There has always been that skeptical crowd that thinks that the human race has never set foot on the moon. That it was all a ploy by the US government to make the world think that we beat the Soviets there. However, what if the reason why we never went back was because of something unknown that may be a threat to mankind, something that our government has covered up and with good reason to preserve our race from something that could potentially destroy us.
Apollo 18 is a film that presents that “What If” evidence to us. What if there is something on the moon that does not want us there, something that looks at us like we are a great big prime rib that landed in the center of their dinner plate.
Three Astronauts on a top secret mission to the moon record there every move and experience on film. The mission is deemed classified and the astronauts think their objective is to see is the Russians have planted top secret technology on the moon to spy on America. They find a Russian spacecraft alright, but they also find a dead cosmonaut. Things start to get odd when one of them thinks something is in his suit. Is the psychology of being confined to closed quarters on the moon getting to him, or is there some kind of parasitic extraterrestrial looking at them as a meal?
I admire the filmmakers who put this film together for giving the film that feel that this really happened on the moon. All the shots are from cameras that either the astronauts had on them or were set up on the moon or in their spacecraft. It was a unique way to give the film a reality based feel as if this mission really happened and was covered up by the United States government. However, that is also the films flaw. While the psychology of being confined to a small spacecraft as your only source of oxygen, and there being small creatures trying to get to you outside the craft with no place for you to run; as a viewer you feel that psychological tension an fear. That does wear off after a while and as the films tension declines you might find yourself yawning until the film finally comes to an end. By then you realize that you have known how it was going to end all along.
The Blu-ray disc comes with a few features such as commentary with Director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego and Editor Patrick Lussier as well as deleted and Alternate Scenes and an Alternate Endings. The combo pack also includes a DVD and Digital copy of the film as well.
Apollo 18 is a film that I think would be scary is we all lived on the moon or in space. However, since all of us live here on earth and probably will never live on the moon or even go into space, the realty of the fear does not affect us all that much. I respect the film for it efforts but I personally think it’s a film made way before it’s time.
– Horror Bob
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