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''Pandorum'' is a German-British 2009 post-apocalyptic science fiction film, with elements of locked room mystery, Lovecraftian horror, and survival adventure. The film was directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt and Paul W.S. Anderson. Travis Milloy wrote the screenplay from a story by Milloy and Alvart. It stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. ''Pandorum'' was released on September 25, 2009 in the United States, and on October 2, 2009 in the UK. The film's title is a nickname of a fictional psychosis called "Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome" (ODS for short) caused by deep space and triggered by emotional stress leading to severe paranoia, delirium, and nosebleeding. The film received mixed to negative reviews, but had gained a cult following over time. ==Plot== In 2174, the human population has exceeded the carry capacity of Earth, leading humanity to build an interstellar ark named ''Elysium''. Its mission is to send 60,000 people on a 123-year trip to establish a colony on an Earth-like planet named Tanis. The passengers and crew are placed in hypersleep, with the crew on a hypersleep rotation to cover the entire journey. Eight years into the mission the ship receives a transmission from Earth in multiple languages: "You're all that's left of us. Good luck, God bless, and godspeed." Some unknown time later two members of the flight crew, Corporal Bower and Lieutenant Payton, are awakened from hypersleep. Improper emergence from hypersleep leaves them both with amnesia. The ship is suffering from power surges caused by an unstable reactor, which leaves them unable to enter the bridge. Bower ventures into the seemingly abandoned ship to jump-start the reactor before it goes critical. After having a panic attack in an air duct, he begins to suffer from Pandorum, a severe psychological illness which once caused a space captain to send his entire crew to their deaths believing the flight was cursed. Bower encounters Nadia, a former geneticist and Mahn, an agriculturist, and they are attacked by a group of cannibalistic pale-skinned humanoids with heightened senses of smell and strength. Bower's group flees into a barricaded chamber and finds a cook named Leland, who has been awake for years. Meanwhile, Payton encounters a strange young man named Corporal Gallo, who claims that he had to kill his rotation team in self-defense because they developed Pandorum. Leland invites Bower's team to dinner, showing them mural drawings depicting the true story of Gallo's past. According to Leland, Gallo developed Pandorum as did any humans that he brought out of hypersleep. Gallo then manipulated the other psychotics into exiling themselves within the massive ship to play a game which involved fighting, capturing, torturing, and eating each other. Eventually Gallo went back into hypersleep, leaving the descendants of the psychotics to evolve over the course of successive generations due to an enzyme produced in the hypersleep pod's feeding tubes, becoming a troglofauna species as a result. When Bower's group finds the reactor, they also find that it is the lair for a large Hunter community. Bower fails to make a stealthy approach, and Manh acts as a distraction while Bower restarts the reactor, destroying most of the humanoids. Leland flees, and Manh is cornered by their leader, who challenges him to single combat. He defeats the leader, but then is killed when he hesitates to slay a humanoid child afterward. With the power restored, Payton can finally access the bridge, but Gallo assaults him to prevent him going. Gallo injects Payton with a sedative, but suddenly disappears, leaving Payton holding the syringe himself. It is revealed that "Payton" was hallucinating his younger self and is actually an older Gallo. Gallo opens the shutters on the bridge's windows, revealing that the ship is apparently lost somewhere in space where no stars are visible. The revelation is the final stress that causes Bower to slip fully into Pandorum. Gallo tries to convince Bower that they must continue the wild primitive state within the ship rather than reviving human civilization, since that had led to the overpopulation of Earth. However, Nadia observes bioluminescent ocean life through the windows, and the computer displays that 923 years have elapsed since the mission began- 800 of which the ship has spent underwater after arriving at Tanis and automatically landing itself. Gallo attacks Bower and Nadia, but Bower's psychosis causes him to hallucinate humanoids invading the bridge. In his delirium, Bower breaks a window and water pours into the ship, drowning Gallo and all the remaining humanoids. Nadia manages to snap Bower to reality, and they get into a hypersleep pod. The flood triggers a hull breach emergency which automatically ejects all active pods (theirs as well as those of surviving colonists) to the surface. Bower and Nadia surface near a lush coastline, and witness the other pods ascending one by one. Thus begins Year One on Tanis, with 1,213 survivors from the original 60,000 humans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pandorum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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