![]() ![]() I regret to say that at least some of this propulsion comes at the direct expense of the director's intentions. It's also a tacky variant of a legendary sci-fi horror thriller, and as Alien knock-offs go, it's a pretty tight, propulsive one. "The dumb, trashy Solaris" isn't something I would have known to ask for, but since it's been provided to me regardless, I think it's pretty easy to make the best of it: Anderson's whole career has been dedicated to making dumb trash with an exceptional amount of conviction and stylistic flair.īesides, Event Horizon isn't merely a tacky variant of a legendary art film. But look, you give me a film about futuristic science overreaching itself and stepping across the boundary separating the material world from the spiritual plane, and that this interpenetration will result in the film's characters having visions of the deceased loved ones they feel most painfully responsible for, most prominently including a wife who committed suicide, none of those is the first place my mind goes. in space! is going to automatically demand comparison to Alien. I mean, sure, Anderson himself name-dropped The Haunting and The Shining as direct influences on his 1997 film maudit, and of course any film that does the And Then There Were None narrative structure. debut, 1995's Mortal Kombat (that part is actually true - he apparently had his choice of projects after that film, and the one he picked was this script by Philip Eisner) elects to finally correct Tarkovsky's worst mistake: he will, by God, make the vulgar, excessive horror movie version of Solaris that he'd been promised. ![]() Skip forward many years, and Anderson, now the toast of Hollywood based on the unexpected success of his U.S. Anderson, having heard Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris described as a "ghost story" and "haunted house movie", straps himself in for a spooky space adventure, only to be outraged by spending the next three hours with talky Soviet musings on guilt and grief, hushed silence, and long takes of cars driving on the highway. We have absolutely no evidence that this is actually how it went down (arguably, we have evidence to the contrary), but I have such a powerful vision of the origins of Event Horizon, I can almost reach out and touch it: teenage Paul W.S. A review requested by Michael, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.ĭo you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page!
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