Event Horizon Movie Review

Starring: Sam Neill, Lawrence Fishburne, Joely Richardson

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A spaceship that is testing faster space travel disappears without a trace. Seven years later it sends out a signal. A rescue ship is sent out to get them. When they get there the crew are all dead. The rescue crew begin to see weird things that make them go crazy. The rest of the crew try to figure out what is going on and try to stay alive. Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
Lawrence Fishburne leads a rescue team to the experimental starship Event Horizon, designed by Sam Neill. The team is plagued by increasingly disturbing and violent hallucinations. Artemis, Resident Scholar

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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - "primitive"/present day space travel - rescue mission
Horror film? Yes
Kind of Horror Story - the monster chased me!

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - military officer, senior
Age: - 20's-30's - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - muscular (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - Black
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Brown) - blonde
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average build (man)
Unclothed? - chest
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) - British

Main Adversary
Identity: - An "It".
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind reading - mind control - can read emotions
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport - primative (present, near future) human spaceship
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
In Space? - in spacesuit

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Tone of movie - fearful
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - seeing breasts
Any profanity? - Some foul language - A lot of foul language
Kinds of F/X - exploding spaceships - exotic spaceships - nasty human transformations

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