is Event Horizon lovecraftian?

bakunin99 · Post by **bakunin99** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:22 pm

Hi everyone!
I recently re-entered the world of Lovecraft, and, while looking on unfilmable.com, i thought that maybe "Event horizon", a 1997 movie, is quite lovecraftian.
The movie is happening in the far future, and a ship, using a kind of black hole engine, travels into unknown dimensions where they meet some hellish beings, and of course everyone gets killed. Maybe they stumbeld upon Yog-Sothoth?

The ship return unmanned, and when is boarded by a recon ship, pure hell unleashes, but in a very "cosmic terror" style. You really should see it, is very scary

Here is the link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:16 am

i'd say it uses some of the same horror techniques.. more like building up pieces of a scary puzzle, not so many cheap gags such as cat-jumps-out-from-crevice. better than the average wide release slasher flick

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:44 am

sounds more like the orrigional Idea for the first Doom Game.

bakunin99 · Post by **bakunin99** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:30 am

Yeah, you're probably right. Since the last intensive weeks of h.p.'s reading i have the feeling that everyhing is somehow inspired by Lovecraft

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E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:11 am

A lot of modern horror is inspired by HPL.

I consider Event Horizon to be Lovecraftean even though it isn't a mythos film. It has enough of the right vibe to fit into that category.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:14 pm

Yog-Sothoth wrote:sounds more like the orrigional Idea for the first Doom Game.

Ah, the Doom bible version of the game. Opening doors with zombies' hands, B.F.G. variants that blew up your shitty Mac - why didn't they make it that way?

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:31 am

Jesus Prime wrote:Ah, the Doom bible version of the game. Opening doors with zombies' hands, B.F.G. variants that blew up your shitty Mac - why didn't they make it that way?

It simply was not the atmosphere iD wanted to create. The cinematic feel was Tom Halls idea, and though they were badass story concepts, interpreting them into the game itself would have slowed it down.

Same thing in Wolf3D; They toyed with the concept of dragging corpses around to hide them from patrols. Though the tech and idea were there, implementation meant diverting attention from the run-and-gun.

Back to Event Horizon: I keep hearing about this, though I have not gotten around to checking it out. Everything I hear about it bumps it up my priority list, so thanks.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:01 am

you knwo, i heard that DOOM3 uses the exact same maps as Wolf3D, is that true?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:11 am

Jehar wrote:
Jesus Prime wrote:Ah, the Doom bible version of the game. Opening doors with zombies' hands, B.F.G. variants that blew up your shitty Mac - why didn't they make it that way?
It simply was not the atmosphere iD wanted to create. The cinematic feel was Tom Halls idea, and though they were badass story concepts, interpreting them into the game itself would have slowed it down.

Same thing in Wolf3D; They toyed with the concept of dragging corpses around to hide them from patrols. Though the tech and idea were there, implementation meant diverting attention from the run-and-gun.

Back to Event Horizon: I keep hearing about this, though I have not gotten around to checking it out. Everything I hear about it bumps it up my priority list, so thanks.

So it took Metal Gear Solid before people realised run-and-gun isn't the only way to play things?

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:24 pm

Hey YS btw I'm linking your awesome Kurt Russell gif to my GJ profile.

bakunin99 · Post by **bakunin99** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:32 pm

The Id Software inside stories are pretty neat

Is nice to think how the games would have looked with such features ...

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:41 pm

Surely to God, someone's made WADs for them.

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:34 pm

The point is not that those features would have made a fun and in-depth game. To be sure, those are great aspects to have, and surely nobody ever thought that run-and-gun was the limit of what gaming could be.

Rather, it was their *intent* to have the run-and-gun. That was their preference: fast action with little to get in the way of the adrenaline flow. This is also a big turn-on for me.

And YS: I hope you were not serious about that comment...

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:32 pm

Maybe he just means the layout and shape, not the gribbly Hell textures.

Nali · Post by **Nali** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:29 pm

I love EVENT HORIZON - truely dark film, despite what some may say!!!