Event Horizon
When this film was released, I was working in my local multiplex. Probably the best job I've ever had, cheating the sweetshop scales for personal profit, eating nachos and ben and jerrys by the armful, and what a lot of people who have never worked in a cenima dont realise is that all the films go in and out at roughly the same time, so on average you only spend about an hour working in any 8 hour shift. ace.

But I digress. Event Horizon was coming out soon, and as is usual, the film must be run through as a test to check it before the release. this was happening at about 2am on a saturday night and by all accounts was a bloody scary film, so we got very, very stoned, turned the volume up to 5 (usually at about 2) and settled in.

2hours later a shaking and sweating with fear, I left the cinema and headed out to my car to drive home, the route took me along several dark country lanes and the entire journey was spent telling myself that "it was all going to be OK" - eventually get home and sneak into my room without turning any lights on and waking anyone up, convinced some supernatural space horror was about to gouge out my eyeballs.

I get into bed, still shaking and trying to convince myself its all fine and realise that im going to have to read something fun and familiar to take my mind off it, so I pick up my well thumbed copy of Hitchhikers guide and read for about 20mins, all the time still shitting myself.

Eventually I calm down enough to try sleeping. I fearfully turn the light off and lie breathing in the dark room for a few seconds, when *BANG* there is a huge explosion in. my. ROOM!

I literally leapt about 2ft off my bed, heartrate totally off the scale and then cowered under the sheets for what felt like an eternity. Eventually sense took over and I decided to turn the lights on and investigate.

The bin in the corner of the room was smoking and had fallen over. Turns out my girlfriend at the time had been mixing some hair dye or some such and had left the can in the bin, the pressure had been slowly building and it decided to explode at the worst possible time, right as I switched the lights off, stoned out of my box, having just watched one of the scariest films I'd ever seen in an almost empty cinema.

Lesson: Go out with a natural brunette next time.

Length? I usually get compliments.
(poikes Bored sig, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 17:53, 4 replies)

Good tale!
Have a click because I think that it is a vastly underrated horror movie!
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 18:26, closed)

If only they'd cut out the comedy black dude (Cooper)
Not because I'm a massive racist and I like my films all-white, but because his cliched, bungling comic relief completely undermined the tension. It would have been a perfect space horror movie if his character had died right at the start.
( chart cat has an itch, Fri 24 Jul 2009, 2:53, closed)

Clicks
That film scared the crap out of me
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 21:00, closed)

where we're going
you don't need eyes
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Fri 24 Jul 2009, 11:55, closed)