cloverfield – Alternative Press Magazine https://www.altpress.com Rock On! Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:47:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.altpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/24/attachment-alt-favi-32x32.png?t=1697612868 cloverfield – Alternative Press Magazine https://www.altpress.com 32 32 10 horror movie plot twists no one ever saw coming https://www.altpress.com/best-horror-movie-plot-twists/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:55:04 +0000 From the stories of O. Henry to The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, the plot twist has long been a staple of storytelling. In horror movies, twists can either heighten the scares or provide an exit out of a lousy script. In the hands of a hack, a twist is merely a cheap shot. In the hands of a master, a twist can be a hammer blow to the psyche. Whether you love them or hate them, they’re an unavoidable part of the genre.

Below we’ve compiled a list of 10 of the most unexpected, most terrifying plot twists in the history of horror cinema. Be warned, there’s nothing but spoilers from here on. 

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High Tension

The 2003 French thriller High Tension (Haute Tension) has one of the most shocking and divisive twists ever.  In the film, friends Alex (Maïwenn Besco) and Marie (Cécile de France) are on the run from a relentless serial killer presumed to be a murderous delivery man. However, a gruesome sequence in the film’s final act upends the plot when an insane Marie is revealed to be the real killer.

The Cabin In The Woods

Screenwriter Drew Goddard, best known for scripting the found footage monster movie Cloverfield, made his directorial debut with 2011’s The Cabin In The Woods. In a seemingly self-aware homage to backwoods horror classics such as The Evil Dead, a group of college kids vacationing at a deserted cabin accidentally resurrect a sinister family of zombies. In the first of two twists, a series of cutaways to a mysterious lab reveals that the students are the unwitting participants in some kind of experiment. As The Cabin In The Woods approaches its climax, the plot unexpectedly careens into Lovecraftian territory when the experiment is revealed to be a ritual designed to hold ancient, malevolent gods at bay. 

Angel Heart

Based on William Hjortsberg’s 1978 novel Falling Angel, Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, stars Mickey Rourke as hardboiled private investigator Harry Angel. When Angel is hired by the enigmatic Louis Cyphere (Robert De Niro) to track down a missing crooner named Johnny Favorite, he finds himself drawn into a web of murder and black magic. As witnesses who may hold the key to Favorite’s whereabouts begin to turn up dead, Angel fears he may be next. In a shocking turn, the dogged gumshoe stumbles across a clue that reveals that he is the man he’s been tracking all along, and Louis Cyphere (Lucifer) is the devil who’s come to collect Favorite’s soul.

The Mist


One of the more effective adaptations of author Stephen King’s work, The Mist, based on the 1980 novella of the same name, contains one of the most gut-wrenching twist endings in horror history. Closely following the events of King’s story, Frank Darabont’s adaptation stars Thomas Jane as David Drayton, a father trapped along with his young son (Nathan Gamble) and a group of survivors, in a supermarket by a mysterious mist filled with man-eating, transdimensional monsters. As the trapped shoppers are killed off by the creatures, Drayton, his son, school teacher Amanda Dunfrey (Lauren Holden) and two others make a bid for escape. Realizing that death is certain, the survivors decide to end their lives. Down to his last four bullets, Drayton kills the others, including his son, and awaits his fate. In a devastating twist, the military, which has gained control of the situation arrives seconds too late.

Saw

Although later installments of the franchise lapsed into pointless, Rube Goldberg-esque exercises in torture porn, James Wan’s original 2004 shocker Saw was one of the most innovative entries in early 2000s genre cinema. Saw’s villain, the elusive trickster John Kramer aka. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has since become a horror icon, but his first appearance stemmed from an unforgettable twist. The revelation that the presumably dead man on the floor is the architect of the film’s diabolical plot remains the Saw series’ highpoint.

The Ring

Based on the terrifying Japanese cult horror film Ringu, The Ring directed by Gore Verbinski is a remake that works. In the 2002 film, Naomi Watts stars as Rachel Keller, a journalist who stumbles upon the truth behind an urban legend concerning a videotape bearing a deadly curse. The tape, which contains a series of surreal and disturbing images, promises death to anyone who views it within seven days. The story becomes personal for Keller when her young son Aidan (David Dorfman) watches the tape. Keller soon discovers that the tape is a psychic imprint left behind by a murdered child named Samara Morgan (Daveigh Chase). Believing that freeing Samara will lift the curse, Keller releases the dead child from her watery crypt. Here, The Ring destroys a tried-and-true cliché of horror movie hauntings when the slightly psychic Aidan tells his mother “You weren’t supposed to help her.” Chilling.

Sleepaway Camp

A criminally underrated ‘80s slasher flick, Sleepaway Camp is much more than just another Friday the 13th rip-off. Released in 1983, the film stars Felissa Rose as Angela Baker, a shy and withdrawn girl sent to live with her eccentric aunt following the deaths of her father and twin brother Peter in a boating accident. Finally permitted to go to summer camp with her protective cousin Ricky (Jonathan Tierstan), a fragile Angela is a prime target for bullies. One by one, Angela’s tormentors die under mysterious circumstances. Although Angela is indeed revealed as the killer, Sleepaway Camp’s true twist is the revelation that it was Angela who died in the boating act, and the character we’ve followed throughout the film is actually her brother Peter groomed by their aunt to take Angela’s place. However, mere words don’t do this twist justice. Sleepaway Camp’s climax must be seen to be believed.

Night Of The Living Dead

One of the greatest horror movies of the last half of the 20th century, George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night Of The Living Dead is ground zero for the flesh-eating zombie subgenre. Taking place over the course of a single night, Romero’s film concentrates on a group of survivors taking refuge from a plague of the undead in a lonely farmhouse. In the end, however, they prove far more dangerous to each than the flesheaters, as a petty struggle for dominance dooms them to their horrible fate. The tragic ending is a crusher. Heroic Ben (Duane Jones), the lone survivor of the zombie siege is mistaken for a ghoul and killed by a trigger-happy posse of zombie hunters.

The Sixth Sense

Over two decades since its release, The Sixth Sense remains filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan’s best and most effective horror film. Haley Joel Osment stars as a Cole Sear, a sensitive little boy with the uncanny ability to see the dead. As his frightening gift begins to take an emotional toll on Cole and his mother (Toni Collette), child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) arrives on the scene to aid the child with his unusual problem. As the film concludes, Cole comes to grips with his power as a tool to relieve the suffering of the deceased and Malcolm Crowe is revealed to have himself been a ghost all along. 

Psycho

Based on Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel of the same name which itself was loosely based on the real-life story of murderer Ed Gein, Psycho is a landmark of the horror genre. Long before the term “spoiler” entered the pop culture lexicon, Alfred Hitchock, cinema’s celebrated master of suspense, expressly forbade audiences to reveal Psycho’s now legendary ending. Forbidding theater owners to allow late entry into the movie, Hitchcock successfully preserved one of the greatest shock endings in cinema history. Although even casual fans are no doubt aware that meek and mild motel owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) murders in the guise of his dead mother, the revelation surely came as a terrifying surprise to audiences in 1960. 

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20 modern horror classics so original, they’ll never need a remake https://www.altpress.com/best-original-horror-movies/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:55:01 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/best-original-horror-movies/ Take a random sampling of horror movie fans, ask them what their No. 1 complaint about the genre is and odds are they’ll all answer: too many remakes. As Hollywood continues to strip mine the past for profit, horrorphiles are left asking, “Where has all the originality gone?” Fear not: It’s not all bad news on the fright film front.

Despite all the headline-grabbing, big-budget rehashes, horror movies are in the midst of a quiet revolution as a diverse, new generation of filmmakers are boldly taking the genre into fierce, frightening and wholly unexplored territory. What follows are 20 of the most innovative horror movies of the last decade. These future classics will never need a remake.

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Trollhunter

Norwegian folklore comes to life in André Øvredal’s found-footage thriller Trollhunter. Shot in the forests of Western Norway, the film is told through the eyes of a group of student filmmakers attempting to make a documentary about an alleged bear poacher. To their amazement, the would-be documentarians discover their subject, a reclusive backwoodsman named Hans (Otto Jespersen), is actually on the trail of much bigger game. Filled with sly wit and moments of unexpected intensity, Trollhunter is the most effective found-footage horror film since Cloverfield.

The Void

Canadian filmmakers Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, best known for their 2011 horror-comedy Father’s Day, abandon their usual blend of scares and laughs for hardcore, cosmic horror in The Void. A stunning fusion of Lovecraftian themes and ’80s style, the film stars Aaron Poole as Daniel Carter, a small-town lawman trapped with a band of survivors in a hospital under siege by a mysterious horde of hooded cultists and bizarre, misshapen monsters. Featuring spectacular creature effects reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Void is a refreshingly CGI-free fear fest sure to please even the most hardcore horror fans.

Rubber

Rubber is one of those rare films that defies all description, but we’ll give it a shot. Directed by French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, Rubber is the story of Robert, a sentient automobile tire with telekinetic powers that goes on a murder spree in a small desert town in California. Combining comedy, horror and existential philosophy, this film is a mind-bending, fourth-wall-breaking blend of surrealism and satire that must be experienced to be appreciated. 

Pontypool

Language turns deadly in Bruce McDonald’s brilliant inversion of the zombie apocalypse subgenre, Pontypool. Trapped in their small, Ontario radio station by a growing throng of cannibalistic “rioters,” shock jock Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) and producer Laurel-Ann (Georgina Reilly) fight for survival against a linguistic virus. Featuring a truly original premise, Pontypool is a frightening and thought-provoking take on the viral/zombie film that incorporates the paranoia of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers into the well-worn subgenre.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Fusing elements of German expressionist silent film and spaghetti Westerns, Iranian-American writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is the best and purest distillation of the vampire myth on film in decades. Set in a ramshackle Iranian ghost town, the film stars Sheila Vand as The Girl, a vampire vigilante with a taste for the blood of evildoers. Filmed in lush black and white, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night evokes classic horror cinema while removing one of its most powerful tropes from the context and setting of Western European legend.

The Babadook

The most frightening indictment of parenthood since David Lynch’s Eraserhead, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook explores the ambivalence of maternal instinct as both a blessing and a nightmare. The film stars Essie Davis as Amelia Vanek, a widowed mother raising her troubled 6-year-old son Sam (Noah Wiseman) alone. When Sam discovers a mysterious children’s storybook, he and Amelia unleash a supernatural force that will threaten their bond as parent and child as well as their lives. Featuring one of the most interesting movie monsters in years, The Babadook is a starkly uncompromising horror film.  

The Conjuring

Based loosely on an allegedly real haunting investigated by legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring helped reignite Hollywood’s interest in the genre as a moneymaker and launched a horror-based cinematic universe of sequels and related films to rival the comic and sci-fi juggernauts of Marvel and Star Wars. With the first film in the ever-expanding franchise, director James Wan, screenwriter siblings Chad and Carey Hayes and stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson crafted the template for mainstream horror in the 21st century.

The Cabin In The Woods

What begins as a seemingly stereotypical slasher flick morphs into something far more sinister in director Drew Goddard’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink horror epic The Cabin In The Woods. With callbacks to nearly every horror film and monster flick ever made, its innovative premise taps the primal roots of Lovecraftian cosmic horror with a twist of conspiracy. Co-written by Goddard and fan-favorite Joss Whedon, The Cabin In The Woods is both a celebration and a pointed critique of modern horror movie tropes and cliches that are, in turn, both wickedly funny and frightening. 

The Girl With All The Gifts

Humanity’s last hope hinges on a unique young girl in the British science-fiction horror thriller The Girl With All The Gifts. In a dystopian future overrun with hungries—ordinary people transformed into mindless, flesh-eating zombies by an insidious fungal parasite—a group of scientists experiments with second-generation infected children who, despite their craving for human flesh, retain their mental faculties. Much like Richard Matheson’s acclaimed 1954 vampire novel I Am Legend, this unique twist on the zombie subgenre presents a world where humanity as we know it is supplanted by a new species. A thought-provoking film, The Girl With All The Gifts poses some difficult questions about the ethics of modern science and the nature of human evolution.    

Annihilation

Following a meteor strike, a cellular biologist (Natalie Portman) is recruited to lead a scientific expedition into an expanding zone of reality-bending mutation in Annihilation. Written and directed by Alex Garland, best known for scripting 2002’s 28 Days Later, Annihilation is a beautiful and surreal film that, in the hands of a lesser cast and crew, could have easily descended into ’80s SF action cliches à la Predator. Instead, Garland delivers a film that is as heavy in thematic and emotional weight as it is in mind-boggling special effects.

Mandy

Mandy has virtually everything a hardcore horror fan could ask for: over-the-top gore, a Manson-esque cult of hippie fanatics, demon bikers deranged by tainted LSD, psychedelic visuals, a pasta-puking goblin and, best of all, Nicolas Cage going absolutely batshit for an hour solid. Director Panos Cosmatos takes a simple story of revenge and elevates it to operatic proportions smashing David Lynch’s patented surrealism with Sam Raimi’s relentless breakneck kinetics. Cage is a man possessed in his most unhinged role ever.

A Quiet Place

A family is caught in a silent battle for survival when Earth’s population is annihilated by hostile, extraterrestrial entities in A Quiet Place. Directed by John Krasinski (who also stars in the film alongside his wife, actress Emily Blunt), this 2018 sci-fi survival thriller features a unique alien threat—blind, vaguely humanoid creatures with impenetrable armor who, thanks to incredibly acute hearing, hunt through sound. A showcase of Krasinski’s inspired direction, A Quiet Place correctly maintains focus on its characters while never allowing its impressive special effects to overshadow its very human story.

It Comes At Night

After a highly contagious, deadly disease sweeps the globe, two families of survivors strike an uneasy alliance in A24’s It Comes At Night. Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, It Comes At Night is a claustrophobic, psychological horror film where the only monsters are those which dwell in the human heart. As the characters speed toward their fates, the line between good and evil disappears, with paranoia driving their thoughts and actions. A welcome subversion of traditional post-apocalyptic horror conventions, It Comes At Night is not for those who expect heroes or happy endings.

Get Out

Comic genius and lifelong horror fan Jordan Peele uses the genre to skewer racism in his Oscar-winning directorial debut Get Out. Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington, a young African American man anxious about an impending visit with his white girlfriend Rose’s (Allison William) wealthy parents. Although he expects to experience a degree of discomfort in their rural upstate New York community, he discovers that something truly insidious lies beneath its welcoming veneer. With Get Out, Peele establishes himself as a master of the genre and an excellent director. Get Out is a near-perfect blend of scares, laughs and razor-sharp social commentary.

Bird Box

Based on Josh Malerman’s 2014 novel of the same name, 2018’s Bird Box is yet another effective entry in the post-apocalyptic horror subgenre. Thematically similar to A Quiet Place, which was released the same year, Bird Box begins with great swaths of the planet’s population driven to suicide by supernatural entities whose very appearance inspires madness. Picking up the story five years later, Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock) and her children continue to survive, avoiding the entities’ malevolent gaze by wearing blindfolds as they desperately search for sanctuary in an increasingly dangerous world. A major hit for Netflix, Bird Box became a phenomenon among genre fans despite a mixed critical reception.  

It Follows

The horror genre relies on a handful of archetypes and is famous for beating many of its most popular tropes into the ground. So when a film comes along with a premise that defies all conventions, that’s a reason for fans to celebrate. It Follows is one of those films. A shocking thriller that can stylistically best be compared to the J-horror classic Ringu, the film stars Maika Monroe as Jay Height, a young woman who has a sexual encounter that releases a deadly curse in the form of a ghostly, shape-changing entity. Fiercely original, frightening and imbued with the twisted logic of a nightmare, It Follows is one of the best horror films of the decade.

The Witch

An instant classic and a cornerstone of the folk-horror revival, Robert Eggers’ period horror opus The Witch is a relentlessly grim film that works its way into your subconscious and never lets go. Set in 17th-century New England, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin, the eldest child of exiled English settlers William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie), who, along with her siblings Mercy, Jonas and baby brother Caleb, are forging a new life on the edge of the wilderness. When Caleb mysteriously disappears under Thomasin’s watch, the family begins to unravel, with an unexpected villain pulling the strings. A spiritual successor to films such as The Blood On Satan’s Claw and Witchfinder General, The Witch brings horror back to its primal roots.

The Lighthouse

Eggers follows up his auspicious directorial debut The Witch with yet another critical horror hit. The Lighthouse stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers stranded by a ferocious storm that delays the arrival of their replacements. Running low on provisions, they slowly go mad. Replete with allusions to literature and myth, The Lighthouse is a claustrophobic masterpiece of psychological terror that demands multiple viewings.

Hereditary

Filmmaker Ari Aster’s directorial debut Hereditary is a stirring drama about a family in turmoil that just so happens to be one of the most terrifying films of all time. In fact, it’s Aster’s commitment to the non-horror aspects of the script that makes Hereditary work as brilliantly as it does. Toni Collette stars as Annie Graham, a respected artist struggling to keep her family, her marriage and her sanity intact in the wake of her notoriously secretive mother’s death. Dealing with death, grief and mental illness, Graham discovers even darker forces are at work in her life. Whether the film lives up to the hype of being “this generation’s Exorcist is debatable, but Hereditary nonetheless ranks among the best horror films of the last 20 years. Hyperbole aside, it’s a masterpiece.

Midsommar

Lauded as having made this generation’s Exorcist with his terrifying debut Hereditary, Aster returns with a film that may very well be this generation’s answer to the cult folk-horror favorite The Wicker Man with his second feature Midsommar. Florence Pugh stars as Dani Ardor, an emotionally fragile young woman coping with the murder-suicide of her sister and parents. She joins her increasingly distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor), a grad student studying anthropology, and his friends on a research trip to a 90-year midsummer pagan festival in a remote Swedish Village. The trip, arranged by their friend Pelle, a native of the village, slowly turns into a nightmare for all as the pagan revelers reveal their true intent. Much like Aster’s Hereditary, Midsommar is a character-driven slow burn that takes its time to build a hallucinatory atmosphere of dread. 

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Everything coming to and leaving Netflix in November https://www.altpress.com/coming-leaving-netflix-november-2018/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:46:59 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/coming-leaving-netflix-november-2018/ We recently found out everything coming to and leaving Hulu, and now we finally got a glimpse at what to expect from Netflix.

We’re getting classic thrillers such as Cloverfield plus Doctor Strange and plenty of Netflix originals (including House Of Cards), so it looks we won’t be leaving our couches for a while. Check out the full list below, according to People.

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Available on Netflix Nov. 1

Angela’s Christmas (Netflix original)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bring It On: In It to Win It
Cape Fear
Children Of Men
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Cloverfield
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Doctor Strange
Fair Game – Director’s Cut
Follow This: Part 3 (original)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Good Will Hunting
Jet Li’s Fearless
Julie & Julia
Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles: Pt. 1
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow
Planet Hulk
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Sex And The City: The Movie
Sixteen Candles
Stink!
The English Patient
The Judgement (original)
The Untold Tales Of Armistead Maupin
The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep
Transcendence
Vaya

Available Nov. 2

Brainchild (original)
House Of Cards – Season 6 (original)
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man In Black (original)
The Holiday Calendar (Netflix film)
The Other Side Of The Wind (Netflix film)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix film)
Trolls: The Beat Goes On! – Season 4 (original)

Available Nov. 3

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil

Available Nov. 4

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (Original streaming Every Sunday beginning Oct. 28)

Available Nov. 5

Homecoming – Season 1
John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons (original)

Available Nov. 7

Into The Forest

Available Nov. 8

The Sea Of Trees

Available Nov. 9

Beat Bugs –  Season 3 (original)
La Reina del Flow (original)
Medal Of Honor (original)
Outlaw King (original)
Spirit Riding Free – Season 7 (original)
Super Drags (original)
The Great British Baking Show – Collection 6 (original)
Treehouse Detectives – Season 2 (original)
Westside – (original)

Available Nov. 12

Green Room

Available Nov. 13

Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin (original)
Oh My Ghost (original)
Warrior (original)

Available Nov. 15

May The Devil Take You (Netflix film)
The Crew (Netflix film)

Available Nov. 16

Cam (Netflix film)
Narcos: Mexico (original)
Ponysitters Club – Season 2 (original)
Prince Of Peoria (original)
She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power (original)
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (Netflix film)
The Break-Up
The Kominsky Method (original)
The Princess Switch (Netflix film)

Available Nov. 18

The Pixar Story

Available Nov. 19

The Last Kingdom – Season 3 (original)

Available Nov. 20

Kulipari: Dream Walker (original)
Motown Magic (original)
Sabrina (Netflix film)
The Final Table (original)
Trevor Noah: Son Of Patricia (original)

Available Nov. 21

The Tribe (Netflix film)

Available Nov. 22

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet (original)
The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix film)

Available Nov. 23

Frontier – Season 3 (original)
Fugitiva (original)
Sick Note (original)
Sick Note – Season 2 (original)
To Build Or Not To Build – Season 2

Available Nov. 25

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Best Gift Ever

Available Nov. 27

Bumping Mics With Jeff Ross & Dave Attel (original)

Available Nov. 29

Pocoyo – Season 4

Available Nov. 30

1983 (original)
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (original film)
Baby (original)
Death By Magic (original)
F Is For Family – Season 3 (original)
Happy as Lazzaro (original)
Rajma Chawal (original film)
Spy Kids: Mission Critical – Season 2 (original)
The World Is Yours (original film)
Tiempo compartido (original film)

Leaving Netflix Nov. 1

Amelie
Crossfire
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions 2
Cruel Intentions 3
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Oculus
Phenomenon
Run To Me
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball
Steel Magnolias
The Invasion
The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
The Lazarus Effect
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Reader
Up In The Air

Leaving Nov. 12

Anna Karenina

Leaving Nov. 16

Paddington

Leaving Nov. 17

Undercover Boss – Seasons 1-5

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‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ will stream on Netflix right after the Super Bowl https://www.altpress.com/netflix_streams_the_cloverfield_paradox/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 07:11:00 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/netflix_streams_the_cloverfield_paradox/ [Photo by: Netflix/YouTube]

Netflix shocked Super Bowl viewers Sunday night by not only dropping The Cloverfield Paradox trailer, but surprising them with a very special announcement in regards to the highly-anticipated film.

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The streaming service confirmed the movie would be available for streaming on Netflix as soon as the game ends, competing with the coveted post-game television slot that NBC's This Is Us holds.

The new Netflix film is set as a sequel to 2008's Cloverfield and 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane. Produced by J.J. Abrams, the cast includes Daniel Brühl, Roger Davies, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O'Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, and Zhang Ziyi.

“In the near future, a group of international astronauts on a space station are working to solve a massive energy crisis on Earth. The experimental technology aboard the station has an unexpected result, leaving the team isolated and fighting for their survival,” reads a description from Netflix.

Watch the trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox below:

Will you be watching the new Cloverfield sequel following the big game? Let us know in the comments below!

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Another secret ‘Cloverfield’ movie reportedly on its way https://www.altpress.com/another_secret_cloverfield_movie_reportedly_on_its_way/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:29:00 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/another_secret_cloverfield_movie_reportedly_on_its_way/ In Jan. of this year, a secret sequel to the found footage, sci-fi/horror flick Cloverfield was spontaneously announced. Now, reports have surfaced that the next movie in the Cloverfield universe will be JJ Abrams' God Particle, to release in late February. 

Not only that—but the Wrap also reports that Paramount and Abrams hope to release a Cloverfield sequel each year.

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The news comes from “an insider familiar with the project,” according to the Wrap. Paramount and Abrams’ company Bad Robot did not offer any comment, with the former declining comment and the latter not answering requests for comment.

Slated to release Feb. 24, footage of God Particle is expected to be shown to reporters on Thursday in New York City. A similar event in Los Angeles will follow on Nov. 2.

Directed by Julius Onah and produced by JJ Abrams, God Particle seems to be another creepy, extraterrestrial film in which, as IMDB states, “A shocking discovery forces a team of astronauts aboard a space station to fight for survival while their reality has been altered.”

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It was first hinted that God Particle would be another part of the Cloverfield anthology when a sound bite from the International Space Station was heard in viral marketing for 10 Cloverfield Lane, which was the secret sequel announced this January. 10 Cloverfield Lane starred John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. (fun fact: who also starred in Green Day's Broadway musical for American Idiot).

Like God Particle, it was known that 10 Cloverfield Lane was being made for a while prior to its officially announcement as part of the Cloverfield series. The original title was The Cellar And Valencia, which told the story of a woman who wakes in a cellar with a man claiming that she cannot leave because something unfathomable is occurring outside (enter: Cloverfield).

The original found footage style Cloverfield released in 2008.

What do you think? Is God Particle the next Cloverfield movie? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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Watch new ‘Cloverfield’ sequel trailer https://www.altpress.com/watch_new_cloverfield_sequel_trailer/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:50:00 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/watch_new_cloverfield_sequel_trailer/ The highly anticipated followup to J.J. Abrams' 2008 film Cloverfield has released a second trailer. This new trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane aired last night during the Super Bowl, and teases the film's monster. You can check out the new trailer via Paramount Pictures below.

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The new movie is essentially a sequel, a “blood relative,” to the 2008 Cloverfield— either taking place in the same universe or a part of the possible anthology series.

The movie stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr. — known for his lead role as Jesus of Suburbia in Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway.

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Secret ‘Cloverfield’ sequel announced—watch trailer https://www.altpress.com/secret_cloverfield_sequel_announcedwatch_trailer/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:25:00 +0000 https://www.altpress.com/secret_cloverfield_sequel_announcedwatch_trailer/ J.J. Abrams has surprised audiences with a secret, new movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane, which is slated to drop on March 11— in less than two months. Check out the trailer from Paramount Pictures below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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The trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane premiered during the first screenings of 13 Hours. The new movie is essentially a sequel, a “blood relative,” to the 2008 Cloverfield— either taking place in the same universe or a part of the possible anthology series.

The movie stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr. — known for his lead role as Jesus of Suburbia in Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway.

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It was known that a film was being made, but no one knew of the connection to Cloverfield. 10 Cloverfield Lane was originally titled The Cellar And Valencia, telling the story a woman who wakes in a cellar with a man claiming that she cannot leave because something unfathomable is occurring outside, most likely where the Cloverfield aspect comes into play.

10 Cloverfield Lane is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle.

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