Event Horizon

Plot hole: An engineer on a rescue ship seems to be the first person instead of the entire planetary intelligence community and the NSA (as reported by Dr. Wier) to translate basic Latin from what the Event Horizon's captain said. Somehow nobody else with all the vast resources of the NSA and other government organizations could clean up the transmission to determine exactly what was said?

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Suggested correction: The recording of the Event Horizon's captain was taken directly from the ship's log. It was only available to the crew of the rescue ship at that time.

No, the NSA and the military had that transmission themselves as it's Dr. Weir who plays it for the crew before they reach the Event Horizon. How would Weir have it if they didn't obtain the log until they got to the ship? The part that they had, and DJ heard incorrectly, was received by the government agency in charge, leading them to send the Clark into Neptune orbit for a search and rescue of the crew and the ship.

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Mistakes

Factual error: When D.J. is attacked by Dr. Weir, he is grabbed by the throat and is squeezed until his windpipe is broken, shown by the way he was breathing (or struggling to). When Weir seizes him again and throws him against a support beam, he screams in a way impossible for someone who just had his windpipe crushed.

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Suggested correction: Dr. Weir doesn't crush DJ's throat at all. The noises he makes are simply choking noises because he is being picked up by his throat, there isn't even anything in the scene to imply his throat is being crushed, which in reality requires considerably more effort than most people believe.

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Quotes

Miller: I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied that she is vaporized. Fuck this shit!

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Trivia

Trivia: The Event Horizon was designed to have features subtly reminiscent of the famous Notre-Dame Cathedral.

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Questions

Chosen answer: The movie never explicitly says; but science is as yet unsure what happens to a given piece of matter once it crosses a black hole's event horizon, so who knows? The ship could have been thrown seven years forward in time, or far enough away that it took seven years for it to drift close to Neptune. Pick any explanation you like.

The theory that the film is a stealth prequel to the 'Warhammer 40,000' universe has been confirmed by one of the writers, who was a big fan of 40K and said that the setting influenced his writing "either consciously or subconsciously" – because Games Workshop is litigious. But since the Horizon entered into the Warp, time there flows extremely differently from time in real space; while it was seven years for people in real space, it could have been seconds, or thousands of years, for the ship.

Answer: With the recent Event Horizon prequel comic, it is established that Event Horizon is not in the Warhammer universe and there is a king of hell in the film. His name is Paimon.

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