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Welcome to Cold Flicks, where we explore the TV shows and movies that shape our imaginations.
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I'm Andre Bonner and in today's episode we'll be descending into the horrors
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of deep space in the movie Event Horizon
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I first saw this movie back in high school when it aired on cable.
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Funny enough, every time I came across it after that, I only ever caught beginning
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or the end. Never the middle.
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Recently, I finally decided to sit down and watch it from start to finish.
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Of course, I made sure to do so during the day.
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No way was I watching this right before bed. From the very start,
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the haunting opening theme sets the toll for what to come.
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The story follows a missing research vessel, the Event Horizon,
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which was equipped with an experimental engine designed to enable faster-than-light travel.
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When all contact with the ship is lost, it's presumed destroyed until it suddenly reappears.
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A rescue mission
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Aboard the Lewis and Clark is sent to investigate.
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But what they find is far worse than anything they expected.
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One by one, the crew members start falling victim to eerie, terrifying forces.
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It turns out that Dr. Weir, the scientist behind Event Horizon,
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wasn't entirely honest about the ship's true nature.
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As the story unfolds, he becomes possessed by an entity that feeds and cruises
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deepest fears and traumatic memories.
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What follows is a psychological and supernatural horror that keeps you on edge,
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proving that sometimes scariest things aren't just in space, but in the mind as well.
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Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul Anderson
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and written by Philip Eisner.
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It stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Jolie Richardson.
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Set in 2047, it follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing spaceship.
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The Event Horizon spontaneously appears in orbit around Neptune,
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only to discover that a sinister force has come back with it.
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The film had a troubled production, with filming and editing rushed by Paramount
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Pictures when it became clear that Titanic would not meet its projected release.
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The original 130-minute cut of the film was heavily edited by the studio's demand
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to Anderson's consternation.
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Released in the United States on August 15, 1997, and in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2nd.
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Event Horizon was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $42 million on
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a $60 million production budget.
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However, it began to sell well on home video. Its initial DVD release sold so
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well that Paramount contacted Anderson to begin working on a restoration of
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the deleted footage, but it had been either lost or destroyed.
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In the years since, the film has developed a cult following and is referenced
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in other works of popular culture.
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In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon,
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a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier.
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The ship mysteriously reappears in orbit around Neptune, and a rescue vessel
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Lewis and Clark is dispatched to investigate.
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Its crew, Captain Miller, Second-in-Command Lieutenant Stark,
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Pilot Smith, Medical Technician Peters, Engineer Ensign Justin, Dr.
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DJ, and Rescue Technician Cooper, is joined by Dr.
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William Weir, the Event Horizons designer.
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He briefs them on the ship's experimental gravity drive with a simple visualization
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of how it folds spacetime.
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The distress signal consists of a series of screams and howls,
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but DJ believes he hears the Latin phrase, liberate me, save me.
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Upon boarding the event horizon, the crew finds evidence of a massacre.
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As they search for survivors, the ship's gravity drive activates and briefly
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pulls Justin into a portal while also causing a shockwave that damages the Lewis and Clark.
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The crew are forced to board the event horizon while Justin emerges in a catatonic state.
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Smith and Cooper are sent on a spacewalk to repair the hull of the Lewis and Clark.
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The crew begins experiencing hallucinations corresponding to their fears and regrets.
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Miller sees a subordinate he was forced to abandon to his death,
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Peter sees her son with his legs covered in bloody lesions, where sees an eyeless
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vision of his late wife urging him to join her.
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Justin attempts suicide by decompression, but he is saved by Miller.
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The crew places Justin in stasis.
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They discover a video log of the Event Horizon's crew brutalizing each other
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shortly after first engaging the gravity drive.
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The log ends with a shot of the Event Horizon's captain, holding his own eyes
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gouged from their sockets and speaking the Latin phrase from the earlier distress call.
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DJ translates the complete phrase as Libera T. Tupmed Eximferis,
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save yourself from hell.
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Weir explains that the ship's drive opened a gateway to a hellish dimension
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outside the known universe, implied to be hell, and that the Event Horizon has attained sentience.
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Miller decides to destroy it. He orders an evacuation while Peters is lured
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to her death by a hallucination of her son.
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Weir, who is gouged out his own eyes and is corrupted by the evil presence,
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uses an explosive device to destroy the Lewis and Clark which kills Smith and
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blasts Cooper into space.
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Weir kills DJ by vivisecting him in corner Stark on
the bridge.
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Miller confronts Weir, who overpowers him and initiates a 10-minute countdown
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to activate the gravity drive and return to the other dimension.
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Cooper uses his space suit's oxygen supply to propel himself back to the ship
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and appears at the bridge window.
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Weir shoots at him, shattering the window, causing Weir to be blown into space by the decompression.
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Miller, Stark, and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the ship's bridge.
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With their own ship destroyed, Miller plans to split the event horizon in two
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with explosives and use its forward section as a lifeboat.
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He is attacked by hallucinations which turn out to be the resurrected and further mutilated Weir.
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Miller fights him off and detonates the explosives, sacrificing himself.
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The gravity drive activates, pulling the ship's stern section into a black hole.
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Stark and Cooper enter stasis beside a comatose Justin and wait to be rescued.
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72 days later, the wreckage of the event Horizon is boarded by a rescue party
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who discover the survivors in stasis.
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Stark sees reposing as one of the rescuers and screams in terror,
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but she awakens and realizes that it was a nightmare.
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Cooper and the rescue team try to calm the terrified Stark as the doors close.
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Here are some key themes and symbols in Event Horizon. Themes The unknown and cosmic horror.
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The film explores the fear of the unknown, drawing on Lovecraftian horror to
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depict a dimension beyond human comprehension, one that brings madness and terror.
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The corruption of technology and science.
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The Event Horizon spaceship represents how scientific advancements,
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when unchecked, can lead to catastrophic consequences. The pursuit of knowledge
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can sometimes open doors best left closed.
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Hell and Damnation The ship's journey into another dimension and its return
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suggest a literal descent into hell, reinforcing themes of sin,
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punishment, and eternal suffering.
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Madness and Psychological Horror The crew experiences hallucinations fueled
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by their deepest fears and regrets, emphasizing the fragile nature of the human
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mind under extreme conditions.
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Isolation and Desperation Trapped in deep space, the characters must face both
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the external horror of the ship and their own internal demons,
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highlighting the psychological effects of isolation.
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Symbols The Event Horizon Ship A symbol of forbidden knowledge in Pandora's
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box, representing humanity's reckless pursuit of power without understanding the consequences.
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The Gravity Drive acts as a gateway to another dimension, symbolizing the thin
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boundary between science and supernatural horror.
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It also represents the human tendency to push beyond limits without foreseeing the risks.
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The Visions and Hallucinations Manifestations of guilt, trauma,
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and the ship's corrupting influence,
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showing how personal fears can be weaponized against individuals.
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The Gateway to Hell implies a place beyond time and space where suffering is eternal.
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Reinforcing the film's mix of science fiction and religious horror.
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Blood and Gore The mutilations and grotesque imagery symbolize the physical
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and psychological torment inflicted by the ship's influence,
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emphasizing suffering beyond death.
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Conclusion Event Horizon, 1997, is a blend of science fiction and horror,
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using cosmic terror and psychological themes to explore humanity's fear of the unknown.
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Through its chilling symbols and disturbing imagery, the film serves as a cautionary
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tale about the dangers of unchecked ambition, the fragility of the human mind,
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and the horrors that may lie beyond the boundaries of space and time.
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Its lasting impact stems from its ability to fuse sci-fi spectacle with supernatural
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dread, creating a truly unsettling experience.
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Here is a character analysis of the main figures in Event Horizon, 1997.
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Dr. William Weir, Sam Neill. Dr.
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Weir is the designer of the Event Horizon, a spaceship equipped with an experimental
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gravity drive capable of creating artificial black holes.
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Initially portrayed as a logical scientist, Weir's descent into madness mirrors
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the ship's own transformation.
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His grief over his deceased wife, combined with the ship's malevolent influence,
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causes
him to become an antagonist, embracing the horrors he helped unleash.
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Captain Miller, Lawrence Fishburne. Captain Miller is the pragmatic and disciplined
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leader of the Lewis and Clark, the rescue vessel sent to investigate the event horizon.
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He prioritizes the safety of his crew and remains skeptical of Weir's assurances.
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As the horrors unfold, his inner demons, particularly the guilt over a past
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decision that led to a crew member's death, are exploited.
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Ultimately, he sacrifices himself to protect the surviving crew.
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Lieutenant Stark, Jolie Richardson.
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Stark is the second in command of
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the Lewis and Clark and one of the more level-headed members of the crew.
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She is among the few survivors, maintaining a rational approach amidst the growing chaos.
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Cooper, Richard T. Jones.
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Cooper provides comic relief and optimism throughout the film,
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serving as a contrast to the dark atmosphere.
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Despite his humorous nature, he proves to be a competent crew member,
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surviving the ship's horrors and actively working to escape.
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Dr. DJ, Jason Isaacs.
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Dr.
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DJ is the ship's medical officer with a background in trauma.
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He is analytical and cautious, but becomes another victim of the ship's supernatural
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influence, eventually meeting a gruesome fate.
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Peters, Kathleen Quinlan. Peters is a med tech officer who is haunted by visions
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of her son while on the event horizon.
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Her maternal instincts and emotional vulnerability are exploited by the ship,
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leading to her tragic demise.
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Justin, Jack Noseworthy. Justin, or Baby Bear, is the youngest crew member.
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He is the first to experience the horrors of the ship, nearly being pulled into
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the void created by the gravity drive.
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His suffering sets the tone for the crew's realization that the event horizon
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has been to a dimension of pure chaos.
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Smitty, Sean Pertwee. Smitty is the ship's pilot and engineer.
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His practical mindset and loyalty to the crew are evident, but he ultimately
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falls victim to the ship's escalating violence.
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Each character in event horizon represents different aspects of fear,
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trauma, and guilt, which the ship exploits.
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The film blends psychological horror with cosmic terror, using its characters'
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vulnerabilities to intensify the unfolding nightmare.
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Here is a detailed overview of the production and design of the movie.
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Production 1. Development The film was written by Philip Eisner and originally
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envisioned as a Lovecraftian horror story in space.
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Influences included H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, The Shining,
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1980, and 2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968.
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The studio, Paramount Pictures, wanted a film to rival Alien,
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1979, and pressured the filmmakers to cut production time, leading to a rushed
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post-production process.
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2. Filming and Locations The movie was shot at Pinewood Studios in England,
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using large-scale practical sets.
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Some exteriors and ship miniatures were enhanced with CGI, but most interiors
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were built as full-scale physical sets.
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Many of the gruesome hell visions were practical effects,
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enhanced by fast-cut editing design one
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production design production designer
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joseph bennett alien versus predator gladiator the design of the event horizon
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ship was a fusion of gothic cathedral elements inspired by notre dame de paris
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industrial aesthetics with metallic corridors and dim lighting religious and occult symbolism,
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reinforcing the film's themes of supernatural horror.
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Key set designs. The event horizon ship.
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The ship's long, cross-shaped design was inspired by cathedrals and religious iconography.
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Dark, rusted interiors made it feel abandoned and haunted.
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The corridors were designed with a ribbed, spine-like structure,
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creating a claustrophobic effect.
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Gravity drive room. The most iconic set, featuring a rotating black sphere with interlocking rings.
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The design was inspired by gyroscopes and medieval torture devices.
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Runic symbols were etched into the walls, reinforcing the idea that the ship
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had been touched by an infernal force.
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The medical bay and crew quarters featured blood-stained walls,
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flickering lights, and floating debris, emphasizing the ship's history of terror.
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The cold, sterile design was gradually overtaken by organic,
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disturbing elements, reflecting the ship's descent into madness.
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2. Costume Design Costume Designer, John Mallow, Star Wars, A New Hope, Alien.
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The cruise uniforms were practical, military-style jumpsuits, with mission patches.
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Dr. Weir's transformation, played by Sam Neill, was enhanced with prosthetic
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effects, creating a scarred, demonic look by the film's climax. 3.
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Cinematography and Lighting Cinematographer, Adrian Biddle, Aliens, The Princess Bride.
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The ship's lighting was low-key and shadow-heavy, with flickering effects to create unease.
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Red emergency lighting and strobe effects heightened the sense of dread.
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The film used distorted, handheld shots for hallucination sequences,
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increasing their chaotic, nightmarish quality.
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4. Visual effects and CGI.
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The film blended practical effects, miniatures, and CGI to create its horrific imagery.
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The ship's exterior was a detailed miniature, filmed with motion control cameras.
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The Hell Visions were mostly practical effects with prosthetics,
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fake blood, and makeup, but enhanced with digital effects. 5.
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Sound and Music Composer, Michael Kamen, with electronic elements by Orbital.
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The score mixed orchestral horror themes with techno-industrial beats,
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reinforcing the film's fusion of sci-fi and horror.
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The ship's ambient sounds, metal groaning, whispers, and heartbeats,
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created an unsettling atmosphere.
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Legacy Event Horizon was initially a critical and commercial failure,
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but later gained cult status due to its unique horror aesthetic.
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The film has influenced other works, including Dead Space, The Expanse,
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and Warhammer 40ks Warp Mythology.
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Free audio post-production by Alphonic.com So here are my personal insights
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and interpretations of Event Horizon,
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including some of my favorite moments and the characters.
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So this movie actually would have been longer, but it has been cut down in several ways, right?
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The opening theme music was so haunting you know i'm saying that's you know so such an
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Eerie sound you know and you
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might have heard it sampled in the intro to the podcast as
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well so we get to
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see the ship right i mean 2047 that's
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when this is set and there's
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a distract signal that comes from
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the event horizon and it's a ship that
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has been vanished for seven years right
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near neptune so the lewis
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and clark they're a rescue vessel right
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and they're led by a captain
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miller who is laurence fishburne
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one of my favorite actors finding out
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here and basically they're
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on the journey to investigate right i
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like how he portrays the
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emotional range of a
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captain here and perhaps this might have been what would have given him enough
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props to be able to take on being the captain of the nebuchadnezzar in the matrix
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which is even you know cooler but But, yeah,
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you know, in those early days, you could see a young Larry Fishburne, basically, you know.
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So, we are introduced to members of the crew and Dr.
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William Ware. Yeah.
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He's the ship's designer, right? He would have been the person who designed
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the Event Horizon and him figure out the experimental gravity drive that would
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have transported the ship through different parts of space.
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So he's there as basically like a consultant, right? Or should be there as a consultant.
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When the crew happens upon the event horizon, I mean, you know,
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imagine seven years they've been looking for this ship, right?
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And it is near to Neptune, but they didn't know exactly where.
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But I mean, think about it this way too. It's space, space is big and vast.
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So it could be that, you know, it does take that long for them to,
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you know, finally get at finding it, right?
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Yes, they might have ships that can do warp speed or, you know, so, but, yeah.
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Anyways, so they find that it is drifting in space,
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Right?
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And so they dock with a ship.
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You know, there's nothing too scary
yet, right? When they go aboard the ship,
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there's no life science, right?
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And it just seems to have a lot of floating debris because the gravity device that, you know,
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artificial gravity, generous artificial gravity inside of a spaceship like those,
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it doesn't seem to be active.
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So there's some blood that is floating around, around them and everything.
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That was fucking horrific, just looking at it, right?
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Eventually, get to the ship's logs and it shows a garbled distress message.
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You know, it's always one of those things, one of those tropes in these movies that, you know,
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shit's going to get real fucked up is you're going to have some message or something
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that isn't fully understandable in the moment.
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And then later on down, it becomes very important to the central plot.
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Yeah, this is that device right here. the garbled distress message with a Latin
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phrase that says, liberate me, basically, that's what it sounds like,
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which would translate to save me.
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So they're like, okay, that makes sense. So let's go save, you know, how
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We're going to save
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People, because they look at them dead anyways, you know, because it'd be a
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blood die all over the place. So not long after that,
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of the ship's crew, the engineer, Justin, he is exploring the gravity drive room, right?
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And it's this massive spherical core that basically is the device that Dr.
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Weir would have conceptualized and used, and the Event Horizon works,
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you know, like their engine.
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Instead of them having like a warp generator that would you know,
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or If you know what I'm talking about, it's like an engine that basically allows
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them to be able to move and travel through space.
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But the way how it does it is not necessarily in the same way that other things work.
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So this one is apparently supposed to be able to take you through.
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I don't remember exactly how they describe it, but it takes you through space
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in such a way that you don't end up.
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Moving necessarily but you're just almost like you
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are here now and then you reappear there in
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an instant so you you know
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move from point a to point b really really
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fast so yeah it would have seemed like but
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what would have happened is that you would
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have traveled through a dimension or you
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know you would have went out of the universe
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and then come back into it in that sense yeah it's kind of wibbly wobbly yeah
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I definitely need to do doctor who because doctor who goes into some of these
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things in a way that you can get a better understanding at least but yeah
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So the drive seemingly activates while he's there and Justin gets pulled inside and gets sucked inside,
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you know, unlike if somebody's phone number gets sucked into somebody's phone
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and into group chat that he's not supposed to be in.
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I'm just saying, not that kind of thing, right? It was this man getting sucked
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into a thing that actually is gravity.
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So, you know, you can imagine a gravity drive pulling you into it, right?
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And at first I'm thinking because of the way how the show name anyway is Event
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Horizon, it gives you the idea that, hey, some kind of generating of black hole.
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And so, you know, using that probably to harness that, you know?
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But, yeah, anyways, he emerges in shock and mumbling and, you know,
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he just seems very out of it.
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The man just, you know.
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Then other strange occurrences are noticed by other crew members who experience
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some hallucinations. and it seems to be of their worst fears.
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So Captain Miller would have seen a burning man, which would have been his former
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crewmate who he failed to save.
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He keeps seeing him in front of him as if he's literally there when he knows he's dead.
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Stark, one of the crew members, she continually sees hallucination of Justin
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or at least something moving around the place.
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Her just being in shock about what is going on
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there's you know where dr
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weir hears his dead wife voice right
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and you know eventually he
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would have seen with no eyes eyes both eyes plucked out looking at him which
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was fucking weird yeah so at this point of course everybody's like what the fuck is going on
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Captain Miller is like yo you need to tell me what I'm going Dr.
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Weir something is going on because everybody I said I must say certain things
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and he's trying to deny it he's trying to kind of hold on you know the fort
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like he must say yo no you know you know we gotta be this we gotta be skeptical
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about this and that you know we're like nigga
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People are complaining about certain things right and you're going to talk about
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the fact that certain things can't be happening or we need to do other things
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and you're not paying attention to these things.
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Mind you, they all could be literally just hallucinating just so.
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It could just all be in their mind.
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But the fact that you're going to have people that say, we can't continue to
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do what we have on our mission.
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We need to get our asses out of here and figure out another way.
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We can't continue, but he's pushing ahead. He wants to push ahead with things.
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keep the ship from drifting into deep space so suit up captain we've got galaxies to explore Bye-bye.
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So, eventually, they're able to clean up that previous transmission,
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the distorted distress call, which now reveals to say liberate tuteme ex inferis.
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And I'm not casting a spell here, guys. It's just Latin, which means save yourself from hell.
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So imagine you dip on a spaceship you have a mission for going to see if some
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people and you go there and you find some shit happening you have
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hallucinations happening around you right everybody else have hallucinations
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some people have denied some people haven't said that I'm having hallucinations
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right one of the guys he's having an hallucination but he didn't say anything
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and you know he was getting increasingly violent too but anyways And then you
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see a distorted distress message that has been cleaned up enough for you to hear clearly.
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So it's not that it's distorted and you're hearing something freaky.
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You're hearing something freaky from something that's clean.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Want to get the hell out of Dodge, right? You want to get out of there because
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you're not steering in this.
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But that's not the case, of course. Yeah.
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So they start asking questions about the gravity drive because,
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you know, I must say, we're wondering, is it actually supposed to be doing what,
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you know, and can it be activated?
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And he's like, no, it can't be activated. you
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know it's like that it has to be this that
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that and really it's like you know
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dr where we really believe say it
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never just create a wormhole right it
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opened up a gateway to a dimension of
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chaos and torment it seems and then
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the ship itself is reacting as if
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it is alive right and
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you know it's trying to repel the
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foreign bodies so justin who was out you know almost cold for a little while
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he now has been tormented by what he has been seeing traumatized
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He locks himself in the airlock and vents himself into space which causes his
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eyes to pop out of his head I don't know why the rest of his body wasn't experiencing
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anything else but then again,
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it was made in 1997 so they
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would have been just concerned about just
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showing that particular thing to say oh your blood
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will boil and your eyes will just pop out but yeah there was a time that he
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spent in space you know other stuff should have been happening to him too skin
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and everything yeah anyways so things get even more freaky more hauntings
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Things just get
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Really off the rocker and you know the crew members continue to be tarmented
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you know in more ways than one for some of them
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So we're having seen his wife, his dead wife, with no eyes in her head and
telling him to join her.
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She's almost naked, right? So, yeah, I have to mention that part, right?
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She's almost naked. She just lives on, like, marina-looking thing and a panty.
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And yeah she was learning
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i guess because you know you haven't seen your wife
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you know the last time you saw her was that and
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so you you know you just give up you as a scientist you
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just forget that you're on a
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mission you forget that you came there to
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do science or
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perhaps that wasn't your goal probably you were
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just motivated by pure unadulterated
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wanting to be with your wife so now you are there you gladly accept the invitation
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to join her wherever she she is so yeah Dr.
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Weir gouged out him yied him one yied and you know him claim saying how the
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ship has shown him the truth
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fucking hell you talking about what you talking about
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So Weir murders several crew members you know and by this time when they realized
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I say they're being picked off one by one.
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Captain Miller would have tried to find a way to get them all off because they
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were like, all right, we're getting out of Dodge.
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We'll leave Dr. Weir because Dr. Weir just now cooperating at this point.
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He was supposed to be at a part of the plan. He was supposed to be doing something,
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but he just isn't doing it.
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So they were getting out of Dodge, which is a smart move in that moment.
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But it was a little too late because Dr.
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Weir now has been converted, as you say, and he's murdering people, right?
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And then they set a booby trap and put it on Lewis and Clark and destroyed Lewis
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and Clark with one of the crew members that was there.
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I'm discovered late, you know, that the bomb was there.
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Then he activates the gravity drive, which,
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you know, he's basically going to send the ship to the place that it came from,
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where it was all these years, so that he can probably join his wife,
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apparently, I don't know.
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Yeah, of course, you know, Captain Miller never got to have it that way.
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He have to stand up there and fight, right?
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Literally, right? Brutal confrontation.
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And Dr. Weir has the upper hand because apparently he is possessed by this entity
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that gives him supernatural abilities now.
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So he's flinging Captain Miller all over the place, mashing him up and thing.
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And Captain Miller even go through him thing and I see stuff too.
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So at the same time, all of that happened.
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The other members of the crew they would have been trying to ensure that them find a way if they
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detach the event horizon forgot to mention that they had that plan to detach
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the front part and the back part so the part we have in the gravity drive from
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the other part so that them can and basically survive, right?
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So Milo was trying to do his part and he ended up in a situation where he just
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couldn't find himself out of it anyway.
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So he sacrificed himself by blowing up the part of the ship, right?
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So that it prevents them from being taken into the dimension,
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the other dimension, right? And it even stops the...
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Right out so the
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remaining survivors now they end up
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that Stark and Cooper they would
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escape into the ship's forward section and they end up going into stasis of
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course you know and the class of that they are discovered by a rescue team and as their rescue
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stark has a vision of where is that we're come back you know and you know and
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you feel like say yo this is gonna be it is that i'm gonna done the show right
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so they might cut the show and make it seem like this need a part two but no
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they realize say she was just solely dreaming
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and then you know the the
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film ends on a very abrupt note you know
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basically giving you all thing for Seboa you
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know what happened is said
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that the entity was destroyed because the
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last time that we thought where was going at time when he got ejected out of
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the ship and now we are wondering if him actually dead dead or is it that he
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is just floating somewhere in space only to be picked up by some
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Unsuspecting thing and what would he
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do without
the gravity drive in his
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state because he's possessed now so is it
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that the entity will use his mind to create another ship is it I don't know
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can it do anything other than to give him superhuman strength and to make him
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be able to see even though he now have no eye ball can tear out in eye ball him
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These are some good questions, right?
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Yeah, so this movie was a crazy mix of sci-fi and horror.
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And you can tell from the terror and the gruesome imagery, they weren't afraid
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to show you some shit in this thing, right? This is why I'm swearing so much.
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This film, as I'll just say, you have some things in the universe.
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That might necessarily be best left unexplored and that, you know,
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maybe some of the things that we want to do, you know, we want to go to those
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frontiers of science and want to go to that undiscovered country.
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Maybe it's best to leave those countries undiscovered. Yeah.
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Well, that's my analysis and interpretation of the film.
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So here are my theories about unresolved mysteries and some plot points.
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So one of the things that came out directly was the fact that Event Horizon
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didn't shy away from talking about hell and the nature of what that hell dimension could be.
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So it could
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be that we see that
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kind of grotesque violence as being
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the ship basically and
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the fact that when they boarded the ship there
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was blood everywhere and we saw on
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the video that the crew basically killed one another and it gave that idea that
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in hell being in hell is this violent grotesque
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Place tormenting because
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everybody was tormented by something that they felt guilty
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about is almost like your sins yeah
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that just be pulled
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out if you want to put it that way and then
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we get the idea of the ship
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itself becoming sentient and that it takes on an evil sentience after being
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exposed to that dimension and even acting like a malevolent force that torments
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its occupants and manipulates them.
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And on the topic of
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the
ship's sentience I think
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about the event horizon That in many sci-fi It has been hinted at that there
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are some ways That a ship can basically be sentient Outside of being AI, can literally be alive
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And the ship's ability to manipulate its electronics as if, you know,
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it's moving an arm or a leg, right?
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And to create these hallucinations that are tailored to the fool's deepest fears
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or regrets, the things that keep some of them up at night.
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And then, you know, through that extension, Dr.
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Weir gets possessed, right? and carrying out the evil will of this malevolent entity.
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And then you wonder if he's actually gone. Is he actually dead?
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The ending kind of
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leaves it open too because even
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though Stark had that little vision and seemingly woke up is it that this evil
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that has been unleashed because of this could it be lingering In some ways,
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it could be that Stark is having that nightmare because she's still trapped
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or the evil lingers with her now.
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Maybe it's going to find a new
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Home with their
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Crew And then those rescuers will end up becoming rescued too Or having to be
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rescued too because of this Because it seems like, you know, when they say
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I don't want to totally wipe out everything I want to leave people who can be an audience
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you want the evil wants to be worshipped and adored in that way so it tends
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to keep those alive enough alive so it will kill others and torment for tormenting
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The the ones that are living as long as you live you're
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Tormented right if you're dead you can't be tormented anymore because you won't
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be aware of anything that's happening.
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So that's why that option is left open, I think.
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And then it could just be the fact that she's been through this psychological trauma and in a way,
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she might be the most sensitive out of everybody because she was the very first
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one, the very first one to start having these experiences,
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these hallucinations.
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So probably her psychological trauma is being manifested in that supernatural
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way, so maybe she's connected.
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Maybe it's
because of her that this thing, these entire things started anyways.
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And there are some alternate endings that you know came out of early drafts
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so it could be you know that her
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role would have been different if they didn't edit it out or probably you know
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if they added it in the first place so a big question that comes up is what
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happened to the ship after its disappearance for several years right
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One of the things I can consider is that the government might have covered up
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the ship's true mission, right? Perhaps.
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And that's why they would have said that it was self-destructed.
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And that's why that's why we already come and tell them why it wasn't destroyed.
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They covered it up. you know it's to keep you know the
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technology the experimental technology secret and the nature of the mission
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you know probably the nature of the mission was for something else entirely
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And as I mentioned before it could be that
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when it went it was traveling to
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the other dimension when it went there it might have been like a few seconds
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but for the universe around it it might have been 7 years so it might have been
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jumping to the future so it could have been not a spaceship but a time ship
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that's one of those lingering theories out there.
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One of the other things is that it's obviously because of the fact that it was
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so heavily edited and there was
00:49:54.173 --> 00:49:56.833
some lost context based on probably,
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you know, the way how the story was originally crafted to go, that it
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They left it open in that way they edited
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it that way so that they could have gotten the
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go-ahead or the green light to do another movie
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or probably a series or whatever they were
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planning but perhaps it never panned out you
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know at that time it could still happen you know
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and it only takes money you know
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to be put into certain projects i mean i've seen worse
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movies and tv shows being out there so why
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wouldn't this one be right so this is one of those that i
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would definitely recommend it gets like
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a follow-up because you know i think it has been enough time for perhaps it
00:50:49.093 --> 00:50:56.653
to gain that following from the fact that its initial flop but now it has gained
00:50:56.653 --> 00:50:58.933
the following years afterwards,
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you know, and have its time like many others, it could be revisited.
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Maybe it could be retold a different way. It could be a, you know, reboot if they want.
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But at least if you're going to go that direction,
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You know, add the context in, the added context that was left out in the original
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so that it's a little bit more fluid and it feels like this is what it was meant to be.
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Each of the crew members They
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experience some hallucinations That
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were tied to their personal traumas
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Right And so as I mentioned before It's almost like For each man Hell is something
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different Right Their own experience Right It's just like for everybody's religion.
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For them, certain things mean different things to them.
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And to other persons, it might not be the same.
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Because it's psychological in that way.
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Because Miller would have encountered an issue.
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He couldn't save the man who was burning.
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And it's almost like he mutting about it like what should I do what I could have done
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so you know you've created this torment for yourself you've created that hell
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for yourself you know and many times that's what we do when we won't let go
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or won't forgive ourselves for some of the things that happen,
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especially things that are not fully in our control. Right?
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Fact that Dr.
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Weir, he would have, you can imagine, a scientist, him design something and
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his wife would have been one of the persons who would have been a guinea pig to it.
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And because of that, she got lost, right?
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It's kind of probably the same thing that Jonas Salk would have gone through
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when he was developing a vaccine for polio and him tested it upon his very own family.
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He wasn't a mad scientist. He was just an armed person who was trying to find
00:53:41.628 --> 00:53:50.728
a way to save lives and he felt like he didn't have any other option at the
00:53:50.728 --> 00:53:54.928
time and he did what he thought was the best thing at that time.
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And luckily, it worked out at
that time, but it could have not worked out or
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it could have caused some serious problems for them all.
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So those are my theories.
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So in this episode, we looked at Event Horizon, a descent into the horrors of deep space.
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And as I said before, watching over this movie really from start to finish and
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actually getting the context of everything.
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I have to say it's fucking unreal.
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What can be the horrors of deep space? Right?
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Yeah? I like the idea that things we have not discovered, we are uncovering
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and we are figuring out things.
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But I don't want it to be a case where we surrender the costs of our psyche to the elements,
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to any outside influence.
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And that's why I do these
00:55:33.136 --> 00:55:36.416
podcasts because I'm about
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trying to make sense of
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the reality in which we live in and there's
00:55:43.736 --> 00:55:50.716
so much out there it's almost like a universe of things in the world itself
00:55:50.716 --> 00:55:59.456
so you can imagine how vast space is what lies out there there could be so many
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different permutations.
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There could be different earths out there with other voices sounding different,
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Sounding the same, looking different, looking the same.
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And that's just what it is about. That everyone is able to
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Their part give their opinion
00:56:29.262 --> 00:56:32.422
no one is looking to say hey
00:56:32.422 --> 00:56:35.862
this is the only way or the the
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only thing that can happen right and
00:56:40.162 --> 00:56:44.882
just because we want
00:56:44.882 --> 00:56:48.482
to believe that things can be
00:56:48.482 --> 00:56:51.202
awesome and fantastic and we
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can go there and find these things we can go to different worlds We could fly
00:56:57.482 --> 00:57:06.382
to Mars and we could find a world that we could shape and form into something
00:57:06.382 --> 00:57:08.762
that could be our home someday.
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It doesn't mean that we're going to forget our origins, where we're coming from.
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And we're not changing the way how we do things to fit what everyone else is saying. that is what
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This is all about the freedom to express what we
00:57:37.362 --> 00:57:42.402
Us out and say hey you know you were wrong about this, you were right about
00:57:42.402 --> 00:57:46.382
this this is how it works, this is how it doesn't work
00:57:47.802 --> 00:57:53.002
because if we just sat down and thought that we knew everything,
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then there would be nothing else that we could discover as a human race.
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There's nowhere would go because we would know exactly what's there.
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So we don't need to go and discover it. We don't need to find it.
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We don't need to seek it because knowledge would just be something that we just know.
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It's there, but it doesn't work that way.
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So we have to go and seek it. We have to go and discover it.
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We have to try.
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Not saying that we can't have guardrails, we can't have things in place because
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we learn from experience.
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When you first hopped on that bicycle, you didn't immediately start riding perfectly.
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No, you You topple over the bicycle, you drop, but you learn how to not drop.
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You learn from falling how to not fall.
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And that is just what it is. And that's why we continue this.
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