Event Horizon

In 2047, the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched to investigate the reappearance of the Event Horizon near Neptune — an experimental spacecraft that vanished seven years earlier during a test of its gravity drive, a device designed to fold space and allow faster-than-light travel. Dr. William Weir, the ship's designer, accompanies the crew. They find the Event Horizon drifting in decaying orbit, dark and apparently empty.

Inside, they find evidence of catastrophic violence: biological matter, no survivors, a fragmentary video log in which the original crew appears to be destroying each other and themselves in a frenzy of ecstatic horror. Analysis of the gravity drive reveals the truth: it does not fold space. It tears a hole between dimensions. The dimension it reached is not simply another location in the universe. It is somewhere else entirely — a place of pure suffering.

The Event Horizon has come back changed. It is alive now, or something that functions as alive. It draws on the crew's deepest fears and most private traumas, constructing hallucinations from their worst memories. Weir, who has been haunted since his wife's suicide, becomes the ship's point of access. The visions reach him deeper than they reach anyone else. His eyes go dark. He has crossed over to whatever brought the ship back.

Weir kills crew members. Captain Miller understands that the only option is to destroy the ship entirely — the forward section separated from the drive section, the drive section sent back through the gateway before it can be taken to Earth. He sacrifices himself in the separation explosion.

Three survivors escape in the forward section and seal themselves in emergency hypersleep pods. In the seconds before sleep takes her, one of them looks across the pod bay. Weir's face is reflected in the glass, grinning from the dark on the other side.