15 Best Horror Movies To Watch On Netflix This Halloween
9. Event Horizon
If there’s one British filmmaker who doesn’t get enough credit, it’s Paul WS Anderson (not the Magnolia guy), who for nearly a quarter of a century has been steadily pumping out a succession of large-scale genre films that are never less than entertaining.
Pitched as “The Shining in space”, Event Horizon is one of his best films, and it’s a cut above the similarly-themed likes of Supernova and Sphere. Taking its visual cues from the first two Alien movies (Aliens is one of Anderson’s favourite films), Event Horizon is the story of an exploration vessel that reappears as mysteriously as it vanished seven years earlier.
What the investigating crew (which includes Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Neill and Sean Pertwee) quickly realize is that there’s a strange presence on board, perhaps brought in when the ship’s gravity drive opened a gateway into an unknown dimension. If you just thought, “I bet that results in the crew going crazy and turning on each other” give yourself a cigar.