Amongst all the high-profile tentpole releases like Trek and Terminator, one film has stealthily been infiltrating our brains – District 9.

The sci-fi stare into a world where aliens arrive on Earth only to become second-class citizens provoking fear and distrust among their human neighbours is the brain child of director Neill Blomkamp and arrives in cinemas this September.

So far, it has been spreading viral tentacles out across the web and last week finally released a trailer. Could this be the quiet sleeper hit of the summer? Or at least as quiet as any film with Peter Jackson as a producer…

We decided to dig into what’s known so far…