Event Horizon rip-off
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Ghost Ship
MaynardisGod — 17 years ago(December 28, 2008 12:16 PM)
This movie does not only rip off Event Horizon in premise, it practically rips off the entire thing. There are differences here and there, so don't bother pointing that out, but the amount of similarities is enough to call this piece of crap film a complete rip off. Lets look at the similarities:
A crew is approached with a mission when they really all want to have some time off.
The vessel bounces on and off the radar right before they find it, which is just before they almost smash into it.
Crew starts having visions.
One of the crew dies by following a vision which leads to falling down a shaft.
The crew's ship blows up, stranding them on the other vessel (and it's blown up by the villain that's with them)
One of the crew, the man that brought them out there, has connections to the ship, which are hell-related.
The demise of the original crew is shown, which involves lots of very gory deaths and images.
Towards the end, we see a fight between the villain and the main character.
Ends with ship blowing up.
There's a twist at the very end involving the showing of the villain originally with the crew.
The crew is shown doing their salvage work jobs at the beginning, which was how EH was originally going to begin, but the scene in EH was only done in storyboards and never actually shot.
Ok, Come on. It is one thing to take influence, but this was a complete and utter rip-off of a movie that was much better and scarier. Please tell me other people have noticed this, because it's pretty plain as day. -
Militarygoth — 17 years ago(January 04, 2009 09:05 PM)
I did notice this after i watched both movies, but even if it was ripped of, much of it is vastly different. In EH, Wier wasn't planning on killing anyone, only finding out what happened to the ship he built. It was only after it possessed him that he had that intention. And in this movie, the visions aren't exactly just visions, they are ghosts, which do appear and disappear. And i don't think anything of what they saw happened in their mind.
The "right on top of it" part is also a reference, not a rip off. In this, they actually "hit" it.
But anyway, so they did use a lot of similar situations in this movie. In the least, premise of both films isn't the same. It has similarities yes, but it isn't exactly the same. -
Magnus1111 — 15 years ago(December 31, 2010 10:34 PM)
I personally thought it was a ripoff of Virus (1999) but with ghosts instead of killing machines controlled by an alien computer virus. It had Jamie Lee Curtis in it and even then no one remembers it because it was so horrid. I watched it a lot when I was younger because I liked it as a kid. Ghost Ship I like too but only because the Antonia Graza looks like the Andrea Doria/Cristoforo Columbo/Leonardo da Vinci which are some of my favorite ships.
But we all know these movies are all massive Aliens ripoffs.
People go into abandoned location, search around for clues, discover the horrible truth, gratuitous violence ensues and their means of leaving is destroyed, most of the cast dies so fast you can't remember their names, and it ends with an explosion and it's happily ever after.. or is it?
Aliens has been remade so many times it's crazy. Carnosaur 2, Virus, Ghost Ship, Event Horizon, Lost Voyage, Halo: Combat Evolved, and that one movie about people hijacking a Cruise Ship full of sea monsters that I can never remember its name. I think Halo and Carnosaur 2 are the most blatant though.
I think Avatar was Cameron's revenge for the Aliens ripoffs.. by ripping off a lot of stuff, even a bit of Titanic. -
janX9 — 14 years ago(May 26, 2011 08:40 PM)
Yeah, I totally thought that I was watching Event Horizon 2. At least Event Horizon had an original sounding title instead of the obvious 'Ghost Ship' which they are both clearly about.
To add to the similarities, both are going after a ship that had disappeared long ago and is far from the location that it was lost.
None the less, I do have to say that I did enjoy both films and can see myself watching Ghost Ship again someday. I do prefer Event Horizon more though.
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kuma_tenshi — 14 years ago(May 29, 2011 03:05 PM)
Let's see, one has to do with actual ghosts.and the other has to do with a dimensional rift that is opened on a ship in space, that causes complete and utter insanity in people.
Yeah, REAL beep SIMILAR. Idiots.
Just because certain small plot points are the same, does not make it a rip off.
You want to go with that logic, EVERY SINGLE beep ACTION MOVIE HAS RIPPED OFF EACH OTHER FOR DECADES NOW.
As has every drama movie, comedy movie, blah blah blah, etc etc.
Please grow a brain and quit thinking you're so beep intelligent because you notice similar things happening in other movies. OMG!!! -
haker-1 — 14 years ago(August 21, 2011 02:38 PM)
I just watched Event Horizon and they have similatiries but not that big. The same way you say it is a rip-off you can say Ghosts on Mars is a rip-off from Event Horizon or Doom or Ghost Ship.
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chilichilipepper — 12 years ago(June 01, 2013 10:54 AM)
funny thing is, this topic comes up about o nce a year when the old thread gets deleted. yes they are a lot of similarities ( I think years ago I was one of the first to do a list like this.
Doesn't mean they don't have their own merits though. Ghost Ship was more suspence / horror where Event Horizon was more Satanic Horror. Either way, this is an ongoing subject and I mis s the days when IMDB didn't delete threads every 4 months.