC10]

Some of the scenes of hell, that Weirbeast shows Miller at the end via his mind can be looked up as still photos.

They are fking horrible.

[ZedLeg]

I wouldn’t say that Event Horizon is that scary tbh. I love it but it’s a bit too schlocky to have any real fear.

For me it’s the Alexander Aja remake of The Hills Have Eyes. I’ve only ever seen it once and though I say I liked it, I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch it again.

[Big Nanas]

I remember seeing this at the Empire, Leicester Square when it opened.
Enjoyable, but when I watched it again the other day I remembered it relied quite heavily on 'jump scares', which always seems like a lazy way to scare someone.
Still enjoyable though (and wasn't the music over the final credits just completely 'wrong' !? )