Without bothering to credit anyone, director Paul Anderson and screenwriter Philip Eisner have nicked the premise of Russian director Anrdei Tarkovsky's heady 1972 science-fiction masterpiece SOLARIS and turned it into a gruesome haunted-house flick set in deep
space. In the year 2040, the Event Horizon, an exploratory craft headed for the outer boundaries of space, is launched; somewhere beyond Neptune, it inexplicably disappears. Seven years later, when the ship makes an unexpected reappearance, a search and rescue team, helmed by hard-nosed Captain
Miller (Laurence Fishburne) and including the Event Horizon's architect, Dr. Weir (Sam Neill), is sent out to inves...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins