Storyline
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
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Dale Dickey, Zach Mills, Brett Rice, Bruce Greenwood, Ron Eldard, Elle Fanning, Joel McKinnon Miller, Kyle Chandler, Noah Emmerich, Glynn Turman, Bingo O'Malley, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, AJ Michalka, Jessica Tuck, Britt Flatmo, Richard T. Jones, Tom Quinn, Caitriona Balfe, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Beau Knapp
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100
The year's most thrilling, FEELING mainstream movie.
100
Orlando Sentinel
J.J. Abrams, with Steven Spielberg producing, has made one of those jaw-dropping out-of-body summer entertainments that kids old enough to swear and see PG-13 films will remember on into adulthood.
80
Village Voice
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams's much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory.
70
Like an old airplane (or spacecraft) jerry-rigged from scrap pieces and made air-worthy again, Super 8 has been patched together with 30-year-old spare parts to provide an enjoyable ride of its own.
60
It would be easy to dismiss as 100 percent ersatz if it didn't rekindle at least some of the old excitement - and if the magic of Spielberg's older movies didn't filter through, like light from a distant galaxy.
