29 Years Later, This Fan-Favorite Sam Neill Horror Film Is Streaming Free

Published Jul 14, 2026, 11:02 AM EDT

Erik Hawkins is an award-winning writer and editor who’s been obsessed with cinema since he was old enough to hold Roger Ebert’s Video Home Companion in his hands. He lives in NYC, where he rabidly watches everything from the newest releases to the more odd and obscure, and regularly shares his thoughts on Letterboxd. From ghost-writing fiction and webisodes in South America to local news, trial coverage, and politics in NYC, he’s rarely put down his laptop over the past 15 years.

After the monster success of 1995’s Mortal Kombat adaptation, British director Paul W.S. Anderson was looking to make something more mature. He went with a screenplay that had been floating around at Paramount for some time — Event Horizon. Anderson made changes that both streamlined the story and darkened the tone, transforming it into something more explicitly horror than sci-fi. The result was an inspired blend of Ridley Scott’s *Alien *and Clive Barker-influenced splatter horror — and a cult hit that traumatized a generation.

Aside from the film’s remarkable gothic production design and no-holds-barred approach to gore, its secret weapon proved to be the late Sam Neill. Fresh off his iconic role as Alan Grant in*** Jurassic Park***, Neill went darker than most audiences had ever seen him go before (provided that they hadn’t seen Possession), and produced images that some audiences at the time found impossible to shake. Today, 29 years after its initial release, the cult horror hit is waiting to be discovered by a new generation of fans on Tubi.

To the uninitiated, Event Horizon begins very much like paint-by-numbers ’90s sci-fi, right down to the comically simple explanation of experimental wormhole space travel. The year is 2047, and the long missing spacecraft Event Horizon has reappeared on the interstellar map. A small crew is dispatched, along with scientist Dr. Weir (Neill), to recover it and determine where it has been for the past seven years.

The film’s inspired wrinkle is that, in the course of its space-time travels, the Event Horizon ended up going to hell itself — and it brought some Satanic energy back with it. The film’s largely negative reception and box office failure most likely came down to this big, bloody swing, as well as bait-and-switch marketing; today, the internet is flooded with stories of** people who went to see what they expected to be a Star Trek-style adventure, only to be surprised by something more akin to Hellraiser in space.

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