What the Hell is Up With This New 'Pandorum' Poster?

I have no effing idea what we're looking at here. Pandorum, the horror/sci-fi movie due out in September, has done a brilliant job with its marketing all year. The posters are strange and off putting, the trailers keep you guessing, and they've managed to not reveal too many secrets. And now there's this thing. The movie is about a space ship crew that wakes up with no memory of who they are or where they are, and then the really weird stuff starts happening. We know they encounter other survivors on the ship, but we don't know exactly what role they play in connection to the guys we assume are the heroes, Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. And then there's the thing that goes bump in the night, which I assume is on this poster, although I can't make out much more than goop on its hand. Is it somebody molting? Looks like it, as strange as that sounds. And there are those electrodes on the chest, which make me think it's someone waking up from one of those long-ass space sleeps, but it could just as easily be a prisoner put in the space sleep by the crew of the ship that now has no memory of what it's doing. Damn. I have no idea. Click to Enlarge Kudos to Bloody Disgusting for the latest and strangest Pandorum poster. We'll see if all of this great marketing helps drive people through the door when it opens on September 18th.

Comments

[andrew]

My feeling is that the crew and the heroes changed/morphed into something disturbing. maybe some sort of experiment or virus/malady that infected them on their trip in space. something along those lines. cuz in the trailer you see ben foster kinda peeling his skin and it looks like he was changing to something else. looking forward to this movie.

[andrew]

i also thinkg the tag line is also referring to the transformation that occurs...i think

[Get The Big Picture]

See, you may be onto something there. That's as plausible as anything else I've heard.

[Tjei]

I think that's ichthyosis. I like this less is more approach with the poster. But I hope it doesn't apply to the film.