Yeah, we're a couple days late on this but a guy's got to sleep sometime and it's too good to pass up just because we didn't exactly get there promptly. It's the full trailer for Cloverfield, the giant monster invasion film from producer J.J. Abrams and it looks goooooooood. The influence on this seems to be far more kaiju than anything else, though it's done with a definite enough western edge that it ends up being a pretty unique fusion of styles. And did I mention it looks gooooooood?
I've looked at some sketches which people claim to have leaked on the internet, and the most plausible version of the monster I've seen has been described as a walking mutated whale. If this version is true, the monster is partly covered with mutated man-sized barnacles which detach and wreak some havoc of their own.
The reason I thought this one looked more "real" than the others is that it clicked with the glimpse we spot of the thing in the trailer.
Might be a red herring though...
I verified the fact that the whale concept drawing was fan art made for a contest, however, that doesn't mean it's out of the running. I don't see the bat, personally and the movement was going the wrong direction as far as I could tell (left to right, not the other way around, which if the wings were pointing the opposite direction seems weird).
There are sites that point to underwater themes (such as Slusho.jp and Tagruato.jp, both of which have been pretty much linked to Cloverfield from the start). Slusho! even has made some appearances on Heroes. Bizarre.
Anyway, take a look. Lots of mentions of wales, but also of giant turtles (apparently Tagruato has something to do with that...).
Could all be false leads, but who knows?
The hype over this film is beginning to get unreal.
I don't think that's his head, Swarez, but an elbow. And the head is the thing moving out of the picture at the top, but you just get to see the edge.
Have to admit though, I base that comment on the moving picture in the trailer. In the still you show I totally saw that bat, I didn't even need the drawn outline to point it out.
THe woman getting attacked and the smaller creatures also reminded me a little bit of Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow's original "The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" where the monster's saliva transformed people into smaller monsters.
Simon.
About the expanding woman being attacked in the trailer. Your talking about the short scene right after the man says "shut off that camera" right?
It seemed to me that those weren't monsters attacking the girl but actually a Hazmat team dragging her away. Which kinda reminds me of The Host now that I think about it.
i don't get it. why is everyone discussing a trailer that's so badly shot? that's why you don't see a thing. :)
I like the idea of a hand-held short monster movie -- I can't help but wonder if the creation of this film was inspired by that 30s bit in SIGNS where the alien shows up at the birthday party -- but I can't say this one generates too much enthusiasm in me. Thank god it's NOT being directed by J.J. Abrams, as his Mission Impossible movie was more than a little embarrassing and his Star Trek Reboot is shaping up to be even more shame-inducing.
I thought it was men in hazmat suits too but there was a weird noise that they make right before the camera cuts, a gurgling noise. They do look like Hazmat people though. That I think I'm basing the info on the CHUD report of what happens in the trailer before the trailer appeared. I keep rewatching the segment and I see that the gurgling noise comes right when the "hazmat" shadow on the right bends his head forward towards the woman and she blows up. I think he's either biting her or doing something to her and that makes me think its a monster and not a hazmat guy because unless he shot her with something, I don't see why she'd blow up like Violet Beauregard.
Yeah, the whole "its a lion/its alive" thing is probably the least important or definite thing. I like the guys that made fun of it on youtube by having one person so "its a lion its huge" and someone say, "did you just say it's a lion it's huge or it's a live and it's huge?" and the person just replies "itsalioisuuuge" and keeps slurring the line.
Yeah, I thought MI3 was pretty fun and this is from someone that didn't like one or two that much.
I think there is a pretty simple explanation of that scene. There has obviously been some sort of infection going around after the monsters hit and the woman is either infected or impregnated and is bursting with little baby monsters. The area is a quarantine zone and that's the reason for the hazmat suits.
I think you are over thinking this whole thing. It's only a monster film, I doubt it will be anything deeper than that.
I watched the trailer, I did not see anything to get excited about. It looks ok but thats it.
AND... if that is the way most of the movie is going to be shot (Blair Witch style) then its something to not look forward to.
Sorry, but right now it looks like just an american rehash of a Godzilla take off, we will see !!
Those two websites are so full of clues as to what's going on, that I'm sure it's got nothing to do with Lovecraft.
Because the Cuthulu mythos are deep. I would love to see a big budget Cuthulu film but I think it would serve better as a period horror movie rather than a monster on a rampage in NY. That would be kind of pointless wouldn't it?
I've seen it three times and I still don't see a woman inflating. Besides it's a back-lit shot with silhouettes on a curtain -- moving closer to the light source by even a few inches will make your silhouette expand! Seriously, monsters that make you inflate?
Was The Mist any good? I kinda want to see it just because I really dig that whole "There' somethingout there" vibe even though I know what that something is (I wish they hadn't spoiled it by showing the bugs in the trailer)
It is good. It took a while to get going, but once it got going, it was pretty solid.