By Ahmad Childress |
We like monster movies here. Not the J-Horror remake kind, the full blown grand scale kind that Toho made famous with the Godzilla franchise. We also like a good mystery and the new movie Cloverfield has us more than intrigued.
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The movie has three of five of our great monster movie criteria.
Building sized monster on the loose - Check
Man sized monsters (to get in those hard to reach areas) - Check
Historic landmarks getting destroyed - Double Check
Guy in a rubber suit suspended by (visible) cables - No Check
Leather clad talking Apes from the future - Whoops, wrong genre
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman.
Synopsis: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
Producer J.J. Abrams (kneeling, left), director Matt Reeves (standing, center) and producer Bryan Burk (kneeling, right) on the set of “Cloverfield.”
A decapitated Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor.
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