Cloverfield – spoiler warning…
We went to see Cloverfield at a surprisingly quiet Brixton Ritzy on Friday night. It’s good and completely relentless – well worth seeing if you think you might like it.
I remember having a conversation with Dallas last July (ish) about a great trailer for a scary movie that nobody knew anything about. At the time it didn’t seem to even have a name, except possibly 1-18-08.
At the same time there were various online treasure hunt type games which teased and tempted you through various puzzles. Although looking back I think the information that was revealed about the film had little to do with what I saw on Friday night. The main hype and excitement seemed to just come from the trailer which managed to look terrifying but revealed pretty much zero about the film. On top of this we knew that JJ Abrams was involved, and whether you like Lost (note the phrase HD streaming on this page!) or not, you know he has a track record.
Now the film has been released, I thought it was be interesting to see how much content people have been posting about Cloverfield. You obviously might come across some spoilers if you visit the links below.
Flickr: 1420 photos.
This is the first photo which seems to refer to the movie uploaded on July 18 2007. There are also quite a few photos from the production sets.
Youtube: 6840 videos. These seem to consist of mainly trailers and exclusive bits of content leaked and a few people doing reviews and ranting about the movie.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY&rel=1]
Facebook:You can join 19000 other people and become a fan of Cloverfield. Despite having such a huge number of fans, there are only 6 videos posted. There are over 1200 reviews and comments though, implying that people are not exactly rushing to Facebook to upload videos.
Blogs and elsewhere: There are a gazillion blog posts about Cloverfield, I think a more interesting analysis comes from Alexa and Technorati using both Cloverfield sites and 1-18-08 sites.
And from Technorati…
And if you have seen the movie and can take anymore, then you might be interested in following this link which possibly shows what happens after the lights came up… (or perhaps this is the sequel) http://www.1-18-08.com/
