Who’s in it?: Dennis Quaid (Dreamscape, InnerSpace), Ben Foster (30 Days of Night, 3:10 to Yuma)

Whoa.  Ben Foster.  You are a freak.  Seriously man, you scare the hell out of me, which is not an easy task.  I’m not sure that applies to this movie because you are for once, the most normal mother dude in this tripped out freak show of a movie but normally, your presence is enough to make me question everything else that’s going on.

This movie is pretty jacked up though.  Still nothing original, unfortunately.  It’s all of those trapped in space with freaky, gnarly alien monster ghosts all rolled into one.  Not in a bad way but just in the, ‘if you’ve seen one, you’ve see ’em all’ kinda way.  It does have a pretty decent twist towards the end that either I didn’t catch because I’m a retard or just because it was late or a combination of the two.

On a side note, what is up with Dennis Quaid?  Does he have illegitimate kids somewhere that he has to do every friggin’ movie that comes his way?  Much, like ol’ Nic Cage and Bruce Willis, we will re-visit this subject a little further down the road.  These days, Dennis Quaid seems to be everywhere. Sadly there have been more bad movies than good.

For what it is, though, “Pandorum” is a fun little freak fest. There are some good scares and the look and feel of the film are calls back to the glory days of sci-fi and Ridley Scott’s “Alien”. The movie is creepy and mysterious from the beginning right up until the sucker punch at the end. It’s a reminder that you don’t always have to go big to get a good scare out of a sci-fi crowd.

7/10

Would I recommend this movie?: Sure, why not.  Watch it late at night with the lights off.