Event Horizon 2- The Gates Of Hell.
As I have been reading all the positive and negative responses to the proposal for a sequel to EVENT HORIZON, I wonder if ANYONE really watched that movie, payed attention to the storyline and watched it to the very end. For those who are negative on this subject, let me give you a quick summary on this movie, and why I think there should be a sequel.
The story is about a missing starship, thought to have been destroyed, but returns many years later. The crew of a search/rescue ship is sent to investigate, along with a scientist who is responsible for creating the propulsion system for the E.H., the GRAVITY DRIVE, and he informs the crew what it was 'designed' to do...only it doesn't. The ship enters the gateway...and then disappears, suddenly to reappear in orbit above Neptune. The crew board the E.H. to find that everyone has been slaughtered, and then soon discover that wherever the ship had gone to, it brought something back with it. And then, it's discovered that it's more than that....the ship is acting as a conduit for the other dimension, wanting to bring more victims over. The end of the movie shows the front of the E.H. being separated from the drive section, as it engages the drive, opens the gateway and the E.H. is sucked back in. After being woken from a nightmare, the remaining crew is rescued. The horror seems to be over as the doors close....
....or is it over?
If you REALLY watched the movie, you would have seen and heard what Doctor Wier said, before and after he was changed. And then there's Justin, the guy who got pulled through the gateway in the beginning, with the "DARKNESS" inside him that made him want to walk out an airlock. This movie (as far as I can see) was original at the time it came out, with hints of HELLRAISER and 2001. The only other movie to used this storyline concept was a SCI-FI CHANNEL movie about the Bermuda Triangle (even had some of the same script dialog). You have to also wonder, those who acted in the movie wouldn't have taken on their roles if the didn't think the storyline wasn't good. Remember, THE MATRIX wasn't considered a great movie at first. But the more people watched it, the more people got into the story, and Laurence Fishbourne made a name for himself in that trilogy.
Sorry for the book, but this is just one opinion among MANY who would love to see a sequel, and I have just a perfect storyline to go with it.
Thank you.