“When you disturb an audience they’re not going to go, ‘Oh that was an excellent cinema-going experience.’ But we delivered a movie that really stayed with people. “I don’t think we were ever going to test great because the end of the movie is a bit of a downer,” Anderson shared. The remaining members of the crew, a varied group of work buddies, are played by Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Richard T. “Event Horizon” boasts an impressive ensemble, led by ’90s kings Laurence Fishburne, who plays the crew’s cautious leader, and Sam Neill, as the suspect engineer behind the missing ship’s experimental engine. Turns out (spoiler alert) they opened a space portal… to hell. What begins as a cautious exploration of metallic caverns builds to a frenzy of hallucinatory gore after the bloody fate of the ship’s crew is uncovered. The film follows a crew venturing to the outer reaches of the solar system to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a space ship and its even more perplexing reappearance seven years later. Peppered with images of unspooled astronaut guts and suicidal blood orgies, it’s safe to say that “Event Horizon” had boldly gone where no “Star Trek” entry had gone before. “They weren’t only horrified by my movie they felt I was besmirching ‘Star Trek’ somehow, because I was also in space and doing all this terrible stuff.” “Someone actually said to me, ‘We’re the studio that makes Star Trek!’” Anderson recalled with a grin on his face. Anderson had made a film so disturbing that it slandered outer space itself. When Paramount got its first look at a cut of “ Event Horizon” in 1997, some studio executives thought that director Paul W.S.
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