“Apollo 18,” directed by newcomer Gonzalo López-Gallego, is based on the premise that Apollo 17, the last mission NASA conducted to the moon, wasn’t the last mission after all.
How do we know this? Supposedly, 84 hours of highly classified footage from Apollo 18 have been uploaded to lunartruth.com, and López-Gallego uses that footage to create this 86-minute film.
After just a few minutes of grainy, poorly focused fake footage, you’ll be wishing it had remained hidden forever.
The dialogue, when the astronauts weren’t just listing off jargon to Houston, was anything but inspired.
As for the horror aspect, López-Gallego has decided shock value and extremely loud noises are the same thing as being scary. It just comes across as annoying, lazy movie making.
Just like the real Apollo 18, López-Gallego’s “thriller” proved to be completely unnecessary. Too bad it wasn’t canceled, too.
In space no one can hear you boo
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