This year marks the 25th anniversary of the premiere of one of the great jewels of cinematographic cosmic horror. I’m talking about ‘Final Horizon’, the feature film by Paul WS Anderson, known for his work in the —yes— underrated ‘Resident Evil’ saga that, in a science fiction key, took us to space to live an unforgettable nightmare.
The film, which has earned cult status, brims with virtues in its tight footage, but there is something that does not completely convince Sam Neill, performer who starred in the 1997 title opposite Laurence Fishburne; and this problem, precisely, has to do with duration and cadence of the story.
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A quarter of a century after its launch, Neill continues to be surprised at the esteem in which ‘Final Horizon’ is held among the works accumulated in his extensive filmography. This is how he told it in an interview with SyFy Wire.
“It’s funny how often this movie is talked about out of all the ones I’ve done. And it’s not like it did particularly well. But people seem to have seen it and it’s stuck in their minds or something.”
Nevertheless, the actor considers that the film fell short. Specifically “an hour and a half”.
“For me it’s a matter of guts that it’s not longer. It was put together like it was sped up. It should have been a lot slower. With more dark pauses where you don’t know what’s going to happen next.”
Frankly, and despite being a strong supporter of ‘Final Horizon’, I can not deny Sam Neill the greatest. The narrative of the film seems too rushed in some of its passages, and inquisitive looks should be directed at paramountFrom where required that the maximum length of the feature film should not exceed 90 minutes after being horrified with what they saw.
Unfortunately, the chances of seeing an unabridged version of this wild delight are slim to none, since the discarded material was stored in a salt mine, leaving it sufficiently damaged to not even be able to be restored. We can only dream of a director’s montage that would do justice to what, likewise, is a landmark of 90s horror cinema.