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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, Stargate & Stranger Things!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this explanation came from Event Horizon first.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More like A Wrinkle in Time, the 1962 book

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Alas, I have not read that book.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is by no means an exhaustive list. Those are just the ones that sprang to mind.

I wonder if anyone has posted a supercut of this trope on YouTube...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think remembering that, at least in movies, it originated with Event Horizon is critical because it is the only one that takes into account any downside to transdimensional travel...and what a downside it was.

I will always mourn the loss of any possible director's cut of Event Horizon where the footage was so insanely over the top that the execs almost shit their pants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It would have been a classic for the ages. The spike through the mouth alone is enough to make it live in infamy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I wonder if the movie still holds up. I haven't seen it in 20 years, but it was the most terrifying movie I had seen up until that point, and for a long time afterwards too.