In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Sure, that sounds good, but how many times have we heard a movie premise that sounds great and inevitably is disappointing?
It really doesn’t matter in the case of writer/director J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Steven Spielberg produced, Super 8.
If the trailer is any indication, Abrams has done the impossible, he’s made the kind of film all of us cinemageeks grew up with, without any winks or nods or even worse, any self awareness.
Reminiscent of Spielberg’s beloved “suburbia meet alien” films (E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Super 8 appears to it all of the right notes and even better, the trailer just entices, revealing almost nothing of the plot.
For the last few years, J.J. Abrams has been mentioned as the heir apparent to Spielberg, despite a small filmography.
