10 Horror Movie Moments More Important Than You Realised

10. The New Australian Flag - Event Horizon

Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon is such a dizzying trip of a sci-fi horror movie that nobody could blame you for failing to pick up on one of its more unexpectedly meaningful details.

Case in point, you probably didn't notice that the Australian flag on protagonist Dr. William Weir's (Sam Neill) uniform is different from the nation's current flag.

The real flag is a blue field with six stars on it and the British Union Jack flag situated in the top-left corner, but in Event Horizon the flag on Weir's jacket contains a different flag altogether.

This is actually the Australian Aboriginal flag, and suggests that in the film's fast-approaching future of 2047, Australia reckoned with its colonial past by renouncing its status as a British constitutional monarchy.

It's a fascinating and weirdly wholesome piece of low-key world-building in an otherwise horrific movie, and one that was apparently suggested by Sam Neill himself, who wished to pay tribute to Australia's original settlers.

Considering that there have been increasing calls in recent years to change Australia's flag in reality, it's entirely possible that Event Horizon ends up being totally on the money.