Thanks for watching guys! Hope you enjoyed!

They opened a portal into the Warp and were driven insane by the Immaterium, and you can't tell me anything different. This movie is the ultimate prequel to Warhammer 40k, before the invention of the Geller Field.

Still has one of the most realistic and best lines in a horror movie. After watching the crew log with all the screaming. "We're leaving"

In the novelization of the film it’s elaborated upon that … when Justin is sucked into the core he meets *someone* on the other side. He says that Justin is not the type of person that “is needed” for his tasks and sends Justin back through. The person that Justin saw is also the person that takes Weir’s form at the end, not actually Weir himself. It also explains that Peters is not just chasing her son around. She assumes that the ship conceivably has the power to bring her son on board and she doesn’t want him to be taken to hell, which gives her a bit more credit.

Apparently there was a lost cut of this movie with 30 minutes of deleted scenes, they tried to cut out a lot of a gore before release. The loss of those 30 minutes is a great tragedy.

I remember seeing this at the cinema and everyone burst out laughing at the "We're leaving..." scene 😂 It's just so weird to see a character make an IMMEDIATE sensible decision in a horror movie!

The fact that Wehr was able to see everything around him without eyes and throw people across the entire room shows that something supernatural was definitely going on.

I’m convinced “that’s not a load bearing structure” is a sentence every man utters at least once in his life.

Pretty sure the core was actually made to look like an angel. Not the ones everyone thinks about, but the actually biblically accurate ones that are basically feverdream nightmare fuel. Specifically the "wheels angel" which is described as a set of rings or wheels turning within each other covered in eyes. It's sometimes depicted having an orb or eye in the center as well and is usually also show to be wreathed in fire. The eyes part of this is pretty important because there's a big thing with eyes in this movie. There are hidden eyes all over the ship, most of the victims suffer some trauma to the eyes or lose them altogether, and there are eye looking things on the core which itself sometimes looks like an eye.The eyes are said to be the windows to the soul so victims losing their eyes or having them damaged could be like saying that they're losing their souls or suffering some damage to them in some way. There's also a bunch of lines about seeing which may also play into the idea of people not being able to make sense of what they've seen and losing their minds or hallucinating as a result. All that being said, I think the core definitely took them to hell and then was sent back to secure more souls. There's religious symbolism all over the ship hidden in plain sight such as the windows on the bridge forming a cross, the ship itself being a cross, the core looking like an angel and eyes being present basically everywhere in the design of the ship. Fishburn's character is torn apart inside by something he did and eventually is redeemed by self sacrifice which is a huge theme in Christianity in general, sacrifice and redemption. Wier's wife commits suicide which is a mortal sin in old-school Christianity (and still is in most denominations) resulting in her losing her soul which is why she appears to him without eyes. Justin is more than likely possessed and acting as some sort of sleeper agent as a contingency for the ship being destroyed. His eyes are damaged in his misadventure in hard vacuum which could be symbolism for him being tainted by the other side. When Wier fully goes nuts he takes his own eyes symbolizing him losing his sould to the dark and he tells his crewmates they wont need their eyes where they're going (theyre souls are forfeit and they no longer own them). The woman who dies has her eyes go black, possibly because of how close she is to the core (maybe her soul was taken immediately). The remaining crew members are probably also screwed because of the whole possessed Justin thing which is why the movie ends on that scene of the door closing looking very much like an eye.

Flopped horribly at release but now has assumed it's rightful place as a sci-fi horror classic. It's one of those very rare movies where ALL the characters are played perfectly by every member of the cast, there are absolutely NO fillers at all. Thanks for this, a very worthy addition to the Roanoke library :)

My favorite part about the Lewis and Clark is the captains chair. A visual effects artist thought, "that's probably how they're going to do chairs in the future." and went with it.

To me, the last scene always meant that not only was the ship alive, but it still was functional and a threat, even without the core: you have Stark still haunted by visions, but most of all, the last shot has the door closing on its own to bring the end screen. I always took the door moving on its own as a signal that despite Morpheus' sacrifice, the ship was still fully operational.

I always took the "meat paste" as that's what happens when the ship jumps and you are not in the stasis tubes. It's only on one wall and nowhere else on the ship. The life readings isn't the mess. The ship came back to our reality alive or rather infested with life from wherever it went.....

I always thought it was particularly evil that the event horizon's possession would let go of Justin just after activating the air lock leaving him alert, disorientated and alone in his last moments.

One thing you may have forgotten to note, is that Weir was completely blind when he was roaming the ship and while he meticulously dissected DJ. I think the issues going on with the ship and crew, definitely went well beyond brain damage and hallucination but overall, I think you covered it quite well.

“Everyone thinks how bad hell is” … “it’s so much worse”

The ship was alive and, yes there were some hallucinations, but these were manifested by the ship. There are various reason why it was not all just the crew imaging these and here are some reason why -Weir was dreaming about the floating body on the ship before even going there almost as if calling to him, and upon arrival that same body was there - The portal activating and opened by itself when they first boarded and when it was siphoning the power - Cooper was also hit by blast and yet he never hallucinated anything - When Peters, after falling to her death, the hallucination of her son was still there looking down on her (possible dying sight but doubt it) - This is a big one! When Weir removed his eyes, he was still somehow able to locate and rip the bomb off the ship side panel, take it all the way to the other ship, put it in a hiding place and arm it to a specific time, go back to the main ship, go to the infirmary, and fight and spread eagle D.J. Then go to the main area, and knock out Stark and hide himself for when Morpheus comes in, where he stealthily picks up Morpheus's arrowgun next to him and get in the chair without being noticed. Then able to see Stark try to hit him and throw her across the room with one hand and perfectly aim at Cooper outside the ship. Doing all this with no eyes is impossible without supernatural help or at least would take hours especially without getting noticed -When the walls were bleeding near the end, both Cooper and Stark saw this, but also in a deleted scene she sees Weir break out of the giant water/jel tank in the center of the sleep chamber room that filled with blood which can be shown still broken in the ending scene -Also it took awhile for me to notice this but when Morpheus went off for his last stand he specifically told Stark in the sleep chamber room to close the door behind him since it has to be manually open/closed. When the rescuers arrived and she was going crazy they started yelling to get medical help, at this time the doors started automatically closing showing that part of the ship was still alive

"Going faster than the speed of light is simple, just go the speed of light then step on the gas peddle" - Internet Historian

You'd think Earth would be sending dozens of ships out to investigate the Event Horizon in an instance like this. It's always just one lone team/ship/squad sent to investigate. It would be interesting seeing a horror movie that had a more realistic response with dozens or hundreds of researchers on site. They could even play on the false sense of security having so many people around would bring.

The most insane and unrealistic part of this to me is that cigarettes would ever be allowed aboard a space ship.

"You ever seen fire in zero gravity? It's beautiful. Slides all over everything, comes up in waves. Wave after wave."

Only now do I realize the true reason that Lawrence Fishburne got the role as Morpheus. He had a lot of experience working on a set much like that of the Nebuchadnezzar with a small cast and film crew already. Oh, and he played the role of captain of the ship.

Because this was a prototype Warp engine the engineers were unaware of the necessity for what would be a Gellar Field, allowing raw energy from the Warp to bleed through the Hellraiser puzzle box equivalent of an FTL drive. And it's clearly energy bleeding through from the Realm of Slaanesh because of how the previous crew was behaving on camera.

Roanoke: Science of the science for the science Me: Yup....looks like Tzeentch is playing 6d chess with mortals again

This movie…. Was just so good. Also the Back to the Future reference just makes it even more quirky 😂 “Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see.” “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!” That can’t have been by chance.

Imagine the original brethren moons species becoming what they eventually did because the only other choice to extreme space travel was the event horizon method

They lit a candle in the void. It let them see the path ahead but revealed them to all the things hiding in the dark

Imagine if there was some post-credits scene where someone is examining this standard-issue widely-used air scrubbing device fitted on all ships and they're like, "Dave... have you seen this?" "Seen what?" "This filter. They've made it out of this cheaper stuff, and uh... I did a quick google, and apparently it can lead to hallucinations and psychotic mental breakdowns." "Huh. Do we use that scrubber here?" "Yeah." "Maybe we should turn it off." "I would, but I appear to have scratched my own eyeballs out."

i love how Yamcha came in out of nowhere lmao, every joke landed perfectly. god i love your channel and jokes wait a minute he blew the ship in half.... and half went through the portal.... now i see why you added the halo 3 joke lmao

It’s a good theory, the thing is….the director himself said he was heavily inspired by WH40K and a lot of the stuff confirms stuff involving the lore around chaos. I personally like to think this is humanity’s first encounter with the chaos god Khorne, one of his demons at least. You know cause all of the blood.

Now this is a true and unquestionable *Classic!* I personally doubt it was hallucinogenic tho; I distinctly remember one government agent said that the original ship slipped off somewhere not in the Solar system. That they did not know. There is even a theory that this and 40K connected somehow

I love how somehow you managed to put together : The Event Horizon, Jurassic Park , Dragon Ball, lectures about cancer and gravitational waves around the black hole in one movie. 😂

Event Horizon is the Warhammer movie we all deserved.

You forgot the very last scene where the ship door closes and implied that whatever possessed the event horizon is now present on the rescue ship.

I think Weir being able to throw people around like he had super strength is the strongest evidence for there being supernatural influence.

Gotta be real with you Roanoake, if it wasnt for war, like half the shit we use wouldnt exist

As soon as I saw the walls, I would have gotten the f*** out of there.

Yes! Warhammer 40k. The horrors of the warp.

If GW had a braincell they would have adopted this movie as it's source for pre-warp flight and make a sequel, it being the cause for earth going rampant in it, its just so damn perfect as a puzzle piece. Hell if they made 40k live action and made it like this, then the warp would really be a terror.

That's what you get travelling through the Warp without a Geller Field.

14:45 "Bro should have used a stick!" I laughed for like 15 minutes straight after hearing that. I had to pause the video.😅😅😅

The problem with breaking this movie down is that so much of it was cut after post production screenings. And we will never know what the uncut version is like because the film degraded in a literal salt mine in Eastern Europe. So Stark being passed out? Morpheus' hallucinations? The blood orgy? We will never know.

Never forget to check that the Gellar field is on.

It would be odd for multiple people to have the same hallucination at the end.

The funniest aspect of any space movie or show is how they completely disregard the most basic of protocols. Regardless of atmosphere, you ain't goin outta she ship without a full space suit as you have no idea regarding possible alien pathogens. In this case, the core. No way anyone would have allowed near that thing. Their mission likely would have been to secure any surviving crew and return...do not go near core as we have no clue what that MOFO is up to.

I've been waiting soooo long for Papa Roanoke to do a video on Event Horizon! 🙌 Thank you sir!

One other idea to keep in mind is that perhaps for portions of the journey there was time dilation. So even if there was FTL, if there was any near relativistic portion of the trip, almost no time, maybe a few days, might have happened for the original crew, and that’s why the flesh is still on the walls, while for the rescue crew, it’s been years.

I think the events in Event Horizon were a mix of "supernatural" and psychological horror. The crew were hallucinating most of the horror elements, but, the unseen eldritch abominations just beyond the black hole were orchestrating things. I mean, I have no proof of that, but being a huge fan of Lovecraft, I'd like to think eldritch abominations were at least partially responsible. 😈

Sliding down ladders is valid as frick. Some ladders have slopes along the edges just for that purpose. The steps are for getting back up.

I believe I read somewhere that a few of the head creatives of this movie were big fans of 40k. I think they were definitely trying to allude to the warp and not just simple brain damage, though damage from the warp in 40k can manifest itself physically as well.

I was wondering when you'd cover Event Horizon. One of my favorite horror movies from childhood, absolutely scared me to death back then.

For the past 25 years, I've said that Event Horizon is one of the most underrated of all time. It's one of the greatest sci-fi/horror movie's ever made.

Adding a Halo reference to almost every video is one of the highlights of this channel, along with all of the science of course

Fantastic video Mr. Roanoke! This movie is so underrated. The suspense of not knowing is what this film did so well. Even though it is highly believed that they opened a portal to Hell or some Hellish dimension, we still aren't sure. It never shows the other side of the portal. Only that whatever is there is so horrific that it all but destroys the human mind. As Sam Niel said in the film: "HELL is just a word. The reality is much, much worse..." Cosmic Horror genre at it's finest! Edit: Thanks for all the likes everyone!

In my head, this could have been(made) into an origin story for 40k where humanity was, in the early 40k universe, still testing out "interstellar travel" and inadvertently discovered the warp. Eventually figuring out how to do safer jumps(shorter ones) to avoid whatever caused the "Event Horizon Warp Sickness".

Great video, memes and all! Referencing Morpheus and Dr. Weir constantly was great, I'm a little sad you didn't use Lucious Malfoy too. Lol

Your whole bit on society focusing on video editing and film quality over space travel was good 😂 I always thought we over obsessed with cameras and little trivial gagets.

When I first saw this movie in the theatre with my friends, we all had the same thought - that Event Horizon is, accidentally, the first Hollywood movie about Mankind's earliest attempt at Warp travel in the Warhammer 40k setting. As the credits rolled, we all shouted, "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"

Quire a lot of the events of the movie were hallucinations, but i 100% believe that it was ultimately a daemon of the warp causing them. Besides that, there were some physical events that i think were it directly influencing the ship.

Hammond: wants to leave Morphius: wants to leave I'm weeing why horror movies go after the black guy first.

I have absolutely NO idea why this came up on me feed or why I clicked on it. But my man, you have earned a sub here! This was a masterpiece!

I think this is probably one of my favorite spooky movies. And honestly, for once, I actually kind of like the idea that you are dealing with a dimension that doesn't follow our rules. And perhaps that dimension is malevolent and evil . I like the idea of this being classic terror from beyond the stars kind of stuff.

"We're leaving" -Smartest horror movie protagonist ever

It is hilarious that Roanoke makes jokes and it needs to fight itself for laugh at them at the same time explains the events of this film, litterally golden.✨

My personal theory is that this takes place during the Dark Era of Humanity in 40k. The fools were playing with things they did not understand. Papa Nurgle was happy in the end though.

I wish that there was an extended version. Apparently, the original was so horrific that like... 15 minutes was removed. :(

I was doing a little interstellar math yesterday while listening to War of the Worlds and it takes the aliens ten days to reach Earth. Assuming they did it at the aphelion, they'd still need to travel at 64.814kps (233,333kph).

My head canon has always been that it was absolutely something supernatural, but the brain damage due to the gravitational waves is definitely interesting. I could see it being both, where the gravitational waves smacked the brain and left it in a vulnerable state and left whatever entity that was on the other side of that gate to be able to torment them using their own minds. Which i believe you mentioned is pretty similar to what the Marker does in Dead Space.

The wormhole opened a tangential gateway to the Nightside of Eden.

You're somewhere on the cusp of doing a 40K biology video, you've gotta be. Feels right up your alley, and I really think it would do serious numbers. A lot to tackle, though so I get the hesitation.

Also D.J, Peters and Starck were on the bridge when 'something' bang on the bulkhead. And the Dr was possessed to open the door. Three people cannot have the same hallucination at once.

Cool alternative viewpoint, but theres too many other markers in the movie to counter this perspective. 1. The former Ship's captain doesn't just miraculously learn how to write a warning in Latin with brain damage caused by the warp drive. 2. Dr. William Weir having super strength and extra sensory perception without eyes when he's possessed doesn't make sense. 3. The drive was developed by Dr. Weir, there would be known psychosis effects from research during development. It can be assumed Dr. Weir was possessed prior to entering the ship. There are many moments in the movie Dr. Weir acts suspicious, INLUDING not leaving the ship right away. That is before any exposure to the core from the crew. 4. The Gravity drive was sealed off from the rest of the ship when warp was activated, the crew was protected from any ill effects yet still suffered a supernatural incursion (hallucinations doesn't cause entire human bodies to eviscerate into blood jelly and spread up across walls.) 5. The Gravity drive was deactivated during their arrival/assessment and literally turned itself on without human interaction. (Again there is a possibility Dr. Weir was responsible for its activation.) 6. If Justin had any brain damage, they would have seen it in his medical evaluation prior to seizures. His seizure was more likely an indication of possession as he showed only "mentally induced symptoms". 7. "Morpheus's" character literally felt the heat from his "hallucination". 8. Every person's "Hallucination" was oddly specific to their most traumatic and guilty thought, something that is demonic and evil as opposed to blanketed paranoia and delusion that would have had the crew seeing all kinds of other random and weird aberrations. 9. There are also many symbolic Crosses in the movie, and a deleted scene shows a crucifixion of one of the crew members.

Please do a video on how much tech a person can replace their body with before the brain rejects it. Like the Adeptus Mechanicus 40k, robo cop, or cyberpunk.

Strangley enough, I've always had a huge fear of driving. But listening to you talk about it like it's no problem has inspired me to try something that I never thought I'd do. Thank you.

I remember seeing this in the theater way back in the day. I recall leaving there feeling a little disturbed and just...not right. I loved it! Great movie

As a doctor i can only say that the brain damage theory sounds extremely unlikely. Any kind of braindamage that severe would usually kill a lot of the crew and the few survivors would initially be in a coma or shock state. Drowsyness, dizziness, severe headaches and vomiting would be the prime symptoms for days. Absolutely not would the suffer brain damage and then simply continue with slightly altered behaviour. Our brain isnt like a car, where you lose your sidemirror and then only realize its missing after a you stop the car or something…its a cohesive unit that when damaged will at first not function at all

Given the common themes of the hallucinations, despite them mostly not talking about them and everyone coming from different backgrounds, along with the super-strength and being able to see people with the eyes being lost only hours ago, there is definitely something supernatural going on here. Or at least vastly beyond our understanding of our reality.

Isn't the bleeding of the ship the only shared hallucination? If so, then that tends to support your theory, and one of the reasons the film was so terrifying, each person's hell was personal. Nice catch.

"Yo, am I able to get my coffee without you being naked?"

Kinda prevalent to include the fact Henrietta Lacks cells were TAKEN without her consent experimented on without anyone in her family knowing (until the 2010’s/teens) or reviving any compensation (literally until February of 2024). The family JUST got acknowledgment of her cells being stolen and experimented on (also again to note the drs lied to her to obtain the cells and didn’t even bother to tell her about her cancer until she died, and the horrors they did to her body post Mortem). Sorry for the soap box but just wanted to share for those who don’t know!

As a 40K fan, I've always loved the idea that the Event Horizon went to the literal Warp, but I love your needlessly in-depth insight. I think is part of the corruption of this alternate dimension the Event Horizon went to, after all pestilence and hallucinations are all part of how Chaos corrupts

I think my favorite theory of space travel is by the time we invent something fast enough to go sub light with colonists and cryo tech to prolong the travelers, and by the time they wake up and arrive they will wake up to a a civilization that we created about halfway through their travels when we finally get ftl warp.

7:27 "God that was a lame joke" Best 4th wall break I've seen in awhile 😂😂😂

The real horror is the fact that we don’t need to look “out there” for evil/hell. Sadly, we create a ‘living’ hell for ourselves and others when we align ourselves with evil. There is sin/perversity that lurks inside everyone, alongside the good/order, for indeed, the dividing line between heaven and hell, good and evil, cuts through the heart of every human. The question we all have to honestly ask ourselves, even when, especially when we are deathly afraid of what the answer may be, is… am I manifesting hell in my own life, am I putting others through hell, have I chosen evil over good?

I'd agree with it being a hallucinations if Weir didn't gouge his eyes out and yet still be able to see. He was also throwing people around with superhuman strength.

… as a former construction worker, can confirm nobody uses ladders how they’re intended if nobody is around to yell at you to follow safety protocols. 😅

Patient : I fell and think i broke my arm. Roanoke Gaming : That's gravity-wave damage, son.

F-ing god. Rarely if ever I felt the need to subscribe so that I don't miss out. Loved all the allegories, casual but serious presentation, and the very plausible explanation of the events of the Event Horizon.

It's likely that the Gravity Core would also be emitting infrasonic waves that would further agitate the crew, ratcheting up paranoia and causing further hallucinations.

The Warhammer 40K prequel movie...

Imagine having the easiest job on the movie set, just sitting there, alive and non responsive, like hey, I'm a fucking human being, but I gotta act dead, great shit guys

The computers that brought us to the moon are equivalent to some of today's calculators

Tommy: "You're tearing me apart!". The core: "I'm tearing you apart!". Was The Room also a portal to hell?

In my opinion, the force on the other side of the portal, could not directly affect them when they were healthy. And it sent out the wave did damage these people on a cellular level, and the entity on the other side, hijacked the cell repair process, causing them to get worse as they stayed on the ship longer.

The cut to black followed by "Not ideal" gets me every time😂

It's interesting to note that this film is a rare instance of Jason Isaacs NOT playing a villain.

Being heavily inspired by WH40K (Warp, Chaos, some gothic ship design), I can totaly live with this being NOT a kinda prequel, but something similar. It's the same with "The Void & In the Mouth of Madness" being the best Cosmic Horror, or Lovecraftian Horror, NOT done by Lovecraft. It's close enough.

Well thought-out and executed! The only wildcard in your theory is Dr. Weir, who (besides supernatural sight & strength) was already experiencing visions even before boarding the returned Event Horizon. Perhaps because he was the creator, whatever "it" was can reach out and link to him through time and space?

Never unsub Papa Roanoke, love watching your longest vids, I know u mention stuff like that often. But it's all interesting, u present in a special, well versed and funny way. ✌️

Thank you Roanoke for gaslighting the crew of Event Horizon into thinking they were hallucinating.