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The Movie is set in its own self-contained universe independent of other franchises and properties unless officially stated otherwise by the parent company.

Bet you didn't think of that.

• Hmm, dunno man. That's quite a bit far fetched; even for a WMG entry...

The film takes place in the distant past of the Warhammer 40,000 universe

As mentioned on the main Event Horizon page, this is a popular piece of Fanon and almost too easy to qualify as 'wild' guessing. Everything in the film, from the gothic cathedral design of the ship to the central concept of Hyperspace being hell inhabited by demons maps exactly onto Warhammer 40,000's use of those tropes. You could drop it into the continuity without changing a thing.

• I am sorry, but WMG is for outrageous guessing. Not the cold hard facts.

Where we're going we won't need eyes.

Prove me wrong.

• Prove what wrong?
• I thought the exact same thing.

Weir is a Scelestus

He's being manipulated by an abyssal being. It was him that activated the portal remotely using magic. An abyssal entity is the thing that possessed the Event Horizon. The film takes place in the far future of the New World of Darkness.

Weir is a Nephandus.

The crew of the Louis and Clark are sleepers, and Weir was orginally a Void Engineer sent by the Technocracy to check out the Event Horizon after a trip through the Umbra. Unfortunately, the mini-singularity he designed proved to be an inadvertant Caul. Normal sleepers going through it just get regularly mind raped. Weir, going in on the other hand, makes him rethink his allegiances somewhat...

The portal released IT Pennywise from the outer void

Pennywise didn't die. Rather, it faked it's own death and lived on into the distant future. Alternatively, the supernatural force possessing the ship is another one of Pennywise's species. It also seems to feed on violence and fear, and uses hallucinations to snare its prey.

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Alternative idea. All of the "supernatural" weirdness was, pure hallucination, brought about by gravitational distortions rippling through the ship and playing merry hob with the crews' neurons. Traveling through hyperspace isn't an actual alternate dimension that resembles Dante's hell; it just drives you completely crazy.

• Plus, it resembles Dante's hell because that's what the characters envision it to be like through their cultural upbringing; if you sent a crew with entirely different cultural beliefs about 'hell', they'd see something different.
• A nicely plausible theory! Since ghost hunters do, in fact, theorize that strong magnetic/gravitational distortions account for most terrestrial hauntings, it's not too much of a stretch to think the core might have caused that. It perfectly explains why Miller has visions about leaving behind his crewmen, even though he'd never told anyone else. Would have been nice if the film tossed that theory out!

The lost Event Horizon and Lewis and Clark crewmen became Reavers.

"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing - and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

• Pretty darned close to what happened on Even Horizon, isn't it? Perhaps the Event Horizon can travel through time and space, and spend its missing years on the fringes of Firefly's known universe...
• Except that the actual explanation for the creation of the Reavers is given in Serenity, and it has nothing to do with crazy hell-dimension portals.
  • You hush.

Dr. Weir is a Cenobite.

This is actually a pretty widespread assumption. Dr. Weir even becomes a Cenobite for the same reasons others do: deep emotional pain. And the "Hell dimension" features a ton of Clive Barker-like leather, barbs, and so forth. Weir has the same Body Horror fascination, too.

• • It's my belief that Event Horizon proves that Hellraiser and Warhammer take place in the same universe.

Event Horizon is set in the Star Trek universe.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Random Thoughts", we get to see all the violent thoughts in Tuvok's mind. Among them are three images from Event Horizon. Either he saw the movie once and it somehow made an impression on him or the events of the movie happened In Universe, one of the survivors got mind melded by a Vulcan doctor at some point after First Contact, and Tuvok mind melded with either that Vulcan doctor or another Vulcan who mind melded with that Vulcan doctor and the images got transferred during the meldings.

• • The events in the Enterprise episode "Impulse" were NOT the result of Trellium-D poisoning. In the logs, the crew of the Vulcan ship went insane in a manner identical to the crew of the Event Horizon. "Trellium-D poisoning" was merely the story used in the cover-up. Consider your mind blown.

Event Horizon is based in the same universe as Doom

Both feature a transport system that transports though hell and in both cases something comes though from the other side.

== I'm surprised no one has made any correlations between Event Horizon and In the Mouth of Madness ==. Both are Cosmic Horror Stories which feature a character played by Sam Neill losing his mind at the hands (and spiked tentacles) of an Eldritch Abomination.

• I'm surprised no one has made any correlations between Event Horizon and The Black Hole

Event Horizon takes place in the distant, distant future of Sauna's universe

Both evil forces come from a place of darkness. Both of them seem to feed off negative emotion. Both lure their victims in with visions. Both seem to be able to possess people with corruption. Clearly the Sauna's Eldritch Abomination simply has found a new form to mess around in...

Event Horizon is Miller's Dying Dream / Eternal Mind Screw / Mind Rape.

Think about it - why else would it end with a The End - or Is It? ending with his crew. His greatest fear was something happening to his crew - what would Mind Screw him most as he lay dying? The idea that despite his Heroic Sacrifice that his crew NEVER GOT AWAY.

The two ships mentioned as missing in the beginning of the film were sent out after the Event Horizon.

Remember when Miller mentions that the last two ships that "went out this far never came back"? How much do you want to bet they were sent out after the Event Horizon? And they were likely rescue ships just like the crew of the Lewis and Clark, hence the fake "rescue" scene near the end.

• • "They're with us." Indeed.
    • Or the new rescue crew is actually genuine. But they also got caught up with the Event Horizon.

The other half of the Event Horizon is also going to that place where we won't need eyes.

Hence the weird "iris" effect at the end.

Hyperspace is a huge colony of boggarts.

It causes you to see your worst traumas and fears, right? So if the crew had all been wizards, they simply would have needed to say "Riddikulus" and it would have changed into something funny (in the case of Weir, for example, it would have changed into a guy in a Paper-Thin Disguise as his wife.)

That bloody humanoid... thing from the deleted scenes is SCP-106.

And the gravity drive accesses its dimesion.

Both revel in human suffering. Both move in disturbing ways. This thing went headfirst down a ladder and SCP-106 can walk on/cling to any surface, including ceilings. Each has horrifying Slasher Smile. Both inhabiit dimesions of pain and horror.