FilmPG-13Found Footage Sci-Fi Horror Body Horror

Apollo 182011

Name: Apollo 18
Genre: Found Footage, Sci-Fi Horror, Body Horror, Survival
Released: 2011-07-20
Rating: 4.8

“There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon.”

Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego

4.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.2Rotten Tomatoes 24%Metacritic 24TMDB 5.3

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Year

2011

Runtime

86 min

Box Office

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$25,562,924

Domestic

$17,687,709

🏆 1 win & 2 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Presented as classified footage recovered from a covert 1973 lunar mission the world was never meant to know about, Apollo 18 drops three astronauts into the airless desolation of the moon with no way home and no one listening. What begins as a routine Department of Defense assignment rapidly unravels as the crew discovers they are not alone on the lunar surface. Shot in the style of authentic mission documentation, the film weaponizes the cold emptiness of space to deliver creeping dread rather than spectacle. It offers a chilling answer to why humanity has never returned to the moon.

Content: Body Horror, Creature Violence, Disturbing Imagery, Psychological Distress