Barker himself planned on putting together a version that was 25 minutes longer but, like Anderson, was unable to locate the footage. The longer cut of the film swiftly gained legendary status among horror fans.
Event horizon film movie#
In the late '80s, Hellraiser horror author and writer-director Clive Barker adapted his novella Cabal into the movie Nightbreed, which he intended to be a "Star Wars for monsters." Barker claims his original two-and-a-half hour-long cut was met with little enthusiasm by executives at the film's studio Morgan Creek and the movie was reduced to 100 minutes before its ultimately unsuccessful theatrical release in 1990. That sounds definitive-but there there are previous examples of seemingly destroyed or irretrievably lost footage being found, and one of the most famous can be found in the back catalog of Scream Factory. "We figured, if you're going to go to hell, you've really got to do it. Although this footage is only briefly seen in the movie, make-up effects artist Bob Keen would estimate that the sequence took around a week to film, and was preceded by a month's worth of prep, to ready the scenes many grotesque "gags." "We used amputees and porn stars," producer Jeremy Bolt said of shooting the footage during a 2011 Q&A. In one of the movie's more disturbing moments, the rescue team watch footage of the spaceship's now presumably deceased crew indulging in a literal orgy of sex and violence. Turns out, the Event Horizon has been to hell and back as the Fishburne-led team slowly realize as they start to experience nightmarish visions after boarding the craft. Seven years on, the ship has returned, seemingly alive, and definitely dangerous. Shot at Pinewood Studios outside London, and set in 2047, the film stars Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, and Kathleen Quinlan, among others, as a rescue team of astronauts and Sam Neill as the designer of an experimental spaceship called the Event Horizon which disappeared on its maiden voyage back in 2040.
Anderson was barely out of his 20s when Paramount approached him to direct Event Horizon, following the success of the British director's 1995 video game adaptation Mortal Kombat.
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