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Date: 2011 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Production company billing: ©2011. Paramount Pictures Corporation Paramount Pictures presents An Amblin Entertainment/Bad Robot production [end] With the patricipation of the State of California and the California Film Commission Filmed in West Virginia with the assistance of the WV Film Industry Investment Act In Colour [2.35:1] MPAA: 46736 Film Extracts: High Diving Hare (1948) Television Extracts: 'In Search Of' 'Match Game'
Synopsis: Science fiction thriller. In 1979, a group of friends in an Ohio mining town hope to spend the summer holidays a zombie film called 'The Case' on a Super 8 cine camera. One night as they are filming, they witness a major train crash. Soon, strange events start occurring in the town. People are killed, animals disappear, the military arrives and the friends begin to suspect that the train crash was no accident and that it has unleashed a most unusual creature - one not even of this world.

Genres:
Science Fiction, Thriller

Subjects:
Amateur film production, Aliens, Orphans
Releases
Date: 10 June 2011Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Language: English
Date: 05 August 2011Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DTS (sound) / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 111 mins Length: 9990 FeetDialogue (original): English