IT’S UP!!!!
Head on over to apple.com to see the new trailer in all its “non-bootleg” glory. Empire Online had the exclusive only a few hours before Paramount decided to release it on there own, so head on over and check it out and lets start discussing what we really see now and not what we thought we could see via cell phone cam.
SCREENSHOTS AFTER THE JUMP, Click below or click article title.
UPDATE: Hi-res video of just the monster walking through the buildings after the screenshots at the link below. Thanks Jt for bringing it to my attention. You can clearly see the monsters leg lift and walk, the the editor of the video reverses it to show it again.. check it out.
UPDATE 2: There is a lot of good discussion going on in the comments, but since I have to moderate them all to weed out the spammers I’ve made a few sticky’s on the forum regarding some of these topics. Below are links to those threads, where you can post freely in real time.
First up, the elusive “small monster/bio-suit” image, which we can tell 100% now that it is a biohazard suit, you can see through the window on the front of the mask in this shot. There has been a lot of discussion about the woman “expanding” and while I don’t disagree with this, I have an idea… Could she be restrained in a straight jacket, and start as a profile view and as the camera moves, it goes to a full back/front view, and with her wiggling around in a straight jacket, it could give the appearance of expanding like that, since her elbows would be protruding out…? Just a thought… more discussion in the forum
The next few are just random city destruction shots I thought were cool, in that they show how much damage the city is taking.
An explosion shot, possibly the beginning of the large one at the beginning of both trailers, or possibly just another small explosion.
Just a shot of the medical facility treating people that are injured/infected(?)
And here it is, the only place (i believe) you can see the large monster in the trailer. You can clearly see it’s leg lift and move forward in this segment, which is at approx. 1:26 -1:30, give or take a few seconds. It’s a quick clip, so pause it and go frame by frame to see it. I tried my best to get screenshots that were clear enough and showed the monster, the red box is the monster, and the arrow points to the general location of the leg. I didn’t want to cover anything by putting the arrow all the way to where the actual leg is, so just look along that line.
One more that I saw that was interesting. At approx: 1:44 in the trailer, it’s a quick flash. At first I thought it was just 2 3 people helping each other down a staircase, but after looking at it, there’s something weird going on in the middle of them? I have seen the picture that claims the stuff in the middle is a shoulder, hair and hand… I still don’t see it, but maybe it’s just me.
Please at least scan the comments before making one regarding this picture. I am aware it is 3 people, but someone explain what is in the the middle of all of them. I see 3 sets of legs, just nothing that tells me what is in the middle (and I don’t see the hand/shoulder/arm that one image suggests). I’m sure its just a piece of clothing, but who knows.
Here is a video of just the monster walking through the buildings like you see in the screenshots above. Everything is much clearer and easier to see that it is clearly a large monster.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Only clip I saw of monster was at the 1:28-1:29 minute mark - If you go frame by frame, you see it walking by some buildings. Another great trailer…hope this movie doesn’t suck.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
st: I was just in the process of doing screenshots, I’ll be posting them up in this post in the next 5 minutes.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I think it has yellow eyes.. Also from the look of it I reckon it has more then 2 legs… kinda looks like a bug….
November 19th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Did anyone else see the woman behind the screen (the first picture in this article) expand into something and explode?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
yeah you can clearly see its not small monsters attacking that person behind the screen, and you can see the monster move behind a building when being fired upon in the street.
Nice to have the clear quality 2nd trailer fianlly!
Now lets get some more clue updates rolling in paramount!
November 19th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
The creature seems to be walking backwards in the clip. I can see it turn and look too towards the camera. Think it has a kind of shrimps head with small black eyes.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
the big monster looks like it has a luminescent green body, an elongated head and some kind of protruding spine or folded wings on its back, looks very odd and very alien, could be cthulu…
November 19th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
neenko: How did you draw that conclusion from the trailer? All I can see is the hind quarters of the monster. Mainly just it’s back right leg as the back 1/4 of the body moves through the buildings.
Moz: I’m pretty sure the monster is moving to the right, so we can’t see a head, just based on the way the back leg moves, unless it’s “knees” are backwards…. but again, maybe i’m seeing something other than what you’re seeing.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Moment 1 min.:39 sec. For just a moment it is possible to see “something” (4 leg spider?) coming into the tunel.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
If that is a leg moving, then I don’t think we are seeing the head, unless this thing is all legs and a head. Which means, it is actually going to be quite a bit larger than we are currently projecting.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Admin- Oh yeah, its its definatly moving to the right but it looks to me like its walking backwards(to the right). Also it looks like it drops a car? Maybe? I’ll try and take a screen grab and outline what I see.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I thought the top green bit was the back of a bulbous and pulpy looking elongated head, and the rest was a partial side view, maybe i’m wrong
November 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com/
November 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
neenko: I see what you’re talking about, but I don’t know why the monster would be walking backwards.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
48 seconds in you can see up the street, that sure as hell looks like an eye to me looking down at us, also in the recap when the statue of liberty head comes down its the same street, you can look up the street again, it looks like they have put smoke or dust in the way just for the trailer, it looks too poor cgi work to be in the film, look like its teasing us with the monster behind it, as is when we eventually see the monster its the same street again. so the dust thing is just me thinking too hard but 48 seconds in definatley looks like an eye.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
On your final screenshot, pretty sure that is just three people going down a hallway. If you look you can see the third is the farthest away from the camera and i hunched over. That is the flowyness you are talking about… just another silhouette.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Jeremy: looks like you’re right… i see the extra legs, must be wearing a scarf or something to create that shape in between the other 2 silhouettes .
November 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I also saw the woman behind the sheet expand suddenly in the frame-by-frame view.
As for the weird image at 1:44, shown above, I don’t think that is a transforming person or weird pants. I think it is a third person’s heels and feet (you can see their upper body between the two figures bent over and moving in the opposire direction).
Where is this “eye” people are talking about?
November 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Ok, Its not walking backwards. I definatly see that now!
I can still see a srimp face though….
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2241/81449507pd1.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Is it possible that it’s actually standing on it’s hind legs and the highest up bit we see is part of its neck… so it looks kinda like a braciasaurus
November 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
There are three people running in the last picture. The person in the middle is bent over, almost looks like they are diving forward.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
If you pause the frame at exactly 1:29, I believe this gives us the very best glimpse of the creature. I also believe it is backing up. If you look closely you see what looks like a figure eight type body part going diagonally up to the right(I believe this is the creature’s ear or gills.) Over to the left of the ear/gills you can see an eye and the wide opening under it’s eye? That would be the mouth wide open. Now picture a giant fish. It has the slick back head that resembles a fish head. This thing is either a gigantic mutated fish(which would tie in with the Slusho website quite well) or the earlier “leaked” monster design that resembled a gigantic mutated whale with the parasite crabs all over it’s skin.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Reminds me of this for some reason
November 19th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Ah I don’t know how to post pics in this… here’s the link…
http://209.132.69.82/uploaded_from_zbc/200307/user_image-1059692111gpj.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
It has the leg of something like a T-Rex. all you can see is the leg THATS IT. the leg that it has is the the website with my name. not saying it looks like that but that is the type of leg it has and thats all you can see. Its Jurassic Park!
November 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
admin: I thought it looked like the big monster was making a sideways turn - had just turned its head away to our right obscuring its face and then decides to lurch off in the same direction behind the cover of the building(s), avoiding a frontal attack, moments later there’s ‘fire in the hall’. Seemed to be a pretty successful tactic. Just my impression though.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Anyone figure out direct download links for the trailers yet, especially the HD ones?
November 19th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
This movie seems to make perfect sense of a new Godzilla movie.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
i wanna say this again now that the real trailer is back up..and someone else pointed it out..and this might have been brought up already be someone thats not me..but i wanna see what everyone thinks..you can see that girl expand extremely quickly and possibly explode, im not really sure..but like i said..in one of the jamie loves teddy videos, she plays with that toy that expands like that..if this was planted in there as a clue, perhaps theres more clues to be found in the jamie loves teddy videos than we know
November 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Here’s my idea of what it might stand like
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1478/cfmongs1.png
November 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
here it is!
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5043/picture2fu8.png
November 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I’m just stuck on the girl suddenly expanding behind the sheet. Thats the one thing (besides the one-sided glimpse of the monster) that really grabs my attention
November 19th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
The creature is definitely moving to the right. But is it moving backwards or not?
If you still frame if forward you can’t really tell…well, much of anything. But if you then frame-by-frame it in reverse, the gait (to me) looks more natural moving left. Maybe it is lumbering backwards after all.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
they made a mistake!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/poland666/clfieldpic2.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
has anybody noticed the exploding woman…..
November 19th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
On the Apple trailer page for the trailer (cloverfieldmovie.com) if you highlight all, there is a “b” in the bottom left corner. significant? definently hidden whether accidental or on purpose.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Yea that scene with the girl behind the plastic sheets with another haz mat suit, you can definitely tell something is coming out of her and expanding. The sound effect is right there. However what I’m wondering is at the 1:00 mark, the solder who says “There is nothing to be afraid of” why is his face censored/blurred? If supposedly this footage of the whole “Cloverfield” movie is shot @ one night, how did they re-edit the tape to censor a persons face?
November 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Here’s what I’m talking about:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1963/cloverfu3.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
WTF? Why the army guy that says “there’s nothing we can do…” has his head pixelated like COPS style or something?
November 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
in the last picture there are two people and something in front of them. it looks like a greyish creature or something
November 19th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
the girl in the shadow, (the first pic of this article) is definitively explodinggg or at leasttt something is gettint out of her body…
November 19th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
When you look at the HD version it looks very much like you are seeing most of the creature and when you look at each frame in sequence its arm and upper body move away from sight.
There is a definite luminous glow about it and it has a very long thin body and looks not too much unlike a mutated centaur!!!
November 19th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I’ll try again…
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http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monster1ak8.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I dont know if you guys talked about it yet but I found this user on EBAY selling shirts with a picture of a monster on it claiming its from cloverfield movie. So i looked at it and if you notice this monster has a thumb and 3 claws.
http://i13.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/c2/11/4a76_1.JPG
now if you look at the statue of liberty its got 3 claw marks as that monster has. also that monster look like it has tentacles on top and below. looks like 4 tentacles to me. but if u look at the poster again in the area where the monster enters the city you see claw marks in the mid section of the buildings and destrucion in lower parts and top parts (where these tentacles are) just an observation.. i could be wrong.
poster here
http://bp1.blogger.com/_YPCf8JFgUdI/Rz_I5Y4bHDI/AAAAAAAABLY/VisGjg_VVl8/s1600-h/CLOVERFIELDposter.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Cleaned up pictures. The second picture it almost looks like it shape shifts? Or it possibly turns and looks at us(the camera) you see the black circle…could be an eye? Freaky.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/some_girls/monsturo.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Berginis: you cant post images in the comments, but the links work just fine. But the image is really small…
November 19th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Third time lucky…
http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monster1on5.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
When I saw that part in which the girl “explodes”, the movies Species and Alien came to mind.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Did anyone notice how when they were in the store and the guy with the long blonde hair tells Rob
“Rob, Rob, I saw it.. It’s alive!”
I don’t even want to spark the whole “A Lion - Alive” drama again but thats what I personally heard
And I find it weird that the lady behind the sheet is exploding and the guy infront of it is just sitting there like nothings going on!?
November 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
A “dinosaur-type” monster seems too easy. It looks like the back end of some sort of turtle or crustacean shell moving between the buildings to me. It seems to fit with the whole deep sea creature theme… and anyone who has eaten bad seafood can almost identify with the exploding girl.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Ok I used my graphics program to brighten up one of the pics posted and you can clearly see the creature?what exactly it is?I have no ideal!!
November 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
This is really fun. I just got here from playing another game at http://www.cluechaser.com. They said their’s was alot like this one so I came over to play. Looks like I got alotta readin to do. So it’s about a big monster that eats NY I guess. Cool.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
oops here it is…
Ok I used my graphics program to brighten up one of the pics posted and you can clearly see the creature?what exactly it is?I have no ideal!!
http://i5.tinypic.com/8g9jwp0.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
A couple of observations about the monster:
1.) It looks green and glowy
2.) It looks like it has small folded wings on it’s back
3.) It carries some sort of parasite / energy / disease / brood / spawn that can infect humans, causing them to bleed from the eyes and mouth and explode.
4.) It’s freaking HUGE.
And that’s pretty much all one can get from the trailer. Not bad information, all told! And from what I can see, my money is this critter is Cthulhu. Lovecraft (Cthulhu’s creator) described Cthulhu as a huge humanoid with bat wings, an octopus head, and made of a ghastly green substance. From what I can see in the trailer, we have everything but the octopus head, and if this monster is indeed Cthulhu, then the last thing they want to do is show its head, which would be a dead giveaway. And if those ARE wings on its back, a regular “run of the mill” ocean-going monster would not need wings to swim! Cthulhu is the only critter I know of - and I read a ton - that has wings, is big, is green, and lives beneath the ocean floor.
Now, regarding the exploding people - that’s a puzzler. The only thing I can think of is Lovecraft wrote a couple of stories where humans and monsters crossbred, and the progeny were monstrous. The Deep Ones, Cthulhu’s “children”, were especially notorious for mating with humans (see Innsmouth, Mass.) to beget half-human, half-deep one hybrids. Maybe the people are exploding because they have been impregnated with Cthulhu’s spawn.
OR, perhaps when they are “infected” they gradually become physiologically adapted to live deep under the ocean, and if they are kept on the surface, like deep sea fish brought up from the deeps, they explode. It looks like the woman is literally blowing up like a balloon - that’s a very similar description to what happens to deep sea fish brought to the surface. I think if a critter was coming out of her, it wouldn’t be like a balloon popping (think of the alien from Alien, it came out of the guy’s stomach - only his stomach exploded). The fact that the people’s mouths and eyes are bleeding makes me think of internal hemorrhage, which I believe happens in cases of rapid decompression.
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
The statue of Liberty head has also been changed from the first trailer. It is a little larger, more damaged and lit differently.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
will be another trailer??
November 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
For those who are not able to use QuickTime there is a High Definition version on youtwube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0EtPRZ6aEus
November 19th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
That monster’s leg you guys are talking about- kind of looks like a face to me…
November 19th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
At 1.44 it seems to me that its a silhouette two people holding each other up while another is being sick behind them. the bits that look like ‘flowing pants’ are the heels of the vomiteer.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
For users who cannot view the trailer VIA QuickTime a High Definition version is released at
youtube.com/watch?v=0EtPRZ6aEus
November 19th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Anyone notice that the mouth appears to open wider and wider. First thing I thought of was either something that looked like a Jurassic Park raptor, or similar to Godzilla 1998 (not saying it’s Godzilla, just that dino head). Upon closer inspection, based on cleaned up images here, there doe appear to be a big horn on the nose.
heath
November 19th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
One comment- A masterpiece. Considering the fact that it is “low budget” It has outstanding effects. To me it “looks” like a $150 million movie
November 19th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
the “formerly known as central park” is breathtaking :(…i am sorry i am the only one not doped with the geek fantasy part of this movie…
November 19th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
No way it’s Cthulu. All of the clues point to something from under the sea, Cthulu is from another planet/dimension.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Alright, I was watching the medical facility clip (sorry if this has already been discussed) but it appears the infection makes you “explode”. Check out these screenshots I took from the trailer, the are in order from where she look normal, all the way to looking very bloated (also a weird noise plays as she “transforms”)
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8211/cloverfield1ym7.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7997/cloverfield2np4.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1995/cloverfield3je5.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I’ve spent three days looking at whatever “IT” is. I think what we are all looking at is the back section of the monster and it appears to indeed have a shell with what appear to be fins to the side or possible wings. The legs appear to be that of a large T-rex type creature. I don’t think we are seeing a head or a face-you guys don’t think JJ would be that giving in a trailer do you? As for the “Exploding woman”- over at slusho.jp there is a “Happy Talk” that says-”I am so happy and full of Slusho I may Burst!” Coincidence or something tied to this pic-I dunno? Thoughts??
November 19th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Am going to point out that nowhere in the trailer can Jamie Lascano be seen even though she is prominent in the whole viral campain with the whole jamieandtedd.com thing and being in the pics on 1-18-08.com.
looks like a huge shell with markings, the luminescence would sugest extremely deep sea dwellings as many fish se luminescence as a means of direction and to lure prey in very deep dark waters.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
wasnt cthulhu the creature in te beastie boys video? haha, giant robot kills it. Clue???? Hmmmmm
November 19th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
OMG-could this thing possibly be a mutated form of HORSESHOE CRAB? Look at the clue at Slusho-the horse-the crab. Horseshoe crab blood is also used as a bacterial aid by pharmaceutical companies in injections, iv’s etc. Go check out http://www.horseshoecrab.org and see what I am talking about!
Also don’t crabs cause urinary infections in people like at jamie has been having problems with in her vids? I know its sounds crazy but it sorta makes sense!
November 19th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Anyone see the teeth in the second window from the right at 1:22 in the HD trailer or is just me? I’m willing to bet the “creature” is Cthulhu.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
http://stage6.divx.com/Movie-Teasers/video/1870773/Cloverfield-Trailer
downloadable 480 version of the trailer
November 19th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Sorry, I just don’t see it Ryan. I think a lot of people are looking a little too hard.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Lostfan - Good connection. Great idea. Its definitely possible we are going to be seeing some kind of virus…slusho might just be the virus…and that it reacts only when the creature is near…I’m reaching now. However I think based upon what we are seeing, we need to start making the connection with slusho.com and the other sites.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
it kinda looks like zilla lookin back at the camera on the picture that rob d has the one that was posted at 4:18 november 19th. look at and see how the second picture to the right looks alot like zilla
November 19th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Those HAZMAT guys are draging here with them en then see explodes…the left HAZMAT guy turns around and the right one is getting down i think. At the moment that weird sound is on the right HAZMAT guy has something on his back….maybe a Parasite?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Ok theres been some good ideas as for the monster but I believe I now figured out just what that footage it is. If you notice closly its not a leg, its a piece of its armor, i believe thats the front of the face but its being over casted by plates of its shell, when the marines start shooting it, its scales or armor move over its body to protect its self “like a turtle”. Then it moves towards the camera as in to prepare its self to rush. (notice how soon as they get down the stairs dust and debree coming flying down)
Also if you look even harder you can see an odd jelly like liquid thats color yellow, if you remember the first person on their site that talked how he got to see this trailer long ago talked about “scales” falling off that actually were “little” monsters that attack people. Well I believe that its blood or a jelly from the Deep that could protect it and infects people near by.
But now that i think about it thinking further in to this how animals share bodys with parasite, that the liquid or what ever it is, is indeed a parasite and infects the people changing them as host for the parasite. It would make sense of how their bodys are mulated and the odd sounds, that one flashing image you see quickly after you hear the odd “sreching” sound is the parasite communicating to each other. I stared at that image closly and notice it is not 1 monster but 2 of them closly together meaning the infected talk to each other and gather in groups.
So basically, The Giant creature is from the ocean, it has scales and plays host to several parasites. The parasite could actually be the source of this giant creature, infact this huge monster could be just a fish infected by an abnormal alien like parasite. Since fish live an every day life with the parasite i could see where they got the idea for this creature taking ideas from water based animals.
eh just my 2cents
November 19th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
After looking at the monster image, I believe all we are looking at is the 3 clawed hand, not a face or a shell or a leg. I really hope the monster is Cthulhu, but I feel after all JJ Abrams has said about the monster being original, I doubt it will be anything as cool as Cthulhu. I think the movie will be cool because of the way it was shot, not because of the monster.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I took some screenshots of hard to see quick flashes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/5.jpg
what do you think, especially the last one where the girl has like wing/membrane/tentacle looking things coming off her?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
In the part with the biohazard suits pulling at the transforming girl. Look at the people inside the tent. They are unusually calm about it. So how used to the idea of people turning into monsters (if that is indeed what it is) are they?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
hey admin.. someone posted this video on another site.. check it out!!
http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/serversphere/?action=view¤t=monster.flv
November 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I’m surprised nobody has talked about the images at 46 and 47 seconds…
Doesn’t it look like the monster is in the center wrecking everything in sight?
Also - I thought I saw long spikes on the creature…
November 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
i STILL don’t see a monster. those screen shots aren’t convincing to me. what you all think is a monster’s leg or head looks to me like a retracting smoke plume. ??? to me, nothing that big would move that fast (no i am not saying that is some kind of smoke monster, that’s just dumb) then again, in anaconda, a snake that size would never have moved that fast or needed to eat that often, i hope this isn’t as dumb as that movie was.
but given the budget, the third floor (the effects house used for the film) appears it got all they could out of their interns and newbies. i wouldn’t mind having this film as a demo piece. they appear to have done a good job
November 19th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
If this was a HP Lovecraft film, I think JJ would have said so…I don’t think this is. He said that this was an “Original Idea”. I dont think JJ would let anyone see the full detail of the monster, that would ruin the film. Everyone is looking for something and their imagination is running wild. We are seeing what want to see at this point.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I think I’m seeing tentacles where arms are in the 1:26 to 1:30 part.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I thought I knew how this movie was going to play out… until I saw that clip where they were in that medical tent, after that doctor tells the guy to shut off the camera… Theres some screaming girl, being escorted by what looks like guys in Bio suits… and at the last second she bulges up like something is exploding from her body. That was nuts.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
why are people still saying this is cthulhu or anything else already existing..hasnt jj said enough times that this is a new, original monster..i dont get why people are insisting its cthulhu
November 19th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Maybe its a big bug. Lots of insects reproduce by infecting their hosts, and then the offspring burst out and eat whatever is left. And the sound effect in the scene where they start running from something in the dark sounds buggish to me.
Except bugs wouldn’t roar like the monster does. And why hasn’t anyone commented on the explosion in the teaser trailer yet? What’s with the fireballs that come shooting off the first explosion? Is that supposed to be from the monster or not?
And what about the timeline in the teaser? Big explosion, people go running down at least ten flights of stairs, and then the statue’s head comes flying in (and somehow causes an explosion when it hits a building)? What’d the monster do in the meantime, backstroke around the harbor?
Hopefully the movie explains some of this and doesn’t just leave it all to speculation.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Ryan I think I see what you’re talking about, but I’m not entirely sure it’s teeth… it looks like partly a wierd reflection maybe?
November 19th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
For the few of you saying that you see some sort of monster/mutation at the 1:44 mark, its three people running a hall, thats it… here is the still, lightened, and the three people numbered.
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5517/threepeoplerunningvu9.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
running DOWN a hall I mean.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Engel: Not disagreeing there are 3 people, just confused as to what is in the very middle. It’s probably just clothing, but it looked odd to me. But I can clearly see 3 sets of feet/legs…
November 19th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
One other thing I wanted to point out, prices haven’t been this low in almost 10 years in NYC… whats up with that?
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4809/pricesmq2.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
If you go to the scene with the two girls in the tunnel, the girl on the right has a necklace on of a Sea Horse. If you wikepedia Sea horse it talks about how there is also “Sea Dragons”. Maybe this is something about it being a dragon type creature and also supports peoples theory of wings on the creature.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
The one about the two people and one is helping the other? Theres three people, what looks like something on her legs is actually a person in front of her, their feet.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
When you watch the girl exploding right after 1:10, it looks like the HAZMAD on the right Jabs her and pops her or something. Thats REALLY nasty, but look for yourself! You can see his arm going back behind him (what others said looked like a parasite, but I’m pretty sure its his arm) and then it jabs forward, followed Perfectly by the nasty gooshing sound effect.
Also, if what people are really saying in the clips is “Its alive”, which seems to be said much too often, reminds me of Godzilla, because they thought that they killed him off. Im not saying AT ALL that this is godzilla just an observation!
=D
November 19th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
In the second explosion shot, there are two jets flying in between the buildings. One drops a bomb, the other is firing a missile.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I wonder what this film’s going to be rated, I mean if people are seen blowing up (the tent scene) then that means there’s going to be a LOT of blood and gore. It would suck if this was rated R.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
guys.. lets get this straight once and for all.. the girl is not “exploding” or “expanding” the camera angle is changing and it moves to her back.. watch the surroundings and u will see the cameraman is moving
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/dsw182/expand.gif
November 19th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
J. J. Abrams quote:
>This is gonna be really really quick. I just want to >say I want a monster movie! I want a great monster >movie! I wanted a monster movie for so long! And I >was in Japan over a year ago with my son who is 8 and >all he wanted to do was go to toy stores. We went to >a store and saw Godzilla’s everywhere and I thought >what better. We need our own monster.
>
>We need a monster movie. I love King Kong! King Kong >is just adorable and Godzilla is a charming monster I >love Godzilla but I wanted something that was just >insane and intense. So we started making this movie >and are working it now. I watch dailies and I am more >excited about the movie itself then the trailer which >has gotten an amazing response.
>
>I cant thank you enough for that. I would say it will >be nearly 6 months before this movie comes out. Its a >long time so in the coming months your going to get >the real trailer, the real poster, and the title. But >you wont get the title today. Do you think I should >call it Monstrous?
So, where in there does he say he is creating a “new” or “original” monster? He says “we” need a monster movie - as in, America needs its iconic monster. Japan has Godzilla, we have… King Kong. But Abrams wants more. What is an American creation? Cthulhu. What is the embodiment of “insane” and “intense”? Cthulhu.
All of this coupled with e deep sea monster motif? Also, Cthulhu will rise again when the “stars are right” - the planets will be in “alignment” coming up in 2008 - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1791749 -
I for one, welcome our new master, and hope that I delight in insanity before being consumed…
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/images2/cthulhu2.jpg
November 19th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
The girl is definitely expanding in a strange way. The camera is moving, but if it were just lighting, the two people wearing the safe suits would also expand. Also, her head does not expand in proportion to her body.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
the last picture the administrator posted is of 3 people. The one in front of the 2 people, holding each other one helping the other walk, is almost leaning forward so what seems to be hanging out between the other 2 is simply, her hair. Ir did look weird but like i’ve read in other comments and like the girl said, we’re seeing things where they’re not which kind of brings me to my next point…the slusho site and all the clues related to the movie…dont you guys think that all they want to point out is that IT is an animal, IT does come from the sea, IT is infectious or poisonous and IT was our own fault (humans) that IT was made? just like slusho, made from lots of ingredients combined and all? just like a scientist does… all in all, i think its great to have your imagination go crazy and it’ll the depend on each person, whether they’re dissapointed or pleased with the results on that day, next year.
2 more cents added to the cause…
November 19th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
it might, might not be Cthulhu. Personally i wouldnt mind if it is, if not then it really is something new and original which is very daring for someone to do thus the whole hype build up behind it….making sure people are interested in it before the real deal comes out and everybody gets to know what it really is…
November 19th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
looks very bug like… kinda like a praying mantis…
November 19th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
He says it right there where he says “We need our own monster.” He’s referring to Japanese coming up with there monsters, we need our own… hence he made a new one.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
alrite, i figured out the editing of the trailers,
about where the monster comes into play in the movie…
1) if you look at the first teaser trailer, when they go out of the building you can see a sign on the right of the street when the statue of liberty head is coming that says “The Textile…”
2) if you look at the second trailer, during the sequence of the army guys shooting at the monster, when we see the monster go by, you can see it’s the same street they came out on, with “The Text…” visible, and same pattern of buildings, empire state building, etc… in this shot no bullets or rockets whatever are being shot at him.
3)They just used that shot of the monster for the second trailer in that army sequence, but the format in the movie will be as follows…
a) they go outside and someone says “i saw it, it’s alive, it’s huge”… obviously it’s nearby, and you see the Text… as a hint of where they are
b) the statue of liberty get’s thrown down the street… and you see the Text… as a hint of where they are
* c) in the movie, the camera will pan back from the staue of liberty’s head to show the monster walking past in that shot from the second trailer… and you see the Text… as a hint of where they are
I mean this isn’t anything drastic, but as a film major who loves to anaylze details in movies, this is 99.9% accruate to me
November 19th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
I originally thought that the woman wasn’t exploding either - but you can’t tell me that the final frame of her (looking like she’s 300+ pounds) is just a camera angle. She HAS to be exploding!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
The monster in the trailer is walking on at least two legs. When the video first unblurs, you can see leg number one going behind the building to the right. Following that, you see leg number two emerge from behind the building on the left. I’m not sure how you can see a face in that.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:05 am
At about 38-39 seconds or around there, after the guy says “My name is Robert Hawkings” and the camera moves upwards towards the jets flying, you can see what looks like 2 tentacle like objects moving up/around the diagonal building. It starts in the middle of the screen and ends up at the bottom, as the camera moves. It’s only a few split seconds, but maybe a clue? Also could explain why the planes over head
November 20th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I was surfing around and I found this guy that posted a nice short vid of the Cloverfield monster.
Spoiler that its a damn good shot of the monster and it may ruin it for you if you want to wait till it comes out to see the monster.
Here is the vid clip: http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/serversphere/?action=view¤t=monster.flv
November 20th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Ok, the part at 1:44 is 3 people on a staircase. Look at the shadows on the ground. There is no flowing cloth, it’s the guys heels, it’s just so eerily lit.
The part at 1:28-1:29, it is a leg! No way would a whole body move like that. It looks like its kicking the building.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Oh and by the way, the woman IS expanding, or SOMETHING. Camera angle, COME ON! There’s no angle that would make that woman look 300 pounds like she did. Oh and, the camera angle wouldn’t make the sick gurgling noise.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I believe the the woman behind the curtain is not exploding, I think she is wearing a coat because look at this..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/Animelovereric/Cool%20Shit/pf_slide_clover2.jpg
So pretty much it is showing Lizzy Caplan’s Character being Quarantined. But cant be for certain, maybe she is infected because she looks kinda sick in the other pics, and why would the detain her?
November 20th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Though it is pretty late to post it, the actual links for the HD trailers are:
Trailer in:
480p http://images.apple.com/movies/paramount/1-18-08/1-18-08-tlr_h480p.mov
720p http://images.apple.com/movies/paramount/1-18-08/1-18-08-tlr_h720p.mov
1080p http://images.apple.com/movies/paramount/1-18-08/1-18-08-tlr_h1080p.mov
What meatloaf said does seem to be true - the right HAZMAT man seems to jab the inflating woman with something….ick. >_
November 20th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Well All I HAve To Say Is I See The Monster…I See Three People In That Dark Pic Running Thru a hallway and last but not least….
I GOT A DOUBLE-SIDED OFFICIAL CLOVERFIELD POSTER
November 20th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Okay, here’s my two cents on 1:29, which seems to be the topic du jour:
It looks to me like the creature is quartering towards the camera, with the camera being about 45 degrees or so to the right from the creature’s point of view, and the creature is looking off to its left side. Most of what we see is underneath its neck and chest, with a left leg visible throughout the shot and a right leg coming into view later. It looks like the creature has a somewhat long neck, enough to start with a fair degree of bend in it which straightens out in the later frames.
Guess we won’t know anything for sure ’till January.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I’m kind of thinking that it might be Cthulhu aswell or atleast Cthulhu-esque He says we need our own, not new. And has anyone noticed how the Tagruato(tagruato.com) drills are “stratigically positioned around the globe” no where close to R’lyeh(the city where Cthulu waits)? Google maps has it here according to Lovecrafts cooordinates..
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-47.15,-126.716667&spn=0.3,0.3&q=-47.15,-126.716667
I know it’s Wikipedia but just check out the page on Cthulhu. After reading the descriptions of his physical appearance does anyone else think the back of Cthulhu might look ALOT like that monster walking with his wings folded up behind him? Showing his “face” would be a dead giveaway. Go ahead read what he is supposed to look like on there. Also “small monsters” might just be the Cthulhi. That are like him, but smaller(human sized?), so they would have wings like him. And might make that noise towards the end of the trailer if flying in a group(swarm). Oh man I’m spent! I just want 1-18-08 to get here already!! And I hope it is an R rating! I’m sick of all the “we want more money so we’ll make it pg-13″ crap! Show me what a real monster attack would look and sound like. Hint: lots of 4 letter words, gore and destruction.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:36 am
http://www.slusho.org/?p=6
this is not my find but this guy put up a video of the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and it really makes me think this is a large part to the whole story. Obviously the smaller monsters come from somewhere but I think before long we will see if this old movie shares alot.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:38 am
JT you seriously need glasses if you dont see that her body is expanding… and no its not the camera… if thats the case the bio suit guys should be expanding as well.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:42 am
So you’re telling me this thin girl (which u can also see in the promo pictures) go’s from size 2 to like Rosie O donnel in 3 seconds becuase she turned around? ok so when shes side ways shes skinny and then when she turns her back shes a whale lol. get some glasses!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:50 am
joe: J.J. Abrams It’s talking about (obviously) an original monster, Cthulhu isn’t original, because it’s Lovecraft’s creation. I think this monster comes totally from the J.J. Abrams’ mind
Well, I saw on the minute 1:11 - 1:13 when we think It’s the “mini-monster” (haha) attacking a person, I saw a Lion’s head =S and I heard a roar in the trailer, Wow! It’s totally mysterious. I don’t know what think about it.
I saw another think, not important but It’s weird.
In the first teaser, when we see Rob get into the apartment, he’s with some friend with a normal haircut. So, in the second teaser when we see the same scene, I saw another guy =S with a different haircut, he has an “afro” haha =/
greetings
November 20th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Also real quick why would it say “camera retrieved at incident site U.S. 447″ Wouldn’t that mean that there are other “incident sites” around the world if they have to refer to it with the country name and a number?? Otherwise wouldn’t it just be THE SITE?
November 20th, 2007 at 2:00 am
oh yeah n i got it for FREE
November 20th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Like OMG!!!! It’s sso obvious! Like OH MY GOD! so obvious! 1.49, it’s those damn horse and cart guys from Central Park! Like OMG!!!! You guys need to get out more, maybe find girlfriends and maybe get laid!!
November 20th, 2007 at 2:26 am
at 47 sec in you can see what looks like a really big ugly thing in the middle of the explosions.
November 20th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Great research! I’m hoping its Cthulhu. We welcome everyone to come speculate with us at the Sci Fi Massive..
http://www.scifimassive.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11
November 20th, 2007 at 2:42 am
ok last thing promise. Threw it out there couple months ago… the explosion, it has smaller balls or drops coming out of it. The slusho site when you open it. Has one large cup with smaller drops coming off of it. Untill about a month ago same number of fire balls and droplets of slusho. Anything? I have my thoughts but I think I’ve posted enough for tonight.
November 20th, 2007 at 2:43 am
yeah, watch the scene closely with the girl behind the tent and the dudes in the bio suits… you can clearly see she goes from skinny to bulging. I finally noticed it and it looks like some fucked up shit. scary.
you think they might be injecting her with something? or is that the “infection.” If so, that’s a very fast reaction. Creepy.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:31 am
I hope that Joe above me is correct.
” And in stranger eons….. “
November 20th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Here’s a really good shot of the monster
http://www.empireonline.com/trailer/breakdown/cloverfield/6.asp
To me, I think I can clearly see that it’s the head.
Also, viewing the slowed down and reversed video of it moving, I agree with whoever said on here that it’s turning away, most probably to escape the military.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:37 am
HEY ADMIN!
help me to clear up the misconception
The flash at 1:44 is not two people, with the one on the left mutating.
It is clearly three people. I have pointed out the thrid person’s features in this screen shot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/daxter9/Cloverfield/proof.jpg
November 20th, 2007 at 4:44 am
First off, don’t think it’s Cthulu. If what’s in the above post is right, and we ARE talking JJ Abrams here, he’ll want to do his OWN thing.
So, why call a movie Cloverfield when it’s monsters? We know it’s from the Slusho links, field of the stuff looking like cloverfields from the sky. So, we’ve got the sea link. It’s only tenuous until this clearly quite big THING walks out of the river into New York. So, fairly obviously, it’s somehow linked into the actual title.
Then we have the smaller ones, referred to in the trailer with the three of them in a tunnel (clearly too small for the big one..) running from a strange sound pursuing them. And on that video we have the shadow behind the curtain suddenly mutating. Now, I don’t know how this happens, but again, go to the name.
So, it’s not Cthulu (though I very much hope one day someone with a real flair for creeping horror gets their mitts on that), but it does look pretty awesome.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:41 am
As you can see from the flash video linked by Jt -
http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/serversphere/?action=view¤t=monster.flv
There is no face of the monster or its eyes, but you can clearly see the monsters leg moving from behind the building on the left, you see it’s knee bend.
And in this clip you can see that this thing is REALLY BIG.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:44 am
It probably is not, but the monster sorta looks like some giant turtle. Haha. But yeah. I can’t wait for this movie!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:14 am
About the girl that “explodes”, couldn’t it be that the guys wearing the bio-suits have put on a bio-suit to the girl too? And therefore it is the girl’s suit that expands and not the girl’s skin? I think that the girl does not becomes bloated at once but gradually, if you watch carefully you will see that she expands first at the top of her body and afterwards at her stomach.
Also I think Rob somewhere in the trailer says that he keeps recording with the video camera “so people will know how it all went down”. May be he says that because those in charge of administering the whole monster confrontation situation used some inappropriate methods. May be they used chemical or biological weapons against the monster without considering the negative effects they would have on people, and the girl that explodes is one of the influenced.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:19 am
The monster shot is its head from the side. Mouth at bottom with lots of teeth. Horn on top of head. Monster moves backward after hitting a building.
Looks pretty cool. I think it will resemble one of those weird sea creatures than lives way down near the ocean floor, just much larger, obviously. Something somewhat prehistoric.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Both trailers together with the fast forward part taken out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFgai2sWcJM
November 20th, 2007 at 10:11 am
CDog: if you watch the video at the very end of this post, you can clearly see that it is the monsters back leg as it walks to the right. There’s no head in the shot.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Could the monster actually be GAMERA??
http://m.blog.hu/ho/homar/image/200708/gamera.jpg
November 20th, 2007 at 10:23 am
I still think it’s Cthulhu. Abrams keeps saying, “We need our own monster”. Not, “an original monster” and not “a monster of my own creation”, but “our own monster”. Godzilla himself is not an entirely original creation - he is basically a tyrannosaurus rex crossed with a stegosaurus and a whale
Both sides of the “Cthulhu/Not-Cthulhu” argument are based on perception anyway. You can make as strong a case for Cthulhu as against him. Although I think the body form of the monster, specifically the wings, really seems very Cthulhu-esque.
Note to John; Go back and read your Lovecraft again. Cthulhu is indeed from outer space, but he is imprisoned beneath the ocean in the lost city of R’lyeh, where he lies dreaming, until the stars are right and he awakes again.
We’ll see in the end…I’m not going to be devastated if this isn’t Cthulhu, although I’ll be surprised and disappointed.
Morg
November 20th, 2007 at 10:40 am
i believe the monster’s walking on 2 legs, those are the monsters legs. Turning away, walking backwards, either way those are clearly legs and the only thing that keeps me from believing that the girl is expanding is the guy in the white suit still working like nothing’s happening unless the shot in the trailer is really fast and it doesnt show him reacting to it or unless the guy treated her and gave her something that’d have a reaction in the human body. Other than that i seriously doubt is the camera angle. what’s that gamera creature?
November 20th, 2007 at 10:48 am
the gamera description and history sounds a little convincing, good one.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Forget the monster. Look at the woman behind the screen and re-read sluhso history. Follow the bread crumbs.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:21 am
maybe its the statue of liberty’s husband..came home,found she hadn’t made dinner, and knocked her head off..lol j/k of course but..from the pics and video we’ve seen,it does look somewhat made of stone and people keep saying’its alive’ like maybe something like that SHOULDN’T be alive.for all we know,it could be a 4 toed statue from ‘lost’..just kiddin again but perhaps because it is stone,it saw the statue of liberty as an actual threat…maybe thought SHE was alive???
November 20th, 2007 at 11:46 am
look at this picture:
[url]http://www.summeroflovecraft.com/images/cthulhu-6.jpg[/url]
wouldn’t cthulhu be a great monster, if it would look like on this picture.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
watch that, thats a slower version of the monster in the vid. looks like godzilla O.o or its cthulu….
http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/serversphere/?action=view¤t=monster.flv
November 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
The clip of the monster is deff legs, but they are very spindly for something that size and the body slopes up implying that the bulk of the monster is already past and behind the buildings to the right of what we see. I would assume they are like rear legs of a beast with 4 or 6+ legs and they bend in a full “Z” like the rear legs of a dog.
The inflating woman reminds me of what happens when the body gets injected with gas. There are for instance C02 injectors that would do that to a body, once stabbed it injects a charge of gas that would happen that fast. It would of course kill you or whatever animal was injected but it would be that fast.
As for the dazed fellow not reacting, if you were in a “warzone” like that it would be fairly common for people to be unresponsive to excitement around them. For that matter he could be deaf from explosiosions or this is just the 50th exploding woman he has seen and is not suprised by it.
My .02
November 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Godzilla, really doesn’t mave any sense. Is anyone clamoring for another godzilla movie? hollywood already had their shot at reinventing the Godzilla franshise and the failed. Besides, if it were, then why all the sercect and viral hype?? Godzilla already has a built-in market.. all they would have to do is slap GODZILLA on the trailer and that would be that. Maybe I am just a Lovecraft fanboy, but I see Cthulhu or at least I want to see Cthulhu!)
November 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I found this:
“CTHULHU’s caretakers are the reptilian demigods DAGON and HYDRA, whose children, the Deep Ones, take human mates to further a breeding program intended to manage the human race for CTHULHU’s purposes.”
It may explain the mini monsters or exploding people. I’m not saying it Cthulhu however…what if it is….or what if the story is just similar to the movie.
Website: http://www.summeroflovecraft.com/cthulhu.html#DAGON
November 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I’m willing to bet that the monster is not Cthulu. It will be a new monster, that probably won’t have an official name, like a godzilla or a Cthulu. It’s just going to appear out of nowhere, kill a bunch of people and disappear, with no explaination of what it is….
November 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Huge monster + big city on the water. I’m saying this picture I found is pretty damn close. Imagine what it would look like if his wings were folded behind him while walking. Kinda like a shell, kinda like armor.
http://www.templeofdagon.com/artwork/toren-macbin-atkinson/Cthulhu.jpg
I’m just saying if not Cthulhu atleast very Cthulhu-esque.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
To me, it looks like a T-Rex, it’s head lowered and plowing through with a hind leg (and knee) moving forward. Maybe I’ve stared at it for too long, by I can clearly see it’s toothy maw …
Really.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Im sure its a whole new monster..and it has no name..only..case “Clovefield”…why else there would be the first text in the trailer…MULTIPLE SIGHTINS of CASE “cloverfield”…its the military name for the thing/beast what destroyed the city..
November 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I’m sure I can’t be the first person to say this…but
Might there be a link between the girl expanding and slusho?
Afterall: ‘Everyone who drinks a SLUSHO!….becomes a small whale like Noriko.’
November 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com
is online with just a link to the apple trailer
November 20th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
There’s some validity in the “camera angle” discussion for the girl blowing up like a stress doll.
I’m reposting Jt’s link here for reference:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/dsw182/expand.gif
The camera is indeed moving with the action. Pay close attention to the light behind the curtain (the one she’s centered in). At the same time the girl puffs up like she’s retaining far too much water, the light expands wider in similar fashion. There’s some pretty significant wrinkles in the plastic curtain covering the action too - it could be they are curving inward, which would definitely play a part in bending reflections and silhouettes. So she may not be blowing up at all - could be a suspenseful decoy the producers are using. Or perhaps we’re just looking for things that may or may not be there.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Good pint Lara:
Afterall: ?Everyone who drinks a SLUSHO!?.becomes a small whale like Noriko.?
what is Slusho is the virus…which causes a mutation. How the giant monster plays into it, I’m not sure…but Slusho is looking more and more like its a virus of some sort. There is so much more to this movie than a simple giant monster.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
What I remember from some of the articles I have read is that if you drink slusho( slusho is made of one organism that had lived thousands of years ago in the ocean floor) you become a host of that organism. Then the depredator of that organism wakes up for some unknown reason and starts looking for something to eat-the organism(therefore the people that are hosts become targets)
November 20th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Yo freakshow. About the camara angle. I think that is the answer. Look at the slow motion and you can clearly see that the shoulder doesn’t correspond with the “fattening” of the girl. What I mean is that as the girl apparently “explodes”, her shoulder remains in the same place and the contour of her her forearm is not consistent with her “exploding” body.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
One more comment, Isn’t that “exploding women” Lizzy Camplan? Think about it.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Teso - Thats correct.
Story may go like this: We over harvested the deep ocean ingredient. There is no more special ingredient. Is it possible that the yes, the ingredient becomes a virus or a parasite…and that the giant monster is there to eat the people who now have the ingredient (parasite) inside of them?
TO be quite honest though…I don’t think the monster is going to be eating anyone…just causing chaos. Its most likely in New York for a reason…something brought it there…its probably searching for something. Maybe it got pissed off….maybe it need to spawn…and triggers the parasites or the virus or something.
i’m just speculating….i’m bored.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Another thing to consider regarding the idea of a parasite or some infection is the scene where the African-American soldier barks, “There’s nothing we can do for her now!” while the girl leans against a wall. Sounds like she was infected with something.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I’m probably the only one, but I don’t care if we never get a good view of the monster. I think scary movies are so much more effective when you don’t see the monster.
When Steven Spielburg was shooting Jaws, his mechanical shark broke. He had to change his shots to not show the shark until they could fix it. He now admits the movie worked much better that way, letting the tension build before you ever get to see the shark.
I think Alien is such a great movie for a lot of the same reasons. You don’t get a good look at the Alien until late in the movie.
The movie Signs was great, until the end when you finally see the alien up-close.
Heck, I think I was one of the few that didn’t mind never seeing the Blair Witch.
Basically, I think that your imagination is much more powerful than anything they can depict on screen. The way this movie appears to be filmed has me very excited since we might never get a good view of the monster.
I think in my ideal situation, the movie will be 2 hours of these people frantically fighting for their lives. The Slusho connections are fun to think about now, but when the movie is going, I don’t want them to slow down the action at all.
Then when the DVD comes out they could have the movie, plus a “documentary” about this monster attack. They could have experts talking about their theories of what the monster was, where it came from, and why it attacked NYC. Kind of like all the 9/11 documentaries about what went wrong and how it all happened.
Oh well, thanks for reading, just my 2 cents…
November 20th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I dont understand why there is so much confusion about the “exploding” girl when this official publicity shot clearly shows us what happened behind the screen..
http://bp0.blogger.com/_YPCf8JFgUdI/Rz4iRY4bG1I/AAAAAAAABI8/DFFq-8e4REM/s1600/pf_slide_clover12.jpg
November 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
What part of “ORIGINAL IDEA” aren’t people getting…JJ said at Comic Con that it was an original story he created. Its not Cthulu or Godzilla…something new, something scarey…a new creation. Not a remake or sequel…original! Which is great!
November 20th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
To see the picture Viz posted, if it doesnt work by clicking, copy and paste the url into a new browser window.
Viz: It really doesn’t show anything…unless you’re suggesting that it looks like the body is exploding because there are more people back there than we originally thought….
November 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I agree with pearsall BUT they should at least either show the monster at the end of the movie or have the characters describe it. I think, that way, both people that like to wonder and others that like to see it will be content.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
the only thing i see in the pic viz posted was the guy looking scared at her, as if something was happening to her…we do know she’s bleeding out her eyes and mouth. Maybe they dont really mutate, just go crazy or bleed out and die.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
yeah maybe. About the original idea. It’s really a new monster, that’s it. I think it makes it better to have a whole new monster and if it was a sequel, then Paramount would have invested more money. Moreover, we know JJ, he is not stupid to just “copy and paste” a monster. About the monster. I think is way more better to see the monster at the end. You know, to have the whole movie revolve around how these guys actually take some “footage” of “what is happening” (creating suspense) then…………… whoala: there it is.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
One off topic comment- the explosion (the first one, as seen in the first trailer) might look better if the glass of the buildings around it actually break.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I like the way Teso thinks, what if the secret ingrediant of Slusho is a living organism that actually forms a symbiotic relationship with its host (in this case humans) thus causing the “strange” effects so flaunted on the Slusho website.
The Tagruato drilling at the Chuai station unearths a preditory organism that feeds off of the parasite in Slusho. Its closest source of food? New York.
If the organisms are closely linked the dominant one may have adapted ways to lure its food into the open, like how some fish you bio-luminesence to lure in their prey but in a more horrendous way, it draws the “food” out of human bodies by somehow making them explode.
And just as one more wild speculation, does the monster actually have to be a huge animal of some sort? Slusho says the secret ingredient exists in “cloverfield” like groups. Perhaps the preditor is actually a bunch of smaller organisms together forming a large entity, like a Portugese Man-of-War, I know it might be a tad far fetched but may explain why there could be many small monsters as well as one large on.
Oh and as to why they feel the need to video tape the whole thing? Rob is hired by Slusho, and knows the trouble they are in, that’s why he is going to Japan.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
if you got to 1:00 in the new trailer will notice that the soilders head it pixelated out. i wonder why they did that if the video was being shot right then and there. this must mean that someone found the tape and they are either amking it into a movie for everyone to see or broadcasting it on televsion.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
The biginning of the trailer states that the camera was retrieved at incident site U.S. 477 to me that means that they had a chance to edit the contents of the camera, at least for the trailer, hiding the soldier’s face to protect his identity, I doubt it will be pixilated in the movie
November 20th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
“One off topic comment- the explosion (the first one, as seen in the first trailer) might look better if the glass of the buildings around it actually break.” lmao!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
It’s Cthuzillatron!! on a rampage cuz he wants a ham sammich !!
no really, I’m getting sick of reading about the speculation about Cthulu, when like steve-o said. Abrahms already clarified that it is NOT Cthulu or Zilla. Why can’t people just accept this ?
November 20th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Around minute 1:52 the scene with the horse carriage. Down the street from behind some buildings, it looks like some sort of face comes out of the shadows. It looks like it could be smoke or maybe a monster. Haven’t heard about it, wondering if other people have seen this.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Wow..amazing second trailer.
Who wants to come see this film with me??
Fuckin cant imagine what the monster looks like, but I’m sure itll be INTENSE
November 21st, 2007 at 12:22 am
http://bp3.blogger.com/_YPCf8JFgUdI/Rz4mMI4bG8I/AAAAAAAABKg/vy9svUosLJ8/s1600-h/pf_slide_clover8.jpg there is a girl in flowy pants … sooooo