Super 8 (2011)

Super 8 rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7/10· 379K votes

Rotten Tomatoes81%

Metacritic72%

TMDb6.8/10· 7K votes

With 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7/10 on IMDb and 72/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Super 8

In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.

Cast of Super 8

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  Joel Courtney

  as Joe Lamb

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  Elle Fanning

  as Alice Dainard

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  Riley Griffiths

  as Charles Kaznyk

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  Kyle Chandler

  as Jackson Lamb

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  Noah Emmerich

  as Nelec

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  AJ Michalka

  as Jen Kaznyk

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  Ryan Lee

  as Cary McCarthy

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  Ron Eldard

  as Louis Dainard

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  Gabriel Basso

  as Martin Read

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  Bruce Greenwood

  as Cooper

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  Zach Mills

  as Preston

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  Jessica Tuck

  as Mrs. Kaznyk

Super 8 facts

Budget

$50M

Box office

$260.1M

Our take on Super 8

J.J. Abrams sets this mystery in late-1970s Ohio, where a group of kids shooting their own zombie movie on Super 8 film happen to catch a catastrophic train derailment on camera. What follows blends small-town nostalgia with escalating dread: unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and the creeping sense that something dangerous is loose. It's a science-fiction thriller built as much around childhood friendship and amateur filmmaking as around its central menace, and it wears its affection for a certain era of American cinema openly. Best suited to viewers who like their monster stories grounded in character and atmosphere rather than nonstop spectacle, with plenty of coming-of-age warmth.