The worst thing about the 1997 sci-fi horror movie is the initial reviews “Event Horizon”The film’s shocking box office performance at the moment was a testament to its horror. The Paul W.S. Anderson-directed sci-fi horror film has been a cult classic for 25 years. Anderson-directed sci-fi horror film has slowly grown into something of a cult classic, and there’s always the remote chance that the filmmaker could deliver a longer, fully restored version — under the right circumstances.
In a recent interview, Anderson revealed that because the film arrived at the end of the VHS era, there wasn’t a viable consumer home for bonus features and deleted scenes that were popularized by the DVD boom. As a result, studio Paramount Pictures didn’t exactly place a great deal of importance on archiving special editions and extra footage. Though that doesn’t mean it’s UnpossibleFor “Event Horizon”You can return with new material.
“So it’s just not there,”Anderson said Entertainment Weekly. “I think to really reinstitute what the old cut was, you’d need to probably do what they did with the Snyder Cut where you have to go and shoot some material again.”
Anderson refers to “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,”In 2021, HBO Max released the film. The four-hour film, featuring some newly shot material and a completion of previously shot footage, is an extended version of Snyder’s original plans for “Justice League”Before he left the film halfway through production. Joss Whedon was recruited to complete the film. It opened in theaters on October 17, 2017 to mixed reviews and disappointing ticket sales.
Though before you run off and begin plotting an online campaign to #ReleasetheAndersonCut, you should know that the theatrical version doesn’t appear to have made sweeping changes to his original vision.
“I reduced the running time of the disturbing images, but actually didn’t take much imagery out,”Anderson said. “All I did was, what had been a three-second cut, sometimes became a three-frame cut. I think ultimately by compressing the material, and making these visions of hell almost these subliminal bursts of imagery, I think it actually increased the power and the horror, rather than decreasing it. I think it had the opposite effect of what the studio was imagining.”
“Event Horizon”Follow a team of astronauts as they investigate a ship that appears to have returned years after it disappeared. The crew discovers that the ship is not abandoned and begins to investigate it.
