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{{quote| ''"My name is Robert Hawkins... Approximately seven hours ago, some... thing attacked the city. I don't know what it is. If you found this tape, I mean if you're watching this right now, then you probably know more about it than I do."''}}

A monster movie released in 2008 by ''[[Lost]]'' creator [[JJ Abrams]], and directed by Matt Reeves. ''Cloverfield'' follows a group of New Yorkers as they attempt to rescue the girlfriend of protagonist Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David, ''[[The Black Donnellys]]'') during an attack by a massive building-sized creature. The film is seen through the perspective of Hudson "Hud" Platt, Rob's friend, who is [[In Universe Camera|carrying around a camcorder throughout the film documenting the events]].

A monster movie released in 2008 by ''[[Lost]]'' creator [[JJ Abrams]], and directed by Matt Reeves. ''Cloverfield'' follows a group of New Yorkers as they attempt to rescue the girlfriend of protagonist Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David, ''[[The Black Donnellys]]'') during an attack by a massive building-sized creature. The film is seen through the perspective of Hudson "Hud" Platt, Rob's friend, who is [[In-Universe Camera|carrying around a camcorder throughout the film documenting the events]].

The movie was shot fairly cheaply, for a budget of roughly [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=cloverfield.htm $25 million]. The movie is seen through a point-of-view perspective, and features homages to older movies (e.g., the Statue of Liberty's head rolling down a Manhattan street was inspired by a poster for John Carpenter's ''[[Escape From New York]]'').

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* [[How We Got Here]]: Not entirely. Between filming the events, we see a previous recording of Rob and Elizabeth waking up after sleeping together the previous night and going to Coney Island. As we learned later on, Rob totally ignored Elizabeth after that day and was planning to leave to Japan for his new job. The movie and the recording ends with them on a ferris wheel looking towards the ocean {{spoiler|where something has fallen into it}}.

* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: Lily tells Hud and Jason about Rob and Beth sleeping together and then makes them swear not to tell. Cut to Hud telling nearly everyone at the party about it.

* [[~~Its~~ the Only Way To Be Sure]]: The Hammerdown protocol.

* [[It's the Only Way To Be Sure]]: The Hammerdown protocol.

** {{spoiler|Overkilled! They used two nukes instead of one.}}

* [[Jittercam]]: Entirely justified by the concept, but the film still takes more flak for this than seems reasonable. Watching it on television is fine for most viewers.

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* [[Reconstruction]]: Instead of focusing on the monster pounding other monsters' faces in or wrecking the military, you're given the perspective from ordinary people... which makes one realize how horrific the bog-standard [[Kaiju|giant-monster movie plot]] would be if it really happened, which brings it back to its original form.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The movie thrives and thrills itself on absolutely destroying New York city.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Pointed out by Abrams himself, being that during the bridge crossing you can see another individual with a camera trying to record everything. Not so much a sequel hook as a possibility for [[Once More With Clarity]].

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Pointed out by Abrams himself, being that during the bridge crossing you can see another individual with a camera trying to record everything. Not so much a sequel hook as a possibility for [[Once More, With Clarity]].

** Additionally, some static after the credits that may be resolved into {{spoiler|"It's still alive!"}}.

** Apparently, a sequel is in pre- [[Development Hell]] , as everyone involved wants to avert [[Its the Same So It Sucks]]

* [[Shock Party]]: Escalated [[Up to Eleven]]: Rob's party turns into a monster invasion on Manhattan.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|The reason everyone stayed in NYC was to help Rob save Beth. And then Beth and Rob get nuked. So much for that, then. Did I mention that everyone else is either dead or their fate is left uncertain?}}

* [[Short Lived Aerial Escape]]: Our heroes finally manage to get on an evacuation helicopter after their long ordeal. And then {{spoiler|the monster whacks it out of the sky.}}

* [[Short-Lived Aerial Escape]]: Our heroes finally manage to get on an evacuation helicopter after their long ordeal. And then {{spoiler|the monster whacks it out of the sky.}}

* [[Shout Out]]: The music at the end especially, though during the blurring moments of the camera, they snuck in frames from Black and White monster movies ''[[King Kong]]'', ''Them!'' and ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms''. The Film itself is inspired by [[Godzilla]] and other, similar [[B-Movie|B Movies]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: The music at the end especially, though during the blurring moments of the camera, they snuck in frames from Black and White monster movies ''[[King Kong]]'', ''Them!'' and ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms''. The Film itself is inspired by [[Godzilla]] and other, similar [[B-Movie|B Movies]].

** Roar! is one big shout out to the work Akira Ifukube did on the Godzilla films. The extensive use of brass was a signature part of his style, and it has been said that the piece is very Godzilla-esque.

** And then there's the blink-and-you-miss-it [[Lost|Dharma logo]] in the very, very beginning. [[Epileptic Trees|Hm...]]