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I’m the Cloverfield monster, bitch.

By Burbanked on Nov 20, 2007 in Movie Marketing 101, Movies, Newest, Trailers | 3,953 views |

If you haven’t seen it seven times already, here’s a link to the Cloverfield Quicktime trailer page. I hadn’t gotten too swept up in this hype yet. I think that J.J. Abrams is an incredibly savvy marketer and it’s certainly exciting to feel the buzz - but this is a really great trailer. Doesn’t give much away, excellently paced, builds excitement for the movie as a whole. I particularly love the bit inside the helicopter - here’s a screengrab - simply because I always find that sound effect of the cockpit alarm horrifying just by itself.

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Burbanked | Nov 20, 2007 | Reply

And by the way, with all the hoopla surrounding this movie and J.J. Abrams movie-messianic-like grasp of our collective consciousness, I’d take this opportunity to remind everyone that Cloverfield also has a director and a writer: Matt Reeves and Drew Goddard, respectively. They actually might have something to do with how the film turns out.
MC | Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

Probably more so.

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