Event Horizon

Event Horizon gets one star less than I had considered giving it, simply because it was so nasty and creepy that it gave me nightmares the following night. Event Horizon verges on being an "Alien" clone, as "Leviathan" did too.

Event Horizon is set in 2040, and the crew of the rescue spaceship Lewis and Clark are the protagonists of this sci-fi horror. The vessel's mission is to track down the spaceship Event Horizon, which has reappeared after having vanished without trace for seven years. Along for the trip is Dr William Weir, the designer of the spaceship, which was to test a new technique for the first time so that the craft could travel faster than light. This involved generating black holes so that the ship could fly through wormholes in space. Very advanced, at any rate.

When the Lewis and Clark docks with the Event Horizon, it soon becomes clear to the rescue crew that they should be trying to save themselves rather than the Event Horizon, whose crew are dead anyway. Powerful invisible forces are at work in the Event Horizon, and they can only have come from one place: the experimental flight into unknown space. It is not only the spaceship that resists Captain Miller's wish to get away. Weir, too, wants to save the Event Horizon at any cost. Phew, what a fright. I just cannot take it.