The explosion went off, and we woke up a few moments later on the floor. 'When Sam and I did the scene for real, there was the count of three, and then neither of us remember what happened next. We were meant to be typing away, and then on a count of three, there'd be a fake explosion, and we'd throw ourselves back off our chairs,' she recalled. 'There was one scene with Sam Neill and me at the console. In a chat with Den of Geek (via Film School Rejects), Richardson described how one scene involving her and Neill required multiple takes, all of which ended in the same bizarre fashion. 'I travel so much, and we've never been in the same country with a VHS player and him having the cassette in his hands, but I'm very excited about doing it at some point. 'I've never managed to watch it - nor has he - because he moved to Spain,' the director said.

unless it does, in the form of a VHS tape allegedly owned by producer Lloyd Levin. In a 2017 interview with San Diego Reader, Anderson stated that the footage probably no longer exists. So one can imagine the effect it must've had on those horrified test audiences and studio execs. We only know these details because of the recollections of special effects supervisor Dave Bonneywell, and his recounting is literally too disturbing to print here. violent sex. The scene used real amputees to lend visceral authenticity to images of the Event Horizon's mutilated crew, and Anderson went so far as to hire adult film actors to lend similar authenticity to the images of graphic sex, according to Den of Geek. This is the video log discovered by the Lewis and Clark's crew showing the fate of the original crew of the Event Horizon, who literally tore each other apart in an insane storm of sex, violence, and. This would be the so-called 'bloody orgy' scene. I was going for that kind of an effect, to convey the idea that something not very good is lurking in the ship.' 'Cinematographers generally shy away from green, because it's not very pleasant, but on Event Horizon I used gels to produce that nasty, horrible green you get from fluorescents. I also used a lot of green,' he remembered. 'I used some sepia brown coming up from the floor to make viewers uncomfortable on the ship, as well as flashes of red. We extended that techno-medieval design idea into as many aspects of the picture's look as possible, without rubbing the audience's nose in it.'īiddle opted to use colored gels to augment the film's lighting, a time-honored technique that had fallen out of favor to further heighten the film's sense of unease. But when the lights go off and the haunting begins, you start looking at the shapes, and the architecture is actually very medieval. 'When the lights are on, everything looks very technological and very spaceship-like. 'We spent a lot of time coming up with a design concept, which we called 'techno-medieval,'' he said. I really felt like we created a very physical haunted house for the actors to interact with.'Īnderson recalled his DP's contribution in a 2020 chat with American Cinematographer magazine. It was just horrible,' Anderson remembered, going on to explain, 'It was actually the sets themselves because the crew couldn't have been nicer. ' would go, 'I love working with you, Paul, but I hate coming to work. Thanks to the flick's beefy budget, the entire interior of the Event Horizon was constructed on a cavernous sound stage, and once it was finished, Anderson knew he was on the right track. 'Using an architectural cam program, we basically built Notre Dame Cathedral in the computer, and then we pulled it apart, and we used different elements of it to build the Event Horizon. So, the towers from Notre Dame became the engine thruster pods.' 'I wanted to do something different that hadn't been done in spaceships before, and because we were telling a Gothic horror story, I reached back in time,' the director said.

Talking with The Ringer, Anderson recalled that for the design of the ship's interior, he drew from Gothic architecture in general and one iconic historical site in particular.

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