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‘Event Horizon’ at 25: Paul W.S. Anderson Recalls Paramount Fearing His Horror Film Slandered ‘Star Trek’
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Doczu
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It will never receive a directors cut. The original reel and all msterial is mostly fubar due to stroing it in a salt mine - correct me if i'm wrong
DeepEnigma
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For those curious about salt mine storage.
Treasures Kept Safe in Salt Mines Below the Kansas Prairie / Hollywood films share space with dull documents
[...] it is that secret government documents, hospital X-rays and generations of records...
www.sfgate.com
Doczu
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If it's so secure then wth happened? I saw interviews and articles on how storage destroyed the material.For those curious about salt mine storage.
Treasures Kept Safe in Salt Mines Below the Kansas Prairie / Hollywood films share space with dull documents
[...] it is that secret government documents, hospital X-rays and generations of records...
Anderson did confirm he found a relatively good quality vhs copy of his "extended cut" via someone else of the production team but it somehow got lost (wtf?) Really, this movie is cursed to remain as is.
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Sosokrates
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Needs a sequel or spin off, the original is one of my favourite sci fi horrors.
DaedalusGrim
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Can you imagine if by some miracle they found a workable print for all the cut stuff? I'd love to see the unrated version.
fran.fernandez
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Saw this on the theater. I remember was my first time to fall sleep inside a theater 
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Badlucktroll
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Make prequel that follows the original crew. Have Sam Neill be the only actor that returns, and use great de-aging technology. Make it even more fucked up and gory than the deleted scenes from the original. (we see what happens to the original crew in real time) Add some subtle hints in the movie that when they are building the ship, Weir possibly sees a mathematical equation that says where the ship would go, but he builds it any way. Problem solved.
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Ionian
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Fascinating story. Watched it by accident and loved it.
If it's all gone how did someone manage to post an interview with the director that had the deleted scenes in this very thread?
Fascinating to see, look decent enough quality as well to re-instate, another poster in the thread posted a link of scenes not destroyed. Maybe only some scenes were lost?
Still love the film though, was a massive WTF when I watched it. As mentioned by another poster, reminds me of Hellraiser. It truly is in that vein yet better.
Seeing new scenes was awesome. Dude on the ladder, that should have been definitely kept.
There's always hope, sure Clive Barkers' Nightbreed the tapes were found of his cut after his was told to change it and it is far far superior and more brutal. People die that lived, people lived that died (between the two versions). And that all started with some dude that worked with him digging through all VHS tapes and screening it (Awful quality the new scenes, drove the studio to find the legit director copies though). Faaaar better film, does the whole book storyline justice.
NoLootBoxDev
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I really enjoyed this movie, saw it a few months back on the TV again. I would like a series or a new movie/sequel. I think there is so much potential in it. Hopefully never done by Netflix or Disney.
Ionian
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Major spoilers. Be warned.
The detective ends up in hell, it's a starnge land of normals but demons that used bicycles.
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A demon rapes the corpse of the protagonist.
Then he/they were both dead.
After the fight between Jesus's corpse.
Thenthe demon dude (Hellraiser) raped her corpse.
Then he/they were both dead.
After the fight between Jesus's corpse.
Thenthe demon dude (Hellraiser) raped her corpse.
Ionian
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Oh just to add the satan fights Jesus.
Shiiit book/ Then again Barker was screwed by drugs so had a ghostwriter. He blamed it on a dentist.
He had spoken about the ending for decades.
Dude had spoken about it for decades, I followed it.
Book is far from that, he was well gone. What a shame after teasing it for so long. His health obviously the reason. A coma from a dentist apparently after being being put under.
Dude was banging drugs and guys for decades. It caught up to him. If you ever read his later books, seems in there.
His story is very sad, got HIV off a partner and disappeared. Apparently. Massive big deal about it decades ago. Last books had ghost-writers.
Now he simply has people look after him.
RainblowDash
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I loved it, great cast and effects.
Ionian
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Still have both books.
Both every DH version, but as a young teen? Massively costly.
Nightbreed one never paid off. Never made sense at all, expensive too.
Doczu
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Only one deleted scene exists - the briefing scene with the admiral (albeit without CGI and in vhs quality), some extended scenes (i think two and they are just a minute or so longer).
The full tape of the Slaneesh death orgy is lost and every other scene is also lost.
I would travel through hell to find a pristine quality copy of the extended cut. I want to see amputee's and porn actors bathed in pig blood fucking and punching themself. All taped by the director famous for "One more kiss" and "Leon the Pig Farmer". Yes, a rom-com director.
Hawking Radiation
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When Anderson says the brief images of hell added more to the horror of the film, I genuinely do believe it did.
If we had gotten longer scenes of the grotesque blood filled fuck fest it would have taken away from the impact because face it, we all asked ourselves or at least wondered what this hell really looked like and getting that brief glimpse was enough to keep the audience intrigued.
Sometimes only getting a glimpse is enough to leave a lasting impact. The same way the 4th dimensional beings are never showed in Interstellar.
So would I want a directors cut? Yeah sure but not off the visions of hell. Everything else is alright. A bit of back story on the characters would be cool.
If we had gotten longer scenes of the grotesque blood filled fuck fest it would have taken away from the impact because face it, we all asked ourselves or at least wondered what this hell really looked like and getting that brief glimpse was enough to keep the audience intrigued.
Sometimes only getting a glimpse is enough to leave a lasting impact. The same way the 4th dimensional beings are never showed in Interstellar.
So would I want a directors cut? Yeah sure but not off the visions of hell. Everything else is alright. A bit of back story on the characters would be cool.
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SJRB
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Agreed. Your imagination usually is infinitely more scary than anything you can see on the big screen.
You know something horrific happened to the crew and you see small glimpses, your mind fills in the blanks better than the movie ever could.
Hawking Radiation
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And the fact the deleted scenes can never be recovered adds to it lol.
Like we wanna see the blood covered corpse fucking but we also don't haha. Apparently there were real pornstars and amputees in that scene. God knows what kind of shock factor that would've brought on the big screen.
Makes me think of The Exorcist and how that rocked audiences. Event Horizon original draft could have been The Exorcist of the 90's in terms of shock value.
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Badlucktroll
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pramod
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Capt Miller is also one of my favorite horror movie heroes. He represented a kind of selfless absolute good, a great contrast to the hellish evil of Weir. All Miller wants to do is save as many of his crew as he can, and he does this with complete lack of fear or disregard of what will happen to himself. Makes you wonder what happens to someone like that if he enters "hell"? Will there be a mythical aspect where a good person would not be able to enter? In my own head canon i like to imagine that Miller simply died or went to a different "heaven" dimension.
Badlucktroll
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I’m going to write my own prequel script. Maybe i can pitch it to paramount. The beginning would be Weir and his team giving lectures on warp theory, getting funding ect. Weir seeing some ominous signs in the math about where the ship would go, but not understanding what it means. the middle would be the momentous building and launch of the ship (crew selection, the finest astronauts and scientists, weir’s friendship with captian kilpack. people fighting to be assigned to the event horizon. The end would be the engaging of the gravity drive, and the blood orgy in drawn out, horrific real time, and the last shot of the film would be the ship vanishing.
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Doczu
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Badlucktroll
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dr_octagon
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Dead Space took inspiration from the film (along with Resident Evil 4) and is a great game in its own right. It's a shame EA ruined the series as they always do.
It would be great to get an Event Horizon game. Alien Isolation was amazing and faithful to the source material.
It would be great to get an Event Horizon game. Alien Isolation was amazing and faithful to the source material.
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The Event Horizon Show Can Finally Answer A 26-Year Old Movie Mystery
The new Event Horizon must answer a movie mystery.
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New article. And Amazon is making a sequel series?! I bet it will have Cooper in it. Maybe Starck.
6 Event Horizon Movie Theories The TV Show Can Confirm
Event Horizon is coming to Amazon Prime.
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Why is this dropping now all of a sudden
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