Apollo 18 PG 13
Found footage fright movies, a genre
that hasn't been stale since Blair Witch, or maybe it has. Apollo 18 follows
the super secret space flight of astronauts sent by the Dept. of Defense to the
moon to find out what happened to their radar thing they were going to use to
spy on the Russians, as it was the Cold War then. When the guys in the lander
go down they have one man in orbit to pick them up, but when they start
exploring the site they find an unusual alien event, where a Russian space
probe is involved, and there are a lot of shaky cam movements. (On a 16 mm
movie camera this would be a blurred mess actually, mostly without sound). They
find something that infects one of the men with icky goo rock stuff, and then
he goes bonkers. (You get that bonkers part from the preview). They never
really did an Apollo 18 mission and that's the gimmick, but really, the idea of
alien shape changing spidery things chasing guys on the moon somehow bring up
Moontrap and a little bit of those cheese ball scary videotape that kills you
movies. About all this will do is mane you laugh yourself to death. Review by Adam Browne
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