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Event Horizon - in which sci fi space body horror gets very fucking real, and totally gross. First, Lawrence Fishburne is a space captain named Miller, and his first mate is Joely Richardson, and she rocks. Her accent is real. A bunch of space sailors are escorting science genius Sam Neill to the wreckage of a space ship. It wasn't just a space ship, it was a massive black hole generating machine, and it recently re-emerged around Neptune, and now its just orbiting, being spooky af. To give all the details, Sam Neill, AKA Dr. Weir, is having creepy dreams about his dead wife in his cryo/gravi-sleep pod before they even get to the abandoned wreck. Oh, its called the Event Horizon. So, once the crew rolls up on Event Horizon they get nervous, because its creepy, and a few people go out to investigate the empty ship. Miller orders Dr. Weir to stay aboard their vessel, and he doesn't do a good job of listening. As soon as the crew splits up, one young guy gets sucked into the gravitron ball made of iron, and when he gets out, he's in a nondescript coma. Honestly, everyone is trying to get the job done and gtfo, but the ship is sort of alive, and definitely haunted. Meanwhile, actually alive human being Dr. Weir is accidentally conspiring with the ship to feed everyone to it.
    Once aboard the Event Horizon, the crew discovers a last video feed, and eventually de-fuzzes it to reveal some disgusting ocular mutilation/cannibalism, or the worst orgy I have ever seen. Jason Issacs is in the movie, playing a trauma doctor who smokes, and he tries to help the young guy in the coma, but the ship isn't gonna let that happen, and he gets literally gutted, and fucking hung up on hooks, like some Hellraiser shit, and it is awesome. Miller is trying really hard to get everyone back on his ship, and there's technical reasons why they can't just split, and everyone is having hallucinations, or delusions, or being haunted, and it doesn't look like anyone is gonna make it out alive. Dr. Weir has gone full psycho, and he's all cut up and scarred and bald. He turns the gravitron on, and punches a hole in the hull of the bridge. Miller sets the bombs to destroy the evil half of Event Horizon, and Joely Richardson gets into the stasis pods in the escape part of the Event Horizon, with one of the pilots and the coma guy. They get actually rescued, probably. It was a pretty hectic movie, I'll watch it again, as it is hard to suss out how the ship got haunted, except that it most likely crossed space-time. Someone says that its likely that the ship had been to hell, as it was littered in the body parts of its old crew, and seemed evil, but that is unverifiable.

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