Movie Reviews: "Apollo 18"

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Movie Reviews: Apollo 18


Apollo 18 is sort of a Blair Witch Project on the moon.

Critics didn’t much care for The Blair Witch Project, either, giving it barely a passing grade. That’s mostly the case with the moon movie.



Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times described it as:

“a low-key and unassuming film of rising tension rather than big scares or wild shocks.”





Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, while noting that the film “contains only a wee handful of surprises,” nevertheless wrote that it amounts to:

“a break from the usual hyperbolic, down-your-throat brand of silly and derivative scare movies.”





Joel Brown in he Boston Globe called it:

“a low-budget thriller built on creative spare parts. … For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.”





Mike Hale in the New York Times did commend the filmmakers for recreating:

“the grainy, jumpy images that were miraculously beamed back to terrestrial televisions during the Apollo flights.”



He then remarked that in the end:

“All we get is the low-level tension of strange noises, flickering lights and shock cuts; when the monsters appear, they’re so sketchy, whether by design or from lack of budget, that you can’t believe you’ve waited around to see them.”

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