

It was still a few years before the DVD market really took off, when deleted scenes and alternate versions as bonus footage became commonplace.

On its release, Event Horizon met with mostly negative reviews and a disappointing box office result.
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Anderson had always intended to create a balanced mix of horror and character scenes, but he only had an additional week to re-cut the movie back to a simplified version, which became the theatrical cut. Feedback from test audiences was mostly negative the pacing of the movie was slow, and they reacted very strongly to the large amount of gore. Given that he was still shooting during the first two weeks of editing, he effectively had only four weeks to assemble a rough cut of the movie. However, due to the unusually short production schedule of the movie, the rapidly approaching release date, and the fact that principle photography was still not finished, Anderson agreed with the studio to an editing period of only six weeks. Normally, directors have a standard 10-week editing period to produce the first cut of a movie. Anderson himself on several 'making of' documentaries and during interviews. This has been explicitly stated by director Paul W.S. It is unlikely that an extended director's version will ever be produced. Weir becomes possessed by the dark forces from that dimension and he destroys the Louis and Clark and murders Smith and the Louis and Clark medical officers DJ and Peters and he activates the gravity drive and intends to send the Event Horizon back to the dark dimension along with himself, Miller, Starck, Cooper and Justin.Ĭurrently, no alternate (extended) cut of the movie is available, only censored (and thus shortened) versions.

Weir sees a hallucination of his deceased wife Claire who gouges out his eyes and Dr. But, it is soon discovered the Event Horizon's crew are all dead and that the Event Horizon had travelled to a dark dimension when Dr. Weir and the crew begin experiencing terrifying hallucinations and Justin recovers from his catatonic coma and attempts suicide by ejecting himself out of the ship's airlock.

As Cooper and the Louis and Clark's arrogant pilot Smith repairs the Louis and Clark and the other Louis and Clark crewmembers continue the investigation into the ship's disappearance, Captain Miller, Dr. But, all hell soon breaks loose when the Louis and Clark's young chief engineer Ensign Justin is sucked into the Event Horizon's experimental gravity drive and is pulled out by the Louis and Clark's cocky rescue technician Cooper which Justin has fallen into a catatonic coma and the Louis and Clark is damaged. Arriving aboard the Event Horizon, the Event Horizon crew find the ship is deserted. Find out where the Event Horizon has been and salvage the ship. Weir created that mysteriously vanished several years earlier during her maiden voyage and the crew's orders are to board the Event Horizon. Weir reveals that they've been sent to Neptune to investigate a distress signal coming from the Event Horizon, a experimental spaceship Dr. William Weir who has joined the Louis and Clark crew on this top secret mission reveals the reason why they've been sent to Neptune and Dr. Starck is sent out to Neptune on a top secret mission. In the year 2047, the Louis and Clark, a rescue spaceship under the command of Captain Miller and his first officer Lt.
