History Film / Apollo182011

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** Despite the story itself being fictitious, the filmmakers did get a lot of details about the Apollo program right, from hardware to terminology, meant of course to add to invoke WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

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''Apollo 18'' is a 2011 American-Canadian found footage science fiction horror film that is basically ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', on [[RecycledInSpace the moon]], featuring astronauts (Creator/WarrenChristie, Creator/RyanRobbins, and Creator/LloydOwen) of the fictional 18th Apollo mission during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. The story follows the last, top-secret Apollo mission to plant advanced listening devices on the moon, so as to detect missile launchers...but something else is discovered instead...

The story is told in the style of found-footage movies like ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' and ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''. Not to be confused with the 1992 Music/TheyMightBeGiants album of the same name. Also not a sequel to ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' (though [[GenreShift it would be pretty awesome if that were the case]]).

** The astronauts are shown running across the lunar surface. For those unaware, running in low gravity is near impossible. It's best to hop along as shown in the genuine lunar landing footage. It's akin to running or walking in water.

** Apparently the Soviets sent a man to the moon around the same time the Americans did and kept it a secret for obvious reasons.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: One of the symptoms of the parasite infection is a red ring around the host's irises.]]

''Apollo 18'' is a 2011 American-Canadian found footage science fiction horror film that is basically ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', on [[RecycledInSpace the moon]], featuring astronauts (Warren Christie, Ryan Robbins, and Lloyd Owen) of the fictional 18th Apollo mission during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. The story follows the last, top-secret Apollo mission to plant advanced listening devices on the moon, so as to detect missile launchers...but something else is discovered instead...

** Bonus points for including the Soviet LK lunar lander. The actual Soviet moonshot vehicle, the N1, was kept top secret until after the end of the Cold War, and even today not a lot of people know about it. It is also clever that, since the N1 is a historic failure, the 1970s Americans call the Soviet lander "LK-Proton", implying it was launched on the Proton rocket (the same year, a Proton rocket carried Luna 22, the last successful Soviet Lunar orbiter, to its destination).

''Apollo 18'' is a 2011 American-Canadian found footage science fiction horror film that is basically ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', on [[RecycledInSpace the moon]], featuring astronauts of the fictional 18th Apollo mission during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. The story follows the last, top-secret Apollo mission to plant advanced listening devices on the moon, so as to detect missile launchers...but something else is discovered instead...