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Trailers | May 29, 2009 | Comments (16)

TK ran the teaser trailer for the little-known sci-fi flick, Pandorum, a couple of months ago. The movie arrives in September, and we still don’t know a lot about it. And if the movie is as good as the trailer promises, I kind of hope it stays that way. It features solid, dependable Dennis Quaid and the underused and awesome, Ben Foster. German director, Christian Alvart, directs. He also directed the upcoming Case 39, a creepy kid movie starring Renee Zellwegger that looks better than a creepy-kid movie starring Renee Zellwegger ought to look.

TK wrote of this teaser: “Pandorum looks promising. I don’t think it’s going to win any awards, but it looks like it could find a place in the freaky-ass sci-fi movie pantheon. Which means it’ll eventually find a place on my DVD shelf.” I think the same holds true for the full length trailer. Very B-movie. But potentially quite intense. Check it out:


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Comments

what? george clooney and sam neill were too busy to reprise their roles?


oh alright, i'll gladly spend good money on this.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2009 10:16 AM

Wow. Poorly diluted from Dead Space which was itself poorly diluted from Event Horizon.

Has there ever been a space horror story that has come even close to Alien? (Solaris doesn't count. Tension, not horror.)

Posted by: twig at May 29, 2009 10:18 AM

I thought that sign said "BONER," and I laughed out loud. The expression on his face, and then the big bold BONER. Then I noticed the extra arm on the N and it was not as funny. Sad panda.

Posted by: Snath at May 29, 2009 10:31 AM

I agree with twig but it looks just batshit crazy enough that I'll see it in a theater.

Posted by: Spender at May 29, 2009 10:48 AM

Snath, you know you're not the only one.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 29, 2009 11:11 AM

It's just when I heard "Ben Foster" and "sci-fi" in the same sentence I got really...giddy? And when I heard "Dennis Quaid" and "sci-fi" in the same sentence I got a mental flashback of Louis Gossett Jr. giving birth. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if you're open-minded.

Posted by: emotionalpedant at May 29, 2009 11:16 AM

In all fairness twig, Dead Space wasn't really scary. "Survival Horror" and "FPS" are entirely contradictory terms when it comes to video games. It's kinda hard to be afraid of anything when you've got ample amounts of lead, save points and body armour, and the enemies are only scary in the whole "Jump our and go 'ooga-booga-boo!'" kinda way.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at May 29, 2009 11:17 AM

Really, I just want my space-terror victims to be a bit more self-aware. When you are on the giant horrible abandoned space deathship, you do not need to ask yourself if you are fucked. You are fucked. Something will be along shortly to eat your eyeballs. It was simply an oversight you lasted this long.


In all fairness twig, Dead Space wasn't really scary.

It was still packaged and marketed as a horror game, complete with the flickering lights and the FMV disembowlments. And I still think it succeeded better in the 'horror' aspect than in the 'having a logical plot to even tie the blood showers together' aspect. (and I'm still not sure if it was stealing more from Event Horizion or Bioshock.)

Honestly, the thing this movie is reminding me of is Doomsday in space, when I was kind of hoping more for The Descent.

Posted by: twig at May 29, 2009 11:36 AM

twig, when we saw the commercial my brother was like "hey, it's a Dead Space movie" and briefly explained the premise and I'm like "That sounds a lot like Event Horizon too"*. Apparently, the sci-fi genre is like a phoenix in that it immolates itself by making terrible movies, turns to ashes, and is reborn into a form not unlike it's previous incarnation.

*I'd throw in Sunshine also, but I like to imagine that was a taut psychological thriller and that the last 1/3 of the movie never happened.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at May 29, 2009 11:40 AM

Why does everything always boil down to SPACE MADNESS?

I know that if I ever go into space, there is a risk I could catch SPACE MADNESS.

The first people who take a manned flight to Mars are fuuuucked. Cuz of the SPACE MADNESS.

It's just a given. Some small flaw will be overlooked in the psyche of one of the astronauts (in the case of Sunshine, you'd think something like crippling religious zealotry would be fairly obvious), and they will begin to disembowel people while screaming about demons, or something.

Posted by: Snath at May 29, 2009 11:59 AM

Don't forget Nightflyers starring Catherine Mary Stewart for another "We are trapped in this ship and are sooooo fucked" movie.

Posted by: Adam C at May 29, 2009 12:27 PM

Too bad they couldn't make it a perfect Fight Club reference.
"Is that your blood?"
"Some of it, yeah."

Posted by: Lucas at May 29, 2009 12:53 PM

Dang...spoiler much? I've gotta stop watching these movie trailers...

Dead Space was reasonably unnerving for its first third...after a time though you could safely predict when the creatures were going to jump out of the air ducts at you. Still a good game, though.

Posted by: stryker1121 at May 29, 2009 5:47 PM

*I'd throw in Sunshine also, but I like to imagine that was a taut psychological thriller and that the last 1/3 of the movie never happened.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at May 29, 2009 11:40 AM

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I find myself feeling amazed every time I crank that baby up on one of my Saturday Science-Fiction marathons at how good it is. Truly an under appreciated gem.
And I like the whole thing, not just the first half.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 29, 2009 6:23 PM

The first thought I had while watching this was Event Horizon. Then immediately after that I thought of the Reavers from Serenity/Firefly.

Posted by: Eric at May 29, 2009 8:40 PM

Never been a big horror fan. Oh Mrs. Lantern knows the "Freddy" movies and the "Jason" movies like the back of her hand, but I've never really gotten past the surface level of horror as a film type.

But there are a few, like most of the "Alien" series, that grabbed me right away (others that come to mind are "Cabin Fever", "Monster Man" and "Slither", so...uh...I gotta say I'm kinda down for this one. But mebbe not to spend the $ in the theater for it.

Posted by: Green Lantern at May 29, 2009 9:22 PM