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In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.
2011 · Directed by J.J. Abrams · 112 min · Thriller · Science Fiction · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 18 frames
Tagline
It arrives.
Plot
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio and his 14-year-old son Joe mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker Louis Dainard for the accident, as Dainard had a hangover, resulting in Elizabeth having to cover his shift. Joe clings to his mother's memory in the form of a locket.
Four months later, Joe's friend Charles is making a zombie movie for a Super 8 film competition. He enlists Joe's help along with friends Preston, Martin, and Cary, as well as Dainard's daughter, Alice. Though their fathers are opposed to their friendship, Joe and Alice become close.
One night while they film at a train depot, an approaching train is derailed by a pickup truck ramming it head-on, destroying the depot (with their camera capturing the event). After being scattered by the chaos and regrouping, the teenagers find crates of strange white cubes amid the wreckage, and discover the truck driver to be their biology teacher Dr. Woodward. Gravely injured, he warns them at gunpoint to forget what they have seen. They flee as a convoy from the local Air Force base, led by Col. Nelec, arrives. Nelec finds an empty Super 8 film box.
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Crew
- Written by: J.J. Abrams
- Cinematography: Larry Fong
- Edited by: Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey
- Music: Michael Giacchino
- Production design: Martin Whist
- Produced by: J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Bryan Burk
Cast
- Joel Courtney as Joe Lamb
- Elle Fanning as Alice Dainard
- Riley Griffiths as Charles Kaznyk
- Kyle Chandler as Jackson Lamb
- Noah Emmerich as Nelec
- AJ Michalka as Jen Kaznyk
- Ryan Lee as Cary McCarthy
- Ron Eldard as Louis Dainard
- Gabriel Basso as Martin Read
- Bruce Greenwood as Cooper
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $260,100,000
- Themes: 1970s, alien, train crash, firecracker, super 8mm footage, duringcreditsstinger, complex, conspiracy thriller, joyous, suspenseful
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