10 Best Sci-Fi Horror Films To Watch Halloween 2020

A distress signal leads the crew of the spaceship Lewis and Clark, commanded by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) to the Event Horizon, a spaceship that disappeared on its way to Proxima Centauri seven years before that has suddenly reappeared in Neptune's orbit (that's over two hundred thirty five quadrillion one hundred fifty trillion miles off course).

Once they have boarded the Event Horizon, they discover that the original crew have been massacred, and that the ship was equipped with the technology to generate black holes, with the intent of discovering a way of travelling across large distances in space and time. After the crew all experience hallucinations related to their greatest fears, they realise that the black hole generator has brought something evil on to the ship, and that surviving with their sanity intact, or surviving at all, will now be extremely difficult for the crew of the Lewis and Clark.

Whilst Event Horizon wasn't exactly a critical success upon its first release, it should be noted that the film that was released in 1997 was not the film that director Paul W. S. Anderson intended to release. Roughly 30 minutes of footage was cut, which has since been lost, preventing Anderson from releasing a director's cut in the intervening years. Despite this, the film does have its strengths.

The beginning succeeds in producing a genuine sense of dread and suspense, providing a solid foundation for the rest of the film to then build off of. 33 years after its original release, the film is now remembered more fondly, and has amassed quite the cult following, demonstrating how time can always be kinder to certain films that deserve it.