Cloverfield / 1-18-08 Video Secrets and More!

Movie lovers have been going wild trying to decipher the trailer they saw just before Transformers over the last week. The film has no name, but so far it's been called Cloverfield and 1-18-08. Well, as sparse as the info is around the web, this much we do know...

- The film revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people

- It's being produced by J.J. Abrams

- It is being directed by Matt Reeves, who co-created Felicity

The beginning of the madness started with this...


Recently, everal sites launched in relation to the film...

1-18-08.com


Contains 2 photos which are draggable around your screen. One photo with a small group of people at a party. Photo taken at 12:01AM. The other, a shot of two frightened girls loking upward, taken at 12:36AM, 35 minutes aftyer the first shot.
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EthanHaasWasWrong.blogspot.com/


Contains the ramblings of a blogger which apparently is claiming that the prophet that is Ethan Haas, is a false one. "His prophet Ethan Haas was nothing more than a raving lunatic long forgotten by history. Mantra's website EthanHaasWasRight is a foolish attempt to capture the short attention of today's youth in an attempt to breath new life into the visions of a long dead fool."
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EthanHaasWasRight.com


The third site, setup to test viewers puzzle skills, eventually unlocks a set of 5 video messages from Ethan Haas himself. Watch them below.
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If anyone has any insight, please comment!

Ethan Haas Message #1



Ethan Haas Message #2



Ethan Haas Message #3



Ethan Haas Message #4



Ethan Haas Message #5



Cloverfield was released January 18th, 2008 and stars Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Annable, Anjul Nigam, Margot Farley. The film is directed by Matt Reeves.



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Comments (323)

  1. justice 23

    no no no no no no no the monster name is spoctogirexopus

    5 years agoby @emokid23Flag

  2. T.Clark

    I thought the monster was cool and unique.

    5 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  3. Radimus-83

    hate having crabs!!!

    5 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  4. -comrade-

    most commented balls-faced monster-laus ever...

    5 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  5. Marcusx

    with balls on its face...and crabs...

    5 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  6. -comrade-

    Little did any of us know that it was a giant bat-fish-louse-bug.

    5 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  7. T.Clark

    Ha! I just read that guy's comment thinking it was a gears of war movie. What an idiot!

    5 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  8. T.Clark

    Hey, this is the most commented page ever!

    5 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  9. Marcusx

    delish...gay

    5 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  10. Radimus-83

    mmmmmmmm, Slusho!!!

    5 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  11. theasian2.0

    on the recent heroes episode Nov.26 2007 Monday the character Elle is drinking a Slusho Drink so they are advertising and on the slusho.jp website it has now 8 sections one talking about buying a machine and bringing slush0 to the west and gives a number and email

    5 years agoby @theasian2-0Flag

  12. B-RAD08

    the writing on the back of the card when translated to english is the recipe for the omlette being held by the cook.

    5 years agoby @b-rad08Flag

  13. jax_180

    i kind of agree with that but remember slusho definately has to have something to do with this and how can cthulhu have anything to do with slusho?

    6 years agoby @jax-180Flag

  14. hauptberg

    I agree it is a monster movie, but it's not Godzilla, if you look at Abrams record you will see he has been original, he has never redone anything and Godzilla never had a market in the U.S. It's not Voltron either because that is already in production with another company and director. I think youngmachines is right, it's a cthulhu story, some of the viral stuff mentions creatures of the deep and the dark one, those were always used when mentioning a number of Cthulhu demons. But whatever it was it will be original, because it is J.J. Abrams

    6 years agoby @hauptbergFlag

  15. dennisOD

    Ne one thought of a godzilla sequel? the curved wake in the water...the signature three claw scratch....and the roar with the foot stomp?

    6 years agoby @dennisodFlag

  16. chrisrmstud

    Hey I found this secondary slusho site when trying to access the real one. It's http://www.slushozoom.com/. There's an intresting quote about extinction and lots of photographs and old paintings of giants and things that have emerged from the sea. If you click on any photo it takes you do a diffrent site. Usually something possibly related like a site on genetics, etc. Could be a fake someone set up or related. Unknown at this time.

    6 years agoby @chrisrmstudFlag

  17. nitz

    any1 else think its a gears of war movie

    6 years agoby @nitzFlag

  18. nitz

    guys i just went to 1-18-08.com and i somehow fliped over the picture of the asian chefand there was writing on the bak of it in chinese or japanese

    6 years agoby @nitzFlag

  19. Incorigible1

    So the movie is about the Momma monster coming to stop everyone from eating her babies or drinking the babies' food, vis-a-vis the Slusho secret deep sea ingredient.

    6 years agoby @incorigible1Flag

  20. rcscisa

    Slusho registered with godaddy.com

    http://samspade.org/whois/68.178.254.202

    As is tagruato
    http://samspade.org/whois/208.109.181.62

    And the primary contacts are both gmail addresses.

    I'm new here, so cut me some slack if this has been posted before.

    6 years agoby @rcscisaFlag

  21. cmcankles928

    anyone ever think this might have something to do with that show surface?
    seems like it would work

    6 years agoby @cmcankles928Flag

  22. youngmachines

    I did some further research and came up with gold.
    http://tagruato.jp/deepsea2.php

    a petroleum drilling company that does deep sea drillings.
    click on "Subsidiaries" on the information bar near the top.
    and...
    what do you see?
    slusho.
    bam!
    someone explain that

    i must be close.
    BAND TOGETHER PEOPLE

    6 years agoby @youngmachinesFlag

  23. youngmachines

    I think i've got it.
    After spending countless hours reading reviews and really bad guesses (some involving giant lions) I do believe i have it figured out. all the solid information collected about turns to one beast: Cthulhu.
    If you don't know about Cthulhu (Kathoolhoo) all you really need to know is that he's huge,Comes from the sea, Has claw's, he's pretty much the epidemy of terror, He is often preceded by the epithet Great, Dead, or Dread, and is said to look like A pulpy, tentacled head (dragon-y) surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.

    With the fist hand accounts of filming there is said to be one huge creature with a lot of minions and when the minions are mentioned there is always the word "star" floating around. Well Mr.Cthulhu indeed does have that also: "The star-spawn of Cthulhu, or Cthulhi, have a physical simility with Cthulhu himself, but are of far smaller size. This race arrived with him, but relatively little is known about them. On earth they built the city R'lyeh, which later sank in the ocean, and where they still dwell with Cthulhu"

    So crafty JJ Abrams if you really did want to do an original horror flick Cthulhu would be for you.

    6 years agoby @youngmachinesFlag

  24. argentino13

    has anyone notice the new picture of the chinese chef. on the back it has some chinese words

    6 years agoby @argentino13Flag

  25. ntbone

    Has anyone noticed that on the site with the pictures, you can flip the pictures over? a couple of them have random things written on the back. just grab one, make sure it's on top, and jerk the mouse, and they will turn over. One says "Don't forget who takes care of you; Love J" and the other one is from "Jamie" and it says something about her hotness. Check it out.

    6 years agoby @ntboneFlag

  26. elpablo21

    Has anyone noticed on the 1-18-08.com pictures on the very blurred one times 1:24am with the soldier in center you can make out a face on a monster on his uniform?

    6 years agoby @elpablo21Flag

  27. deathreaver_21

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33835 go here if you want to read it for your self. let me know what you think

    6 years agoby @deathreaver-21Flag

  28. deathreaver_21

    here is the actual storie.I have for you a description of a unseen new sequence from the film you all know as Cloverfield.

    You know, the one with the monster?

    I can now safely say the teaser is not separate from the film, its part of the beginning which was shown in an abridged fashion for the purpose of the teaser, it's longer in the movie.

    The new scene opens with several traumatized survivors, moving through a very dark corridor there's slight cold blue illumination from halogen emergency lighting, a girl in the group is badly beaten up she's bleeding and looks very sickly. The main group is comprised of 3 characters, Rob from the main trailer, the cameraman and a girl, though there may be others.

    This scene takes place after the initial attack of "The monster" the scene we all saw in theatres. Rob is taking charge and telling everyone to keep calm, the girl says she doesn't feel so good.

    They limp along until US Army soldiers storm in shouting at them, demanding they drop they're weapons, they shout back they're unarmed, there's a lot of commotion, then they're herded briskly up some E.T style scientific tubing into a makeshift aid center, its very dark, threes lots of doctors tending to wounded and military walking about making the scene very busy. "What is that thing?" they ask as they catch their breath, the cryptic answer comes from a soldier "We don't know, but it's winning"

    The imagery in this scene is like something after a terrorist bombing. A carcass is wheeled past with his guts hanging out, the cameraman struggles to take in the surroundings.

    Rob gets angry with the aggressiveness of the soldiers who now tell them they can't leave, "I'm going out there, if you want to stop me you'll have to shoot me" we gather he's looking for his girlfriend. "I feel really sick" the girl unexpectedly mutters, the camera pans to her, shes looks like shes about to throw up, and curiously is crying blood from her right eye. Someone shouts "She's been bitten!"

    Chaos ensues... Scene end. That's all you get, this may be used for promotion and is a possibility for an upcoming trailer.

    6 years agoby @deathreaver-21Flag

  29. deathreaver_21

    I saw a storie at mania.com about a clip discription from the movie ill post the site if any one wants just let me know .It says that rob and some of his friends get taken to a make shift med center and rob asks one of the soldgers "what is that thing?" and the soldger replies"I don't know but its winning" later it says that one of robs friends a girl who is looking like she is going to puke says"I don't feel to good." and someone says" She's been bitten" the monster is suposed to be scaley with some kind of ele type creatures hanging off it.

    6 years agoby @deathreaver-21Flag

  30. wildfan88

    Ispeedonthe405-"Honestly though I think this is just a case of someone looking too closely for hidden clues."

    I have to agree with "Ispeed.." that theory was debunked like a month ago...

    If your not sure about something people, look at other pages. I mean this site is cool and all but there is ALOT more info on other sites and its waiting to be read.

    6 years agoby @wildfan88Flag

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