They watch one of their own fight the trio to the death and feed on its corpse after they kill it. Blood Knight: The insane passengers on-board the Elysium fought each other to the death and fed on the fallen as part of a "nasty game" and their descendants (the hunters) continued practicing this.This culture was founded by Gallo, who awoke their ancestors from cryosleep and pitted them against each other for his own amusement. Blue-and-Orange Morality: Hunters have a culture similar to that of savage tribes in reality where they favor conflict and cannibalism.Bittersweet Ending: Humanity survives with a population of 1,213 but all their supplies and seeds are still on the now-flooded Elysium, Tanis might end up overpopulated like Earth, and it is uncertain if Bower is completely over Pandorum.Nadia occasionally slips into similarly untranslated German. Bilingual Bonus: Manh speaks entirely in unsubtitled Vietnamese, and none of the characters are able to understand him.As it happens, that was the reason the crew cycle got screwed up to begin with, causing all of the other problems in the film. Ax-Crazy: Gallo descends into this as a result of developing Pandorum.It's actually crash landed on the planet they were headed for. Also, because it would be considerably more difficult for the horde of cannibals to set up Vietnam War-esque traps otherwise. Artificial Gravity: The Elysium has this, given how nothing is floating in a ship that's about to run out of fuel.Arm Cannon: Bower's stun gun is a slip-on glove according to the Word of God this was so the character could use his hands for all the physical activity required.The Ark: The Elysium carries enough people and supplies to start a colony on another planet.Apocalyptic Log: Cooper and Nadia's team made one in a featurette.Apocalypse How: Hinted to be a Class X, though we never find out what caused it.And I Must Scream: The crewman and other passengers of the Eden ejected into space by their insane colleague.At least until he remembers that he's actually Corporal Gallo, and the reasons that turned Gallo into an Ax-Crazy nihilist in the first place. Amnesiac Dissonance: Payton is a professional officer who does whatever he can to help Bower reach his goal and save everyone.The film gets full mileage out of the claustrophobia, disorientation, and the fact that these were never meant to be traversed. Air-Vent Passageway: Used at the beginning (to get out of the hypersleep chamber) rather than later on to escape as per usual.Adam and Eve Plot: Barely averted at the end, it looks as though Bower and Nadia are all that remains of humanity, until other lifepods begin bobbing to the surface.Bower becomes one as well through his experiences on the ship. Action Survivor: Nadia was a scientist aboard the ship but she has learned to survive the creatures.Later, when Nadia comforts Bower when he remembers that his wife left him and stayed on earth, disappearing along with it.When Nadia gives her backstory about not remembering where she grew up or her brother's name.This film provides examples of the following tropes: Or is it all in Payton and Bower's heads, hallucinations brought on by the onset of Pandorum, a particularly nasty brand of cabin fever that resulted in the murder of the crew and passengers of a similar ship years before?Īlthough it was a flop at the box office, the movie, like Event Horizon, has developed into a Cult Classic over the years. With Bower descending into the bowels of the ship and Payton guiding him via a radio and a crank-powered control panel, it soon becomes evident that the men are not alone on board the Elysium - a few other passengers have resorted to survival of fittest mode due to being hunted by roving bands of mysterious tribal flesh-eating troglofaunal hominids. He finally manages to wake up a fellow member of the flight crew, Payton (Quaid), and the two of them set about getting out of the control room they're locked into and finding out what happened to the crew. A Creator-Driven Successor of Resident Evil (2002) that echoes The Time Machine, The Star Lost, When Worlds Collide, and Alien.īower (Foster), a flight engineer on board a colony sleeper ship designed to settle the distant Earth-like planet of Tanis, wakes up unexpectedly from hypersleep with gaping holes in his memory and finds the ship almost without power and apparently deserted. Pandorum is a sci-fi/mystery/adventure/horror film released in September of 2009 and starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. It starts with a shiver, an itch, a slow boil, the biological side effects of flying deep space feeding into paranoia and a paranoid brain feeding the side effects - a downward spiral. Gallo: Ever witnessed the symptoms firsthand? It's not something you can easily detect.
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