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Corax 11-24-22 07:36 PM

Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
After long years and out of the blue the lost ship reappears! Salvage/rescue team heads out to investigate. Ship haunted. Crew deceived by false visions. Captain feels guilt over loss of crew. Some want to bug out from the cursed ship.

Ghost Ship has a nice opening scene.

Event Horizon offers a nice fear of scientific advancement that goes beyond Frankenstein and Skynet. What if tearing the fabric of spacetime rips reality more deeply than anyone ever expected?

Only one of these ships is taking us to hell. But which one?

Wyldesyde19 11-24-22 09:51 PM

Event Horizon.

Wooley 11-24-22 10:03 PM

Damn, now I wish I had actually finished Ghost Ship so I could comment on this.
Because if I knew how Event Horizon was gonna go, I probably wouldn't have finished it either, so this poll is unfair for me.

Rockatansky 11-24-22 10:24 PM

I have not seen Ghost Ship but I would like to cast a vote against Event Horizon. An initially promising movie sunk by the supreme shittiness of Paul W. S. Anderson.

ThatDarnMKS 11-24-22 10:44 PM

Gonna toss a vote to Ghost Ship for the opening scene and not squandering as cool of a premise as EH did.

SpelingError 11-24-22 11:15 PM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
I don't care for either film, but I'll go with Ghost Ship.

crumbsroom 11-25-22 12:27 AM

They are both vaguely watchable garbage. Each has a handful of moments that aren't bad or interesting. And both do lots of things which are antithetical to everything that makes a horror film good. They are mildly, minutely, just barely entertaining if I am being generous.


If forced to choose, maybe Ghost Ship. But it's not any kind of prize.

Siddon 11-25-22 12:30 AM

Ghost Ship is great for it's opening and closing but the middle is rough. Event Horizon has really good atmosphere and chuggs along as a fine little space horror film.

Wyldesyde19 11-25-22 12:38 AM

I know um in the slight minority here as well, in preferring EH. I still enjoy the atmosphere given from its direction, even if it is a somewhat flawed film.

ThatDarnMKS 11-25-22 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2348331)
I know um in the slight minority here as well, in preferring EH. I still enjoy the atmosphere given from its direction, even if it is a somewhat flawed film.
If it's any consolation, I think the sample size here is small enough that we're having a peculiar response. EH seems to be far more beloved than GS overall.

Corax 11-25-22 12:54 AM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
I will also vote Event Horizon. I found it to be scarier (our protags do not casually monologue with ghosts to get exposition) and this is an important film as it chronicles humanity's discovery of the warp and dangers of FTL flight without a Gellar Field.



I think Ghost Ship is one of those horror films centered around one big idea/image and that image comes very early. The uncertainty of the dancers "what just happened?" as they stand there is great, even if the idea is basically lifted from an opening gag from Cube (1997).

crumbsroom 11-25-22 01:46 AM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
https://i.postimg.cc/wxGRnbcM/death-ship.jpg


Better than both.

pahaK 11-25-22 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by Corax (Post 2348293)
Ghost Ship has a nice opening scene.
And that's all I remember from it. Even though Event Horizon is a prime example of studio interference and the stupidity of the test audiences, I'd still choose it every day.

Wooley 11-25-22 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by crumbsroom (Post 2348343)
Oof.

Cryptic 11-25-22 08:38 AM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
I vote Event Horizon.

Iroquois 11-25-22 10:59 AM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
Event Horizon and it's not even close.

Cryptic 11-25-22 11:52 AM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
I remember when EH first came out. My dad and I took my sister to watch it. She hates horror films and didnt speak to us for weeks afterwards.

Death Proof 11-25-22 12:22 PM

You can't leave.


She won't let you.

Yoda 11-25-22 12:27 PM

Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
 
Event Horizon.

Thunderbolt 11-25-22 01:43 PM

Close the curtains, turn off the lights, crank up the sound. Event Horizon is more lightly to make you s”*# your pants. This gets my vote.


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