APOLLO 18 (Lunar Arachnid Biology, Toxins + Ending) EXPLAINED
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- Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained and as voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring Apollo 18.
During the Apollo program, six crewed missions would land on the Moon collecting lunar material that was returned back to earth (with a seventh, Apollo 13, notably requiring James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise to make a tense emergency return to Earth without making it to the moon.
Throughout each of the successful missions, twelve astronauts performed a number of studies and observations that would shape our understanding of the Moon. Each of the voyages were required to explore new areas of the surface and leave behind nuclear-powered instruments that continued to send information back to Earth, long after they left.
But the Apollo program would end in December 1972 with Apollo 17. Why did that happen?
The Canadian/American production written by Brian Miller and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego follows the apollo 18 mission. Through found-footage recovered from the voyage, we learn the supposed cancelled mission had actually made its way to the moon.
Nestled between an explosion of Alien movies released in 2011, including Super 8, Battle: Los Angeles, The Darkest Hour, Cowboys and Aliens, I am Number Four, Paul, and The Thing (the prequel we covered last week) Apollo 18 is a fascinating piece of revisionist history.
Taking elements from films like The Blair Witch Project and Alien, the mayhem that followed is explained as being the reason why the US abandoned any further attempts of heading back to the moon again.
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NASA really needs to start giving astronauts combat training and equipment incase of potential alien encounters 😞
I know this was not well received, but, my god, this movie is terrifying!
I remember this movie. my cousin convinced me that this
There was a fifth ending where John Grey was revealed to have survived and made it back to Earth. In his debriefing, a DoD official reveals that they actually wanted Ben's body brought back to Earth - they were purposefully sent to get infected and return so they could study the Moon aliens' venom and turn it into a possible bioweapon against the Soviets, due to reports of them attempting to do the same.
I give massive props to the filmmakers for actually making it look like an old piece of recovered film. Everyone praises the likes of Paranormal Activity 3, which is supposed to be set in the 80s, yet it’s filmed on HD cameras. Underrated film.
NASA employee: "Oh hey you guys are back early"
Funny thing is, if something like this would happen, there would be even more incentive to go back to the moon.
I've always been fascinated with this film. I think a completely insane ending that I thought up is the Moon itself is an arachnid but due to the Sun it lays dormant most of the time, with only half of it's body waking up once it gets dark
I think they don't use the debris to purposefully camoflauge themselves. It'd make more sense that they're just dormant for such long periods that the moon dust/rock becomes coated on their carapace. Since they probably have gone millions of years without food, it'd be the only way for them to survive long enough until fresh prey arrived (though feeding on solar radiation seems more likely, they could've just been attacking out of defense of their territory and not for food).
This movie came out when I was 12 and I was obsessed with the Apollo missions and space flight in general at the time (still kinda am). I went and saw this movie with my parents and loved it so much that when I got home I pre-ordered the movie 😂 No joke at all. I still have it on DVD sitting in the room right next to me! For what it is, I still think it’s a great concept! I will always have fond memories of this movie ❤
Interesting factoid. Years ago I visited the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and they had an exhibit that showed the kit that the astronauts had in the lunar module. I was quite surprised to see they had a M1911 pistol with them. So it seems that NASA was at least somewhat prepared for something freaky happening on moon landings.
My dad showed me this when I was little. I genuinely believed it was an actual documentary.
The movie mentions how samples were returned to Earth, but it seems likely if any of these creatures were brought back Earth's gravity would either incapacitate or kill them.
Thank you for covering this movie. Somewhat of a guilty pleasure cause I love how much they went into it, checked all respective boxes but since its kind of niche, if I were the summarize it I'd end with the Jokers "you wouldn't get it"
As a person who grew up during the Space Age, I found this movie to be fascinating.
Never expected a "found-footage" style movie in space.
This movie had a super cool premise but was badly executed imo. There is a largely debunked conspiracy theory about Lost Cosmonauts which claimed that during the space race numerous cosmonauts died while attempting to do space missions but that the Soviet Union tried to cover up their deaths to save face. That sounds like something neat that the movie could've done with astronauts finding out a terrifying reason why they were going missing on the moon.
This was a great horror movie even with it's flaws. The ending suggesting they were on Earth I think would have been a situation the world would be dealing with at the time the footage was uploaded. These things are clever spiders and this planet has a lot more food than the Moon ever would even if it had multiple species living on it. Since they were delivered to important people around the world it would be noticed. I really like the horror of not only finding an unknown Russian vessel but also a corpse there.
Is this film perfect? No. Is it maybe hard to believe in concept? Maybe. Is it possible to take such a film and make it sound believable? Yes.
I remember watching this movie and feeling creeped out look you can be big or whatever you want but trust me when your alone and knowing nobody can help you shit gets crazy. Nice vid man