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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I know this was not well received, but, my god, this movie is terrifying!
I'll never forget the tagline:
"There's a reason why we never went back to the moon."
It definitely wasn’t because it was expensive as fuck to go to the moon and there was nothing fucking there
Nuke the moon!
Seriously. I loved this movie, personally, and have a great fondness for it. I always wanted to know more. Lol
This is based on a true story. We are not allowed back. Due to conflict with the moon people. Or whatever they are.
Yeah, while the movie aint the best there is something really unnerving about it - I think it's a mix of four hugely scary things - being lost in a place where nobody can help you, your own government lying to you, spoopy aliens AND body horror, yeah, it gets pretty scary.
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.
Thats actually fded up and the most heartless thing for a government to do
But in Cold War terms thats smart but it might back fire
That's some Resident Evil shit
i wouldnt be surprised if they fuckin did that lol, wasting 35.4 billion dollars on a project just to test out venom to beat the USSR 0
Well we all know how that will end
Thank God this is just a work of fiction and has absolutely nothing to do with reality in any way, shape, or form... Just imagine if their were killer moon spiders on earth.. simply could never happen outside of the realms of your wildest imagination 😢
I remember this movie. my cousin convinced me that this _WAS_ the reason why there was no Apollo 18. and I believed him😂
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Bro same 😂ah 2011 simpler times
what took it out from me is they called the Soviet LK lander and the dead cosmonaut as Russian. Could be wrong but when this "found footage" took place was December 1974. The astronauts were former military and certainly employees of NASA. They would of referred it as Soviet and Soviets and not Russian.
@@nmstranger I dunno, my dad called anything east of Germany Russian.
@@disbeafakename167 was your dad doing a military function or a governmental function like for example NASA and fun fact a lot of Soviet equivalent of NASA main guys and designers were German. The lander would of been called Soviet as Russia wasn't a country at that time. They would of also said "I didn't know the Soviets was here" instead of Russian's was here. Russians back during that period was just used as people that was ethnically Russian the USSR was part of present day Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union into many a separate countries and prior to the USSR forming you have parts of Imperial Russia or the Russian Empire that was ethnically Russian. Did the lame person use the term Russia as catch all term for the USSR? Sure BUT certainly not during a mission in NASA and DOJ like the found footage film supposed to of been.
NASA employee: "Oh hey you guys are back early"
Astronaut: "Moon's haunted."
NASA employee: "What?"
Astronaut: **loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship** "Moon's haunted."
What’s this refrence from?
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.
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
If this was true and I knew the moon was a giant spider, I'd take the easy way out tbh. Screw that crap!
This thought reminds me of the brethren moons from dead space, if you've never heard of them, pls, look em up
@@danieladomeit9696 holy shit yes, thats actually such a creepy fucking concept.
With all moons just being big ass arachnids.
Yes to the Dead Space reference and original comment
What if the moon was like a cacoon or crystalst of some kind
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).
So like mobile hosts for fungal rhizomes host that thrive off of radiation amd offer mobility and protection in exchange for the energy fixing. So kind of like a space radiation deep sea tube worm volcanic vent or cold seep thing.
There is no wind on the moon. The footsteps left will be pristine for eons. Only impacts cause anything to move, technically.
@@susanwojcickisnicetwin there is.
@@Perkeletricksterservantofrher there is not. To have wind you need an atmosphere. The moon has what is called an exosphere. The moon's exosphere has approximately 100 molecules per cubic centimeter while our atmosphere has approximately 100 billion billion molecules per cubic centimeter.
There is solar wind but that is from the sun's corona.
There is no wind on the moon.
@@Perkeletricksterservantofrher There is no wind on the moon lol
Are you referring to solar wind? That's a sort of misnomer; it is not a wind in the sense that we understand a wind inside of an atmosphere.
Funny thing is, if something like this would happen, there would be even more incentive to go back to the moon.
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Sez you, I say nuke the fuckin moon! POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
@@jessebushka467 Aliens style -- I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Given our tendencies as a species we would go back there to kick ass. We are the same species that decided to use pointy sticks to kill off entire living trains of angry beasts the size of houses as our favorite method of getting food for thousands of years and only stopped when we had finally killed them all. Moon spiders ain’t shit.
@@Mortablunt we’ll bomb the fuck out of them and then send the space marines and show them what freedom really is.
😂 if we actually got out shit together we would probably have permanent bases on the moon.
NASA really needs to start giving astronauts combat training and equipment incase of potential alien encounters 😞
Agreed.
Lol.
They are all air force pilots. They have had combat training /shrug.
Don't worry, Captain Kirk could always just use a double-handed blow to deal with any kind of alien back in the day.
I feel like any alien we would encounter, would vastly outweigh our tech
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.
If I'm going to the moon, I'm also bringing a gun. To our knowledge, we are alone up there at the time so best case scenario is you won't even touch it.
The Soviets had pistols that they would give to their cosmonauts, maybe they did expect something in space as well
A weapon was for the super-rare 'what if' they missed their landing site and somehow ended up on land with dangerous wildlife. More common with the Soviets as they routinely recovered on land where we preferred water landings. A firearm would NOT work on the airless moon.
@@itsjustme8947 Yes I realize that a weapon was most likely for a issue with wild animals in an off course reentry. My being prepared for trouble comment was more of a joke. Sorry to break it to you though but guns do work in space. This is from a science site.
"Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required."
@@itsjustme8947 you don't need air for a firearm to work. Ammunition has it's own oxidizer so it can still be fired even in a vacuum
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 ❤
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My dad showed me this when I was little. I genuinely believed it was an actual documentary.
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dad moment
He should’ve tried the Blair witch project
@@matthew_natividad 😰😱🙀💀💀💀
I did as well, haha.
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.
Not necessarily
@@ethansmith5560 it's plausible. When the astronauts from apollo13 came back to earth, the gravity fucked them up, from nausea to sudden unconsciousness. These things would be crushed since they didn't adapt to earth gravity.
If they could survive the harsh conditions of the Moon I'm sure they could survive on Earth.
@@LisaAnn777 any environment you're not adapted to would be "harsh" to your body, being able to survive on the moon doesn't make it more likely they'd be able to survive earth's atmosphere
@@Bigdrangusyeah, so any creature on the moon won’t get a earth invasion.
As a person who grew up during the Space Age, I found this movie to be fascinating.
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"
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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.
Was sad to see that Priest won't be getting it's own video though. It wasn't the best either but it had some crazy world building involved.
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Never expected a "found-footage" style movie in space.
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Look up Europa Report, also an excellent found footage space film.
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.
Once again, Niyat, your work does you all the credit. Always happy to see your channel post new content, even on a subject as "Lost footage from a 1974 Apollo mission that has never been seen, or talked about, until now..."
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Why is it hard to believe? Just curious because how do we know what’s out there.. you know?
@@mrmhj9925 Well for a start, the idea that complex organisms could even develop in an environment with no atmosphere or liquid water. That is somewhat hard to believe.
@@Thecrazymonkey49 whose to say that life needs what it does on earth everywhere else.
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
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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.
Instead of space crabs perhaps something like eldritch horror could've been a better story beat.
But everything evolves to become a crab.
So why would aliens be any different?
Crab is perfection, the evolutionary peak, even we are slowly becoming crabs, some people are born with crab eyes
I thought space crabs were cooler and even more terrifying when these tiny creature swarm all over your body? Imagine what if these crabs weren't native to our moon, but were desert arthropods that don't need oxygen or water as they relied on photosynthesis in their carapace?
@@youtubestudiosucks978 i feel like ive heard this somewhere before.. is there anything behind your statement?
@@enishi4ty5 the thing they said about everything evolving into crabs is sorta true at least when it comes to certain creatures but not humans
Pretty much the game Prey.
Its a alternate history game but what if the typhon on the moon was the reason they never went back
I haven't seen this movie, but I love the idea of how astronauts who landed on a place believed to be uninhabitable, such as the moon, turned out to have dangerous territorial lifeforms, hiding in plain sight, attacking them, rending the incident a secret for a good reason. The only problem I had is the found footage cinematography that gave me motion sickness, and it doesn't help the suspense.
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Agreed, although the found footage is a cool concept, I believe it’s highly difficult to get right. A good example is clover field and Blair witch. Apollo 18 had a good concept but it was badly executed
@@nabilhernandez9456 they could have made something like savageland, probably the best fake documentary ive ever seen, and its free on youtube
It's free on TH-cam right now if you're interested in seeing it
@@remrad4315
I'll watch it after the next time I have crab for dinner...😳🤮
This was right in the middle of Paranormal Acitivity and a lot of found footage horror. I really enjoyed this one because it plays with alternate history and space horror. I think it's a fun movie.
I remember seeing this in theatres and the scene where the astronaut is in a deep dark pit and needs to flash his way out was hella scary because of each time the flash went off the scene got more and more scary each time 💀💀💀💀
Fun fact: there are fringe stories about our astronauts finding Russian landers and dead crew on the moon, and that they appeared to be have been killed by something living on the moon.
My second favorite found footage movie of all time and just one of my horror movies in general
What’s the first?
@@DimeMagnet paranormal activity 3
Cloverfield was always a good one too.
@@brentchesson2179Cloverfield and Rec were the gems.
@@tonymoviechappied9neillblo996I like 2 👍1 is also great
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This would be an interesting reason on why we have never returned to the moon. A mission that had gone horribly wrong because alien life was picking us off one at a time up there. And both the government and NASA just settles too expensive to keep going back to the moon, never explaining that there were creatures out there killing people. Living the best conspiracy, ever if that was to be revealed.
Honestly we would go back to the moon if this happened.
I wish space horror such as this and Dead Space was more popular. It truly is a terrifying type of horror. So isolated and hopeless
An excellent analysis as always. I especially liked the theories of the greater alien ecological systems, and the coverage of the alternate endings. It's a grim and chilling film, and while others have said, it's not perfect, but it can let the imagination run, as all good cosmic horror does. :-)
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Conceptually this is one of my favorite found footage movies.
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You're the first person to ever mention this movie has alternate endings! I love this movie and I had no clue, thank you so much for that.
I remember watching this movie for the first time as a kid. Scared the shit out of me. Nice to see that, although the movie was never perfect, other fans of horror also feel it’s a guilty pleasure.
Dude I love your videos. That's all I wanted to say and I've never been early to you posting.
I appreciate that!
This is one of those horror sci Fi films that I actually enjoyed aside from the shaky cam was a bit much at times. Thanks for the coverage on this little gem of a film!
Happy thanksgiving 🦃🍁 great to see a new video from you.
Happy Thanksgiving Damian!
@@filmcomicsexplained thanks keep these videos coming !
Love your channel and in depth reviews, you dive so deep to explain everything so well. I watch your videos from even 5 years ago today, hope you see this!
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man i remember watching this on netflix back in 2013 or so, you know when netflix actually had good shows?
anyways this one flew under peoples radar for sure. it was def creepy, and kept me glued to my seat till the end.
Thanks for covering this! I watched Apollo 18 shortly after viewing the better Europa Report, and thought A18 did a good job capturing the uncertainty and terror of its premise. Maybe I'll give A18 as a Christmas present to a relative who recently revealed he doesn't believe the moon landings were real, just to tweak his crazy mind.
Prank em John!
Go for it!
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The creature design is so terrifying since they hide in plain sight!! It's a pretty decent found footage flim for sure 😁
"Apollo 18"(2011) is a good enough horror sci-fi movie! This is an atmospheric and some moments very creepy movie!
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I'm not a huge horror fan but I really like this movie. Is the premise a bit silly yes, yes it is. However the constant feeling that something just isn't right works. Then in the second half when it's revealed they are really not alone and how they can't really do anything just works. I love how the movie manages to make us feel the same way the astronauts are. If you ignore the silly premise then it's enjoyable. A friend of mine told me he finds the actor's performance isn't good but I think it works for the movie.
It's pretty terrifying we don't know anything about space and this movie right here could prove it's horrors if we bring it to earth.
I'd be more worried about the unexplored depths of the sea on our own planet. Who knows what's been down there this whole time.
@@d3l3tes00n its patrick...patrick is down there
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@@d3l3tes00n nah, most of it is empty and even if there is, it looks like sperm whales can handle them just fine.
@@spinosaurusstriker How could it be empty? lol That's like saying space is empty.
Loving the content as always mate, keep it up
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This movie freaked me out when I saw it at age 15. First horror movie I ever watched in high school. Still one of my favorites ^^
Awesome video, I love the narration and explanation. Honestly, I think there was aliens that communicated through radio waves I think we would have detected them by now. Especially since all the radio waves sent out in the last 100 years or so. If the spider thingy's were annoyed or confused themselves. We probably would of seen that as background interference as well.
Just guessing though. However, our governments are not the best when it comes being transparent about things haha.
The evolution of those creatures is interesting as well because it looks like they evolved perfectly to survive on the moon with little nutritional and very little gravity. I'm not sure if they're bodies would have enough strength to do that type of damage to humans as the force required to not a lot on earth, but on the moon where there is 1/6th the gravity so the force required would need to be much more intense. The bite and slowly killing us is more likely.
The other thing, if they use solar radiation as a source of sustenance why do they need a mouth? they don't even use their mouths to communicate like we do. They're bodies vibrate a certain way to form a slight radio wave frequency which they use to communicate and let's one another know where the other is. Similar to bee's I would suspect.
Again all speculation haha like Niyat said. Maybe they're a predator, and maybe they're the prey.
Ok, im done haha great video though. I think i want to watch the full movie now.
Interestingly, the only thing that makes this not look like actual lunar footage is the kind of loose suits. They would be fat with pressurization, and if they would’ve simulated that it would be pretty uncanny. Also, by Apollo 17 cameras were pretty good quality not that grainy.
Film Comics Explained and a cup of coffee ☕, that's all I need to wrap up my day comfortably
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Loved the movie poster for this film. Both terrifying and beautiful. Went into the movie blind with my bestie...we had the screen to ourselves. And even on a big screen, it was hard to make out what was happening. Only determining that rocks were occasionally moving. We both left feeling that the movie was wasted potential. Have never seen a home release for this movie.
Another fantastic video many thanks 🙂👍🏻
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I absolutely love this movie I still own it since it came out on blue ray and saw it in the theater it's so brilliantly imaginative and surreal there is so much about what was seen on the moon missions that NASA will never disclose.
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I loved this movie. They did a great job of capturing the feeling of the home lives of the astronauts in the late 60's.
I really enjoyed this movie! My favorite shot in the whole film are the rock creature scurrying out of the crater after he flashes his light on them
I actually kinda enjoyed this. Yeah it was dumb, kinda badly made, and a bunch of other faults. But I liked the premise and even some of the scares. Thanks for covering this mate!
This was a cool movie, glad to see it reviewed and explained!
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When i first saw this i was almost certain it was a Cloverfield sequel/prequel, loved the video my man!
This movie was HIGHLY underrated 🙏🏽 watched it again legit yesterday and remembered why it terrified me.
One of the most horrifying movies I've ever watched! Besides a couple of cheesy jump scares the whole thing is just intense! That's the horror I like. Make me paranoid, give me nightmares. dont just jump at me with a loud noise - I want the fear to stay after the film is over
In space no one can hear you spaz when you see spiders
This was a good one, I hope you put "The Thirteenth Floor 1999" in your polls or cover this sometime, this Movie similar to the lines of Dark City, Matrix & Total Recall
Ive always loved this movie. Great video bro...as always
Love this movie!!
I remember having to explain to my grandma who was somehow convinced this movie was real footage 😅
How'd that go?
great work as always, mate.
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Oh hell yeah! I love all your videos!
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I remember my brother introduced me to this movie when I watched it I was surprised by the ending
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Great another addition to my fear of insects
Been waiting for this one
One of the most underrated horror/space films ever
Dod coming to you and saying "we're doing another Apollo mission and we're running it" would seem a lil iffy
They really messed up when they gave the creatures clearly visible eyes. Aside from it being a huge weak point it kind of distracts from the terror you're supposed to feel looking at the rest of the monster. They should have maybe gone with something that looks closer to the way a lobster's eyes look in real life. If the creature is easier on the eyes it's easier for people to anthropomorphize it making it way less scary. They got everything else right tho I remember being pretty scared of it in the theaters
I love this film! Looks amazing
This was a great movie. Very claustrophobic feeling.
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You're on the moon ,completely isolated, the fucking rocks are bugs. A perfect horror recipe. This movie don't get the credit it deserves.
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The astronauts may have come in peace
*But the aliens certainly didn’t*
They were not very welcoming lol.
Halo
*_"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace."_* I don't ask for much from horror movies but, I do enjoy it when they stoke my existential dread. _Apollo 18_ was successful in this; the idea of being trapped alone over 200,000 miles from mankind, realizing that they sent you there knowing you'd probably die, and that humanity was not only NOT alone in the universe but, that the moon (the best hope as an anchorage for extraplanetary expansion) was infested with parasitic bugs.
That's all kinds of delicious hopelessness.
They should make a sequel that takes place in the 80s. And in the movie they find more than just spider rocks , they find a alien moon base . Now that would be cool
Sooner or later, those things would get back to Earth. Either on the existing samples or future missions (Artemis III). Then it would be (I can't believe I'm saying this) The Moon Spider Apocalypse.
If they did get back to Earth, they’d likely die pretty quickly. They are evolved to live on the moon, a place with a lot less atmospheric pressure than the earth. Would most likely end up like a blob fish out of water.
Yoy know this is a movie hun, right?
@@authenticNL2 you know this is someone having fun hun, right?
Watching this movie after a 10 hour shift was like music to my ears I was sleeping after 10 minutes.
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It's interesting you think they're arachnids, I remember seeing a video were the guy believed they were some kind of crab. The footage of one crawling when you started talking about unused endings is clear/focused enough in shot that their legs look crab like & have pinchers.
Anyway this was an interesting video & makes me want to see the movie again. I think I haven't seen it since high school.
Saw this in theaters and I still enjoy this film to this day.
Id love for them to make more movies out of this and explore the ecosystem on the moon and maybe an invasion from them tagging along on the way home.
This is why we needed space force 😄
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But it’s a movie? Also it’s very unlikely we are not alone so I only agree with you (nasa new findings of all 6 ingredients for life on one of Jupiter or Saturn moons)
Underrated film!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I remember thinking this was an awesome movie that flew totally under the radar.
Man, between Apollo 11, Apollo 13, and Apollo 18, I just do not understand the Apollo trilogy.
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One of the few alien themed films which postulates that the archnemesis is neither the extraterrestrial monster, nor some evil corporation led by greedy sociopaths... but the NASA and the Powers That Be.
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Wow why didn't I know of this film...looks good!!
Thanks for explaining the rock spiders!
great just what we need massive space insects living on the moon
Somebody call Casper ven Dien cause we got space bugs!😱
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I still remember when this movie first came out - I was fascinated with the Apollo program at the time and remember going to the movies to see it with my family. Of course being a little kid, I got too scared and left the movie theater before they even got to the moon. I just watched the movie last night after years of mystery surrounding it and was a little disappointed. When the movie first came out the small glimpses from the trailer like the unexplained footprint next to the astronaut's foot print, the security cameras inside the lander, the darkness of the moon all made thinking about it very scary. Keep in mind this was 2011 so these types of horror films were becoming very popular and weren't burnt out yet. My disappointment was mainly the aliens themselves, I was expecting them to be humanoid like (the footprint) and slowly lurk on the astronauts. I do think that the way the movie refused to show the aliens in the trailers was a smart move, and it only made me 10x more scared to watch it. Also the ending wasn't bad, but I think the alternate ending where Grey makes it back to Earth was the best one. Overall this movie is pretty underrated and I think the atmosphere it potrayed was great, the reason why we never went back to the moon. They did a pretty good job considering their budget, one of my favorite parts is where they just find the Soviet lander sitting there, instantly amping up the creepiness. The nostalgia surrounding this movie definitely clouds how I feel about it, but let me know if you would change the aliens too!
I love that movie and the second one with octopus like creature on space station.
What movies are you talking about sir
@@jesusa1112 hes talking about LIFE starring Jake Gyllenhaal
@@toy5965 is life the continuation of Apollo 18? you are a real one thank you
@@jesusa1112 no no lol 😆 its a standalone and real good movie, best space horror I've seen in a long time.
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Omg i hope you do dark skies soon
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Great timing as we are indeed going back to the moon.
Forgot all about this movie 🌚 nice vid.
The venom is what doesn’t make sense to me personally. Their camouflage/shell, as you said, could be to help protect them from the suns harmful rays.
These creatures having venom could only mean there is an ecosystem of creatures on the moon. That or the director simply did not think so far as to acknowledge in some way that venom implies there is a reason to have it other than story driven plot.
Not necessarily. Sometimes things are just allergic to the bodily fluids of other things. Just because their secretions are venomous to us doesn't mean it's intended as a weapon. It simply means they have a different biochemistry because of evolution in harsher conditions. Their building blocks are different. If we ever encounter silicone-based life, it will be venomous and toxic to us, why? Because silicone is toxic to humans. Not because the lifeform has ill intentions.
“Finally your covering my favorite Childhood horror movie that is “Apollo 18” and its ashamed that there’s barely any movies that cover of being alone in space with alien or the Blackwing Virus zombies in a star destroyer . . . Those were good times”
“Also I have to bring up Warhammer 40k joke in here”
“Space Marines invading the Moon/Luna and discovered Rock spider alien”
Space Marines: “Filthily Xeno rock Spider? Feel the wrath of our Emperor’s finest!” (Immediately began purging all rock spiders on the moon)
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This was one of my favorite found footage movies and Chernobyl diaries as well
Man, they had better video quality in the 80s than they have now.
And just to think who would have believed that they were rock spiders on the moon. And that's the reason why NASA was like we have a major case of arachnophobia so we will not be going back to the moon🌕🌕🌕🕷🕷🕷
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