Cloverfield

 Cloverfield 2008

• Director: Matt Reeves
• Seen by this director: Homicide Life on the Streets
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, TJ Miller, Michael Stahl-Davide, Odette Annabel
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Mike Vogel – The Help, Rumour Has It, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
• Lizzy Caplan – 127 Hours
• TJ Miller – Ready Player One
• Why? It seems it’s a kind of cult film?
• Seen: 7 November 2021      

       Manhattan is attacked by an enormous monster. Mass destruction and panic ensue.

       The whole thing is filmed by an amateur who had been asked to film the guests at a party.

       In the chaos, one of them is killed. A few others set off to rescue a friend, pursued by monster and soldiers trying to evacuate then bomb Manhattan.

       A standard monster-attacks-city B-film? You could say that. But then again you could say that it’s a masterpiece of a Blair Witch-genre hand-held camera really scary and extremely realistic film.

       Wow. 

4 * of 5.