Apollo 18

Before I begin, I just want to say that while quite scary and suspenseful, Apollo 18 isn’t the scariest movie ever; I just don’t see many scary movies because I don’t have the stomach for them.

Apollo 18 is a “found footage” sort of film, meaning it the whole thing takes place through a camera, or multiple cameras.  It begins with three astronauts heading up to the moon on a secret mission in the very late 1900’s.  Two of them go down to the surface while one stays at a space station circling the moon.  Once there, they set up cameras around their space pod.  We very soon start seeing strange things such as rock moving on their own.  One day when they got out of bed and went out of the pod they found the flag they set up all torn up.  Baffled, they decide to go for a ride on one of those moon carts.

While looking around, they find a soviet space pod!  Upon further inspection, they find that while it is in decent working condition, the inside is completely trashed and has blood on the inside.  One of the astronauts decides to investigate a crater right next to the soviet space pod.  When he gets into pitch black deepness, he needs the aid of a flashing camera to see, but only in split-second increments.  During one of these flashes, he sees the dried up face of the dead cosmonaut. 

They pull the dead body up out of the crater to investigate it.  They find that his suit was punctured by a rock.  They take the rock back to their pod to observe it better.  The next day it’s missing, but they quickly find it lodged in one of their arms.  They carve it out of his arm and from that point on, the one who had the rock in their arm starts loosing it.

As things continue to progress in the movie, suspense builds and makes the end of the movie intensifying and even a little terrifying.  The thing that really builds the scariness of this movie is the fact that it tries to get you to believe that the entire movie really happened, and it does a pretty good job of doing that, however, it’s obviously not true because there was absolutely no way for all of the footage to get back to Earth, but good luck trying to think straight like that during the movie!