About two months from now, horror fans will be huddled in theaters late at night as they witness the "discovered footage" of the secretive Apollo 18 mission. Just like Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, and The Blair Witch Project, Apollo 18 is based on the idea of lost video clips being recovered and some horrible secret being revealed. In this case, it's the supposed existence of some unknown horror on the surface of the moon. Apollo 18 is directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego and and written by Brian Miller and Corey Goodman.
Hit the jump for our thoughts, the official synopsis and the poster...
I can't be the only one who thinks that someone watched Transformers and took special note of the Mars rover footage scene and then decided to make an entire horror movie based off that. Then, from what it looks like on the trailer, they added elements of the Black Oil plot from The X-Files. Suffice to say, none of this is a bad thing. The Jaws school of thought on horror, show as little as possible and leave the monster below the surface as long as possible, works because the imagination of the audience runs rampant with worst-case scenarios. It's a double-edged sword though, because what terror finally shows its face on screen rarely matches the horror's the audience thought up (mostly because each person's brain knows what scares them most). Except for the shark from Jaws, because Spielberg did it right.
Here's the official synopsis:
Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
And the poster...
