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Comment by milankragujevic | Hacker News Reader

I'd rate Event Horizon as the scariest thing I saw in my life, mainly because the first and only time I saw it was when I was 7 years old.

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I had a similar experience, no other film scared me before or since, but event horizon was terrifying

I first saw it a few years back, and it ranks with Prince of Darkness as one of the scariest things I've ever seen.

I think the transition from Lovecraftian "cosmic horror" to modern jump scares is one of the biggest shames of modern cinema. It's easy to copy gore or other ick factor stuff that are part of the classic great horror flicks, but getting the essential creepiness of The Omen, or the alienation of Rosemary's Baby takes talent.

I think my brother still hates me... first time in our lives we were alone (I think I was 13 or 14, my brother 11 or 12), dark stormy night with lightning, my father was going out for a few hours, so of course, I got to choose a (VHS) movie.. it was Event Horizon.

He couldn't sleep for days (I had a nightmare but I could sleep), my father was SO mad.

Had my ex-partner's oldest kid (age 14) hiding behind the sofa. I too was not popular when he woke up in the middle of the night by a nightmare and blaming it on watching Event Horizon.

I thought he could handle it because we'd just watched all the Alien movies and he quite enjoyed them. He saw Aliens first and I suggested we watch the original/rest, he was quite drawn into suspense of the first film which the others have never quite matched in intensity. I guess Event Horizon was a bit too dark and visceral for his tastes.

I saw it in college. With the lights on. And nobody wanted to go back to their own dorm rooms afterward.

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