Apollo 18 purports to be a found-footage film of the real final Apollo moon mission, recently leaked after being highly classified for decades. The Apollo program ran from 1963 to 1972 and was designed to land humans on the moon (and then bring them back). Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 were successful. The movie is about the top secret mission that went out at the end of December 1974, sponsored by the Department of Defense, to set up early warning systems in case of Soviet missiles. Apollo 18 was a three-astronaut mission: two landed on the moon while the third remained in low orbit, to reconnect with the lunar module after the mission and return to Earth.
Nearly immediately after landing on the moon's surface, near its south pole, the crew starts picking up communications interference and the overnight motion capture cameras (this is 1970s tech) seem to catch something moving out in the rocks. The astronauts find footprints and other tracks that are not theirs; they find an abandoned Soviet lunar module and a dead cosmonaut; and inside their own lunar module, the collected rock samples seem to be moving. By themselves. As you might imagine, this causes some concern for our astronauts.
Look, this was an okay movie. The story is compelling but it barely qualifies as "horror," with just a little suspense/paranoia, only a few jump scares and a little blood. Because of the found-footage set-up, supposedly being from 1970s film, a lot of the visuals are difficult to make out and yes, I get that this is on purpose and is the point of found-footage. But when there isn't a lot of plot, it helps if you can actually see what you're supposed to be seeing.
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