Ninth Annual FMS Scarelicious October Movie Series: #8 Pandorum

I also quite like space horror ... usually.  In 2009's Pandorum, it is 2174 and Earth has pretty much exhausted its resources, sending a massive spaceship out with colonists in search of a habitable new planet.  A couple of Flight Crew 5 members - Bower (played by Ben Foster) and Payton (Dennis Quaid) - are awakened from their cryosleep (or whatever) with no immediately recollection of who they are or what they're doing.  They are locked into their cryobay (or wherever) and can't raise anyone else anywhere on the ship.  While commanding officer Payton stays behind to work on the computer interface (or whatever), Bower crawls through the air ducts to try to open the locked door, find any other living person and restart the ship's reactor which is about to melt down (or something).

Out in the rest of the ship, Bower is dismayed to find two sets of survivors: a couple of awakened colonists who look like space versions of Mad Max and cannibalistic mutants who look like a cross between Firefly's Reavers and The Descent's monsters.  Plus there is some sort of space madness called "Pandorum" that makes humans go crazy and kill each other/themselves.  It's not really explained all that well.

Nothing in this movie is done all that well, to be honest.  It's very dark so it's difficult to see what's going on.  The editing is choppy and the action scenes are sped up, making things difficult to follow.  It's violent but not terribly bloody except for a couple of intestine-eating scenes.  And they went to the trouble of hiring Norman Reedus (my beloved Daryl from The Walking Dead) for what scarcely counts as a cameo before SPOILER he gets dragged off and eaten alive.  What a waste.

I give this one a solid "meh."  Also, WTF with this poster: