Purely my opinion...
Purely my opinion...
Event Horizon (1997)The Resurrected (1992)Its mix of sci-fi and gothic horror is unmatched! This movie made me want to turn on the lights the first time I watched it. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Merlin) made my skin crawl as the twisted inventor of the spaceship the Event Horizon, a ship that has been lost in the far reaches of space for 7 years. Laurence Fishburne (Boyz in the Hood, What's Love Got to do With It) was great as the captain of the salvage ship that is sent to retrieve the Event Horizon from the far reaches of our solar system. The absolute terror the crew experiences onboard the Event Horizon, as they try to discover what happened to the Event Horizon's original crew, is beyond my comprehension. And the true grisly discovery is worse than most could possibly imagine. So come join the cast and crew of the Event Horizon, your destination the 7th circle of hell.
In The Mouth of Madness (1995)Remember you only have one life to live, unless of course your Joseph Curwen, a black master of the mystic arts with the power to come back from the farthest reaches of hell and into our world once again. Faithfully based on the H.P. Lovecraft story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, this film tells the story of a man that discovers the truth about his family heritage and the horrible repercussions of uprooting the family tree. Claire Ward (Jane Sibbett) hires private investigator John March to look into her husbands strange behavior as of late. What March gets is the most disturbing and dangerous case of his life. What we get is almost 2 hours of unbridled terror and mayhem in the tradition of one of the 20th centuries greatest horror writers, H.P. Lovecraft. Chris Sarandon (Fright Night, The Princess Bride) gives us a hair raising performance as Charles Ward, and John Terry is excellent as John March, the P.I. that gets hired to sort out this mess. Directed by Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead), this movie is a sure fire hit for horror and Lovecraft fans alike. It was called the most faithful adaption of any of Lovecraft's stories yet translated to the silver screen at The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Before, death was the end, now its only the beginning!
Lord of Illusions (1995)Have you ever been reading a really good book and it felt as if you had been pulled in and were living the lives of the characters, of course you have. But when you put down that book you return to reality and go on with your normal everyday life, but what if one day you put down your book and there you were still inside the story. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Merlin) plays John Trent, an insurance fraud investigator, and Mr. Trent is one of the best. Perhaps that is why Arcane Publishing House has hired him to find out what happened to their number one commodity, horror scribe Sutter Cane. What Trent finds is that reality is not what it seems and sometimes a storybook ending isn't always the best ending. This movie just gets better and better every time I see it. A taut and disturbing web of terror woven by one of the masters, John Carpenter (Halloween, Vampires). Sutter Cane, played with pizzazz by Jurgen Prochnow (The 7th Sign, Das Boot), is the harbinger of a new era of horror for the world and the medium in which he brings this horror to life is the printed word. Giving new meaning to the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword." With an outstanding cast, including a cameo by Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur, The 10 Commandments), this movie has everything that a great horror movie needs, including the storybook ending?!? Don't miss the boat on this one, rush out to the nearest book, I mean movie, store and get yourself a copy. Lived any good books lately?
Have you ever said, "I'll believe it when I see it", well what if you couldn't trust your eyes? What if everything you saw was subject to someone else's will, imagine no further. Brought to us by Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), one of the greatest horror minds of the 90's, the Lord of Illusions is a voyage beyond the boundaries of what our mind can wrap itself around. Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Necessary Roughness) plays private detective Harry D'Amour, who finds himself in the middle something that has him disbelieving reality and living on instinct alone. When the world's greatest illusionist Philip Swann (Kevin J. O'Connor) dies performing a new trick Harry D'Amour finds himself on the case. And where the trail leads him is to a coven of illusionists that have a secret buried away in the desert, and that secrets name is Nix (Daniel Von Bargen), and he wants out. I love this movie, with it Barker once again proves that he is one of the premier horror directors of our time. Von Bargen is stunning in the role of Nix, truly one of the great unheralded horror roles ever! Trust no one, disbelieve your senses and prepare to meet the Lord of Illusions. Your ticket to the other side is waiting, and what waits on the other side for you is evil.