In Earth to Echo, children with found footage also find the cutest little alien in need of a ride back home.
Children and friendly aliens going on adventures are as ubiquitous as found footage and horror. Yet, Relativity Media’s Earth to Echo seems interested in combining the two genres for a unique experience. Often, found footage is the stuff of fear and stupid teenagers, but as nearly every 7-year-old now has access to an iPhone, that storytelling technique can be expanded upon in different ways.
Thus enter the trailer for Earth to Echo, a movie ready to show genre fans a new perspective for when kids have close encounters with the third kind.
Tuck, Munch and Alex are a closely bonded trio of inseparable friends, but their time together is coming to an end. Their neighborhood is being destroyed by a highway construction project that is forcing their families to move away. But just two days before they must part ways, the boys find a cryptic signal has infected their phones. Convinced something bigger is going on and looking for one final adventure together, they set off to trace the messages to their source and discover something beyond their wildest imaginations: hiding in the darkness is a mysterious being, stranded on Earth, and wanted by the government. This launches the boys on an epic journey full of danger and wonder, one that will test the limits of their friendship and change all of their lives forever.
Starring Teo Halm, Brian "Astro" Bradley, Reese Hartwig, and Ella Linnea Wahlestedt, Earth to Echo launches into theaters on July 2, 2014.
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