I wouldn't want to see an extended cut with still more footage of horrible things done to people, like the film already has. Talk about beating a dead horse!

I would! I would also hope there are a few extra scenes they got rid of that are plot-driven or character-driven. In particular, I feel like there is a strange cut in the scene introducing everyone early on. Specifically, after DJ quickly introduces himself with "DJ, trauma." Cut to everyone laughing, but I'm pretty sure it was two takes or there was something else in there.

Taken from IMDB:

Paul W.S. Anderson's initial cut of the film ran 130 minutes and was quite graphically violent, so much so that both test audiences and the studio balked at the finished product. Paramount ordered him to cut the film by 30 minutes and tone down some of the violence, a decision he now regrets. Although it was announced in 2012 that a full version of the film had been found, Anderson revealed in 2017 that due to bad archiving, a longer version no longer exist.

A massive shame

I am aware of the interviews, but I still hold out hope!

To each their own, I suppose, but I thought the movie was much more interesting before the violence than after it began in earnest. I've seen my fair share of gory movies and extreme violence just doesn't do anything for me. Unless, of course, it involves humor like the Ash Vs. Evil Dead series.

I never understood why this had to descend into a movie about horror and evil. I was more interested in a thought experiment on what approaching a black hole might be about. Never got how doing so should morph into evil. Space is hostile to human survival, but it isn't "evil", and one need not travel to a black hole to experience its harsh realities. How an event horizon produced this movie's horror factor is beyond my grasp of science.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

I never understood why this had to descend into a movie about horror and evil. I was more interested in a thought experiment on what approaching a black hole might be about. Never got how doing so should morph into evil. Space is hostile to human survival, but it isn't "evil", and one need not travel to a black hole to experience its harsh realities. How an event horizon produced this movie's horror factor is beyond my grasp of science.

the dimension The Event Horizon goes to when they first use the Gravity Drive, its, Hell...

@ultraviolet said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

I never understood why this had to descend into a movie about horror and evil. I was more interested in a thought experiment on what approaching a black hole might be about. Never got how doing so should morph into evil. Space is hostile to human survival, but it isn't "evil", and one need not travel to a black hole to experience its harsh realities. How an event horizon produced this movie's horror factor is beyond my grasp of science.

the dimension The Event Horizon goes to when they first use the Gravity Drive, its, Hell...

I think the poster is questioning the filmmakers' decision to have the dimension be Hell. Then again, I could be wrong....

Shout Factory have finally released their special edition blu-ray after a 6 month delay searching everywhere for the missing footage... but with no luck.

Lost forever ☹️

Well, I understand that director's idea was to depict a dimension where chaos and suffering reign.

At some point somebody says the gateway is "challenging" physics laws, so we could understand that by doing so it sends the ship into a dimension of chaos where no law exists. It's not hell as ICAR talk about, it's a place of intense suffering and horror that some crew members related to what they know about hell.

Of course, we could argue that in such place we's have only chaotic matter, it'd not be depicted from human's understanding of suffering or terror.

But anyway, the idea is that instead of creating a hope linking 2 places on our dimension, it either creates a portal to that onother dimension, or at least tries to use it to make the linking and never reaches the other side because the ship is trapped in there and then sent back to lure more victims.

If we consider the dimension as I described, the gore scenes are relevant on the plot.

Regarding the deleted scenes to create a director's cut, we may keep hope, but it's alrdy a decade trying to find these scenes and nothing worth was found, so I doubt anything can still be.

It's very sad how producers mess with movies and how short schedules lead to failure. It'd rather cancel it than release it as trash. In this case, it's even worse because they lost the deleted scenes. The movie isn't the best produced, but it has some famous actors and its plot inspired - even if indirectly - many other movies and games later. We deserved to see what the director envisioned for it.

If the scenes are indeed lost, maybe they could make a remake for it, with good actors and faithful to the original idea, not some adaptation family friendly bsht.