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Event Horizon
In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a spaceship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier. The ship has mysteriously reappeared in orbit around Neptune, prompting the US Aerospace Command to dispatch the Lewis and Clark rescue vessel to investigate. Its crew members—Captain Miller, second-in-command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Justin, doctor D.J., and rescue technician Cooper—are joined by Dr. William Weir, who designed the Event Horizon. Shortly before arrival at the Event Horizon, Weir briefs them on the ship's experimental gravity drive with a simple visualization of how it folds spacetime to instantly transport the ship across vast distances. He then plays them the distress signal, which consists of screams, howls, and what sounds like a voice. D.J. recognizes it as the Latin phrase "līberāte mē", which he translates as "save me".
Upon boarding the Event Horizon, the crew finds signs of a massacre. As they search for survivors, the ship's gravity drive activates and briefly pulls Justin into a portal before unleashing a shock wave that breaches the hull of the Lewis and Clark. The crew is forced to move to the Event Horizon while Cooper rescues Justin from the portal, finding that he has been reduced to a catatonic state. Smith and Cooper are sent on a spacewalk to repair the hull of the Lewis and Clark while the rest of the crew begin to experience hallucinations of their biggest fears and regrets. Miller sees Eddie Corrick, a subordinate from a previous journey who he left to die in order to save the other crew members. Peters sees her son with his legs covered in bloody lesions, while Weir sees a vision of his late wife, now eyeless, urging him to join her.
Justin suddenly wakes from his coma while the entire ship seems to be shaking and attempts to vent himself from the airlock; he is saved at the last second by Miller, who places a severely injured Justin in stasis. Shaken, Miller confides in D.J. about his hallucinations, prompting D.J. to reveal that he found a longer phrase in the distress signal. It really says "libera te tutemet ex inferis", which he translates as "save yourself from Hell ". D.J. concludes that the ship's drive must have opened a gateway to somewhere beyond the known universe and brought something horrible back with it. His conclusion gains more credibility when a video log is discovered on the Event Horizon, showing the ship's crew members horrifically brutalizing each other after engaging the gravity drive, with their captain chanting in Latin as he holds his own eyeballs in his hands.
Miller immediately orders his crew to speed up their evacuation, ignoring Weir's protests to the contrary. Miller and Smith retrieve CO2 scrubbers from the Event Horizon as Peters is lured to her death by a hallucination of her son. Weir finds her body and is flung into a hallucination of his wife's suicide, driving him to gouge out his own eyes and embrace the ship's evil presence. Now corrupted, he uses an explosive to destroy the Lewis and Clark, killing Smith and blasting Cooper into space before killing D.J. by vivisecting him. Miller confronts Weir on the bridge but is overpowered. Weir initiates a 10-minute countdown to activate the gravity drive and return the ship to the hellish dimension. Meanwhile, Cooper uses his spacesuit's oxygen supply to propel himself back to the ship and appears at the bridge window. Weir shoots at him, shattering the window and blowing himself into space with the decompression.
Miller, Starck, and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the ship's bridge. With their own ship destroyed, Miller plans to split the Event Horizon in two with explosives and use its forward section as a lifeboat. He is attacked by hallucinations which turn out to be the resurrected and even more mutilated Weir. Miller fights him at the gravity drive and detonates the explosives, sacrificing himself to save his remaining crew. The gravity drive activates, pulling the ship's stern into a black hole. Starck and Cooper enter stasis beside a comatose Justin and wait to be rescued.
72 days later, the wreckage of the Event Horizon is boarded by a rescue party who discover the survivors in stasis. Starck hallucinates Weir as one of the rescuers and screams but she quickly awakens, realizing that it was only a nightmare. Cooper and the rescue team try to calm the terrified Starck as the doors close.