Super 8

4.00
    Super 8
    2011

    Synopsis

    In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.

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    Cast

    • Joel CourtneyJoe Lamb
    • Elle FanningAlice Dainard
    • Riley GriffithsCharles Kaznyk
    • Kyle ChandlerJackson Lamb
    • Noah EmmerichNelec
    • AJ MichalkaJen Kaznyk
    • Ryan LeeCary McCarthy
    • Ron EldardLouis Dainard
    • Gabriel BassoMartin Read
    • Bruce GreenwoodCooper

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Time

      The year's most thrilling, FEELING mainstream movie.
    • 100

      Orlando Sentinel

      J.J. Abrams, with Steven Spielberg producing, has made one of those jaw-dropping out-of-body summer entertainments that kids old enough to swear and see PG-13 films will remember on into adulthood.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams's much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Like an old airplane (or spacecraft) jerry-rigged from scrap pieces and made air-worthy again, Super 8 has been patched together with 30-year-old spare parts to provide an enjoyable ride of its own.
    • 60

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      It would be easy to dismiss as 100 percent ersatz if it didn't rekindle at least some of the old excitement - and if the magic of Spielberg's older movies didn't filter through, like light from a distant galaxy.
    • 60

      Time Out

      Had the big boy himself, Steven Spielberg, made his directorial debut with this slam-bang sci-fi thriller set in suburban 1979 (and not merely produced what amounts to an homage), he would have been celebrated as a gifted bringer of mayhem: a Michael Bay before there was one.
    • 50

      Boxoffice Magazine

      It's in the moments Abrams attempts to combine emotional payoffs with popcorn-style thrills that the film rings most false.
    • 50

      Variety

      A relatively standard monster movie.

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