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Think of it like getting your hoover and a piece of lint. Place the lint on the ground and turn on the hoover, slowly edge the hoover closer and closer. The event horizon is the point at which the lint is pulled into the hoover and has no chance of escaping the suction.
Scale this up to the black hole and not even the fastest things in the universe can escape.
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