Nov 20 2007'Cloverfield' Monster Still Undecipherable in Slow Motion
The trailer for Cloverfield that was released yesterday gave the first glimpse at part of the film's monster, but, unfortunately, it passed by too quickly to properly preemptively judge and criticize. Some of you probably already went through frame by frame to try to get a better look, but now the rest of you, the lazy/apathetic ones, have been rewarded with a slow-motion version of the big monster reveal. At this speed, you can really see your expectations falling with the rubble.
See it under the cut.


Reader Comments
1. bob - November 20, 2007 4:07 PM
kinda looks like a T-rex type dinosaur to me. Or Godzilla. Or a guy in a rubber suit.
frist
2. The Moat - November 20, 2007 4:15 PM
"[U]nfortunately, it passed by too quickly to properly preemptively judge and criticize."
You underestimate our ability to mock. For example...
What crap! What's this things super power? The ability to stay out of focus? The design of this creature, a slow, lumbering thing lurching between skyscrapers is so tired and clicheed. I could have conceived a more original monster with crayons when I was five. Wait, I did. It was gothy, depressed and had cutting shears for hands. Tim Burton owes me money.
3. Kyle - November 20, 2007 4:23 PM
I think it's just a fraction of a peek of what is to come... looks like the testicle of whatever "it" is. If the balls on the motherfucker are THAT big, just you wait.
4. zallen - November 20, 2007 4:27 PM
Ha! That's totally a giant cabbage. Thank God it's not a Triffid though. Or an evil giant tomato.
5. woodhorse - November 20, 2007 4:48 PM
from an apathetic, lazy Ignoramus: thanks.
6. Threeboy - November 20, 2007 4:55 PM
ITS A GIANT RABBIT.
7. Pelikan - November 20, 2007 4:55 PM
its the hind leg of walking lizzard .. its kinda clear to me now.. yes, it sucks
8. Pelikan - November 20, 2007 5:02 PM
whats the deal with the chick turning into the blob in the middle of the trailer?.. please dear god dont let this be a godzilla movie.. PLEASE!
9. carly - November 20, 2007 6:03 PM
it's a giant flying killer lion.
10. masterless - November 20, 2007 6:11 PM
Cthulhu bitches. Bask in his omnipotence.
11. i guarantee you - November 20, 2007 6:12 PM
cthulhu.
12. yo - November 20, 2007 6:12 PM
Cthulu?
13. masterless - November 20, 2007 6:12 PM
Oh noes...its a real life ninja turtle from outta the sewer cuz of the Ooze. I think its Donatello.
14. yo - November 20, 2007 6:13 PM
well everyone thought the same as me and now i look slow
15. TJ - November 20, 2007 6:42 PM
GODZILLA!
16. GuS - November 20, 2007 7:02 PM
IT SO GODZILLA!!! if u watch it closely u can see a lower torso on knee and the last bit is another leg, AND the sound does sound similar to the godzilla made some years ago.
17. MonkeyBytes - November 20, 2007 8:04 PM
Looks mighty Cthulhu-ish to me, which is much better than a lion and infinitely better than a "Voltron" movie.
In fairness to those die-hard "it's a lion" fans, I heard that New York is initially attacked by a lion, then this MoFo eats it.
18. tamaramcleod_12@hotmail.com - November 20, 2007 8:04 PM
Hi guysssssss. u can call me tammy. im from canada lol
19. drbendy - November 20, 2007 8:07 PM
J.J can't lose, the monster can look as tired and cliched as a Britney vulva snap, as he can always say its a metaphor for the iraq war and everyone will see not a viral cash-in but a parable of our times. Meg Ryan is an anagram of Germany, think about it.
20. glen - November 20, 2007 8:11 PM
I'm from Oregon.
21. nominus - November 20, 2007 8:13 PM
drbendy: Coke and Pepsi are the same thing. Wake up People! Nominus is an anagram for "I Munson". Think about that next time you wish you weren't me.
22. Fredrico - November 20, 2007 8:52 PM
Godzilla nothing, that's Gamera!!!! OMG!!!!
23. jake - November 20, 2007 9:31 PM
looks like dick. a little bit. someone had to say it. lol
24. oops - November 20, 2007 9:32 PM
haha, that was supposed to say my dick
25. squash - November 20, 2007 10:43 PM
man that was pretty weaksauce. you can totally see these stumpy little legs and a long neck, something along the lines of a reptilian monster ala godzilla. i wanna see some monster thats just like totally jacked up and gonna cause some chaos. the chtulu guy is pretty okay, but this trailer just loses.
26. big bolge - November 21, 2007 12:10 AM
it is not Cthulhu...i know this for a fact because they are already making a movie for Cthulhu...here check the link for the trailer
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12408894
i don't know what it is...i dont even wanna say what it is because everyone will criticize
27. tony - November 21, 2007 2:23 AM
I haven't watched this movie, a friends on CASUALPAL.COM introduced it to me, I'm going to see whether it is worth or not ...
28. Tim - November 21, 2007 3:00 AM
good movie but I've wathched on http://www.naturistspace.org/, any other fresh stuff?
29. blpressure - November 21, 2007 8:29 AM
So nerds have been analyzing the trailer frame by frame to see the monster? ffs wait for the movie to come out and grow up! (we all know it's Godzilla anyway)
30. Moriarty - November 21, 2007 9:57 AM
It is preeeeetttyy big!
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/8604/1195555256323kx5.jpg
31. Dadoren - November 21, 2007 10:24 AM
I think it may be a Monsterous Gianormus Octopus I remeber seeing an older movie with giant octopus attacking a city and it looks just like that kind of sort of but not really
32. Pixie Pearl - November 21, 2007 11:22 AM
They really should make it into a Cthulhu film.....there is yet to be a really good one released.
33. blpressure - November 21, 2007 11:32 AM
Nice picture #31 but whoever made it has too much time on their hands, although we all do or we wouldn't be commenting on this. Speculating on a fictional monster that we don't know much about, we're worse than those who speculate about the Loch Ness monster, at least that may be real.
34. blpressure - November 21, 2007 11:35 AM
That's it you guys! I worked it out. It's Nessie! Mr. Burns drained the lake and found him, remember? It turns out he's amphibious and can survive on land.
35. Anthony - November 21, 2007 1:06 PM
Its obviously rosie o'donnel
36. Tha prophet - November 21, 2007 1:11 PM
u got it Moriarty thats it, if it is the real you that is..
if not, it is anyho' so.....
37. blpressure - November 21, 2007 1:48 PM
So I watched the trailer again, now I'm thinking it could be my mother or Rosie O' D. There's not much difference.
38. Tha disciple - November 21, 2007 3:43 PM
Britney really needs to take it slow next time she goes to Starbucks...there could be old ladies crossing the street.
39. Stan The Man - November 21, 2007 4:24 PM
Looks like my Ex-Wife...Pumpkin is that you !?!
40. Snoodle - November 21, 2007 5:59 PM
Looks lizard-y to me....ugh.
41. proton - November 21, 2007 6:18 PM
FIRST!
42. Jonny - November 21, 2007 6:28 PM
Looks like one of those nudist freaks from naturistspace.org
43. Consuming Ferocity - November 21, 2007 9:16 PM
Ahhh!! it's a freakin lizard ppl!.... im still gonna wait in line to see the movie though.
44. Brian - November 21, 2007 11:31 PM
It better be good after all of this whoopla JJ has put us through. It had better not be a cheap rip off of that toxic monster Godzilla fought. A good Godzilla movie would be refreshing.
45. dulce - November 22, 2007 9:21 AM
Nice picture #31 but whoever made it has too much time on their hands, although we all do or we wouldn't be commenting on this. Speculating on a fictional monster that we don't know much about, we're worse than those who speculate about the Loch Ness monster, at least that may be real.
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2308796
46. Pilatunes - November 22, 2007 12:45 PM
Yup, great big lizard. Hopefully, it will be better than the most recent Gozilla remake with Ferris Bueller. That movie sucked shit. I want a movie about giant scorpions, like that one fossil they found in Germany. It could rip guys bags off...now that's a horror movie.
47. Narcissist - November 22, 2007 2:08 PM
It's a terrorist, probably Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the ape creature in the gay flashdance outfit.
I heard the monster is really sexy, and regularly posts nude pictures of itself at SPAMbyFUCKTARDS.com, because it's pathetically desperate. I chat with it when it's online, it's very nice.
48. WickyOh - November 22, 2007 3:01 PM
Another clever bit of Cloverfield's viral maketing campaign with the sole purpose of increasing speculation and chater. Anyone think the one-second clip of the monster could just be a fake?
49. I LOVE THIS - November 23, 2007 8:44 AM
creeping :S
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2307250
50. iknow - November 23, 2007 1:03 PM
its giant swamp thing duh
51. Kill8joy - November 23, 2007 5:01 PM
So it's some sort of mythical monster that destroys New York City, and no weapon of ours can destroy it and it seems very difficult to find it and get the thing on video.
OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!
52. Adam - November 23, 2007 5:48 PM
Looks like a giant Bin Laden to me
53. blpressure - November 23, 2007 7:38 PM
Is there no way to ban these spammers? They've resorted to stealing other people's comments and adding their links now! #48 u thieving skank.
54. jervis - November 24, 2007 6:25 AM
uh oh. i think it's another godzilla flick.
55. diggers - November 24, 2007 11:56 AM
UGH can't see much of anything. I guess that's suppose to spark more interest...it only frustrates me to wait and not even see it.TEASE TEASE
yEAH better chill@will with my friends http://www.spymac.com/details/?2309564
56. Meg - November 24, 2007 4:43 PM
Trogdor!
57. Sylvie - November 24, 2007 8:04 PM
Damn .. is that my ex-husband?
58. Sam - November 24, 2007 10:18 PM
It looks like Swamp Thing, if he were 100 feet tall.
59. HOT GIRLS - November 25, 2007 12:26 PM
It's a stupid creature from rubish... doesn't look real http://www.spymac.com/details/?2308766
60. dom - November 25, 2007 9:06 PM
yeah, its def cthulhu
61. jerkins - November 26, 2007 10:08 AM
I still say it is a remake of the japanese movie The Host....monster parts look the same to me...only he looks bigger. JJ is probably on the damn remake gravy train about now.
62. Jeremy Witt - November 26, 2007 5:44 PM
i know what it is
after lots of research i think
that it is like Godzilla or something
after looking at the poster of the
statue of liberty, look at the water.
there is like a trail were you know
that he has been. In the original godzilla
he would come out of the water and attack.
and after looking at this i know it is. but the thing
i dont get is my theory of some sort of infection.
in some of the pics there is people with bleeding eyes
and necks bleeding down to there shoulder. In a pic
from that slusho, that place that has been all over that web
and had Cloverfield on there website, they had a weird pic
that had asian people saying "we are coming, we'll find you
soon!!"
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65. Jason - November 30, 2007 11:42 AM
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I was severely disappointed, SOMEBODY BUY THAT DOMAIN!
66. EUgthehuge - December 2, 2007 11:39 AM
Ngäh ngäh!!! Cthulhu ftäghn!!! That is Yog Sothtot.
Greeting,
Clarkash Ton
67. Derick - December 3, 2007 5:05 AM
You guys are completely missing the point of the movie, its not about the monster, its about a monster attack in the point of view of ordinary civilians.
68. Patterick - December 4, 2007 2:12 AM
looks to me to be some sort of giant gargoyle-like monster. from the way its going across the screen makes me believe it has four legs instead of just walking on two. from the way the body rises up in the upper portion, it could possibly have wing-like limb.
from this scene, it looks like it either is trying to climb on top of the buildings or its in some sort of diving / falling motion from an attack.
time will only tell, but i am very pumped to see this movie.
69. dray - December 13, 2007 1:29 PM
j.j. abrams the director said its a alien creature and its never been seen before in movies. the movie is about the day before the last day on earth. an alien monster destroys mankind i guess
70. me - December 14, 2007 10:28 PM
awesome. im glad i did this little bit of lazy research. i am now officially bored with the movie and have decided that its not worth the 8 dollars to find out if im gonna be disappointed that i wont get to see the monster, or that i will be disappointed in what the monster looks like if i do see him, or that i'll be very disappointed. in what the monster looks like if i do see him. thankyou jj abrams. you had me at "hello" but you lost me when you refused to make eye contact after all these months and still say little more than "hello". A great marketing scheme, but ultimately the film's means to self destruction. Just too much arrogance in what they were offering and too little consideration for the publics lack of patience and tendency to weigh their options with the eight dollars they have in hand. 16 if you're on a date.
71. james - December 17, 2007 9:00 PM
no, no, no. its the out of focus-ness and not be able to c the monster that makes the movie seem so much better. much like jaws, if u can't c the creature often, it helps to build suspense. either way this movie is gonna rock. im gettin advanced tickets when i can.
72. Anthony - December 27, 2007 4:59 PM
I belive that is godzilla or the alien parasie from wikepida they said they would do
73. Zeal - December 27, 2007 11:08 PM
I head its a big ass Whale monster...it looks like sin from Final fantasy and just like sin being around it gives of a toxin which is why the people were sick. The whale has Lice on it because yes whales can have lice and the lice are enormous and also attack people..this is a concept drawing form whats said to be official.
http://wayangtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cloverfield-monster-picture.jpg
74. robusa - December 30, 2007 3:20 PM
Its not a remake of The Host because there are already plans for that later in 2008. and its most definetly not another Godzilla remake do to the fact that JJ Abrams made this movie because he saw a bunch of Godzilla toys in a toy store and wanted to make something new and better then Godzilla and King Kong.
75. Mighty Bullstuff - December 30, 2007 6:58 PM
The reason why some people's eyes are bleeding is doubtlessly because of severe eyestrain from trying to figure out what the monster looks like by watching that ten second clip over and over again.
76. NeVeRaSk1212 - December 31, 2007 12:09 PM
LOL!
36. Anthony - November 21, 2007 1:06 PM
Its obviously rosie o'donnel
77. scoHish - January 1, 2008 1:28 PM
nah its obvious! its Miss Piggy man
78. Suki - January 2, 2008 3:14 AM
I think it looks like a giant turtle or maybe a crab or other shellfish.
79. Matt - January 3, 2008 4:36 AM
apparently its supposed to not be gozilla so hopefully its something awesome
80. anonymours - January 3, 2008 8:22 AM
looks like dragonite from pokemon!! its alll the pokemons released!!
81. MrMnallams - January 3, 2008 12:54 PM
I agree with earlier....its TROGDOR!!!!!
TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!
Trogdor was a man
I mean, he was a dragon man
Or maybe he was just a dragon
But he was still TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!
Burninating the countryside,
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!
HATCHED-ROOF COTTAGES!
(Woah, this has wicked dueling guitar solos!
It's like, Squeedly versus Meedley over here.
Go Squeedly!
Go Squeedly!
SQUEEDLY WINS!)
When all the land is in ruin,
And burnination has forsaken the countryside,
Only one guy will remain.
My money's on TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!
And theTrogdor comes in the NIIIGHT...
82. AP - January 3, 2008 9:40 PM
my thought on this. it is a lion. the guy in the trailer doesnt say "its alive its huge" why would he say its alive. i mean OBVIOUSLY its alive. he saiys "its a lion" and theres claw marks on the buildings? idk where it wouldve come from, another plant maybe? who knows, but my thought, its a lion
83. Holy Guacamole - January 5, 2008 1:10 AM
You guys are all stupid its just another Chuck Norris Movie....Chuck vs Barnie a.k.a...................... "The Cloverfield Monster"
84. Brotha From Anotha Motha - January 5, 2008 1:27 AM
Alright you all...its apparently not a lion..not some cthuloser nopt any stupid thing like that because in the backround it shows a girl getting infected with something lions dont cause infections like that retards......go look on google images for Cloverfield Monster it will show you this whale looking thing..it also says on the bottomw of that about these huge sea lice that live on whales about the size of humans thats it what cause the infection all those millions of lice on that huge mother freaker also lions dont swim and that monster pertty much looks like that leg would be one of its
85. ethan - January 5, 2008 3:34 PM
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/the-cloverfield-monster-revealed/ there is it.