Apollo 18

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Apollo 18

PG-13

2011

1h 26m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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Apollo 17 was the last U.S.-sponsored lunar voyage -- or was it? Hours of found footage, classified for decades, point to a subsequent moon mission -- Apollo 18 -- that ended very badly. Astronauts John Grey (Ryan Robbins), Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen) and Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie), on a mission to install radar scanners, discover a Soviet space capsule nearby. The men also discover a dead cosmonaut, and unfortunately for them, learn how he died.

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Critics Consensus

A boring, suspense-free Paranormal Activity rip-off that feels long even at just 90 minutes.

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

A simple sci-fi horror with just enough scares to keep you interested.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 23, 2011

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

Apollo 18 is an intriguing, if never enthralling, fusion of period space-flight procedural, conspiracy theory, and monster movie.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 9, 2011

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

Watching people land on the moon isn't all that interesting or photogenic, especially when we know it's pretend.

Rated: 1/4

Sep 6, 2011

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Strong characters and rewarding narratives are rarely developed in “found footage” movies, so when the shocks and gross-out moments occur, the audience can’t be blamed for feeling uninvolved.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 8, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

I found “Apollo 18” to be a fun little movie that uses and incorporates the found footage style in a slick and fresh fashion. It does have some issues but it also has some great moments wrapped into its tight 88 minute running time.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 19, 2022

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The only thing worse than an inept filmmaker is a lazy one.

Rated: 1.0/4.0

Sep 2, 2020

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Paul B

Great use of historical references, and the camera angles do it justice of making it a "found footage" style film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/30/25

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j w

Wow it's a horrid ripoff of the Blair witch format. The constant flash cuts, astronauts whose lighting system seems to only work in strobe flash mode in the dark. I am hate watching it to the end. Just when you think it couldn't get worse the ending took it to a whole new low

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/27/25

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Bryan S

Blair Alien Project, poorly done.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/02/25

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Daniel N

Found this quite creepy and entertaining the first time through but once you know the plot it loses its shine.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/28/25

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Orlando C

Surprisingly good movie. Have had this one on the back-burner for years due to all the negative reviews from both critics and audience. Well I'm happy to report, those negative reviews are WRONG. But let me preface the rest of this brief review with this: Do you like your sci-fi/horror more along the lines of Armageddon or War of the Worlds? Then this movie won't work for you. Do you despise found footage genre films? Then this movie won't work for you. I think those are the two biggest critiques of this movie. People needing something to blow up or someone get stabbed every 10 minutes or a bias against the found footage genre. The former explains most of the audience reviews and the latter, definitely the critics reviews. I remember the huge backlash against found footage movies in the early 2010s. Everybody was so indignant - no more found footage! Everybody wants to do a Blair Witch knockoff! Well, if you like your sci-fi/horror movies more measured and tension building. And you have an open-mind about the found footage genre - or any genre for christ-sake - you'll be pleasantly surprised with this little nugget 😃.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/25

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Iris M

Picture being 11 years old alone in the dark with only the DVD you're watching and your computer, that was my first watch of this movie. I return to it again and again but it does get slow. The face of Ben as he gets worse and worse always gets meme..

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/25

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Gonzalo López-Gallego

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Lloyd Owen

Nathan Walker

Warren Christie

Benjamin Anderson

Ryan Robbins

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Synopsis

Apollo 17 was the last U.S.-sponsored lunar voyage -- or was it? Hours of found footage, classified for decades, point to a subsequent moon mission -- Apollo 18 -- that ended very badly. Astronauts John Grey (Ryan Robbins), Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen) and Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie), on a mission to install radar scanners, discover a Soviet space capsule nearby. The men also discover a dead cosmonaut, and unfortunately for them, learn how he died.

Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Michele Wolkoff
Screenwriter: Brian Miller
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Production Co: Dimension Films, Bekmambetov Projects
Rating: PG-13 (Some Disturbing Sequences|Language)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 15, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.7M
Runtime: 1h 26m

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