Apollo 18 (2011) Review
Apollo 18 is yet another entry in the increasingly crowded sub-genre of film known as “found footage.” These are movies that ask the viewer to understand that what they’re seeing was filmed by the protagonists themselves. Most of these movies also ask the viewer to accept that the fate of those involved in the filming of said footage is unknown. And, of course, someone had to find it. (Hence the name of the genre.)
This time, the footage is from a secret mission to the moon which took place a full two years after the last “official” moon landing. The crew of Apollo 18 is carrying out what amounts to a black op for the Department of Defense. They’re supposed to be installing devices which can detect missile launches on Earth. (A moon-based system seems terribly impractical being that Earth-bound systems for this purpose had been around since the 1950s but I digress.) However, their communications are constantly interrupted by interference and what sounds like shrieking. Once the installation of the devices is completed, the astronauts make a disturbing discovery: They’re not alone on the moon.
