2011 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Apollo 18
Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego1h 26m2011
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
Our read: Apollo 18 (2011) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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