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* The set itself was nightmare fuel. The ship was designed with a kind of "techno-medieval" kind of feel, looking something like a cross between a futuristic spaceship and a Gothic cathedral. When the lights are out and things are going wrong, the place looks distinctly like some kind of dungeon or torture chamber. Many of the cast members refused to stay on set longer than absolutely necessary. What can be best described as alcoves around several of the windows look like blood encrusted teeth.

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* The set itself was nightmare fuel. The ship was designed with a kind of "techno-medieval" kind of feel, looking something like a cross between a futuristic spaceship and a Gothic cathedral. When the lights are out and things are going wrong, the place looks distinctly like some kind of dungeon or torture chamber. Many of the cast members refused to stay on set longer than absolutely necessary. What can be best described as alcoves around several of the windows look like blood encrusted teeth. Is it really any wonder why this is considered a ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' film?
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** The whole idea of the Bloody Orgy and how the ''Event Horizon'' does it is terrifying alone: here you have a crew of perfectly normal astronauts and men of science, some of Earth's most brilliant minds, getting butchered not by some alien monster or spooky ghost stalking them, but through their own means because whatever possesses the ship just ignites a raw, utterly uncontrollable sexual rage in them, any trace of humanity or civilization is wiped out of their skulls as they regress and try everything to please these inhuman needs to the point they pretty much fuck each other to death, not stopping when it hurts, but going in ''harder'' until they just start ripping each other apart.

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** The whole idea of the Bloody Orgy and how the ''Event Horizon'' does it is terrifying alone: here you have a crew of perfectly normal astronauts and men of science, some of Earth's most brilliant minds, getting butchered not by some alien monster or spooky ghost stalking them, but through their own means because whatever possesses the ship just ignites a raw, utterly uncontrollable sexual rage in them, any trace of humanity or civilization is wiped out of their skulls as they regress and try everything to please these inhuman needs to the point they pretty much fuck each other to death, not stopping when it hurts, but going in ''harder'' until they just start ripping each other apart.apart (and whomever was eventually left alone, inevitably ripped themselves apart).
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* DJ's death. He's ambushed by Weir and knocked out cold, and then placed on the operating table, where upon Weir proceeds to vivisect him alive. When he's found, Weir had already ''evacuated his entire torso of organs'', splaying them on the table, and used hooks and wire to hang the body up like a twisted art piece.
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-->'''Weir:''' "Hell" is only a word. The reality is ''so much worse!''
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** The whole idea of the Bloody Orgy and how the ''Event Horizon'' does it is terrifying alone: here you have a crew of perfectly normal astronauts and men of science, some of Earth's most brilliant minds, getting butchered not by some alien monster or spooky ghost stalking them, but through their own means because whatever possesses the ship just ignites a raw, utterly uncontrollable sexual rage in them, any trace of humanity or civilization is wiped out of their skulls as they regress and try everything to please these inhuman needs to the point they pretty much fuck each other to death, not stopping when it hurts, but going in ''harder'' until they just start ripping each other apart.
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** What makes the log even more disturbing is ''how'' it was produced. As listed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, real life amputees were used for special effects scenes where ''Event Horizon'' crew members had their body parts damaged in many ways, and porn actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic. It's no wonder Creator/{{Paramount}} had good reason to have ''that'' particular part of the movie cut down.

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** What makes the log even more disturbing is ''how'' it was produced. As listed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, Website/TheOtherWiki, real life amputees were used for special effects scenes where ''Event Horizon'' crew members had their body parts damaged in many ways, and porn actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic. It's no wonder Creator/{{Paramount}} had good reason to have ''that'' particular part of the movie cut down.
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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his own intestines out of his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a steel pipe.
** And this is capped off by Captain Kilpack creepily saying ''[[ApocalypticLog Libera te...tutemet...ex inferis.]]'' while holding his ''eyeballs'' in the palms of his bloodstained hands, sporting a huge SlasherSmile...and another pair of eyes stuffed into his otherwise empty sockets.

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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his own intestines out of from his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a steel pipe.
** And this is capped off by Captain Kilpack creepily saying ''[[ApocalypticLog Libera te...tutemet...ex inferis.]]'' while holding his ''eyeballs'' in the palms of his bloodstained hands, hands (reminiscent of [[Film/PansLabyrinth the Pale Man]]), sporting a huge SlasherSmile...and another pair of eyes stuffed into his otherwise empty sockets.
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* A comparatively little one: when they're first exploring the bridge, lightning from the storm below their orbit briefly lights up the walls near the windows...which are splattered with blood, tendons, and what look like they might be ''bones''. It's only for a split moment, but it makes you stop and have to wonder what the hell ''happened?!'' Given what we later see of the crew's log...''ick'' is a bit of an understatement.

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* A comparatively little one: when they're first exploring the bridge, lightning from the storm below their orbit briefly lights up the walls near the windows...which are splattered with blood, tendons, and what look like they might be ''bones''. It looks as though someone was ''smashed'' against the wall at such incredible speed that the body ''liquified''. It's only for a split moment, but it makes you stop and have to wonder what the hell ''happened?!'' Given what we later see of the crew's log...''ick'' is a bit of an understatement.
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* The Ending; oh boy, ''the ending'', is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 days later, where the rescue crew locates the ''Event Horizon''. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to kill her; then we find out it was AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This can be interpreted as there still being some evil left on the ship and the survivors and the rescue crew will have to relive the horror.
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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his intestines out of his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a steel pipe.

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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his own intestines out of his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a steel pipe.
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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man pulling out his own innards through his mouth and a woman sodomizing a man with a metal pipe.

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** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man pulling shoving his hand inside his throat, then ripping out his own innards through intestines out of his mouth and a woman gruesomely sodomizing a man with a metal steel pipe.
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* Weir's disturbing appearances just prior to and especially after his full submission to the ''Event Horizon'': First, we see his eyes have been gouged out with bloody scratch marks where they used to be, almost looking as if his eyelids have been (poorly) sewn shut. Later, when the ship revives him, he got his eyes back, but he's fully nude and shaven with bloody gashes over every inch of his body like rolled himself up in barbed wire.
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* Aside from the EyeScream and {{Squick}} elements that keep cropping up over and over, there's the part where we finally see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthgXpWDv6A the deciphered message]], and it's just blurry enough to make you wonder if you really saw the unspeakably ''horrible'' things you thought you saw, or if it was just your imagination.... ''and the only way to find out is to watch that sequence again''. It's not often one is willing to put the remote down and walk away rather than go back and confirm an image, but ''Event Horizon'' pulled it off.
** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the Lewis and Clark uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the Event Horizon's crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man pulling out his own innards through his mouth and a woman sodomizing a man with a metal pipe.

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* Aside from the EyeScream and {{Squick}} elements that keep cropping up over and over, there's the part where we finally see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthgXpWDv6A [[ApocalypticLog the deciphered message]], and it's just blurry enough to make you wonder if you really saw the unspeakably ''horrible'' things you thought you saw, or if it was just your imagination.... ''and the only way to find out is to watch that sequence again''. It's not often one is willing to put the remote down and walk away rather than go back and confirm an image, but ''Event Horizon'' pulled it off.
** This is considered one of the most horrifying scenes, if not THE most horrifying scene in the entire movie, known as the "Blood Orgy". Here, the crew of the Lewis ''Lewis and Clark Clark'' uncover and watch a video log of what happened to the Event Horizon's ''Event Horizon'''s crew, revealing, much to their horror, that they had gone completely insane after engaging the gravity drive for the first time and proceeded to tear each other apart. In the video, the crew can be seen murdering, raping, mutilating and cannibalizing each other while screaming and howling in utter madness. Some particularly disturbing moments include a man pulling out his own innards through his mouth and a woman sodomizing a man with a metal pipe.



* The Ending; oh boy, ''the ending'', is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to kill her; then we find out it was AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This can be interpreted as there still being some evil left on the ship and the survivors and the rescue crew will have to relive the horror.

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* The Ending; oh boy, ''the ending'', is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon.''Event Horizon''. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to kill her; then we find out it was AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This can be interpreted as there still being some evil left on the ship and the survivors and the rescue crew will have to relive the horror.
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* The Ending; oh boy, "the ending", is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to kill her; then we find out it was AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This can be interpreted as there still being some evil left on the ship and the survivors and the rescue crew will have to relive the horror.

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* The Ending; oh boy, "the ending", ''the ending'', is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to kill her; then we find out it was AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This can be interpreted as there still being some evil left on the ship and the survivors and the rescue crew will have to relive the horror.
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* Weir's Stasis nightmare, while everyone was still in Stasis, Weir suddenly wakes up, he exits his pod and only he wakes up and suspects someone onboard. He walks up to go see who it is, its deceased Wife: Claire, he turns her over and then she wakes up with no Eyes, Weir then screams and wakes up while still in Stasis and nearly drown if not for the crew who woken up.
* The Ending oh boy the ending can also be considered scary. We cut to 72 Days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon, as they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck, when she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion, Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to killed her. Then, we find out it was all a dream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down, while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This means, there is still some evil left on the ship and what's it gone to the survivors and the Rescue Crew.

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* Weir's Stasis nightmare, while everyone was still in Stasis, Stasis. Weir suddenly wakes up, he exits his pod and pod, is the only he wakes up one awake and suspects someone onboard. He walks up to go see who it is, its is: his deceased Wife: Claire, he wife, Claire. He turns her over and then over, she wakes up with no Eyes, revealing her empty eye sockets, Weir then screams and wakes up while still in Stasis and nearly drown would have drowned if not for the crew who woken up.
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* The Ending Ending; oh boy the ending can also be considered scary. boy, "the ending", is full of FridgeHorror. We cut to 72 Days days later, where the rescue crew locates the Event Horizon, as Horizon. As they board, they see only Starck, Cooper, and the comatose Justin in stasis. One of the crewmembers decides to wake up Starck, when Starck. When she comes out, the rescue worker removes his mask and is revealed to be Weir who had somehow survived the explosion, explosion. Starck screams in terror as Weir is about to killed her. Then, kill her; then we find out it was all a dream, AllJustADream, Starck wakes up still screaming and Cooper tries to calm her down, down while one of the Rescue workers calls for help. Then suddenly the doors close by themselves and it fades to Black. This means, can be interpreted as there is still being some evil left on the ship and what's it gone to the survivors and the Rescue Crew.rescue crew will have to relive the horror.

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