- Super 8
- Rating:7.1/10 | Duration: | Country:United States | Language:English
- In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio, and his 14-year-old son Joe, mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth, who was killed in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker, Louis Dainard, as she was covering his shift because he showed up to work drunk. All Joe has left is a locket that belonged to her. Four months after Elizabeth's funeral, as school lets out for the summer, Joe helps his best friend Charles Kaznyk to make a low-budget zombie movie for a film competition. Charles enlists the further help of fellow friends Preston Scott, Martin Read, and Cary McCarthy, as well as Dainard's daughter, Alice. Though their fathers would be furious, Joe and Alice become close to each other. Charles has them film a scene at a train depot at midnight. During a rehearsal, a train approaches and Charles has them start filming as the train passes to add 'production value'. While filming, Joe witnesses a pickup truck drive onto the tracks and ram the train, causing a massive derailment that destroys the train, the depot and the surrounding area, and separates the children from each other amidst the chaos. Joe finds himself near one of the cars, the loading door of which is violently thrown off by an unseen force. Eventually the kids regroup and wander amid the wreckage, finding crates full of strange white cubes, then discover the truck's driver to be Dr. Woodward, their biology teacher. Woodward, barely alive, warns them at gunpoint to forget what they have seen, or they and their families will be killed. The children flee the scene when a convoy from the local Air Force base, led by Col. Nelec, arrives at the scene. Nelec discovers an empty super 8 film box, and assumes the event was deliberately captured on camera.
- Genres: Sciencefictionmonsterthriller |
- Star Cast: Joel Courtney Elle Fanning Kyle Chandler Gabriel Basso Noah Emmerich Ron Eldard Riley Griffiths Ryan Lee Caitriona Balfe Zach Mills |
