Paul W.S. Anderson made a gruesome sci-fi film with mostly practical effects. 25 years later, he knows it looks terrific. He spoke with BilgeEbiri about the endurance of 'Event Horizon'
Photo: Paramount Pictures Twenty-five years ago, Paul W. S. Anderson released one of the gnarliest, most unforgettable science-fiction horror films ever made, but it took most people a few years to realize it. Starring Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, and a spaceship that had just returned from a journey through Hell, Event Horizon came out in August 1997 and bombed with critics and audiences alike. But over the years, Anderson’s film grew in reputation.
So, something like — I don’t even know what to call it. The core? The gravity drive? The, uh, giant rotating thing?That. Did you build that actual thing — at that size? Ironically, by the time Mortal Kombat was finished, I went from being one of the directors who knew the least about visual effects to probably one of the most experienced visual-effects directors in Hollywood. Because a lot of directors don’t go into the visual-effects companies and work with the individual artists — they wait to be shown the shots, give some notes, and don’t get into the nitty-gritty of it. I feel like my work has benefited from that since then.
Sam Neill loving the idea. Photo: Paramount Pictures Then there are other actors like Joely Richardson, who was very much a kind English rose at that time who’d done lots of acclaimed historical fiction and art movies. She’d never been in a movie where a tank of blood burst behind her, she had 50 gallons of blood douse her, and she was wrapped in barbed wire! I was putting these actors in a very different environment, and I think they really liked that.
Oh, it was always a haunted-house movie. That was in Philip Eisner’s original screenplay. The nature of the haunted house was something that I brought — the idea of doing this Gothic-inspired creation. The movies that had really inspired me in space were Alien and 2001, and they both have such great inception points in terms of their look. For 2001, they had all that research they did with NASA as to what it would really look like. On Alien, Ridley Scott had the genius stroke of employing H. R.
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