The Cloverfield Trailer
Nov 20th, 2007 by Bryan White
Last friday, a little more of the smoke cleared from the Cloverfield mystery that’s been going on since the summer when the myserious and oddly alluring teaser for the unnamed J.J. Abrams kaiju movie first showed.
The name has finally been confirmed. Is it Cloverfield? Is it 1-18-08? Is it Slusho? Monstrous? Colossus?
It’s Cloverfield. For reals.
The trailer ran over the weekend in front of Beowulf showing some of the stuff you’ve already seen and a whole lot more. There’s the briefest glimpse of the monster, a lot of mayhem and spooky shots of the empty streets of New York City. While I think that at one point the movie became a victim of its own hype, the trailer still looks fantastic and I’m eagerly awaiting it’s release on January 18th. Between this and John Rambo on the 25th of January, I’m hardly going to be able to contain myself during the beginning of the new year. This is quite the double whammy.
Drop by Apple’s trailer gallery for the Cloverfield trailer.
Good to see someone else psyched for this and Rambo. I’m trying to avoid all trailers personally. Makes the movie worth it in the end (even if it ends up sucking).
Dude. After that Rambo teaser they released, I nearly had to be physically restrained here at the office. If that teaser was any indication, John Rambo is going to be a bloodbath.
Cloverfield has the potential to be an ultra realistic view of a monster destroying the city putting the viewer right into it the action like a documentary style horror film. and with Abrams heading it up it could live up to the hype.
The original Rambo trailer was ridiculously great. Never thought I’d be that pumped for a Stallone flick again but something tells me I’ll be waiting for the unrated DVD of that one. As for Cloverfield, I’m still not sold. The Statue of Liberty’s head shot is cool but reeks of too much time spent watching PLANET OF THE APES. There’s a lot of running around and screaming but is this going to be like LOST where we’re teased with stuff for two hours for a payoff that could be really lame? And is it just me or do those things that are attacking the person behind the yellowish screen look like giant squirrels?
I thought those were soldiers restraining a struggling woman.