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Event Horizon (1997)

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• In normal circumstances blood would have dried in seven years' time. Liquid blood droplets would be nearly spherical due to surface tension, like the coolant. However, this is far from normal circumstances as the ship manages to do some very disturbing things that defy all known physics, keeping blood wet for seven years and arranging it like it has would be very simple for the ship. For instance, Dr. Wier can see with no eyes, is sucked out into space and appears as another person on fire at the end.
  
  
• When D.J. confesses to Miller that he had misheard the Latin, he says that the phrase was actually, "liberate tutemet ex inferis." "Tutemet" is not a real latin word. D.J has got it wrong once again. The only thing the phrase could be that sounds similar to "tutemet" is "Liberate tutam me ex inferis" which roughly translates as “release me safely from hell”.
  
  
• When the scouting party first enters the Event Horizon, Captain Miller states that the "Place is a deep freeze. We've got ice crystals everywhere." A few moments later, a plastic bottle of spring water is seen tumbling in zero-gravity in that area of the spacecraft, and the sound of liquid sloshing around in the bottle is heard. Of course, the contents of the bottle should be frozen solid if it's a "deep freeze", and it's not even remarked upon by the crew-member who examines it.
  
  

• The various surgical implements in the medical bay of the Event Horizon are hung on hooks in the open air rather than stowed away in sterile conditions.
  
  
• The medical lab - an area presumably designed with surgery in mind - has appalling lighting and a lot of uneven and irregular surfaces, which would make keeping conditions sterile all the more difficult. Furthermore, despite being left loose on surfaces or hanging from hooks, the surgical equipment is all neatly laid out, even though until gravity was restored every loose item on the ship was floating about.
  
  
• The "hull repair" equipment is contained in lockers marked with the biohazard symbol, even though the device within - what is essentially a nail-gun - is obviously not organic and hence cannot be classified as a biohazard.
  
  
• Near the end, when Cooper watches the "blood" flowing above the ceiling lights, the front of the flow does not change shape at all and also, just before the camera changes, briefly jumps backwards, revealing it to be a computer effect.
  
  
• Despite being washed away in a flood of bloody water, in the following scenes Stark is mostly dry and whilst bloody is a lot cleaner than would be likely.
  
  
• In the scene where Justin is touched by something in the black gateway, you hear him say "Oh, shit!" but his mouth never moves.
  
  
• Just after helping Weir to his feet and as he turns away, you can see that D.J's shorts are completely dry on his backside, despite being in a tank of liquid for the last 56 days and being visibly dripping wet from the front.
  
  

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