Event Horizon is finally getting a sequel, which is great news for anyone who watched the 1997 sci-fi horror movie and thought, “Actually, I would like more of that haunted space misery.” The cult favorite is continuing with Event Horizon: Inferno, a comic book sequel set 200 years after the events of the original film. So no, this isn’t the long-rumored movie sequel fans have been waiting for, but it is the franchise crawling back from whatever dimension it disappeared into, and that feels very on brand.
The original Event Horizon followed a rescue crew investigating a long-lost spaceship that suddenly reappears near Neptune after vanishing years earlier. Unfortunately, the ship did not simply go on a relaxing space gap year. It returned from a hellish dimension, bringing back something deeply wrong with it. The movie was not a hit when it first arrived, but over time, it has become one of the defining “people were not ready for this” horror cult classics of the 1990s.
The cast of the 1997 film includes Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, John Wick: Chapter 2) as Captain Miller, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Possession) as Dr. William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13, The Hills Have Eyes) as Peters, Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck, The Patriot) as Starck, Richard T. Jones (The Rookie, Collateral) as Cooper, Jack Noseworthy (U-571, Killing Kennedy) as Justin, Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Patriot) as D.J., and Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers, Gotham) as Smith.
Is ‘Event Horizon’ Worth Watching?
The legendary critic Roger Ebert opined that Event Horizon starts off feeling like a proper sci-fi classic in the making — sleek ships, eerie sound design, and that slow, creeping sense of dread that pulls you right in — but it rapidly becomes clear there’s not much beneath the surface. The atmosphere does a lot of heavy lifting early on, with the cold, empty ship and strange signs of life setting up something genuinely unsettling.
“It is observed darkly at one point that the gravity drive is a case of Man pushing too far, into realms where he should not go. There is an accusation that someone has ‘broken the laws of physics,’ and from the way it’s said you’d assume that offenders will be subject to fines or imprisonment. Of course there are no ‘laws’ of physics–only observations about the way things seem to be. What you ‘break,’ if you break anything, is not a law but simply an obsolete belief, now replaced by one that works better. Deeply buried in ‘Event Horizon’ is a suspicion of knowledge. Maybe that’s why its characters have so little of it.”
Event Horizon: Inferno is now being released by IDW Publishing, with the trade paperback listed for July 28, 2026.
via Collider