Mortal Kombat saw him dive headfirst into full-blown horror.
Event Horizon has since ascended to cult classic status, but it was a major disappointment at the time, earning just $26 million at the box office on a $60 million budget.
Of course, this wasn’t helped by the studio butchering the filmmaker’s original vision, and the movie was heavily altered in post-production, which is the reason why the theatrical release ran at a brief and incredibly disjointed 96 minutes. Anderson has admitted in the past that his very first cut of the movie was over 30 minutes longer, but much of the footage has been lost to the sands of time.
Since making his feature debut in 1994 with
Shopping, Paul W.S. Anderson has directed a further twelve movies, and nobody can deny he’s experienced major success after they raked in a combined total of over $1.7 billion at the box office. However, the filmmaker has never made anything that could be described as great, and in the eyes of many folks, even good would be pushing it.
As a director, writer or producer, none of Anderson’s projects have ever secured a Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with his most recent effort,
Monster Hunter currently holding the highest score at a decidedly mediocre 58%, although the video game adaptation is poised to be remembered more for the furor it caused in China than the actual content of the movie.