It’s also one of the wildest action comedies to come along in years. Guns Akimbo is more than just the movie that launched 1,000 Daniel Radcliffe memes. Wikis van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is the man on the ground in charge of the task, but everything he knows about the aliens, the company, and his life is challenged when he is exposed to an alien substance that transforms him forever. The aliens, belittlingly referred to as “Prawns,” are segregated into a camp known as District 9 where their fate is controlled by a multinational corporation, who are preparing to relocate the colony away from the city. A critical and box-office success (it was nominated for four Oscars), District 9 gripped audiences with its stunning visual effects and its socially-poignant story about an alternate Johannesburg, South Africa, where a colony of aliens arrives in their huge hovering ship, homeless, malnourished, and seeking refuge.

This Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi-action flick made a big splash at the box office, in part due to a viral marketing campaign that played up its found-footage format to create a sense of “what-if” realness.