A short review of the new teen sci-fi release
Tag: Cloverfield
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Now Playing: Skyline
Cloverfield (2008) revitalized the giant-monster genre with its mock-camcorder account of space aliens tearing up Manhattan, but the folks who produced this knockoff for Columbia Pictures have completely missed the point, recycling the earlier movie’s cardboard plot but discarding its jerky stylistics in favor of the usual elephantine FX sequences. The premise is nearly identical: […]
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Cloverfield review: Cheap Thrills
Cloverfield upholds an old truth about horror films: the lower the budget, the better the scare.