‘Event Horizon’ Series in Development at Amazon - "Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see - just a Prime account"

[UQ 770]

The 40k angle works because the warp demons are literally psychic entities that can only manifest if a direct link to the warp is present. Which they do in the movie incidentally. Whenever the doctor has his visions they show the warp drive portle starting up and opening. Plus his actions at the end were pretty typical behavior for someone high on Khorne making blood sacrifices. All he needed to do was call for skulls for the skull throne at that point.

The thing with 40k Daemon Ships is that the ship itself is the Daemon. Its like a warp tainted weapon, its alive and making its crew go crazy. You don't see any Daemons, because the ship itself is one.

Its the best 40k movie ever made. Amazon will fuck this up though.

I'm aware the internet likes its 40K and that franchise could really use a quality movie, but Event Horizon always struck me as more in the vein of industrial horror than the kind of flamboyant aesthetics and mythology of WH40k. Though 40k has so many influences and has influenced so many things that trying to parse it like that is probably pointless.

My bias against it being an honorary 40K movie is probably because it harkens back to the Classic SF idea of Space Madness, where traveling at or beyond the speed of light causes such severe time dilation that it would drive anyone to insanity, since your brain would effectively be percieveing eternity. I'm aware that's not quite how it would work in reality, but its a neat concept. Event Horizon takes the novel approach of the FTL dimension being mystical on the surface, but there's just enough ambiguity present that it could just be Space Madness. All of the mutilation and torture would be sort of an expression of the shittyness inherent in human nature, in that interpretation.

Probably an unpopular opinion, I dunno if the writers thought about it as much as I did.

 

[The Fool]

It's gonna be fucked up purely because it's a series. Everything has to be a series now, because that's what gets people to buy subscriptions. It's not because it will be a good medium to tell a story, it's purely a business decision.