Interesting that she's bleeding from the eyes and nose. Could it be that the monster carries with it an infection (thus the haz mat suits) or actually turns others into "little monsters". Or is the little monsters rumor just something that came out of a misinterpretation of early cuts of this trailer?

And despite being a movie filmed from the POV of it's characters, they still manage to get some epic airborn shots of the decapitated Statue of Liberty because someone ends up in a helicopter. When I heard it was being shot Blair Witch" style I had low expectations for how wide-ranging the story could possibly be.

Actually if you watch that scene in the new HD trailer, you'll notice that the female character appears to expand significantly (get fatter) in the course of a second (at the 1:12 mark). Then it cuts right before you'd think she would explode. In the production still, she's bleeding from her eyes and mouth, meaning significant internal bleeding. Maybe the little Cloverfields somehow get inside their victims and kill them from the inside?

If you look at the picture closely, it kind of looks like the face of the monster in picture number 1.

Where the little black mouse is could resemble an eye, and it kind of looks like a mouth, similiar to a dinosaur..

Who knows?

I think they die because in the beginning it says Footage was obtained at.. or something along the lines saying that there were no survivors..

Thinking much?

I will be so shocked if this monsters is not the CTHULHU.

1. the govnt call this monster Cloverfield.

2. we know that the monster spawns smaller monsters (by the looks of it inside other humans, cause the girl [Chaplan] is exploding!)

3. the Cthulhu spawns cthulhi, a similar lifeform that somewhat resembles itself.

4. that little tease of the monster in the trailer is enought for me to think its the cthulhu

'nuff said. You heard it hear first!

I took it as two men in biosuits holding onto a woman that has something emerging or exploding from within her.

This could not possible be Cthulu

couple reasons.

1 Cthulu is in a near death sleep at the bottom of the Pasific ocean
and can only SLIGHTLY gain consciousness when it arises out of the sea as per Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft the creator of Cthulu.

2 Cthulu does not wish to destroy mankind but inslave it through telekinesis.

so unless this monster is a coattail monster meaning ridding on the coattails of a name to gain popularity in the fan base, even though it does not follow the original story intended by its original creator, such as the American Godzilla.

or JJ Abrams isn't as smart and witty as everyone thinks he is.

it cannot be Cthulu

in my opinion and sort of my hope is that this is not a recreation of something that already exists, but an original monster and they are just, using the trailers to build alot of hipe so people do what we are doing right now. Or that it takes an M night Shamilant twist and its not really a monster but these kids really tripy acid trip

James I know what you are saying.... I do know the story. But I figured like the rest of hollywood its always a remake or rebirth. so Thats why I pick cthulhu. cause JJ thinks he can make a more vicious tale out of it.

That being said I would like it to be something original.

It's hazmat (or haz-mat, if you prefer), and it's short for "Hazardous Materials". :)

It has to be the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...Mark my words

I knew it all along, the Cloverfield monster is a mouse cursor! How we've been deceived...

It might not be Cthulu, but maybe another Lovecraft-type monster... he had several, including the one in "The Dunwitch Horror," which basically grows inside a secluded house until it can't be contained any more. Then it goes out and wreaks havoc on the local populace.

i just only hope it's not a reptile monster....

GAMERA!!!!! its has to be watch the trailer frame by frame as yu can see when it movesthrough the buildings (the POV of the army) it has a shell a turtle shell its gotta be gamera

I froze that section too because it totally looked like suited soldiers to me. Except there's a distinct wet "chomp" sound when the right soldier leans in just before it cuts over, making it seem like those are little Dagons having lunch.

That's a huge monster!

GAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT's NOT GAMERA dammit, if anything it is most likely the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Halloweening as a Ninja Turtle, use your brains people.

Honestly? It's probably Godzilla 2, or rebirth, or something lame.

I hope it's about Cthulhu personally, I loved the story and would love even more to see a decent movie about it.

Gamera! gotta be

I will not let this disparaging of Cthulhu continue.

First, it is spelled C-T-H-U-L-H-U.

Second, Cthulhu neither wants to destroy the human race nor enslave it. Cthulhu regards us as we regard insects. When he awakens he will sweep us from the earth like a soft, pink infestation.

Third, Cthulhu does not spawn "Cthuli." I don't know where you heard that. Perhaps echoing out of your ass. "Call of Cthulhu" only makes reference to Cthulhu is High Priest of the Outer Gods, ruling over his "greasy spawn" in black R'lyeh. It is not known whether Cthulhu is a unique entity or simply the most powerful of a race of similar creatures. The Call of Cthulhu series of RPG books depicts a "Star Spawn of Cthulhu" which are like mini-Cthulhus, and presumably the creatures over which Cthulhu itself rules.

Fourth, Cthulhu is in hibernation in the pacific ocean. Unless New York has been relocated to the West Coast, this makes Cthulhu impossible.

Fifth, when Cthulhu and the other Great Old Ones awaken humanity will plunge into madness and destroy itself. There would be no need for him to galavant about our cities like Godzilla smashing statues. Cthulhu will outlive all examples of our civilization anyway.

Try reading Lovecraft's stories some time.

I think there has to be something small that's killing stuff too cause in the previews it looks like theyre running through tunnels and unless its explosions it has to be something about the size of a person. ???

Anyone thought that it is a "version" of Cthulhu? Who in the hell said it HAD to be Lovecraft? Gee, Hollywood has never stolen ideas before, right?

There's a slow-mo blowup video of the sequence on photobucket:
http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd299/server...

Is it just me or does the monster look like a giant Golem (the pokemon)?

JJ said it's an original monster.

It's not Cthulhu. Period. End of argument.

It's Reptar from the Rugrats series.

lol.

I think cloverfield is uluru.

I saw the slowed down version of the monster and to me the body kinda resembles the diamond weapon from final fantasy 7. Anyone else getting that?

and on another note during that seen in the trailer of the image above the guys in the hazmat suits are 'probing' her intestines cause the guy on the right seems to be stabbing her with something then we hear the splattering on the floor

wrong.. the haz mat guys need to hold her down, she will explode and get disease everywhere.. its not lizzy caplan in the trailer that inflates. the haz mat guys probably want to hold her down too, but its not her there. whoever thought that the hazmat guys were monsters is an idiot, JJ wouldnt make the monsters look like freaking teddy bears. i dont think there are any small monsters at all, just a big one. and its not anything we have ever seen before in the history of the world.. at least not like officially, it might look like something we've seen, but it isnt officially anything. not godzilla or and godzilla character or pokemon or lovecraft character. so shut your stupid mouths and go back to researching every pixel of the slusho site and the clues hidden on the myspace profiles, we are all missing something dammit!

if y ou look at new preview before lizzie and the other girl are walkin in the dark theres is a scene wher it just looks like a blue flash but if you pause that frame there is a girl being atacked. its past the first half of teh trailer.

You know, it could be a monster nearly identical in its nature and capabilities to John Carpenter's The THING. Which would fully explain what's going on there. The organism has assimilated nearly all of her body and is attacking the men in hazmat suits, violently throwing out some limb-like or tentacle body parts, which would explain the "explosion".

big daddy what you are missing is...slusho :) thats what it is read the little site about cant drink just six then go rent that old movie the stuff if you were alive then or all the kids on the site it came out in 80 anyhoot i bet this is a play off of that with a big monster rounding up its babies or somthing im sure it will be an original idea and its nice to see someone try and make a differant type of movie and note how little it cost (movies take heart more than cash but the studios dont get that on hold evryone out of the loop but there select few) but seriousley big daddy and others look up the movie the stuff if you cant rent it read the synopsis. I personelly think the young lady looks like she just drank her first TAB and will never do that again.

Looks like *manbearpig* to me . . .

I still say it's Godzilla or something lol... from the teaser back a few months ago I called it. We'll see. ;)

I know I'm totally going totally against the grain and pleeeease don't jump all over me for this suggestion but there's no way it could be some type of alien type invasion as opposed to a monster of sorts??!

1. Could it just be a differn't way to look at a Godzilla attack? As if that's the reason the movie was made?

2. Everyone says that JJ said it was going to be an origonal monster, but he also said it wasn't going to be called Cloverfield. He probably planned on naming it Monsterous but it got leaked so he came out with a ton of other posters to throw us off, then just when with Cloverfield like he meant to all along. Anyone think so?

3. The monster's legs are seen walking in those 7 or 8 frames, but what's with it's head? Is that a head or the bottom of a shell? Slusho talks about making somehting grow really big, could it be a crab attacking the city? I know it sounds stupid, but if you saw it and it kicked butt, that would change things.

Please answer these if you can...
-Neil

Neil, the crab idea is nice, as it would kinda explain the statue of liberty's head. But those legs definitely do not belong to a crab like creature, they really do look a lot like Godzilla's. (I am not saying that it's godzilla, the legs are just similar)

Nick, I had a link to a picture of a crab so you could see what I'm talking about, but I don't think they’ll let me post it. If you look up "Crab" on yahoo, find a picture of one that's facing the camera. I'm not saying it is a crab, but if you watch the first frames of when the monster comes into view of the trailer, what's the large mass of body that's in front of the legs? If it's a lizard, it's a very oddly shaped one.

The pic I wanted to show is of a crab with his legs bent just like in the trailer. They'd be his right set of legs if he was facing the camera and they're bent just like in the trailer. Not to mention it would be VERY different having a crustaian attacking the city instead of a large lizard.

I hate the people who say to wait until the movie comes out! Most of the fun comes from bouncing ideas off others and see if you're right when it comes to show time. I can't wait!

Oh, and why do they keep saying, "It's a alive?" As if they knew it was dead or it's something you wouldn't imagine having life in it, like the Stay Puff Man or the Statue of Liberty. Are there any other land marks that might come to life and/or fit the description?

-Neil

Please excuse my spelling!

Are you suggesting it's a GIANT ENEMY CRAB?

ATTACK THE WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE

The reason she's bleeding from the eyes and nose is be the main ingredient in Slusho, Seabed's Nectar is a parasitic form of the monster. This is backed up by the Japanese writing on the back of the photo of the chef on the teaser site. If you watch the scene carefully, you'll notice that her body suddenly expands, that would be the parasite expanding rapidly.

im pretty sure the slusho has something to do with it, but as for the people that are still sayings its godzilla... well when you sit in the theater to see this movie and you realize its not godzilla, just think this "i am a stupid bitch" because at least you would have thought something that is right for once.. it should be a rule that we dont mention godzilla, voltron, lions, or chtululhuhuhlulhooohulu, because we already KNOW that its not any of those.

tagruato.jp has been updated with info on Slusho! workers visiting animal control centers, sounds like a clue... also, if you didnt already know, there was an update a few days ago concerning research done on slusho, and it talked about side effects and stuff, the tagruato website issues an apology and talks about legal retaliation on the research center.. incidentally the article showing the results has been removed from the site it was on, and i cant find it anywhere.

its godzilla idiots

john, you are the idiot, you are obviously 10 years old and you think you know that its godzilla, because your brain is too small to concieve that there could possibly be any other giant monster out there attacking new york. you saw the one with mathew broderick, and you cant fit it in your head that a person can make a giant monster movie with an original monster.

Parasite

If you stay on the 1-18-08.com site for about 6 minutes, you can hear the monster roar! To me it sounds very much like a whale. It's totally rad.

After a bit of poking around in various JJ Abrams fronts (slusho, tagruato) and also on IMDB, I found a link that sparked interest. http://www.youcantdrinkjustsix.com is in fact a forwarding url to http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds..., an actual sampling of an immense sound recorded in the pacific ocean in the 1990s. The "bloop" has been associated on many occasions with Cthulhu, considering the relatively close proximity of the noise to the said location of R'yleh. There are a handful of sites created as viral media for Cloverfield, easily accessed at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq. A potentially unrelated site, http://ethanhaaswasright.com offers a series of flash puzzles that reveal small dismantled video clips of what may or may not be associated with the production. Several sites claim that the Ethan Haas site is promotion for a RPG game Alpha Omega, but even further suspicion makes me raise an eyebrow at the game's authenticity. Alpha Omega has a fairly nice flash layout (so does Slusho, imo) but lacks any deep and convincing details that the game is in fact real. All membership options are nixed and limited, and synopsis is too vague to be a legit attempt at gaming. My guess is that Alpha Omega has some ominous context in the material and the creators may be characters in the film.

Lovecraft elements run amok in this project, but as Obed Marsh mentioned above, it would be difficult to explain how something Cthulhu-size would travel from the farthest navigable point in the Pacific all the way to NYC (of all places). The Cthulhu Mythos is chalk full of monstrous beings, so there are numerous possibilites of what is ahead. I'd like to see Abrams draw Cthulhu from his sleeping, but at this point we're left with our ideas.

Frequent http://wikipedia.org, there is a lot of material to cross reference your ideas with. Let me know your thoughts!

first of the monster in the pic looks like a dinosaur and so does godzilla and then it was partly a joke just because. Then it just seems like a godzilla type thing i dont actually think that it is godzilla its just a funny option

taylor savvy, your information haas all been discovered months ago, and the ethan haas stuff has already been debunked by abrams himself.. some people have thought this was a deliberate misleading on his part, but he has responded by saying he might keep stuff from us, but he wouldnt lie about it.. anyways. its not cthulu, its original, its all new, its never been seen before.. john, if it was godzilla after all, my head would inflate like the woman in the video, and make a rubbery sound as it exploded all over the movie screen.