Writer/director J.J. Abrams teams with producer Steven Spielberg for this period sci-fi thriller set in the late '70s, and centering on a mysterious train crash in a small Ohio town. Summer, 1979: a group of young friends are filming a Super-8 movie when a pickup truck derails a speeding train. When the locals start to disappear and even the inquisitive deputy can't come up with answers, suspicions emerge that the incident was anything but an accident. As the truth finally begins emerge, no one is prepared to learn what now stalks the unsuspecting citizens of this once quiet community. Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning star. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Genre: Horror
- Category Action Thriller, Alien Film
- Theme: Unlikely Heroes, Small-Town Life, Mischievous Children
- Studio: Paramount
- Run Time: 01 hr 52 min
- Language: English
- Release Date: November 22, 2011
- Lead Actor: Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich
- Supporting Actor: Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, AJ Michalka, Katie Lowes, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Glynn Turman, David Gallagher, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, Michael Giacchino, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark Linden, Tom Quinn, Katherine Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Bingo O'Malley, Brett Rice, Beau Knapp, Tony Guma, Marco Sanchez, Jonathan Dixon, Tim Griffin, Patrick St. Esprit, Tom Williams, Emerson Brooks, Robert B. Quiroz, Greg Grunberg
- Director: J.J. Abrams
