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Call it the Zapruder Film of monster movies: right now the Internet is buzzing with discussion about what might have happened in the very last shot of Cloverfield, which opened yesterday.

I went to see Cloverfield yesterday afternoon, and last night I posted my review of it. It wasn’t long afterward that an anonymous reader made the following intriguing comment…

In case you are wondering where the monster came from in the closing scene where it is one month previous and they are at the beach if you look out over the ocean in the distance an object (presumably the monster) falls from the sky and right as it hits the water the camera turns to beths face. This is the only hint that the director said he put in there as to where the monster/creature came from. If you are going to see it again this weekend

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Let the word go forth: as of January 18th, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eight, America finally has a cinematic mega-monster to call its very own.

Which is exactly what J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias and Lost and the director of the upcoming Star Trek movie (and I also got to see a beautiful teaser for that before this started playing) intended when he set out to make Cloverfield. It was while in Japan that Abrams realized that his own country didn’t have a classic movie monster anything close to iconic as Godzilla is over there. And King Kong was too “adorable” as Abrams put it. He wanted a horrific force of nature that couldn’t possibly be tamed, only confronted in the hopes that it could be destroyed. So Abrams hooked up with longtime collaborators Drew Goddard and Matt Reeves and told them his ...

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I’ve just seen it and it looks… interesting. There’s yet to be a full-body shot of the creature but I think it’s safe to say that some of the “artist depictions” that made their way through the blogosphere during the past few days seem to have been fairly accurate. I don’t consider myself very much “spoiled” though ‘cuz the pics don’t give away too much apart from a vague silhouette and what looks to be lots of teeth. Consider me wonderfully tantalized, and I’m looking forward to seeing Cloverfield tomorrow that much more.

Oh, why am I not posting the pics here? Look, I’ve had enough “cease and desist” problems with Paramount’s parent company Viacom to last me a long time (even though I did quite well on that one). I am not going to tempt fate here, ‘cuz I understand that Paramount’s legal department is already having websites who’ve ...

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About to get in a bit of a nap (‘cuz you also gotta be wide-awake when you fry a turkey) but before doing that, courtesy of ComingSoon.net here is the new poster for Cloverfield:

And in case you’ve been following this movie and haven’t heard already (like I did from Phillip Arthur), there is a slow-motion close-up of the brief glimpse of the monster that we see in the new trailer (the full version of which you can watch in Quicktime here… and is that a lot of linkage to put together or what? :-)....

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No screencap ‘cuz I wouldn’t know what the heck to use for one. This movie is 2 months away and we still barely know anything about Cloverfield, the monster flick produced by J.J. Abrams. It’s even an open question as to whether Cloverfield will be the final title or not! Anyhoo, if you (like me) have been salivating for the least bit of morsel about this movie ever since that strange-as-heck teaser that ran with Transformers back in July…

Mash down here for the Cloverfield trailer in lots of Quicktime including high-definition!...

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