8.06.2011
Super 8
PG-13, 112 mins
IMDb page, Official Website
Overall Grade: A-
During the summer of 1979, Joe is helping some of his middle school friends produce their zombie movie for an amateur film competition. While filming a scene late one night at the train station, they witness their school's biology teacher drive his truck onto the track and derail a military train in an extraordinary crash sequence. But what was on the train? What did it have to do with the biology teacher? Why have all the neighborhood dogs disappeared, along with other odd thefts in their small town?
This movie does a good job of keeping the alien out of site till the climax. Which is always good because what you can't see is scarier than what you can. It also does an excellent job of blind-siding the characters. They'll be talking or arguing and then BOOM! something happens from behind them.
Labels: genre: historical, genre: scifi, media: movie
