Apollo 18 (2011)

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.

Director:

Gonzalo López-Gallego

Writer:

Brian Miller

Stars:

Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Warren Christie	...	Ben Anderson
Lloyd Owen	...	Nate Walker
Ryan Robbins	...	John Grey
Michael Kopsa	...	Deputy Secretary of Defense (as Mike Kopsa)
Andrew Airlie	...	Mission Control
Kurt Max Runte	...	Lab Tech #1 (as Kurt Runte)
Jan Bos	...	Lab Tech #2
Kim Wylie	...	Laura Anderson
Noah Wylie	...	Ryan Anderson
Ali Liebert	...	Nate's Girlfriend
Erica Carroll	...	John's Fiancée

Storyline

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.

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Plot Keywords:

found footage | nasa | moon | astronaut | spaceship | 

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Taglines:

There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some disturbing sequences, and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 September 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Apolo 18

Filming Locations:

Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$8,704,271 (USA) (2 September 2011)

Gross:

$17,683,670 (USA) (11 November 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dimension Films, Bekmambetov Projects Ltd. (BPL), Apollo 18 Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS (as Datasat Digital Sound) SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In some way, there was a real Apollo 18 during the year 1975. Named ASTP (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project), the mission was the first docking of spacecrafts built by different nations. The American crew included one of the seven Mercury program astronauts, Deke Slayton (the one who had never flown) and the Russian one Alexei Leonov, who was the first man to "walk in space."

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Goofs

When the two astronauts are driving the Rover, trying to find back the Russian capsule, the skyline of a city can be seen in the background for a few seconds, revealing that the scene was shot on Earth, rather than the Moon.

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Quotes

Nate: Get it out. It's so cold. Get it out, Ben. Get it out, get it out! Damn it Ben get it out!

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Connections

Referenced in 5 Second Movies: Apollo 18 (2011)

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Soundtracks

"The Clock is Still Ticking"
Written and performed by Harry Cohen and Wylie Stateman

User Reviews

Wop wop waaaaah.

My husband I looked forward to this movie for a long time. The day we went to go see it, curiosity got the better of me and I looked up some reviews, about 75-80% of which were bad, so I warned him and we went in with some low expectations. I think it is because we had pre-adjusted the expectations that we weren't more disappointed. We did leave the theater feeling unsatisfied and just really underwhelmed.

Our main issue with the movie was that astronauts are chosen for their intelligence (obviously) as well as their ability to hand extremely stressful situations, and the characters in this film failed at both of those things. They were faced with several serious choices throughout the film, and we both felt like the choices they made were so poor that even WE would have done better. Add onto this major suspension of disbelief issue a lot of boring 'what the hell is going on' footage and very few actually suspenseful moments, and top it off with a really badly cg'd sequence at the end of the film that just flat out wasn't necessary, and you've got this movie.

The acting wasn't bad, and the sets were fine, just the plot had trouble getting off the ground, kind of flopped around like a dying fish, then finally died. Even during the tense parts I did find my mind wandering in the direction of 'what time is it? How much longer?'