The name revealed little and the trailer to Super 8 revealed even less. The anticipation has been building for months. All we knew was that Steven Spielberg was producing and J.J.Abrams was writing and directing and the early reports were that it was good – very good. Well the Doctors of Horror at MVP were able to put Super 8 under the microscope and have come back with their own conclusion – not only is Super 8 super good – but it is the best horror film of 2011 so far!
Super 8 started off with a low Friday night gross of $11 million leading analysts to predict a low opening weekend – but word of mouth carried the nostaligia tinted ride straight to number one with a weekend total of $37 million surpassing expectations by almost $5 million.
Super 8 tells the story of a warm Ohio summer in 1979 when a group of adolescent filmmakers set out to win the local film contest with their latest horror film. Little did they know that during the course of shooting their film, they would witness a horrendous train crash and the subsequent military quarantine of the surrounding area – leading them on a journey to get to the root of the mystery. Super 8 stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills.
Super 8 is a fun throwback to the glory days of filmmaking in the Seventies when filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were thrilling crowds with their big budget takes on low budget serial adventure fare. Super 8 calls back warm memories of “kids on an adventure” movies like Stand By Me, The Goonies, and E.T. Stylistically, Abrams’ film most resembles Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind with it’s excessive use of camera flares and sweeping shots of the American homeland that is thrown into turmoil by the chain of events.
Super 8 features amazing performances from a largely unknown cast, fantastic special FX and a rousing score to keep your blood pumping furiously from beginning to end. This is a movie for fans of those early Speilberg adventure flicks. This is a movie for horror fans. Super 8 is a movie – for movie fans! Don’t wait to see it. Don’t let your friends and neighbors ruin it with hype. Get together with your friends and go watch it now. You won’t regret it. Super 8 gets a Super 9 out of 10. Check it out, mutants, and be sure to stick around for the credits as you will see the movie that our adolescent heroes set out to make – The Case -and it’s worth the price of admission alone!
IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT THEN CHECK THIS OUT!
If you haven’t seen Super 8 yet, then check out Streebo’s spoiler free review below.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Once you’ve seen the movie – check out Streebo’s spoiler filled Super 8 discussion with guest commentator J.H.Reaper of the IMDb Horror Board. Let us know what you thought in the comment section. Support horror – especially when it’s this damn good!
