Film

Cloverfield 2008

Directed by Matt Reeves

  • Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
  • 85 min
  • PG-13

Some thing has found us.

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.

ActionThrillerScience Fictionquarantinemonsterchaosskyscrapersupernaturalgiant monsteraliendisasterbreak-updestructionsurvival horrorkaiju

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Character

Contemporary, grave, unpretentious and earnest.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • earnestironic
  • character-ledplot-driven

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