Monday, June 13, 2011

Goonies meets ET meets Close Encounters – Super 8



Summer is just about to begin, and a bunch of school kids are clandestinely filming a zombie film for a student film competition. 
They are an odd bunch with a fat kid (Charles – Riley Griffith) is the director, the leading man is a somewhat thick-headed Martin (Gabriel Basso), the zombie who always get killed at the end of every scene is the pyromaniac Cary (Ryan Lee) and the lights camera action man is Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) who recently lost his mother.  To add some emotions to the proceedings the kids bring in Alice Dainard (Ellie Fanning) as the lead man’s wife.  The filming is happening at an abandoned railway station when Joe notices a truck driving on the train tracks to meet an oncoming train head-on.  A massive crash ensues and the train derails.  The kids are witness to the crash, and the aftermath as the Military moves in to clean up.  The town is soon besieged by a series of events leading to the disappearance of pets, humans and property.  No one is able to explain the events and the military men talk of a mysterious entity and  eventually begin an evacuation of the town.  The being captures Alice and this spurs the children on to a mission to uncover what is going on.  What follows has the thrill of a chase, the wonder of discovery, and the eventual and exhilarating thrill of freedom quite like the one we saw in ET!

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