Apollo 18 poster

Apollo 18 (2011)

Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego

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.

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Europa Report poster
This is yet another found-footage film, but for once that gimmick partially works; this is a far more beautiful and accomplished feat of craftsmanship than the dreadful, similarly themed Apollo 18 .
Even a similar found-footage picture like 2011's " Apollo 18 " offers more commercial thrills in the long run.
Dust Input Man
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Ever since that horrendous excuse for a film Apollo 18, I’ve seriously soured on the whole “found footage” horror aspect being used in space.
Europa Report is presented as a documentary about the mission, but before you get flashes of Apollo 18 and close this window, this isn't just another found-footage movie.
How I wish you could have washed away the intergalactic doldrums of Apollo 18.
First Man poster
There is another movie, “ Apollo 18 ” (2011), much less good, about going to the moon in secret and finding something hostile already in residence.
Anthony Lane • The New Yorker • Oct 5, 2018
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Convincente a ponto de levar muitos espectadores à crença de que viam algo real (lembrem-se: a Internet engatinhava), A Bruxa de Blair empregou com tanta eficiência a estrutura de found-footage estabelecida quase 20 anos antes por Holocausto Canibal que acabou por criar um subgênero próprio, dando origem a títulos como [REC] , Atividade Paranormal , Cloverfield e Apollo 18 , entre tantos outros.
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Found footage, meanwhile, has been increasingly relegated to "gimmick" status, the occasional success like Paranormal Activity and V/H/S offset by a stream of instantly forgettable junk with such titles as The Devil Inside and Apollo 18.
Film Journal International
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