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Must Watch: Freaky Official Trailer for Sci-Fi Horror Film 'Apollo 18'

by Alex Billington
February 18, 2011
Source: Apple

There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon... They've been counting down the debut of this trailer like the launch of a rocketship, which is almost too perfect for this. The Weinstein Company has debuted the official trailer on Apple for their found footage sci-fi film Apollo 18, starring some people we've never seen, directed by a guy we've never heard of. This project was quietly announced late last year. It looks creepy as hell for a vintage found-footage sci-fi horror movie. I'm admittedly freaked out by aliens and this is crazy, I am shaking. I want to see this, but I'm nervous about how insanely scary it might be to watch. Be careful!

Watch the first official trailer for Gonzalo López-Gallego's Apollo 18:

You can also watch the official Apollo 18 trailer in High Definition on Apple

A film about the real Apollo mission to the moon in the 70's that was canceled by NASA... or so they claim.

Apollo 18 is directed by Spanish editor/filmmaker Gonzalo López-Gallego, of a few features like King of the Hill and Nómadas previously, who is making his English-language debut with this. The original screenplay was written by Brian Miller (Paracusia) & Cory Goodman (Priest). Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov also produced this in secrecy at Dimension Films. The Weinstein Company will be releasing the mysterious Apollo 18 in theaters everywhere starting on April 22nd this spring. Anyone else freaked out by this?

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Anonymous

i'm getting a little tired of the found footage films, but this is indeed looking very good. alex - have you seen the trailer for "grave encounters"? it's another found footage movie - and it's looking very chilling as well - check it out on bloody disgusting.

http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington

Nope, never even heard of it... I'm honestly not a big horror guy, but I do love anything sci-fi and "secret" projects like this, so I'm in for this.

Cody W.

Yeah same, I have a soft spot for films like this, it doesnt look that scary as much as just constantly intriguing.

Quazzimotto

The Grave Encounters trailer looks entertaining. A little Blair Witch action in the corner at the end...but then she turned around. Not a happy movie =)

Anonymous

yea - i thought so too. anytime you have a group of people investigating an old hospital, asylum, or prison - you just KNOW mayhem will ensue.

Jace

I like the idea of this film, but I to am getting tired of the "This footage is real" when it couldn't be further from the truth. Why can't it just be a movie about a fake Apollo 18 mission? I guess because people want to believe it "happened".
Coolcat

Scary? Ho hum.
Cruzer

Awesome trailer! In recent years their have been numerous astronauts and cosmonauts who've come forward stating that there "was" life and traces of life on the moon when we got there. Interesting.

Lars

Eh... Which astronauts or cosmonauts would that be?

Cruzer

Gordon Cooper and Buzz Aldrin for instance. Start there.

Lars

Huh? Sources? I thought you'd go for the obvious - Edgar Mitchell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell) - He is the most outspoken ex astronaut on UFOs/aliens. But nowhere has he claimed that evidence was found on the moon for it. Just that he believes many UFO sightings are of alien origin.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2GJAL5XLSAPEVGPIHZ4XOJE5QI RandallM

Well....this is more interesting since NONE of us have ever been to the Moon in the first place. Seriously guys....do the math....seems possible.... then do the physics and invent the tech.

rocKicker

cosmonauts never made it to the moon...

LastB

so they synthesized hundreds of kg's of moon rocks? please...

boondock saint

ok really need to see this cos if anything it looks well made, but scary hmmm
AlexHillington

Is this a comedy?
Cinemamind

Holy shit, was that a face hugger?!! I like how they're doing something a little different with the found footage horror type of movie. It reminds me of something like "The Thing". You never know who you can trust, especially out where no one can help you.
Anonymous

fucking Space Spiders? would be enough to keep me from the moon as well. O,o
Napkinbbob

What seems most impressive is that it actually looks like its from the 70's. Well done. Looks exciting and better then the trite Paranormal Activity movies
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MTEO7RKG3IO7LOJZ3GJJ5NSOOI john s

Hmm looks good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emWB_rrMt0 Crapola

It's all very well, but surely that was just about the full film there? There can't be much more than having the window of the ship smashed in surely?
http://www.flicksandbits.com dee8

doesnt look scary at all
A D E_p

I reckon I've seen the whole movie now.

Woopz

Yeah, like everybody on that video is gonna die! Hahah! Always for mockumentary films.

Loser

I`m interested
Lassberg

Clever stuff...dig it
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SBTRA7YZYEP47KENPUV7KNVI7Y norm

Wow, this looks really cheaply made. And by that, I don't mean authentically from the 70s either. I was expecting something a bit more from what I've read so far. Oh well, still holding out hope for Battle: Los Angeles.
Darren

the tag line....has to be my favorite for any movie! "discover the reason...why we never went back" haha i love it!!
Quazzimotto

I wish Bekmambetov was helming this. Intriguing idea, not sure why Hollywood continues to show the whole movie in a trailer though.
Bart

Quality idea, but they should be weightless in the craft. If you're gonna market it as a true found footage movie (even though we all know it's not) you should get a detail like that right. Them walking around in the craft is just stupid.

Jace

But there is gravity on the moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emWB_rrMt0 Crapola

Laura for spamming my internets I'm coming across to your house to force you to drink battery acid, whilst that is eating away your guts I will kick you in the face til blood comes out of your eye sockets.

http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington

You know, you guys CAN "flag" her comment so I can see it and delete it sooner, don't have to reply to her all day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emWB_rrMt0 Crapola

Yeah sorry Alex, I would actually like to make a documentary about hunting down people who send spam out, where myself and a team of murderers hunt them down and destroy them in front of their families as a warning. Deleting spam will probably take at least a month of my life from my by the time of my death. I'm currently looking for funding for travel and weapons if anyone is interested. Hollywood please don't copy it, I know its more original than anything you can come up with.

tra la la la la di da

My biggest problem with this film is I don't care to pay $20 (2 tickets and snacks or w/e) for some crappy filmed movie. Ok, it's art...but I can get teh same enjoyment on my TV. Looks decent, but no go for theater.
http://twitter.com/Nielsen700 Mattias K. Nielsen

Looks OK.
Tekail

GRAVE ENCOUNTERS LOOKZ WILD!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/WingcommanderIV Andrew Geczy

@Bart But there's gravity on the moon... @RandallM I'm glad that you're so smart at physics that you can tell all the smartest people in America that they only imagined the so many years of their life spent getting to the moon.
Manuel

I'm gonna spam your brains out.
Chaos1979

Disappointed.
Anonymous

I had to stop watching it because I am tired of trailers being five minutes long and showing the whole movie, but what I did watch of it has me very very interested.
Boon

mixed feelings about this one... must wait and see
http://www.newlaunches.com Dhiram

Does this mean we will never colonize the moon?
Fourteenr

did that seem sorta awful to anyone else?
Hattori Hanzo

Fucking A Bubba! Bring it on!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451986013 Joaquin Prida

Great idea... looks ok. Watching this... i want a prequel of "Moon" now...
Setebos

Really curious to see how an Apollo mission got launched without people knowing about it.
Anonymous

Let me guess, it's them from an earlier mission... Writes itself...
Anonymous

Grave Encounters=straight to video...