Is Event Horizon (1997) a genuine sci-fi horror masterpiece hiding in plain sight, or does it only hit because you watched it at midnight on DVD and scared yourself into loving it?

🚀 We're back in Season 2 of Is It Cool Or Just Nostalgia? with our deep-dive season dedicated entirely to sci-fi movies that shaped the genre. And this episode, we're strapping into the Lewis and Clark and heading straight to hell. Literally.

🎬 Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon was a certified disaster when it hit theaters on August 15, 1997. It grossed just $42 million worldwide against a $60 million production budget, got destroyed by critics (36% on Rotten Tomatoes), and earned a D+ from opening-weekend audiences. Roger Ebert gave it two stars. Paramount had rushed the entire production by slashing Anderson's original 130-minute cut and forcing a br ...