Friday 17 February 2012

Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego, 2011)

Making a space film with the budget of a home video is certainly a bold challenge, and the director has to be applauded for making such a decent fist of it. The original footage slots in quite neatly around stock images from the moon landings, with a creepiness factor accentuated by the claustrophobic setting as two astronauts find themselves haunted by increasingly troubling events around their marooned lunar module. The mash-up concept aside, there's unfortunately nothing else innovatory in the mix, but the execution is solid nevertheless.

5/10

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