Apollo 18

American - Canadian science fiction repugnance filmApollo 18 , released in 2011 , offer viewers an raiment of deleted scenes and alternate conclusion when it came out on Blu - Ray . The moving picture , which is an alternate account story with a happen - footage style , was written by Brian Miller , directed by Gonzalo López - Gallego , and produce by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff .

The story centers on an alternate interlingual rendition of history , detail how the strike down Apollo 18 mission actually happened — as atop secret Department of Defense ( DoD ) foreign mission . The film break that the bunch of Apollo 18 landed on the Moon in December 1973 — but never returned . As a result , the U.S. never attempt to launch another outing to the Moon . The film style itself as “ lose footage ” of the Apollo 18 missionary station that was late discovered .

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In the movie , the three lineament in the footage — Commander Nathan Walker ( Lloyd Owen ) , Lieutenant Colonel John Grey ( Ryan Robbins ) , and Captain Ben Anderson ( Warren Christie)—are found to the Moon to check for signs of impend intercontinental ballistic missile attack by the USSR . Instead , they come across extraterrestrial life — wanderer - like beast , seemingly borne from Moon rocks . The brute taint the crew with toxicant or otherwise terrorize them , and   the   spaceman are kill one by one .

Apollo 18: All Four Alternate Endings Explained

In the theatrical cut of the movie , the four characters are killed either from   infection by the aliens or   due to   a spaceship clank . After each of them dies , words seem on the concealment state that the “ official ” fate of the cosmonaut was due to various accident . An epilog states that many of the rock ‘n’ roll sample distribution   that were taken from the Moon during   other Apollo deputation are now missing , insinuating that some extraterrestrial   creatures   must be present on Earth .

One of the alternate conclusion ofApollo 18had Grey survive the ordeal and return to Earth ; this would have been a good   explanation as to how the   footage was feel . In this ending , the Defense Department informs him that his gang was put on the Moon so that they could get infected and return to Earth , where the U.S.   would expend the exotic venom as a weapon against the USSR . The other three alternating termination differ only slenderly from the theatrical version , with all three spaceman still dying in the end , but by unlike means , from infections to   loss of oxygen to being prod by alien nipper   to crashing the spaceship into the Moon ’s airfoil .

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The poster from Apollo 18 featuring an astronaut clinging on to moon

Rock monsters attack in Apollo 18

Apollo 18