Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 1997 science fiction horror film called:
Event Horizon. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As we begin this film, we see a dream of Dr. Weir about an empty space ship, and a dead crew member.
He wakes up suddenly and gets out of bed. He stops to remember his wife Claire,
looking at all their pictures. He eats his breakfast as his space station,
Daylight, floats above Earth's orbit. Weir is summoned to the space vessel
Lewis and Clark for a top secret rescue mission. Crewmates Smith, Justin and Starck
navigate coordinates before takeoff. They all split off for their respective duties,
Miller confirming launch with Cooper. Captain Miller brushes off an interaction with Dr. Weis
rushing everyone to get ready. Dr. Peters leads Dr. Weis to the
cryogenic tank and voices concern that Captain Miller doesn't like him much.
Crewmate DJ gives him an injection to keep him safe during the trip.
During the trip Dr. Weir hears a strange voice and wakes up in his cryo tank. He leaves the
tank and sees no one else is awake. Hearing the voice again, he investigates the ship.
He arrives at the command station to see Claire in a seat. He turns her around,
and she suddenly appears behind him with the message that she is waiting for him.
This all hallucinations as Peters gets him out of his tank. Everyone is already out while DJ
and Peters help Dr. Weis regain his bearings. Cooper offers Dr. Weis coffee, and is interrupted
by Captain Miller who commands everyone to hurry and get to their positions.
Peters watches her son Denny's birthday party on her tablet as the team gets together for a
meeting. Captain Miller apologizes to her for taking her away from her family.
Dr. Weir is introduced to the space crew and he begins explaining to the crew their secret
mission. Captain Miller expresses the crew's dislike for being there in the first place and
concern for the dangers from this mission. Dr. Weir confides to the crew their objective
is to find the lost ship Event Horizon. Dr. Weir continues to explain the true nature of
the Event Horizon, it's purpose being to attempt to travel faster than light speed. He divulges
to the crew he has found a way to achieve this using a Gravity Drive device, which he built.
He further explains that Event Horizon was doing fine, but suddenly disappeared, only to resurface
again years later in the present. Later in another part of the ship,
Dr. Weis plays the last known communication from Event Horizon. The crew is confused at what they
hear, but DJ identifies part of the recording as being Latin, translating it to "save me".
Finally reaching Neptune, the crew works to approach the Event Horizon,
entering the planet's turbulent atmosphere. They finally reach the Event Horizon,
it's size dwarfing the Lewis and Clark. They dock and stabilize, Starcks giving an analysis of the
Event Horizon and its internal conditions. She scans a faint source of life inside the Event
Horizon, but is unable to pinpoint a location. The crew splits up to get ready to board the
massive ship, while Captain Miller commands Dr. Weis to stay inside the Lewis and Clark.
Dr. Weis disagrees, but is shut down by Captain Miller, who wants him to guide
everyone from the communication station. Miller, Justin, and Peters enter the Event
Horizon as Weis guides them. Justin heads to examine the engineering room, while Captain Miller
and Peters leave to explore the forward decks. Miller and Peters come across multiple explosives,
to which Weis explains they are used to split the ship into sections in an emergency situation.
They reach the Medical Wing and examine the area. Unable to find any crew members,
they scan for life readings, but find none. Peters enters the main bridge of the Event
Horizon and discovers some old blood. Meanwhile, Justin reaches the engineering
room to find coolant leaking everywhere. Despite this, the levels are within the safety limits.
Peters continues to search the main bridge and begins to examine the ship's logged recordings.
She is then startled by a dead crew member of the Horizon. DJ comments that the injuries
look to be caused by some sort of animal. Back in engineering, Justin scans for signs of
life around the room. He gets the power running to discover the core of the ship, Gravity Drive.
Meanwhile, Lewis and Clark, the remaining crew, lose Justin's signal while on the Horizon,
he gets sucked inside Gravity Drive. Gravity Drive sends out a massive gravity
wave, harming the Lewis and Clark as the ship bursts into sparks and flames.
Meanwhile Cooper rushes to rescue Justin who is expelled from Gravity Drive.
Back on Lewis and Clark, Smith explains to Miller that the Lewis and Clark
is done for and not repairable. Weis suggests that they use the Event Horizon as a new ship.
Now all stuck in Event Horizon, Miller conducts an assessment of the ship's status. Starcks informs
him that all communications are down so there will be no help coming, and that the air in the
ship is rapidly becoming unbreathable. In the medical wing, DJ and Peters evaluate
Justin, who is alive but unresponsive. Back in the Bridge, Cooper explains to
Miller and Weis how he found Justin. Weis calls his explanation impossible,
but Cooper sticks to his story. Weis goes on to explain what he thinks
Cooper saw in Gravity Drive, blaming the gravity wave that disabled the Lewis and Clark.
Miller commands Starcks to seal the core room, but Weis disagrees, claiming there to be no danger.
In the medical wing, Peters looks through the ships recording logs.
She is distracted by a hallucination of her son injured in the medical wing. DJ snaps
her out of it, asking if she is alright. Peters shows Miller the last entry in the
Horizon's logs. While they are doing this, the ship's power goes down. Wies and Miller
rush down to the core of the Horizon. During this time, Justin's body begins
shaking out of control. He grabs DJ and tells him that something called The Dark is coming.
Weis examines inside the core and begins to fix a malfunction. He hallucinates Claire's voice again
as the lights begin to pulse. She suddenly appears before him, and disappears again,
as the lights come back on. Meanwhile Miller hallucinates a fiery body arising from
underneath Gravity Drive. Back in the bridge, the crew all
confirms different hallucinations they have had in the ship, but Weis continues to deny them.
Smith gets enraged at Weis, blaming him for their current problems and killing the last crew.
Later on Starcks confides to Miller she believes the ship brought something back,
a life force reacting to the crew being on the ship, like an immune system.
Later on, Peters is still in the medical wing with Justin.
She is pacing back and forth, but comes back to him missing. She rushes to find him.
The power goes down in a burst of sparks and she flees.
She rushes to Peter's and Starcks who try to calm her down. All three are frightened as they
hallucinate the door being breached. Weis coolly goes to open the door and Starcks stops him.
Parks remembers the missing Justin and they race to see him inside one f the air
locks without a spacesuit. They inform Miller and attempt to get him out.
Justin turns around inside the airlock, telling Parks that Gravity Drive has shown him horrible
things. Miller rushes to him, as Justin begins to open up the outer airlock door.
Justin suddenly comes to his senses, and is confused.
Starcks is unable to open the inner airlock door. Miller tries to instruct him now to survive,
and catches him as he exits the airlock. The crew eventually saves Justin as Miller
hands out assignments to the team with time dwindling down.
Weis is asked about Justin's mentioning of "the dark" inside him. He brushes it off
saying it doesn't mean anything. Miller follows him and demands answers.
Miller continues to question where the Event Horizon went for the last 7 years
and Weis continually repeats that he doesn't know and he needs time to figure things out.
Miller walks away, and begins to hallucinate another voice crying for help.
He attempts to calm himself but is startled by intense visions in his mind.
After some time, he confides in DJ about the source of his hallucinations.
He explains he had to leave a crewmate behind during an accident. He goes on to admit he
never told anyone this story but somehow the ship knew about his fears and secrets.
DJ in turn let's Miller know that his translation of the earlier recording was wrong.
Instead of the previous "save me" it instead means to "save yourself from hell". The proceeds
theorize that the Event Horizon has been outside their universe and brought something back.
Cooper puts the final repairs on the Lewis and Clark while Parkers and Starcks uncover
the remaining recording logs. These logs depict the Event Horizon crew's horrible deaths.
Miller orders everyone to immediately leave, but Weis claims that they can't defy the mission
orders they were given. Miller insists on aborting the mission and instructs the crew to prepare.
Weis follows Miller pleading they can't just leave the ship, and Miller promises not just to leave
the ship, but to destroy it completely. Starcks quickly informs Miller that the core
is draining the ship's power, and Miller gives the signal to hurry off the ship.
Weis then remarks that they can't leave and "she" won't let them and that he is home,
fading into the darkness. Back in the core of the ship,
Parkers and Smith collect CO2 tanks. They gather what they need and rush off. Peters is stopped as
the Gravity Drive feeds her another illusion of her son running through the core. She follows the
illusion deeper into the core and into a trap. Weis enters the core's chamber and finds the body
of Peters. He suddenly hears Claire's voice and is transported to a hallucination of them back
together on the Daylight. He apologies for not being there for her, letting his work get in the
way of their relationship. She tells him he will never be alone again and that she has wonderful
things to show him. Exiting the hallucinations, we come to see Weis still inside the core wailing.
Back outside, Cooper puts the finishing touches on Lewis and Clark. Inside, Smith sees Weis exiting
the ship. Smith informs Miller, who sees that one of the Horizon's explosives is missing.
Smith hurries to exit, scrambling to find his evacuation equipment. He sees it,
but as he opens the container, he discovers the explosive. He dies, as Cooper is blown
away outside the Lewis and Clark. Cooper is rapidly moving away from
the Horizon and tries to figure out a way back. He decides to empty his air
tank to propel him back to the ship. Back in the medical wing, DJ is gathering
supplies. Miller informs him of the current losses and orders him to eliminate Weirs.
He turns and is immediately attacked by Weirs and is brutally killed.
Miller sprints to find DJ dead in the wing. Shortly after, Miller arms himself and prepares
for the final confrontation with Weis. Tracking Weis to the bridge, Miller comes across Starcks.
He wakes her and finds Weis in the command chair.
Weis says the ship had opened up a gateway to another dimension of pure evil and came
back alive. He starts up the ship to re-enter the evil dimension, but is attacked by Starcks.
Weis tosses her aside and threatens Miller from doing the same. While this is happening,
Cooper arrives outside the Horizon window, but is swiftly attacked by Weis. Miller ducks for
safety as the window shatters, and Weis is blown into space. Miller holds on for
dear life as he attempts to leave. He prevents the door from sealing and
attempts to rescue Starcks. He successfully rescues her and they rush to discover Cooper,
whom they thought was dead. They then go to split the ship with the
remaining explosives. Miller goes to activate the bombs while Starcks and Cooper prepare
the gravity couches and emergency beacon. Both Cooper and Starcks see the ship rapidly
filling with blood, crashing over them. They escape while Miller arms the main corridor.
Suddenly Miller's hallucination of a burning man drives him into the core, the door shut
behind him. He is attacked inside the core by his hallucination of the fiery man, and
it transforms into a heavily scarred Weirs. Weis says that the ship brought him back to
life and that none of them are leaving. He then forces Miller to gaze into the
horrific futures of his crew. Miller fights back, and is almost
defeated. The gateway opens, but Miller grabs his fallen detonator and blows the ship.
The ship splits, with Miller and Weis being sucked into a black hole.
Starcks and Cooper watch them float away. A time later Justin, Starcks and Cooper are
rescued. Starcks hallucinates that Weis is their rescuer, but is snapped out of it.
As the rescue team provides aid, the door closes and everything fades to black.
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