Super 8 pg13
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
- Director
- J.J. Abrams
- Writers
- J.J. Abrams
- Actors
- Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Amanda Michalka
- Genre
- Action and Adventure
- Run Time
- 1 hour 52 minutes
- Reviews
- 266
- Fresh
- 219
- Rotten
- 47
- Average Rating
- 7/10
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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Abrams' imitation is a shade too reverent for my taste. He lacks the subversive edge that allowed Joe Dante to bite his producer's hand and bring Gremlins to life, for example, and Abrams seems unsure just how scary he wants things to get.
Tom Charity, CNN.com, 06.09.2011 -
Abrams remembers the simple rule that a majority of his contemporaries have forgotten: action and mayhem have meaning only when an audience cares about the people trapped within the maelstrom.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews, 06.10.2011 -
There's much to like in this story of a group of young movie-makers who stumble upon an event right out of, well, the movies.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post, 06.10.2011 -
Remember the good old days? This is the movie you went to see on a Saturday afternoon in the good old days.
Tom Long, Detroit News, 06.10.2011