Topic: OMFG!!! I've just seen Event Horizon, and now I'm in need of counseling. NOW!!!!
MIB
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My god! This movie made The Exorcist look like a f**king Barney movie. The plot was stupid, crappy, and disturbing all rolled into one! I know I'm gonna have nightmares because of this movie. I do NOT want to start having dreams about a homicidal Sam Neill with his eyes scooped out trying to disembowl me and string me up in the middle of a starship's sickbay! Can someone, ANYONE, give me a few ideas as to how to avoid having these nightmares before they start?!?!?! PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS!!!!!
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Watch Jurassic Park. Imagine Sam Neill as a boring paleontologist who saves little children's lives.
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oh yeah. gore, violence, hellish imagery. that movie rocked. well not really.
sure its creepy. but you get used to it. i mean. when you think about it. haven't we all had the same experience of being in a bad movie with sam neill.
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MIB
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Tom. I'd just like to say your adivce didn't work. LOL. That's right. That damned Sam Niell guy with the eyes scooped out started popping up in my dreams. Makes me wonder what the f**k is wrong with me. I can just as easily watch the Aliens movies, the Blair witch project movies, the Halloween series, scream, Silence of the Lambs, and all that crap without me blinking twice about it, so why the hell did this movie bother me so much? hmmmmmmmm
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That and how many people thought it was a good movie.
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Get two friends (or two sock puppets, depending on your social circumstances), rewatch the movie, but this time do your own rendition of Mystery Science Theater 2000 of it.
"Hey, their ship look just like our ship!"
"Hey Rick, do we have a quantum-singularithinginmajic?"
"Sure, it's right behind the fridge."
"Well, that explains all those strange things in the back of the fridge."
"Those aren't ordinary leftovers...."
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But MIB, don't sweat it, it's just a movie. I felt like that when I was about 12 years old and a movie came out called 'The Thing' (David Carpenter's version). I saw it and wish I hadn't, it was horrific and disturbed me for some time. But then again I was 12. It's still an excellent horror film now. But Event Horizon, really, that really bothered you..? Intending no disrespect, I would stay away from horror films if I were you. This movie really wasn't that great or frightening. Sam Neill was more frightening in Omen III IMO.
But only one film, one has seriously given me any trouble with trauma and nightmares. 'Eraserhead'. That was because I got heavily into it, and really 'got it'. This movie is shot like an actual 'filmed nightmare'. The people who don't get it aren't troubled, they may even say it's crap. But I'm a guy of complex psychology and this movie seriously disturbed me. I showed it to my sister once, and she was crying uncontrollably after about 30 minutes, wishing she'd never ever set eyes on it.
Don't you just love horror films...
nuff said
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It had its moments. I quite liked it. But I've never seen another film which has aroused such hatred on the part of SF nerds everywhere. Phantom Menace got away lightly by comparison.
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I had the misfortune of going to a drive-in and seeing both 'Mimic' and 'Event Horizon,' which I have to say both made my 'bottom 10' SF movies I've ever seen.
The only thing that kept me from falling asleep was that there was a young couple fucking in the next car over.
On the other hand, I have mastered several techniques for defeating nightmares. The easiest of which is to mildly self-injure your deam self (I used to use biting my thumb). The sudden realization of unreality wakes you up, or at least aborts the dream.
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Eh, Event Horizon was all right. It had some rather disturbing moments, and it had some rather amusing (and not in the good sense) moments. Overall, I wouldn't mind watching it again if I didn't have to pay to see it. It certainly didn't give me any nightmares or weird dreams.
As for something that did give me weird dreams, that was a combination of the exhaustion of an 8-hour long Saturday marching rehearsal, lots of painful sunburns, reading Alas, Babylon!, and watching Outbreak. Yeah, that combination gave me some rather freaky dreams. Ugh.
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The only thing that really did scare me was how boring and painful it was to sit through. The gore might have scared me if I was 12 or 13 but not when I was 17-18ish years old. Overall it had potential but it just sank faster than Billy Ray Cyrus' career.
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MIB
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After reading Mike Nelson's review of Event Horizon and mixed the memories of that movie with Sleepy Hollow, and the Virgin Suicides, I feel much better! ahhhhhh. I've seen many horror movies before. This one was the only one that bothered me. This and the Exorcist. I formulated this theroy as to why Sam Neill got involved. *clears throat*
It was a rainy night and Sam Niell was at his home watching a movie on his favorite lazy boy and was drunk as Boris Yeltsen was through out his entire term as president of Russia. He was quite bored when the phone rang. It was his agent! He told Sam about this sci-fi movie called Event Horizon and wanted to know if he may be interested in the lead part. Still totally drunk and not knowing what he was doing he said, "Sure! Why the hell not!" After hanging up the phone he promptly passed out.
A week later, after getting a phone call asking him where the hell he was for the first shoot of Event Horizon,(due to the fact that he forgot all about it due to the huge hang over.) Sam began doing what he arguably does best for the film. Act!
After the first couple days of shooting he decided to read the entire script for Event Horizon. You see, he had no clue what happenes in the film other than in the parts which were filmed already. Upon reading the rest of the script, he went insane from the sheer shittyness of it. He scooped out his eyes with a spoon so that he would never be able to watch the movie even if he was forced to. He also proceeded to kill all the cast members he could in the most gruesome ways possible as punishment for taking part in the film and not telling him how bad it truly was! Little did our dear Sam know, was that the producer was catching every moment on tape. "This is great stuff, Man!!" He said, "Keep shooting! This stuff is perfect for the film!" The producer was obviously on crack, but no one dared to confront him about it. After the smoked cleared there was a dozen body bags outside the Event Horizon studio and Sam did exactly what he was trying to prevent. Finish the movie. The producer and editor were so f*cked up on crack that they actually managed to find away to intergrate Sam's homicidal rampage into the movie. That was how Event Horizon was made! I hope you kiddies learned something! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
I formulated this theroy as to why Sam Neill got involved. *clears throat*
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