What a way to bring in the new year! If Cloverfield is any indication to what this year will bring for movies, I’m really looking forward to it!
Cloverfield follows a group of friends who are caught up in an attack of an unidentified beast on New York. We follow their misfortune through one of the character’s hand held camcorder. While this makes for a shaky visual experience, I feel that it really helps immerse the viewer in story. Now I’m not normally scared during a movie, but for Cloverfield, the camera work really left me scared during the movie. Often times, I caught myself trying to crane my neck around in a vain attempt to try to see what was going on!
Though I’ve never read any of the Cthulhu Mythos, I was hoping that Cloverfield was going to be about Cthulhu. But alas, it would appear it is not. I am hoping with the way the movie was told and how it ended, that there will be more movies about this story/universe. Only time will tell!