Cloverfield (2008)
The Monster
The film follows five young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city. What’s great about Cloverfield is not necessarily what they show of the monster, but what isn’t shown. For the first half of the film you see pieces of buildings flying and then a giant tale smashing the Brooklyn Bridge, and leg here and there and then even the parasites falling off the massive creature creating almost as much havoc and mayhem as the gigantic creature destroying the city. When the full force of the creature is finally exposed near the end, it is utterly terrifying. Not Godzilla, and not the T-Rex on a rampage in San Diego, but certainly a new vile creature all on it’s own.
Personally I'd forget the cannoli and grab a gun....lots of them.
Absolutely freaking awesome monster. The thing is like indestructible and completely ruthless. When it jumps hundred of feet into the air to down the helicopter… Damn!!!!! Loved the movie!
The movie was so much better than I could have hoped for. I think I’m going to repost the review, it’s been a moon.
Cloverfield was one of my favorite movies of 2008 and it’s even better now that I can skip the intro and get right to when the monster starts attacking. Impressive as hell, terrifying…they did a really good job. I am DYING for a sequel, being as this is the only monster movie we have now (unless someone attempts to remake The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms).
I got initially slammed for liking this movie so much, but it seems like it has a pretty strong following now, which makes me want to make everyone else watch it.
I thought this munster was even cooler because you only saw it properly about 3 times, and they were all brief. When you didn’t see it tearing shit up it was tearing shit up off-screen, awesome.
The monster from Koran flick ‘The Host’ is AMAZING, you should totally do a write-up on that too. It’s like a running fish.
This monster was handled perfectly. That’s why the first person camera worked so well for this film: we only saw what the characters saw, making that much more powerful and terrifying.
And you nailed it. They remembered that sometimes less is more. I’ve always thought your imagination is far scarier than anything you could put onscreen. Besides when you finally do get to see the full scale of the monster the payoff is really worth it.