There’s more than just men on the moon in this found-footage chiller, which purports to be the edited highlights from 84 hours of recently discovered film of a secret lunar landing that went tits up in 1974.

To say more would detract from the nasty surprises director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego has in store for luckless astronauts Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins, if not the crushing boredom that awaits his audience during the excruciating and needlessly drawn-out build-up.

The likes of Blair Witch, [REC] and Paranormal Activity have pretty much sucked this genre dry, something Apollo’s capsule claustrophobia and Alien-themed body horror only goes a short way towards countering.

When it suits him, however, Lopez-Gallego is happy to jettison his central gimmick altogether, employing enough smash cuts, ear-bashing sound effects and derivative scare tactics to make the movie we are watching resemble not so much a clandestine raid on the NASA archive as the corny hack-work of some John Carpenter wannabe.

Whenever its extra-terrestrial entities deign to make an appearance, Apollo 18 does contrive to be both creepy aꩵn🌊d crawly. For the most part, alas, this only goes to show that in space, no one can hear you yawn.