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Pandorum
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
2009 · Directed by Christian Alvart · 108 min · Action · Horror · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Don't fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.
Plot
After human overpopulation depletes Earth's resources, humanity builds an interstellar ark, the Elysium. It carries 60,000 people on a 123-year trip to colonise Tanis, an Earth-like planet. The passengers are placed in hypersleep, and a rotating crew wake biennially to maintain the ship. Eight years into the mission, the ship receives a transmission from Earth: "You're all that's left of us. Good luck, God bless, and Godspeed."
An indeterminate time later, two members of 3-man 'flight team five', Corporal Bower and Lieutenant Payton, awaken. The third pod hosting Cooper is already empty. Improper emergence from the hibernation state leaves them both with partial amnesia and possibly suffering from pandorum, a space-related disorder that causes psychosis when under emotional duress. The ship experiences power surges caused by an unstable nuclear reactor, and they are unable to leave their quarters to go to the bridge. While Payton stays behind to access the ship's computer, Bower guided by Payton via radio uses the ventilation system to leave their quarters to open the door from the outside. He falls and gets stuck, finding the decaying body of Cooper.
After dropping out of the vents, Bower is startled by a figure rushing past. He follows it and calls out to somebody in the corridor he takes for the figure, which turns out to be a hanging, half-eaten corpse. The figure (a woman) leaps at him with a knife subduing him, commanding him to take his boots off. Before Bower can comply, she disappears as creatures appear who take the corpse and chase Bower. He hides back in the vents as one of the creatures finds him, taking Cooper's body mistaking it for Bower. Bower and Payton realise something has gone very wrong, arguing over whether to find the families of the crew or continue to the bridge, the unstable power outages forces Bower to travel across the immense ship to reset the reactor manually.
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Crew
- Written by: Travis Milloy
- Cinematography: Wedigo von Schultzendorff
- Edited by: Philipp Stahl, Yvonne Valdez
- Music: Michl Britsch
- Production design: Richard Bridgland
- Produced by: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W. S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer
Cast
- Ben Foster as Bower
- Dennis Quaid as Payton
- Cam Gigandet as Gallo
- Antje Traue as Nadia
- Cung Le as Manh
- Eddie Rouse as Leland
- Norman Reedus as Shepard
- André Hennicke as Hunter Leader
- Friederike Kempter as Evalon
- Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Insane Officer 'Eden'
Production
- Country: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, Vietnamese, German
- Studios: Impact Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Summit Entertainment, Constantin Film
- Budget: $33,000,000
- Box office: $20,648,328
- Themes: spacecraft, mission, mutation, dystopia, survival, creature, pandorum
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