Watched Event Horizon last night for the first time in ages. I'd forgotten about the ending with god awful over dubbed "Stark, we're safe! We're safe Stark. Stark btw, We. Are. Safe.". Was this dubbing in the theatrical and dvd release of the film? The way it is clumsily dubbed on suggest to me that has been added so that dumb people are not left confused by the apparent ambiguity of the ending scenes. I.e. oh no! the ship is still possessed. Oh, hang on, no it isn't, they're safe. It would have been much better to have left it ambiguous. What is the story behind this?
Event Horizon ending
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Given that Paul W.S. Anderson is a horrible writer and director it absolutely would not surprise me in the slightest if that was intentional. Given that it was also written by a guy who is a practical unknown, it's probably intentional.
Is it a simple case of Americans not being able to comprehend a non upbeat ending to a film? Whatever the case is, that dubbing seemingly doing a 100% about turn on the shock reveal just seconds earlier, make this probably one of the most redundant "twists" in movie history.
I'd like to see a proper ending to this one first tbh.
I'd like to see a proper ending to this one first tbh.
I never thought about it like this and you are absolutely right
Though that twist itself would have been a terrible and cliched way to end it.
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Not seen this for ages, but I don't fully understand the point being made by most in this thread...iirc it's still ambiguous at the end as to whether or not they're safe, even with the 'we are safe' stuff. There are loads of films with ambiguous endings; is this what people are complaining about?
Was taken out of his hands if i remember rightly as about 40 mins were cut from his intended version because the film company said it was too gory and when anderson asked about a directors cut later they had convienantly lost the footage.
I seem to remember some of the scenes being fairly gory as it was, but a lot of it was split-second imagery. I'm not sure if enhanced gore would have made it any better.
Now that I think about it, wasn't some of this footage reused for an episode of Star Trek Voyager, about a society that has a black market for evil thoughts?
It is the way him saying "safe" is incongruously dubbed over the final scene. It is so out of place, stressed and obvious it surely detracts from whatever shreds of ambiguity are left by the ending. Even as the doors are closing he's still overdubbing "safe".
He may as well have said "Ignore scary bit 4 seconds ago, she was having a dream. We are infact safe, the ship is not possessed. As you were. The End."
If they were going to end it this way they should have filmed him saying it, or at least tried to make it sound more natural. It reeks of being tacked on so that americans are not left confused.
Yeah but it wasn't the ending which was cut or changed, just loads of gore which test audience reacted badly too.
I thought Event Horizon was very good (I saw it at the Cinema when it came out). I was under the impression it was implying that there were not safe, or .. you couldn't be sure. I can't remember the dubbing at the end btw.
Also.. if you think that's terrible just watch loads of Adam Sandler movies, (and other comedy's) for a whole swathe or INCREDIBLY bad dubbing they shove into the movie that reeks of a lack of fore thought.).
Also.. if you think that's terrible just watch loads of Adam Sandler movies, (and other comedy's) for a whole swathe or INCREDIBLY bad dubbing they shove into the movie that reeks of a lack of fore thought.).
I thought it was slightly ominous as it implied that they are going to be haunted by what they had seen, but it certainly wasn't anything I'd class as an annoying ending.
I thought the ending was good for a good film.
They were being haunted by what they had seen so that when they were actually safe they were thinking they weren't.
I remember the first time I watched this film it scared the life out of me.
MIIILLLLLLEEEEERRRR!!
:shudder:
They were being haunted by what they had seen so that when they were actually safe they were thinking they weren't.
I remember the first time I watched this film it scared the life out of me.
MIIILLLLLLEEEEERRRR!!
:shudder:
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The ending never bothered me to be honest, it seemed quite fitting that they escaped, but the whole experience would haunt them for life. So in a sense they will never be free of 'hell'.
What bothered me more was the film seemed to start off very science'y and the idea of some other creepy dimension, which i thought was great. Then it descended into demons and mind control and Sam Neil looking like a reject from HellRaiser.
What bothered me more was the film seemed to start off very science'y and the idea of some other creepy dimension, which i thought was great. Then it descended into demons and mind control and Sam Neil looking like a reject from HellRaiser.
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Event Horizon is one of the best sci-fi/horror crosses ever made, IMO. I've never had an issue with the ending... the deliberately ominous closure of the door, with the locking mechanism sound at the end I believe hints at them not really being safe, despite the character's assertions that they are.
