Space Ghost
EVENT HORIZON
I didn’t see Event Horizon when it was released. I’m not sure why. I mean, it’s a gory film about a spooky spaceship. I think, however, in 1997, I saw maybe three film the entire year, and that was when I went out on dates with a lovely Southern belle. Somehow we ended up at a screening of Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation. So shamed was I that I just packed up and left North Carolina for New York, hoping to lose myself in the throng and hide my shameful secret. But the Netflix Diaries experiments have, in a way, become a curious place for dragging my own horrible secrets into the light for all to see, and on the scale of shameful secrets, “took a date to see Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation” is much worse than “burning passion for Catalina Larranaga” or even “took a date to see Wicked City.” It’s probably not worse than, “invited a girl over, cooked her a crappy dinner, then made her watch Black Devil Doll from Hell,” but it’s pretty close.
Comments
Comment from Tom Meade
Time: April 18, 2008, 3:09 am
I have similar feelings about In The Mouth of Madness. It had so many great ideas in it, but it all sort of stumbles in the execution. Not to say that it was bad, but still…
Comment from hman
Time: April 18, 2008, 6:41 am
I remember renting this movie back in 2001 when I was taking a short story class in college. My friend and I watched at my neighbor’s house, which I was housesitting at the time. I don’t remember much of the details, but I never forgot the scene where they see the videos of the old crew. That was freaky.
Comment from Tom Meade
Time: April 18, 2008, 7:08 am
Oddly, my most vivid memory is of the line “Would you like something hot and black in you”. It must have been the age I was at.
Comment from fudgester
Time: April 20, 2008, 2:45 am
Not the best film ever, too much the sum of it’s parts (lovecraft, the shining, aliens, hellraiser) but works very well in the cinema. It just kind of batters you into submission, I remember my friends and I sitting there kind of shocked at the end. It’s just not the sam on tv (sigh).
Comment from Ed
Time: April 17, 2008, 11:25 pm
Nice work, Keith. It’s certainly a decent enough flick. Funny, I never got the Lovecraft connection until reading this. I guess it helps if you’ve seen the movie more than once since it came out.