Event Horizon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[wesley]

Event Horizon's motor uses a three-ringed system to create a black hole and travel to another place. The same concept was used in Contact (1997), released 35 days before.

[jeffrey]

Some of the lost footage includes a great deal more of the Bosch-influenced Hell sequences and of the orgiastic video log that was found in the Event Horizon. This was shot by both director Paul W.S. Anderson and Vadim Jean, mainly on weekends.

[carla]

For his final scenes, Sam Neill would come to the studio at 3am so that he could spend 7-8 hours in make-up.

[manuel]

There is a series being developed based on the movie and will be directed by Adam Wingard. No release date as of yet.

[ethel]

Kathleen Quinlan (Peters) and Jack Noseworthy (Justin) had previously appeared in Breakdown (1997), which premiered three months prior to this film. Breakdown starred Kurt Russell, who would be in director Paul W.S. Anderson's next movie, Soldier (1998).

[charlie]

When Cooper activates his jet pack to get back to the Event Horizon, "Purge" appears in the control. It's a nod to Blade Runner (1982), since then in the Spinner's screen used by Deckard and Guff "Purge" appears when it goes to fly.

[chad]

The 'Visions from Hell' were inspired by works from 16th-century Renaissance painters Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, which director Paul W.S. Anderson saw while he was touring art galleries with his production designer. Anderson was fascinated by these paintings, as the makers clearly believed in the reality of Hell as the complete antithesis of Heaven, and the images they created were terrifying and beautiful at the same time.

[kristen]

Paul W.S. Anderson's initial rough cut submitted to the MPAA received the kiss-of-death NC-17 rating.

[norma]

The original script had a sequence near the end where Starck (Joely Richardson) prepares the gravity tanks on the Event Horizon for the survivors' escape, but one of them fills with blood, and a partially regenerated Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) without a skin appears inside. He breaks out and chases Stark, who flees and falls down a ladder to the room below; Weir follows, climbing down the same ladder upside-down. This scene was actually filmed but omitted from the movie. Weir's upside-down walk was inspired by the infamous 'Spiderwalk' sequence from the extended version of The Exorcist (1973).

[kenneth]

The working title was "The Stars My Destination".

[ray]

Visual body count: 3 (D.J., Smith and Peters). Miller and Weir disappear into a black hole and Cooper, Justin and Starck survive to be rescued. Body parts of the original crew (who consisted of 18 members) are seen throughout the film, but since their deaths occur off-screen, they are not included. If it is assumed that all original crew members have died, the full body count would be 21.