Event Horizon is light years away from being perfect, but there’s no denying its distinct, evocative flavor. The film’s cult status stems from the way it uses CGI and practical effects to build a disturbing outer space atmosphere with gratuitous gore. In many ways, Event Horizon feels like a spiritual successor to Ridley Scott’s Alien. But instead of a single extraterrestrial threat, it introduces an entire gateway to a dimension that mirrors Hell. This brand of cosmic horror was ahead of its time, but its campy "haunted house in space" vibe is celebrated by sci-fi movie fans today.
That’s not to say everyone hated Event Horizon when it first came out. Even back then, some reviewers like Total Film pointed out its merits and justified its tag of “The Shining in space.” Apart from its obvious influences from Kubrick's horror masterpiece and Alien, the space thriller also took cues from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, and in many ways feels like an unofficial prequel to Warhammer 40,000. This speaks volumes about the film’s cultural evolution into a bona fide sci-fi nerd classic...
Hell, it's not as if the movie ended on a completely closed narrative note. Make a movie about another crew going to investigate the events of the first movie, or someone else experimenting with the same technology. Or just another Gothic horror movie set in space. It's not rocket surgery.
No. There is no need to remake Event Horizon. It's a film with Mano flaws and a cult following. Exactly the type of film You should not remake. Like Mortal Kombat. Best thing you can do is realise a directors cut with all the unrealised scenes put back in.
Oh God no. They would go too far into the hell dimension and absolutely ruin the entire thing by giving the audience more of what was so interesting because it was so scant.
They can do a sequel or tell the story of the warp drives test, or better yet they can fuck right off into a black hole and come up with something origional.
While the original has flaws, experience suggests a remake would be worse. However, I'd be up for a sequel because they set up an interesting fictional universe where humanity has faster-than-light travel but using the technology drags in destructive entities from outside our dimension. How do various interest groups deal with this and try and make it work. It'd certainly be possible to craft a film or two around this without pissing on WH40k's shoes.
How about instead of a remake it’s a sequel but set much more In the future , say 39 thousand years from the first one. the type of faster then light travel in the movie is now mostly safe and commonplace, mankind has spread out across the entire galaxy. But to keep it thematically constant with the first movie it would have to be a dark and dangerous future.
Hell, make it a stealth sequel. A sci-fi film that people think is riffing on Alien until the subtle hints make you realise there’s no Company and no Xenomorphs, but instead their experimental tech goes haywire and Sam Fucking Neill comes through a portal, no eyes and bleeding everywhere.
Sure, you’d need an actually decent script and so on, but Hollywood pays those guys, I’m not doing all the work here.
Really? This is where you guys draw the line? I mean, I tend to hate remakes and that so few original movies get made, but Event Horizon really didn't hold up well, I find. This is one that could be improved. (Though I know it would probably be made worse)
Could it be improved? Absolutely. Will remaking it improve it in any way? Absolutely not. A bunch of corpos around a boardroom table will run it into the ground and cast Chris Pratt in it.