Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a monster horror film directed in 2008 by Matt Reeves. The story is about a group of 6 friends in New York attending an overnight party while a gigantic monster attacks the city. They are blown away in a survive mission
14 December 1997, Burbank, California, USA
18 December 1980, Portales, New Mexico, USA
4 January 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 April 1979, Southampton, Ontario, Canada
July 14, 2011
Thanks primarily to its inventive shooting style, Cloverfield is a terrifically frightening film.
January 22, 2008
The fleeting, incomplete glimpses of the monster early on prove the old dictum of B-movie auteur Val Lewton that a momentary image can have greater impact than a prolonged one.
January 29, 2008
It's like Abrams and crew have looked into the void and thought: the only thing worse than Armageddon is if no one witnessing it is hot.
September 30, 2014
Cloverfield should be best appreciated for throwing down the gauntlet for a new cinematic representation of mass destruction and, thus, the way we see ourselves seeing our worst fears.
January 22, 2008
I had a lot of fun with this inside-out take on the monster movie.
May 15, 2014
Smart, scary and features a creative twist on the genre thanks to its unique found-film perspective.
January 18, 2008
Maybe we now live in a world where we record the moment first and feel it later. If that's the case, Cloverfield leaves us waiting to feel.
February 16, 2013
Imagine if somebody came up to you, grabbed your head, and jiggled it around for 80 minutes. Now imagine they did that while you were trying to watch a movie about a monster attacking New York City.
January 22, 2008
Under the modern flummery, behind the faux amateurism and the handheld shudder, Cloverfield is a vastly old-fashioned piece of work, creaking with hilarious contrivance.
October 14, 2012
So what is Cloverfield? The best Godzilla film never made? A re-invention of the monster movie genre? You could certainly argue both points: it feels like every creature feature you ever saw, but seen from a totally fresh point of view.
March 18, 2016
The characters are fleshed out participants in the mayhem, not merely disposable vessels designed to stand in all the right places when buildings come crashing down.
January 22, 2008
The mechanism is the message in Cloverfield, a movie so aluminum-sleek, ultra-portable, and itsy-bitsy sexy, it's amazing Steve Jobs didn't pull it out of an envelope at Macworld.
