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J.J. Abrams Top Secret Trailer for Cloverfield in Front of Transformers!!

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June 29, 2007
Source: Ain't It Cool News

I don't want to ruin this experience for anyone, but holy shit! I just went to a screening of Transformers (to see it for my second time) tonight, and I caught a trailer for a top secret untitled J.J. Abrams movie. This was seriously the craziest and coolest trailer I have EVER seen! If you want to hear more about it and hear the description of it, read on. Otherwise (which I suggest this is what you do), skip reading this until after you see Transformers, which this trailer will play in front of, and then come back to read more on the movie.

Here's the description of the trailer. I suggest you DON'T read on unless you've gone to see Transformers and have seen this trailer - otherwise the experience will be ruined!!

It starts off at a party in a loft in New York City for this guy around his mid-20's who's leaving (the city). It's filmed on home video cameras and looks just sort of like another independent drama comedy about this guy. This goes one for a little while when all of a sudden there's a big earthquake and people start to go a bit crazy and they all run up to the roof to see the lower half of Manhattan, and one of these buildings, erupt into a huge ball of fire after this unidentified object from the sky comes flying down and hits it. Then people really start to go crazy and the camera is dropped and blacks out. Then it comes back up and they're out running on the streets and all of a sudden this huge flaming object comes flying through the air and lands on the street and it's the ripped off head of the Statue of Liberty. You can hear this odd freaky roar in the background as more huge flaming/smoking things fly through the air and it ends with people running and screaming.

There is no title for the movie. It only shows "Produced by J.J. Abrams" and says "1.18.08" and flashes the credit block of names for about a half second and that's it. Everyone in the audience basically just went "what the f**ck!" after it ended! It's insane...

Apparently this is a top secret project called Cloverfield that J.J. Abrams is producing and not directing. What is it, you ask? After doing some research over at Ain't It Cool News, I discovered this description.

Well, word from inside the company is that CLOVERFIELD is a giant monster movie, featuring something that's being referred to internally as "The Parasite".

There's also a bit more about the style and what it may actually be about or how it'll work (which considering from the trailer, might be insanely cool).

And what makes this different than any other giant monster movie? Well, as I understand it, most of the film is going to be shot using home video cameras, as if from the point of view of real people who are experiencing an attack on New York. It’s designed as a fairly small picture, all things considered, and right now, they’re working to make sure the script is going to deliver some wild thrills (like an earthquake that levels Manhattan or an oil tanker flipping over by the Statue of Liberty), but that it’s not suddenly going to turn into a giant $150 million movie.

Holy shit, this sounds awesome! This thing has been pretty top secret so far, without a peep or word or even a listing on IMDb. We haven't seen anything like this in a while, as almost everything nowadays has some news on it all the way from the start of production.

This is not just your ordinary Hollywood disaster or giant monster flick, it's something way different. From the trailer you can tell this is going to be something unique, maybe even on the same scale as the Blair Witch Project. And for now this has to be one of the coolest trailers and best marketing tactics I've seen in a long while. What did everyone else think so far who has also seen it?

UPDATE - JULY 6th: We've posted a number of official new updates in a post titled J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield Updates: Casting, Shooting, and More Discovered. New details can be found there including some casting details, shooting details, and more!

UPDATE - JULY 9th: The official trailer has been posted in full-on high definition glory and can be watch RIGHT HERE!

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  • http://notimportant.com ladiesman217
    I saw the trailer last night in front of Transformers at a preview screening!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! I forgot what movie I was there to watch!!! All I wanted was to keep watching that trailer. Absolutely amazing!
  • http://www.firstshowing.net FS Dave
    I was absolutely floored by this trailer. I'm right there with ladiesman, I immediately wanted to see it again. Absolutely amazing.
  • 12gaugeWatty
    It was absolutly one of the most insane things I have ever seen. It took me a few days to even find out what the movie is. I havent been able to get it out of my head. By the uproar in the crowd when they didnt give a name, Im sure I havent been the only one looking.

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  • ReeGee
    I saw this trailer last night too........it was pretty friggin amazing and one of the most original things i've ever seen.........this movie, whatever it is, is probably going to be pretty amazing
  • ED
    Great!!! Now I have a reason to see Transformers.
  • Heckle
    Damn it where was this previwe screening!!! I missed it!
  • http://www.xanga.com/dreamworks21 sean
    Yeah i saw a sneak preview for Transformers (the website attached above has my rather disappointed review), but the preview for Cloverfield was definitely the best thing. It was original and a brilliant marketing tactic, as that preview was all i remembered when I left the screening of Transformers. LONG LIVE JJ ABRAMS!

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  • Brandon
    will this trailer be online anytime soon
  • josh
    Wow, what a tease. This needs to be posted online asap.
  • http://www.cloverfieldmovietrailer.com TJ
    This guy says he's going to have the preview up soon: http://www.cloverfieldmovietrailer.com
  • http://www.firstshowing.net FS Dave
    I'd say that it really is worth it to see in the theater. It actually made me forget that I was going to see Transformers. That's how good it is. I don't think it would have the same effect as watching it on your monitor.
  • http://videofreebrooklyn.com Lousy Mandarin
    I've been bemoaning the lack of good trailers in the last few years (giving us WAY too much of the story/action/humor/twists/etc) but this mysterious trailer does exactly what a good trailer should. It makes me psyched to see it. I just hope this is the beginning of a sneak-attack campaign and not just the juicy teaser before all the god-awful "regular" trailers.
  • Master of Disaster
    It was frickin' amazing, it's all I can think about. Me and my buddy went "WTF!!!" at the same time, it looks great. I knew it was called Cloverfield, but I didn't know of this parasite thing, thanks!!!
  • TheRoboticElephant
    Ok, first of all... I'm gonna go on a limb and call BS on the whole idea that Abrams is producing a movie. Think about it. J.J. Abrams delayed the launch of season 3 of LOST till the beginning of next year, right around the same time as the date on this teaser If you want my opinion, this whole idea that it's an actual movie is just what the media refers to as "Spin". It's intended to misguide the viewer. this is a preview for LOST. Didn't you hear the "monster" noises, that sound just like the "monster" from the island on LOST? Abrams likes putting little teasers for his show in movie theaters and this isn't the first time. In Mission Impossible 3, Abrams put "The Hanso Foundation" in the end credits. (The Hanso Foundation was a fictional part of the LOST Experience) So either I'm wrong and this is a real movie that has nothing to do with LOST, or I'm right and it's either a preview for LOST itself or else for the next phase of "The Lost Experience" (look it up if you don't know what it is). Sincerely, and sorry for the length, The Robotic Elephant
  • Will
    Man this looks like a real godzilla movie like the original...
  • Oompaloompya
    Actually TheRoboticElephant, I picked up on the sound of the "monster" while I was in the theater and had the exact same thought you did. Although, the reason he pushed the show back might have been so he could finish this movie first which has already been said to have a smaller budget. There's also the fact that the mood of the trailer is so far off from what LOST has given us so far that I'd have a hard time not saying that the show has "jumped the shark" so to speak. Having said that however, if that's the direction LOST is heading in then holy cr*p are we in for a ride next season! Either way we end up with an insane season of LOST or a really interesting movie come January so it's a win-win situation in my eyes.
  • josh
    I thought the delay for S4 of Lost was purely due to the logistics of making the show. It takes them like ~21 days to make each episode so they pretty much have to take extended breaks to catch up.
  • http://www.firstshowing.net FS Dave
    I seriously doubt that this is for Lost. Abrams has absolutely nothing to do with Transformers. There is a distinct difference between putting a referrence into a movie you're making and getting the studio to put in a trailer before a movie not only during regular screenings, but at the preview screenings. With that said, if this is for Lost, I'll be downright pissed too. I don't watch Lost. I didn't get in on the beginning of it and I'm sure I'll rent the DVD's and get caught up at some point, but it is VERY far down on my list of things to see. This looks to be a fascinating way to market/shoot a movie, and if it just ends up being a pimping for a tv show, I will be very disappointed.
  • Ryan
    Everyone in my theater said WTF?!??!?! There definitley needed to be a title of the movie.
  • Pitbull0669
    I will be SO Pissed if it is foe LOST!!!! I want this to be a real movie SOOOO BAD i cant stand it..I saw it and was like OMG Godzilla is getting a reboot!!!SWEET!!!!The whole crowd in the theater said at the same time What The Fuck!!!! OMG No!!!!! so we will see...we will see.Pitbull
  • solomontorres
    Just saw the movie last night and fantastic, but that trailer was buggin me the whole way, i was trying to figure out what it was, funny enough i thought it sounded like the monsters from war of the worlds so i thought by some twisted way they came back FOR MORE!
  • optimus prime
    i dont see how this could be for lost? lost is on an island, this was in new york?
  • david
    dude when i say tht movie trailer yesterday i thought omg mother f*cker and i told my wife next to me wich by the way fell asleep so i got pissed and toled her she just missed one cool movie!!!!!!!!!! then she said this as long as we get to go see i am legend thts alright
  • chris
    My wife and I caught the Transformers sneak preview last night, and the "mystery promo" got our attention almost as much as the movie did. The movie was great, but as we walked out we both agreed that we believe someone may finally be doing a Godzilla movie the right way. The roar sounded an awful lot like the big green guy.
  • Pitbull0669
    Ok Now Im thinkin....Could all of that Just be a dream for someone from lost on the Island that is from NY? then they wake up and BLAM! right into the LOST MOVIE???man that would Fukin suck!
  • http://www.cbs.com James Holt
    I'm usually a huge fan of these projects and I was totally into the teaser until I saw the Liberty head smash down and I couldn't resist laughing cause of lackluster job on that CG element. With luc kthat won't be what the finished product entails, that said, I'm quite anxious for an internet release of the teaser and for more details to come out. I'm sure I'll be there for the release.
  • NAkedGuy
    its not for Lost. i can bet u on that one. the reason lost go pushed back was because they wanted to have the whole season without breaks. like 24 has to start in late january/early febuary. if it was lost abrams wouldnt be just producing.but i wanted to leave the theatre right then to go find out what that preview was about instead of staying to watch the movie. great promotion. i guess i wasnt the only one/
  • Outlaw-Star
    Dude i hope this is a real movie i was up till 3a.m. last night trying find out what this trailer was all about, after seeing it before transformers, i honestly thought to myself , "a remake for the Godzilla remake, yes!!!!" after all they did kinda clue it in with the guy going to japan, but to hear its something possibly original , thats also a breathe of fresh air! its about time we have something original hit theaters, but if its for lost im gonna be pissed! cuz i hate that show! seriously i thought it was about dinosaurs when it first premiered.
  • TheRoboticElephant
    To answer Opt. Prime's question, LOST has been on an island right up until the last season finale. The last season finale was the first episode EVER to be based OFF the island with flashbacks to what happened ON the island. Many theorize this means that the next season will involve the people that were rescued trying to get back to the island. Meanwhile they will give us flashbacks of what has happened since the rescue. Dear Pitbull, DAVE, josh, and nakedguy, Thanks for pointing out the holes guys, don't get me wrong, it's only a hypothesis. But in my case, it's really a win win situation, because I love LOST, but I also love the idea of this monster movie. IF I turn out to be right though... don't EVER forget my name. TheRoboticElephant PS- Does anyone know whether the "Bad Robot" production company has ever made anything other than tv shows? ( e.g. Alias, LOST) Because their logo came on just before the teaser.
  • meganfoxhubby
    alrite....like everyone on here i saw it too of course i was kinda tired cuz i went to a 12 midnight showing of transformers here in l.a. dont get me wrong transformers was the shit, but i woke up finally after i saw this trailer. let me just say it was crazy. yes here too almost everyone in the audience was like wtf? so it got my attention for sure as well as a lot of other people but this cant be a teaser thing for "lost" though. it was something about it that makes u know that its gonna be an insane "theatrical movie". i think that was one of the best trailers i have seen in a long time (good way to keep you interested). it automatically just gets your attention because of how its behind a videocamera. its unique the way all the action was like live footage from a video camera.....at first i thought it was a nuclear bomb going off in lower manhatten cuz of that big explosion but then i heard the loud "roar" and the statue of liberty's head chopped off and thrown on the street, and then you know that it clearly wasnt. so i jus wanna know as bad as everyone, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MOVIE?
  • meganfoxhubby
    o yeah and if it was a teaser trailer for lost dont u think we probably would have read something like "COMING JANUARY 2008 ON ABC" or something along those lines?
  • meganfoxhubby
    maybe not as precise but u know what i mean
  • Aqueento
    awesome
  • MikeT
    Anyone notice that the first person to comment is named Ladiesman217, which is the moniker for Sam's Ebay account in Transformers? Odd coincidence there... And yeah, I was totally blown away by this... it was like being back when the first Matrix film was just coming out... all you saw then was Neo dodging a few bullets and the the line "what is the Matrix?"... talk about hype!
  • Whoknew
    What if this is the gears of war movie lol, just a thought
  • joseph
    Ahh damn, I had to screen this movie yesterday morning. I had some co-workers who were going to come watch it with me but they were about 10 minutes late. The screening was playing in the biggest theater we have, and when I saw the first explosion I was just like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT". Scared the living shit out of me, no joke. The movie looks amazing though -- ahh, I want to watch the trailer again! And I have to watch out for that "monster" roar from Lost. Maybe I'll catch the beginning of the trailer before my shift starts, lol.
  • Basket
    Someone needs to go back and see Transformers and just record the trailer. I NEED to see it again!
  • MrJoe83
    Wow, I thought I was the only one! I too was blown away by this trailer and up late last night trying to find info. The theater I was in had mixed reactions, I heard someone say, "that was stupid" to which someone replied, "actually, that was pretty f'n awesome!". People in South Jersey are lame though. It's definitely not for LOST. For its final 3 seasons, LOST is starting in February with 16 consecutive episodes. Also, LOST is on Wednesdays, January 18th is a Friday. Although, as a HUGE fan of LOST, it is quite interesting that Abrams is releasing this movie in January 2008...or 1/08... There's one thing I heard, or thought I heard, in the trailer that I haven't seen anybody else talk about. When they're on the roof, I heard someone shout something like, "I CAN SEE IT! IT'S A LION!". My roommate heard it too. Sounds really weird but there's nothing that's gonna keep me from seeing this movie on January 18th, 2008. And it did totally sound like the "monster" roar from LOST.
  • coolmanpjh63
    LOST has an ending lol no i know thats not it but it would be cool either way i cant wait to see this movie but TRANSFORMERS is still #1
  • kbsc121
    You know it's going to piss me off if this is a LOST gimmick but I watched lost and noticed a similarity with the trailer. There is an ep where these guys are in a bunker or whatever and they didn't push some button (whatever) that could "destroy the world". Well of course one day they didn't push the button there was this earthquake and right after that there was an EMP or something that went off, then they blew up the bunker to keep the world from ending. I could be a little off with the description but I hate this show now so feel free to correct me. If this is just a coincidence then Abrams should take a vacation and start searching for new ideas, if not, I want this man blacklisted/shot. Enough with the LOST BS either way.
  • Seven
    So I saw the same thing this trailer alone is a fantastic. It is so funny because like many others posted before me when it ended I was like wtf. Once again Abrams has done it.
  • 78515
    i was faded when i saw this trailer before the movie . best trailer known to mankind.

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  • http://www.thegaminglife.net Rodan Mistiff
    The trailer is here... Looks liek they just went and got it out of the theaters. Not great quality but you can see it mostly and hear it. http://www.thegaminglife.net
  • ZD
    Yeah, that trailer was awesome. Check out this website...probably related. :) http://www.1-18-08.com/
  • Nate
    The trailer was posted by some kids who were apparently bootlegging Transformers. It's on YouTube. All the information you can find (even from sources like Wikipedia) says it's a movie and based on the premise of an alien invasion by means of a creature referred to as "the parasite". It's supposed to be shot by handheld camcorders. I just don't see why this information would be leaking if it's LOST. The only thing I know for sure, though, is Abrams was waiting for the release of this movie, and he is in his fuckin' secret lab or something rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally at us all. He's such a genius asshole.
  • Nate
    Holy shit. Youtube deleted it between the time I watched it and posted the above comment. Mr. Abrams isn't playing around. Us movie nerds are in for a real battle here.
  • Lion for sure!!!!
    We just got back from Transformers and besides enjoying Megan Fox for 2.6 hours, this JJ Abrams trailer is def intriguing. I have to agree with one of the posts above... While there is chaos in the streets a person in the mess says out loud, "they said it looks like a giant lion!" then it cuts to an amazing explosion which looks to be occurring in downtown Manhattan and then the scene with rolling Liberty head. So weird...
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  • Jon
    There are alot of potential Godzilla references in it. The main character is said to be leaving for Japan, and someone suggests he should have left sooner, meaning he would have missed Godzilla's rampage in New York City. Also, many of the shots of people running in the street are near-identical to ones from Godzilla moives. I'm not saying that this is a Godzilla movie. I doubt it is, and I hope it isn't. I'm just saying the similarities are striking.
  • Daishi
    I saw the preview for it also at the transformers movie, looked pretty sweet. It had an ominous appearance even before all the action happened. But at the end when just the date came up, there was the collective moan and groan from the theatre audience and a few angry shouts. But all in all this movie gives the appearance of an awesome new thriller. P.S. There should be more movies with new york in them.
  • Not "Lion"
    I think they say, "It's alive!" Not "It's a lion!" Saw Transformers x2. The shit.
  • JRisdahshit
    yeah yeah i saw this trailer and its a great ideah for a movie thank you for putting this up cuz i was like pissed that they didint show the title woot i cant wait man!! a whole frikin year though!!
  • batzilla
    This has NOTHING TO DO WITH LOST! It clearly says " In Theaters" at the end of the trailer. MAN this looks sweeeeeeet!
  • Chaosdoc
    Well I'm as sceptical as I am thrilled. I thought I was watching a Godzilla trailer, and that's alright by me, always been a fan. But I thought I heard someone in the trailer say" It looks like a big lion!" HUH? If it's a giant monster movie , great. If it's written anything like "LOST" i.e. nothing but teaser crap with little to no development, remember the jusassic park 3 like begining to ""LOST" with no later reference, it will be too bad. One can only hope for good entertainment.
  • Bulazakka
    The trailer was quite well done. I really hope it's not grainy like that the entire movie cause that really bugs me when they deliberately make the quality of the film bad for some perceived artistic effect with it's just annoying as a viewer. That's the reason I didn't like Blair Witch. Nice idea, not nice to watch.
  • Drew22
    Man Alive it had me going, "what Optimus Prime?" I couldn't get that trailor out of my head. As A marketing student I can say Job well done. This is clearly going to be huge. J.J. Abrams is the next great thing in television and film.
  • mike
    The movie is with Godzilla but with the camera concept of the Blair Witch.
  • texlop
    Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I couldn't believe my eyes. This will be a monster movie the way it should've been done. I don't watch Lost and I'm hoping it isn't part of it at all. If we heard right what if this will be an apocalyptic type movie since the bible speaks of beasts and lions and stuff like that. Obviously this won't be at all biblical but what if it borrows from those ideas. The monster had to rise from the sea and tread in water for it to throw the head of the Statue of Liberty. Maybe this is about the end of the world as we know it type of film. Just a thought. I just can't wait.
  • Javok94
    That was a cool @$$ trailor. at 1st i thought it was transformers cuz a decepticon could hav thrown the statue of liberty head but it wasnt and i wanted to know more. wen i got home i got online. some say that cloverfield isnt the real name its just a coverup since its so crazy. BEST TRAILOR EVER!!!!!!!!
  • http://www.adgoodness.com Freddy
    Amazing trailer... got to see it yesterday. For sure one of the best and most intense trailers ive seen in a while.
  • Pitbull0669
    "Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I couldn't believe my eyes. This will be a monster movie the way it should've been done. I don't watch Lost and I'm hoping it isn't part of it at all. If we heard right what if this will be an apocalyptic type movie since the bible speaks of beasts and lions and stuff like that. Obviously this won't be at all biblical but what if it borrows from those ideas. The monster had to rise from the sea and tread in water for it to throw the head of the Statue of Liberty. Maybe this is about the end of the world as we know it type of film. Just a thought. I just can't wait." texlop on Jul 4, 2007 Tis Guy has the right Idea...that sound more Possible than ANYTHING else right now.!..;) Pit.
  • AbstractAmy
    I was stunned, it was beyond the most interesting trailer I have ever seen. Everyone at that moment didnt give a crap about transformers they all started to discuss this tease. I thought it looked incredible. And I cant wait to see this movie in 2008.. *drool*
  • STRONGBROTHER
    THE BUZZ IS IN THE AIR. WHEN I SAW THE RAILER FOR I DONT KNOW WHAT MOVIE, I JUST WANTED MORE. JAN. 18TH 2008, I'LL BE THERE AND NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP ME. MONSTER OR ALIEN I'LL BE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • gibbs
    there is an imdb entry for it, it isnt that special, its under J.J. Abrams Untitled Project. the message board is going crazy
  • Pitbull0669
    Well they took down the one youtube Vid.. Im sure the other arent far off...lol..
  • Sharisse0727
    I just got back from watching Transformers, which is the best f*@$$ movie I have ever seen and will ever see!!! I must say, they showed some pretty frickin awesome teasers. As soon as I got home, I immediately tried to find out about that one preview because it was effin insane!! It left you with goosebumps (like Transformers did through out the whole movie) and left you wondering "wtf?!". I even thought it was a remake for Godzilla and thats the first thing I looked up. But "I Am Legend" looks pretty good too, but after reading it's about vampires, I'm not sure. I'll still watch it though.
  • http://myspace.com/davidmaness David M
    Man, I love all this hype this one lone trailer has brought up. I sure as heck hope it isn't Lionel they're talking about. Or Voltron. lol A LION! AAAHHH! I think he said 'It's alive'. I HOPE IT'S LOST RELATED! Plus, if you haven't seen LOST or don't know what it's about, you don't know what you're missing. Better catch up before 1/08. Seriosuly... J.J. Abrams. 1/08. The ultimate LOST reference. (HARDCORE LOST FAN HERE)
  • tyb
    i really dont understand the excitement over this trailer.. i appreciate jj abrams abilities but come on... all i could think the whole time was what the hell is this it looks like a crappy mix of blair witch and godzilla, and not naming it is just cheap...im sure itll be the start of a long drawn out viral campaign to get people to see a movie that probably couldnt carry box office success on its own merit and needs these cheap parlour tricks to draw in an audience. same kind of dirty marketing that went down when anybody who wanted to get a first look at the silver surfer in action had to pay to see some crappy kids movie from fox because they wouldnt show it online or with any other movie because that crappy kid movie needed a boost in sales. its weak. i have no ill will for this movie but at the same time i dont believe its going to be good at all and i think everyone excited for this movie is falling for the tricks and hype and i personally feel theyre gonna have to come out with a better trailer than that before i even give it a second look.
  • Tonya Perry
    I think I saw Ryan Key in this movie....lead singer of Yellowcard...was watching the preview and tought wow this looks like a neat movie....wait was that ryan?? It looks like something different, wish the trailer was online!!!!
  • ashley
    it clearly says " I saw it, it's a lion, it's huge." MrJoe83 was right.
  • alan
    the whole theater was quiet... then one guy yelled "I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS!"
  • STRONGBROTHER
    WELL IF THIS IS A LION, WHAT MOVIE COULD THIS BE? ATTACK OF THE GAINT KILLER LION! I DONT BUY THAT ONE BIT..
  • SkylineRivas
    haha I love that this movie comes out on my birthday. here is the dialog in the movie i got...some parts are missing but i tried to get all of it. Beginning of Trailer... Shh. *Radio Crackle* Quiet *Another Radio Crackle* He's Coming. *Radio Crackle* Blond Girl Talks: "Alright he's here, lets go." Blond girl walks forward towards camera. Guy (Rob) comes in and everyone yells out "Suprise!!!" People raise their hands in air as someone takes a picture of Rob. Rob smiles. People Clapping! Moves to a shot of a wall with a banner that reads... We'll Miss you Rob
  • SkylineRivas
    We'll Miss you Rob
  • SkylineRivas
    what the Hell its not posting the full comment arghhh We'll Miss you Rob
  • psucaps
    the end of the trailer doesn't simply say "1-18-08". it says "in theatres 1-18-08". should be safe to assume that this is not premiering on TV, and therefore is not a plug for lost.
  • B.B. Abrams [hi]
    Could this possibly be another godzilla movie?
  • SkylineRivas
    Anyway, What really happens is that they are in the street and the girls asks, "Is it coming this way?" And a guy responds by saying, "I saw it It's alive, Its HUGE!" not A LION..for those speculators Case Closed
  • B.B Abrams [hi]
    And what is your speculation about what they saw? Damn I hope it ain't a lion, it'll be stupid if it is, and all the hype for it will be demolished.
  • Pitbull0669
    I Bet a Camcorder remake of Beast from 20,000 fathoms!
  • Dustin
    ok ok ok for all of you guys who think the person is saying "its a lion!" youre horribly wrong. he/she is saying "ITS ALIVE, ITS HUGE!" open your ears dudes
  • Zack
    I'm not sure if it is, but this seems to be related to http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com I'm stuck on level 4 right now. Maybe I'll get past it.
  • http://myspace.com/meanmoon01 Austin
    Ok well first of all there is not a parasite attacking the city. It is simple a well put story on what would happen in reality, if a huge meteor shower hit earth in the middle of the night. I went and saw transformers again this mourning just so i could film that preview on my phone. I have tried to research everything i could for this movie, and came up with nothin. please lemme know what you know!
  • Necrolepsy
    I don't get that 1-18-08 website, all it is is a picture.... wth?
  • http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
    http://www.1-18-08.com/ Necrolepsy, the whole movie is filmed with home video cameras, like a Blair Witch Project kind of feel, so hence that website is like a still frame from someone's video camera. They looked pretty damn scared and are looking up like at the monster in front of them. That's what that site is for...
  • Mike
    It reminded me ALOT of War of the Worlds remake with Tom Cruise.
  • http://NONE.COM Anthony
    YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Godzilla. That is what this trailer is for. They messed up bad on the 1st one, so this time they figured they'd do it right. They went and got JJ and put his ass to task. I bet $1 billion that it's GODZILLA 2008.
  • http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
    It's NOT Godzilla!!!! Why does the fact that it's a giant monster in NYC mean it HAS to be Godzilla?!? It's Hollywood, their are similar concepts, and this is a similar "giant monster attacks NYC" but it's NOT Godzilla! C'mon!!!
  • Dustin
    I would just like to point out that if you take a look at the image properties of the picture on the 1-18-08 website, the image size is "108 KB"... just a cool little clue that they threw in there that it could be a lost movie or just be tied in with the release date 1/08.
  • Tonya Perry
    OK OK I thought really long and hard about what it could be....its OBVIOUSLY RAINBOW BRIGHT....HOW COULD YOU MISS THAT!!!! JK I DONT THINK ITS GODZILLA...I CAN ASK A FRIEND THATS IN THE MOVIE THOUGH....BUT HE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO TELL..... WHATEVER IT IS....IT DOES LOOK GOOD...AND HAS US ALL THINKING AND WONDERING.
  • Local
    JJ Abraham's office in Los Angles, at one time ( not sure if it still is) was on Cloverfield ST. It is near the Olympic/Pico Area of Santa Monica/LA
  • SAGA
    Maybe the movie is called 1-18-08? Seeing as it is an attack on NY, naming the movie the date the attack takes place would be quite fitting.
  • work-ed
    "I saw it! It's ALIVE! It's huge!" http://www.thegaminglife.net/
  • Local
    The Clues? Robot Lion New York Shown in front of Transformers Isnt there a Transformer toy that looks something like a Lion? What is this a Sequel? Transformers 2?
  • work-ed
    def says "ALIVE" not "LION" just listen to the trailer with head phones on and no picture. Listen and you'll here him say "I saw it! It's ALIVE! It's huge!". I also heard this movie is loosely based on this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084472/plotsummary Either way this trailer looks interesting, but if it's a monster based film (what else could it be?) it might disappoint big time!
  • work-ed
    and when you add 616px (width) x 415px (height) you get 1031... as in 10/31 Halloween! Perhaps another trailer will launch then.......
  • T.v.
    It seems people are captivated by whatever-easy propaganda. This looks like a blairwitch, amateur style movie shot with camcorders with a plot about a monster attacking a major city. Nothing new to be honest.
  • http://www.yeahright.com jennifer
    Well not sure of this helps, but I found a name to a face. No well known actors in this film however I knew one of the ladies looked familiar (the dark haired lady who speaks into the camera at the very beginning of the trailer) Odette Yustman (South Beach/October Road) http://www.odetteyustman.net/ However no movie is linked to her name, this is so top secret.
  • http://nocando.com jen
    Also I found out: Odette Yustman was a Socialite #3 in Transformers
  • work-ed
    Either way she's a major banger! And that's not top secret!
  • Dumbass
    I dont think its godzilla.I think its something way sinister, scarier and uglier than godzilla,like a giant dark green slimy mutated human monster who breathes fire.Now that would be scary.I would imagine a giant monster with human head,roting flesh,long dark hair covering the face.He was developed by scientist for military purposes but he escaped and attack New York.
  • Anteros
    Yes, I had the same reaction as everyone else who has seen this trailer. WTF? So I went looking for info and finally found the pirated trailer on YouTube. I knew, however, that as soon as Paramount found out about it that it would be removed, so I downloaded it as quickly as possible. My son and I have now watched it at least a dozen times and it leaves us chilly every time we watch it. This is awesome. Yes, the line from the person on the street is "I saw it! It's alive! It's huge!" At the end of the trailer it clearly says, "Coming to theaters 01-18-08." So no... no giant lions. And no... no TV show. The numbers are just in-joke type referrals to fans familiar with "Lost" but not a hint that it really is just a teaser for "Lost." Yes, there is a reference to the character going to Japan, so you think about Godzilla almost immediately. I disagree with comparing the sound with the creature on "Lost," however. That sounded more like a loud trumpet blast. This was much more chilling and plain f#$king scary. When I watched it for the first time at the theater, at one point I had to take my eyes off the screen and look around to remind myself that I was, indeed, still inside a movie theater! It was that awesome. It gave me goosebumps and set the tone for Transformers nicely. Oh yeah... that was a pretty good flick too!!
  • Nate
    I think Abrams is just toying with us. Something tells me there is an elaborate scheme involving this and clues are out there. Just keep an eye on every big movie that comes out because he will surely be dropping hints for the next 6 months. A lot of websites seemed to be linked to it, and it might tie into lost...there are a lot of hidden implications.
  • Denise Ramirez
    IT'S GODZILLA!!!! BETTER BE THE ORIGINAL GODZILLA NOT THE "AMERICAN VERSION" BECAUSE IT SUCKED!!!!! GAJIRA SHALL PREVAIL!!!!
  • Some DUDE
    Sorry but i keep hearing lion :(
  • Nate
    The ethanhasswasright.com website, which someone previosuly mentioned could be linked to this ends with a Biblical reference to the Apocolypse. There are scenes in between puzzles, made by what seems like a similiar film quality as the trailer, that hint at what is to come; claiming a man named Ethan Haas was right about everything. If they are linked, just remember I am the first one to call this being a movie about the Biblical Apocolypse.
  • Ryanj
    You guys ..he says, "i saw it in the light, its huge!!" ...listen man, listen!!
  • 0ktane
    I don't think anyone said "It's alive, It's huge!" I think he said "I saw it, it's a light, it's huge!" Just my .02 :) Immediately reminded me of Independence Day a few years back. The first trailer for that one simply showed the White House, then the White House being destroyed by something in the air. I recall ppl sayin WTF then too...but I think that trailer was during the super bowl that year. :) Lastly, I hope it has nothing to do with Lost. Not a fan of the show, and there are too many things to prove it's a movie. That date is a Friday, the trailer was filmed by camcorder (was lost ever filmed like that?), I don't believe anyone in the trailer was from Lost, and finally...STOP saying the roar sounded like the monster from lost...that roar sounds like 50 other monsters from numerous other movies. :) That is all.
  • marcus phoenix
    i am SO glad somebody else thought of gears of war when they saw this. i was completely ready to see some locust come out of the ground. i don't know why.
  • STevenG
    i dont get how a monster could cause a huge explosion like that unless it is strapped with a nuclear weapons on its back.. especially a lion - _- anyway that ethanhasswasright.com
  • Pitbull0669
    Gears would be Awsome But they wouldnt do a camcorder version of that..Im Betting on the Apoclypse thing or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
  • laserbones
    People are hearing things...the guy says: "I saw it. It's alive. It's huge"
  • dyson lu
    Great marketing! And having a bunch of dudes payed to surf the web and post comments about how amazing, awesome and unbelievable that trailers is, that's genius marketing.
  • dyson lu
    Clever marketing! And having a bunch of dudes payed to surf the web and post comments about how amazing, awesome and unbelievable that trailers is, that's genius marketing.
  • http://NONE.COM ANTHONY
    Clues: - American character is going to Japan (remember Raymond Burr) - Flames and explosions (Godzilla DESTROYS everything) - Major icon being DESTROYED (A big FU to America for the last Zilla movie) - Monster scream in the back (Throw in any Toho movie and compare) - Mutha fuccas on the run (Not enough people ran in the last one) From my last post............................ YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Godzilla. That is what this trailer is for. They messed up bad on the 1st one, so this time they figured they'd do it right. They went and got JJ and put his ass to task. I bet $1 billion that it's GODZILLA 2008.
  • jay
    this movie trailer was wild. it wasn't really the coolest trailer ever but it was good how they put no title. it got people like us online looking for it. good way to build hype. i also thought it was weird how the trailer before was in New York City "i am legend" with will smith. New York is such a bitch. GO SOX!
  • Wrks
    God Please!! Godzilla, Godzilla, Godzilla, Godzilla!!!!!!! BTW, it's Gojira.
  • The Rod
    VOLTRON!!! Look there are clues. The guy Rob is leaving for japan the next day. Its a japanese themed party. The television reporter says there is a “thunderous roar” . Outside someones says ” Its a lion, its huge” (Its alive, its huge doesnt even make sense). Voltron fought parasite monsters. If you look on wikipedia/voltron the movies are set for the same date. I don’t know how reliable wikipedia is but it says that “there is a teaser in theaters right now playing, (such as before transformers”. Either its a genius promotion of Voltron or its a cool trailer for a monster movie filmed with digital cameras. also there is a symbol on the bottom left of the credits and i wonder if anyone can tell me what that is.
  • ALIVE
    dude... ALIVE! ITS ALIVE----------THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LIONS MAN
  • Dave
    i deff this it says "its alive, its huge" this looks amazing also i think with in 3 weeks to a month the site with the picture is going to change or there is something on it we are missing
  • Nate
    Someone want to explain how "Godzilla" managed to send the statue of liberty's head flying for miles followed by a meteor-like trail? And why firey balls miles away are hitting buildings? And since when is Godzilla surrounded by that mass you breifly see in the trailer. It isn't Godzilla. They wouldn't shoot Godzilla from handheld cameras. Put some thought into it and it makes no sense. I promise you it is about the end of the world. And how can you say "It's alive, it's huge" doesn't make sense but a movie about a giant lion does?!
  • Bung0307
    this trailer makes me think the movie is gonna be big, maybe biblically big cause it reminds me of "The Beast of The Sea" that was described in revalations, anywho i have to say wow!... seriously after watching the trailer over and over and over and im getting ready to see transformers again JUST to watch it in a theatre again i have to say im amazed, yah ill be pissed if its lost, yah it may be godzilla, but WHATEVER it is it looks huge, and yah the ladiesman thing is a big coincidance, but but but.... wow... im blown away, i salute u Abrams love to all, big and small, night or day, straight or gay. ttfn p.s. ur mom
  • STeven G
    man i hope none of the asses in politics starts protesting this because it is a depiction of terrorism.. and that it is too much like 9/11,, that would suck this thing has got me goin crazy some1 should go to this jj dudes house and beat it out of him lol well cant wait just so happens 1.18 is my bday seems like its something from outer space that crashed and caused the explosion and the earthquake.. kinda makes sense Godzilla would suck so much damn as soon as i visited that 1/18/08 site there was a flash of lightening plus thunder followed by rain here in queens... scared the white out of me
  • Wrks
    If it is a movie about Godzilla, what would be the logic in trying to making sense of meteor like objects, statue of liberty's head flying, etc. It's freakin' Godzilla. You know, a fictional radiation mutated T-rex that breathes radiation breath that missiles and rockets dont phase. Is all that was on the trailer really a far stretch that it couldn't be Godzilla? I'm hoping it is. And listen closely. Someone does say "It's Alive, it's huge" Maybe it picks up from that last bomb of a remake when one of Godzilla's eggs survived. Who knows.
  • daniel
    the movie is called "Cloverfield"
  • Chase
  • Anteros
    I don't know how I would feel about a Godzilla re-make... ...but a "Gojira" remake I think I would love. This clip had that atmosphere, that feeling from Gojira. If anyone here has seen that movie, you'll know what I'm talking about. And please forget the Giant Lion crap. What's up with that? "It's ALIVE. It's HUGE."
  • J
    I think you're all wrong. I'm going to go out on a limb here... Ghostubusters remake. If the guy is indeed saying "I saw it! It's ALIVE! It's huge!" then i think he's talking about none other than the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. He sounds a little more pissed than the original, but hey!
  • Lunatech
    It very well could be a godzilla movie. In most Godzilla movies there is always another monster. and this Giant lion thing could be that enemy. It could also Be(from what i have heard of parasites) a trailer for Halo...(the chance of that is 1000000/1 in favor of the not but still) it could also be not godzilla but a gamara remake (gamara is another japanese giant lizard movie franchise thats not as well known. Gamara is a giant turtle)
  • Philip
    During the harried descent down the stairway, there is a voice (sounds like a woman) and they say something like sadadyas. If you pronounce it backwards it comes out "Say Bad Ass". Any body else catch that?
  • http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/ Mezin
    Ethan Haas was wrong.
  • Joe Schmo
    Here's a hint: the "thing" that knocks down that tower (which is inaccurate as only the top 15 floors of the woolworth building are knocked off the top) is actually a head... that lands on that street scene just before the tower top comes flying down. Wait until you see what happens to the Brooklyn Bridge...and the rest of NYC.
  • Voltron
    # A large Voltron toy is shown as a Christmas present during a 1980s-era flashback on Lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron
  • dr who
    People actually want to see this movie? wtf? I'll stick with Japanese monster movies. God help us if it's another American Godzilla.
  • Eldar
    How about Rampage - the video game. Everyone thought that was an awesome idea - barring some minor setbacks such as no storyline. So what do you think - will our generation be treated to a Rampage movie? My friend mentioned the possibility of Voltron - similar concept to transformers, giant mechanical robots... 80s generation comicbook/tv show. Even though my friend thinks "it's probably not Voltron because there's no way they'd be able to keep that underwraps" - I think he might be on to something. Plus... J.J. Abrams co., goes by the name "Bad Robot" - any connection or am I just pulling at straws here?
  • cliffydawg07
    I have some potentially good news: http://www.kernerresearch.com/godzilla3d.htm Appearantly there's a new Godzilla movie coming, but it's a 3-D version. Which would in itself be potentially badass if done well. However, this trailer in no way resembled any 3-D movie I've ever seen so I'm inclined to believe it is not Godzilla. I do not know what it is, but i highly doubt two Godzilla releases.....
  • http://ww.myspace.com/skitlpak Keegan
    That trailer was botherin me the whole day after I got out of that movie, right when i got home i did a whole bunch of research and came up with nuthin, but heres my guesses 1. A godzilla movie (Ihope not) . Jurrasic Park 4 (That would be cool) or it could be a plain original new movie Or some apocoypse That trailer looks swweet Its not a tv promo cuz it says "COming to theaters1-18-08" not just1-18-08
  • StevenG
    i believe an actor in the trailer is named Kristen Holden-Ried you kno the one who says"This is gonna be the best night" at the end
  • http://www.gearsofwar.com Charles Gonzalez
    When i first saw the trailer I thought it was going to be a monster movie too. But after the next day I thought it could have been a gears of war movie since it started with an earthquake just like the game.
  • Pitbull0669
    Well i saw transformers like 3 times and That tariler like 5 times in the theater..lo. All i can say is that it give NO Hints wat so ever about what it is or what it could be..I trid picking it apart everytime but.Nothin.This is going to be one of those things where people have to wait untill he spills the beans or Some one tssometing Slip!...thats about it,which sucks beacuse I and everyone else are diying to find out what the hell it is or is going to be.
  • dumbass
    They have made movie about a giant lizard(godzilla),monkey(king kong),,etc.How about a giant ugly,mutated human who roars and breathe fire ball?.Now that would be scary.
  • nyker
    I was in a theater in NYC when that trailer came on. A lot of people started booing. Thousands of us already have home videos of our city being destroyed and memories of the confusion of thinking we were all about to die as the sky started falling, so I guess we don't need to see fictional versions for entertainment. I'm sure everyone else will have fun watching though.
  • cliffydawg07
    nyker: That's gotta be rough dude. Total sympathy. Seems like it's always NYC in these monster / comic book movies. 9-11 has made those sceens personal now for many affected by that day.
  • http://myspace.com/coolguylover ur shawty
    some are saying Voltron because there were supposedly 5 fireballs (one for each lion) flying around.
  • SBMATT
    Yo Magus send me the video you posted my email is gudwitdaglovez@aol.com or repost it on another video upload site like tinypic or photobucket
  • Anteros
    As of 3:30pm Eastern time the trailer is still being shown at http://www.thegaminglife.com
  • scarrr
    felicity, alias, lost....M3....and couple of shows in between got the boot on abc.....anywya....jj is tha huge force to be recon with for the future folks. LOST is allready the best show in this planet...and now we have this huge trailer to talk about....insane let me tell ya.....my jaw dropped when I saw it last night....oh my lord....long live LOST and the new trailer.....
  • Anteros
  • Anteros
    Sorry... I think all these 01-18-08 sites are fake.
  • MrJoe83
    No matter what I try, I hear, "I saw it, it's a lion, it's huge!". "It's alive, its huge" makes no sense. Somebody asked this a while ago, the symbol in the bottom left of the credits is the Bad Robot logo so no clue there. I think we all need to get ourselves and face the fact that it's not a remake/new version of Godzilla or Voltron(even though a live action Voltron movie would be sweet! they started playing the cartoon on adult swim recently!) or anything else. From what I know about Abrams, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy would use the freedom of running his projects to do remakes. I know he's directing Star Trek but that's different, it's not HIS movie. Let's just sit back, be patient, and wait for whatever comes next from this amazing ORIGINAL movie! P.S. - I like the clue somebody found about Halloween, that's totally something Abrams would do!
  • Anteros
    So far the only poster on here to give ANY detailed information is "Joe Schmo." Are you a fake or would you care to enlighten us, Mr Schmo?
  • http://www.betweenthestars.com JJ Abrams
    It's Blair Witch 3
  • Artie
    THIS BETTER NOT BE GODZILLAS WIFE, SON OR DAUGHTER.... I WILL BBQ THERE LIZRD LOOKING ASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    Ok so there is DEFINATELY someone I know that is in it...I had a friend of mine watch the trailer as well and we agree it him....36 seconds into it there is a guy on the right side...blonde hair...its ryan key from yellowcard....went to school with him...know that face anywhere....

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  • Chase
    People, people, PEOPLE!! Look at my previous comment, number 137! I provided TWO links! They both revealed that it WILL be a monster-movie, and the 1st revealed more specifically that it will be a "Parasite-invasion".
  • Cliffydawg07
    http://www.kernerresearch.com/godzilla3d.htm I repeat, not Godzilla, check this link. There is a Godzilla movie coming, but it's in 3-D. There is a Voltron movie coming in 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472429/ However if that was a "lion" attacking NYC that would not make sense. The Lions are the good guys.
  • Trav
    I think bottom line it's some sort of monster movie. Now in my opinion, if they're smart they'll use Godzilla instead of some new monster. Use something that already has a reputation. But then again I don't know how a Godzilla movie shot like the Blair Witch would go over. And the 2000 version of Godzilla was total crap and should be forgotten and not tied onto. I think overall it's safe to say it's definitely a monster movie shot like the blair witch. Someone made good point to the statue of libery, so it came out of the water. But as to what monster it is is up in the air. I do hope it's Godzilla, who easily makes explosions like in the trailer. But then again I saw not radioactive breath. Hmmm

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  • dibbydibbs
    1 of the sickest trailers ive seen since independance day, movie could suck total balls but that trailer will always be sick..
  • LiCH
    I agree with whoever said it could be a 'Chrono Trigger' spin-off. That totally looked like Lavos shooting his spike into the sky. Lavos is a space parasite that crashes on earth and promptly sucks the life out of it and destroyed the 'advanced human race', and he did make a smiliar noise in the video game.
  • kenny d.
    well i've read these comments before seeing the preview and now that i have seen it........WTF! at first i was thinkin it was a sequel to transformers because in the movie they were plannin to hide that cube in the city and that awkward event in the "1-18-08" preview seemed to be takin place in the city. but after seeing the cube used to kill megatron, i figured it cant be a sequel. i've heard people say it could be godzilla because you hear the word "Japan" when they're talkin about where that guy is goin. but i doubt it, godzilla aint worth all that hype. but whatever it is it must be huge to smack the statue of liberty's heavy ass head from the water all the way to the streets of the city. it was quite chilling though, hopefully its a monster, a whole new movie (not a sequel), and i hope the movie is as good as the trailer.
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  • http://www.droppingbombs.com David Donati
    Trav and MrJoe you don't know what you're talking about....It's obviously a movie about alien parasites depicting the Apocolypse...Voltron might make a cameo....as for Godzilla...He is busy with the filming of Jurrasic Park 4 as someone mentioned before
  • js
    I am NOT a viral marketer, going to a few of the websites, specifically the blog ethanhaaswaswrong a commenter writes a line referencing cthulu, it makes a lot of sense considering this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R'lyeh and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu Either way a lovecraft movie based on cthulu, pretty damn cool
  • MrJoe83
    The Voltron movie starts production in February 2008, so no dice.
  • darkwolf
    OK it's not lost the show. At the end it says in theaters 1/18/08 so how could that be the show and not a movie 2 yes some one says did you see it is it coming this way ? and then you hear yes I saw it ,it's a Lion it's huge! so if it's Godzilla there trying to through you off by using Lion ? any ways I am going into Cryo sleep till Jan I can't wait 6 months LOL .
  • h0tpinkinmiami
    My 2 cents, it's a monster/robot battle movie...and humans, of course, are caught in the middle. If it's Voltron its going to be amazing. I have a strong feeling it is...
  • nacho
    How about a remake of the korean movie the Host. It is planned for a US remake.
  • Louie
    1st- Its not Godzilla, as Sony owns the rights to Godzilla, not Paramount. 2nd- Any real giant monster fan would NOT be impressed by this trailer. I think you all were just cought off guard because they didnt give the name of the movie. What was so impressive about it ? The flying LIberty head? A bunch of screaming NY'ers? Come on. I didnt realise people are so easily impressed. Maybe ill make a movie 3rd - Do we really need another Blair Witch project style perspective? It only worked once.
  • JJ Abrams
    Blair Witch Project worked?
  • Roman
    There was this giant "awww" of disappointment at our threatre. I'm so pumped for it though!!
  • Frank
    Just to say, Sony's rights to Godzilla expired in 2003. Doesn't sound like the Godzilla roar though, but could be wrong.
  • Frank
    EthanHaaswasright.com and EthanHaaswaswrong.blogspot.com have something to do with it. Reminds me of "The Lost Experience" that went on last year.
  • Kratos
    deffinitly not godzilla, or voltron im thinking its an apocolypse movie, 12:36(time of the picture taken on the websites) is a bible quote referring to apocolypse and the quote "it looks like a lion" also has biblyical symbolism, which also points to apocolypse. voltron and godzilla already are schedualed to make new movies at diffrent times, they are ruled out
  • butters
    I'm no expert on the book of revelations, but doesn;t it say that when the world ends there will be fire, monsters, etc. I just think it fits a little because of the whole doomsday prophesy stuff with Ethan Haas. I'm probably wrong, just throwing it out there.
  • Anteros
    The twelfth chapter of the book of Revelations has no verse 36 The twelfth chapter of the book of Daniel has no verse 36 The twelfth chapter of the book of Ezekiel has no verse 36 Those are the accepted Apocalyptic books of the Bible. Matthew 12:36 says, however; "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken." Make of it what you will.
  • Anteros
    The Day Of Judgment The Last Judgment Judgment Day Maybe all these people guessing this are right after all.
  • caz
    1-18-08 website has a fote if you split it and realign the image you will see its a picture of teh same girl from both sides...with altered lighting
  • jbone
    jesus c. whats the point of that now?
  • Alex
    its kind of funny how almost all of your predictions are having their own movie. 1. Voltron 2. Cthulhu (cthulhumovie.com)[does not show a monster in the trailer; anythings possible!] 3. Incredible Hulk (features the abomination as villain so no HUGE monster) 4.godzilla (going to be in 3d!) anyhow i cant wait to see all of these movies i hope the giant monster is a lion (although its highly unlikely) it would be a first i think shooting fireballs is just a plus!
  • http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/29/jj-abrams-top-secret-trailer-for-cloverfield-in-front-of-transformers/ Alex
    i think a lion would be cool!!!!!!
  • http://www.betweenthestars.com Vinnie
    Caz is absolutely right....I split it and put it up on the net Check out the picture rearranged: 1-18-08.com Photo
  • Nate
    Am I the only one who thought the trailer was a bit weak? Granted, I'm on here posting about it when I don't even know what the film is, but the praise you are all giving it purports the trailer to be more than a simple mysterious viral promo and more a masterpiece. "Oh! The home video cameras and lack of notable movie stars make me feel like I'm really there, on the roof of an expensive loft in NYC!" Cheap gimmick. Voltron or bust. To hell with release dates.
  • Azreal
    http://www.1-18-08.com/ Go here and see the creepiest pic for a movie i've every seen, It's the official website from paramount, I do have some strange feeling that this will be a lost movie to finally answer everything! as you can see with the throwing of the Statue of Lib head and by it being in Lower Manhat that it's coming from the water and the roar's does sound exactly like the monster from the show and this very important point....JJ Abrams Producer/ And the writer for the movie is his writer from Lost! but even more important than that is this....It's production company is the same as Lost! remember the robot in the movie?! Maybe it is maybe it's not well see soon wont we :)
  • Azreal
    http://www.1-18-08.com/ Go here and see the creepiest pic for a movie i've every seen, It's the official website from paramount, I do have some strange feeling that this will be a lost movie to finally answer everything! as you can see with the throwing of the Statue of Lib head and by it being in Lower Manhat that it's coming from the water and the roar's does sound exactly like the monster from the show and this very important point....JJ Abrams Producer/ And the writer for the movie is his writer from Lost! but even more important than that is this....It's production company is the same as Lost! remember the robot in the movie?!.....Maybe it is maybe it's not well see soon wont we ;) 13 14 vre*hint
  • Guest
    I really think it is related to Lost somehow. The sound the monster makes is nearly identical to the mysterious monster in the show. Perhaps this movie is about what happens to the rest of the world when the survivors set off the EMP on the island. They make mention that it will destroy the world on numerous occasions. However the end of this season would seem to indicate that the world is still intact after the Losties get off the island...
  • Darkone0125
    This is what they do with these types of movies. The big hype about what the monster actually is and then the big let down when you go see the movie and they never actually show it. It only took $30 million dollars to make this movie. That opening scene is it! The rest will all be about survival and they will leave what the monster looks like " up to your imagination". I'll still unfortunately will go and see it....oh well. Dam you j.j Abrams!!!
  • dirtyDIBBS
    i thought the trailer was really good, but JJ ABRAMS isn't really some1 who is gonna make me go apeshit over a trailer like this. I don't watch Lost and MI3 sucked in my opinion. Now if it said James Cameron or something, i woulda stood up at the theatre and cheered. Nevertheless its fantastic marketing and looks pretty promising. Does any1 else think it looks like a blair witch/ 28 days later/ Godzilla hybrid ?? maybe its just me
  • HIX
    re: TheRoboticElephant Bad robot also did the movie Joy Ride, that movie with paul walker about the psycho trucker
  • Chapter29
    Wait...I did not read all the posts in this blog, but I do not see any mention of the image in between the girls hair at the 1.18.08 website...am I the only one that sees it?!! It looks like some sort of dragon monster with a long mandible. Check it out cause its right there in between their heads!!
  • HIX
    One thing i wanted to point out is the significance of the release date, because its all theyre letting us kno, which is 1-18-08, a thursday release which is understandable for a big production release, but unusual for a winter month like January. now this might be a stretch, but the clock in lost that counted down in the hatch was 108:00, and the infamous numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 all add up to 108. Im just pointing out that there are only 1's, 0's and 8's in the release date, and jj loves to mess with stuff like that.
  • HIX
    re: TheRoboticElephant Also i forgot that Bad Robot and JJ Abrams are in production of a new Star Trek movie, which makes me lose some respect for JJ cause NO ONE needs to give a reason for star trek fans to come out of their moms basements and piss off the rest of the world. its coming out christmas of 08'
  • HIX
    sorry mrjoe, ur right, i was lookin at 07
  • dirtydibbs
    HIX wtf do all those numbers add up to tho son? a LOST MOVIE? u lost me big time ninja
  • Pitbull0669
    Their head is a Shes ead its spit in 2 someone poste it up father they re put together the head..I dnot see wat you are seeing..? Are you on drugs??
  • HIX
    Those numbers were used all the time in lost, if you watched the show 108 is a significant number, along with the sequence of numbers. I dont think its going to be a Lost movie because a few months ago they said that lost is going to end after 3 more seasons in 2010, and i thought it would piss people off. But i was just putting it out there that the numbers were showing up with the little info we know about this movie, and more people have pointed out that the pic on 1-18-08.com is 108 kb, and some others, its just something to think about. It could be jj abrams just wanting to drop useless clues to gather a crowd with conspiracies and get us all talking so that he gets more free publicity
  • Chapter29
    Thanks MrJoe83!! Truth is it didn't take that long...guess smoking the good stuff actually helps in these situations!! But you can see it right there on the 1.18.08 web site...but you knew there would be clues there, so no big deal. Gonna rock no matter what! After a second(and 3rd, 4th, ect.) look, it has more of a demon look than anything else!!
  • Chapter29
    Thanks MrJoe83!! Truth is it didn't take that long...guess smoking the good stuff actually helps in these situations!! But you can see it right there on the 1.18.08 web site...but you knew there would be clues there, so no big deal. Gonna rock no matter what! After a second(and 3rd, 4th, ect.) look, it has more of a demon look than anything else!! Hey PitBull....you are not smoking the good stuff obviously...cause the image is right there in their hair.
  • HIX
    JayBear, on the other cloverfield post pointed out that matthew 12:36 says“"I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak." On the Ethan Haas was right puzzles he talks about this kind of thing, sort of the end of the world and how people are blind to society's wrongs. Take a look at the site ethanhaaswasright.com and let me know what you think.
  • striker
    Hix, the guy says in the first video that we have until august first to prepare, and so theres probably going to be a trailer with more info then maybe?
  • http://myspace.com/coolguylover ur Shawty
    Thanks Chapter 29....now what is it???
  • Chapter29
    I would say my ex-girlfriend, but that may construed as a compliment...From all my d&d books to my current imaginations, i would say it looks like a demon, but a demon isn't really a monster in the typical sense. But every time I take a look at it,that is the first thing that pops into my twisted mind. But with CG special effects the way they are today, I guess making a monster that looks similar to a demon my be passable...I hope it is something from the 9 circle of hell - we have too many lame monster movies as it is...let's start going going back to the heaven and hell genre; kinda like they did for Vietnam movies in the 80's - the whole monster thing is played out...I think...
  • Hernam Tirado
    i went to see Transformers with my sister and friend and both of them thought it was a type of "Godzilla" movie...set in 'new york' again...the americanize version flat out suck junk balls and piss me off but i hope to god it isnt or if its actually "Godzilla" its done right...that being said from reading some of the earlier post..is supposed to be a parasite movie..i dont know...and has anyone thought that maybe "cloverfield" is just, perhaps a title to throw us off to what this movie is actually about?..there have been times when a studio is doing a film and throws a teaser like this and the name is actually a....errr...cover name for the movie like fake title that was Batman Begins before it was Batman Begins...know what i mean?...i think my theater after watching that trailer most of them if not all of them..went WTF?....
  • Pitbull0669
    DONT CRACK HAT PUZZLE!!! Idid and it shut my PC down BIG TIME!!! AGAIN DO NOT OPE OR CACK THAT PUZZLE ITS NOT COOL...Its a messag from some guy on video saying the end of the world nd stuff but its all Fuzzy and broken up..he says that Eathan guy was right and since you found him you are one of the Lucky ones and now he mucst text you. the BAM! Lock up City!! dont figure out this PuzzleSerious this isno Fuckin joke man!Pit. EthanHaaswasright.com
  • Chapter29
    I think Pitbull is drunk....I would be too but I'm west coast time and still at work... Is it 4:20 yet?
  • striker
    The site and puzzles are fine, pitbulls computer blows. there is a lot to be told from the site once you finish the puzzles, they get kinda hard, but it was interesting none the less. They are definitely tied to cloverfield though. After a couple of the puzzles the image of the city in the background is what the trailer portrayed
  • Pitbull0669
    Ummm.. then you didnt Finish the Puzzle like I did..I gt that Video. of that guy.. then BAM went all Fuzzy and the PC Locked Up.My PC is Custom Built and AllH2o cooled X2900xt 1 gig GPU and QX6700 Quad CPU so.. It deff dont Blow.
  • MrJoe83
    WOW! GREAT FIND CHAPTER29! Looks like a...I don't know what it looks like. HIX, thanks for reposting something I said already, and January 18th, 2008 is a Friday.
  • LiCH
    I really do see a demon face in the girls hair on the left. It doesn't make sense though because the girls who appear to be twins and staring in horror at something in front of them, the demon's face is behind them. I don't know what's going to happen in this movies, but a real Biblical doomsday might be feasible. Demons unleashed from hell who go berserk and ruin humanity, while the movie follows how people survive and adapt. I don't think there is a chance of any one 'fighting' the monsters back. A la WoTW the demons/aliens might just either leave the planet after the devastation or possibly claim earth as their own. In which case people will be forced to live like bugs do today. BTW: Godzilla's shriek was higher pitched and totally distinct. This monster sound is very similar to the Tripods in WoTW, possibly mechanical. Anyway, so who knows whats going to happen? I'm sure the cast doesn't even know yet, since they are still currently filming. Any conversation on this project at this time is purely speculation. But we can all hope, can't we? =)
  • Ryanj
    Get a Mac ..mine didnt freeze, or even slow down for that matter ;) imac 24" 2.33ghz core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, 500gb hd ...Seriously, no one out there knows anyone who knows someone who ..etc etc you get the point, that has REAL info on this, not guesswork and mind game crap !!? Im tired of clues, clues are cool on the same token but, enough is enough ..lets get some real info please!?!?
  • Anteros
    Check out 01-18-08 again! They've added another photo and added flash so you can manipulate the pictures. They're playing with us, man!!
  • Ryanj
    Yeah no SHI$!! Totally messing with us ...ryans not happy, ryans getting upset!!! getting reeeal upset!! Truth be told though, i am in love with that trailer ...just insane
  • tn1
    Well another photo showed up on the site! Can't they at least create a forum so that we can gather up and talk about it?
  • Nate22203
    Abrams has proved himself to be a genius. He will space each hint, clue, trailer, whatever out just perfectly so we are obsessing and talking about this constantly until January the eighteenth. Without doubt, no matter what this is tied to, it's about the apocolypse. I am thinking Abram is so well connected God called him and told him the Apocolypse is going to be in 1-18-08 and to give us a head's up. Also, I agree with what a few are you are saying about the hype about this, but not neccesarily a good potential movie. The handheld camera thing could be really bad, but I just don't think Abrams would do something to make himself look too bad. He's really good at what he's doing. AND THAT'S WRAPPING US AROUND HIS FINGER.
  • Anteros
    Yes, he is wrapping us around his finger... ... but does anyone else besides me think this is fun? I feel like I'm playing an RPG.... heh heh heh
  • Nate22203
    Yeah, it's actually got a lot of people REALLY interested in something they normally wouldn't be. I think it's pretty cool. If JJ is reading this...just know that if you screw us over, there's gonna be one nasty witch hunt for your head, pal.
  • Pitbull0669
    Im with he guy above me on this one!
  • NJWAKE
    I think this is a godzilla movie. Subtle hints in the party scene gave me that idea. Like how the guy is going to Japan. And how its again in New York, a little pay back maybe. Whatever the movie may be, im stoked to see it. i went and saw transformers and after the trailer for this movie "cloverfield", me and my friend just looked at each other and were like "oh yeah!!!! deff. going to see that!!!" So im really excited to see what the deal with this one is.
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    so the photos move....wonder whats that's about. you can turn them upside down....i also just noticed the demon thing between the 2 girls....
  • Pitbull0669
    It not 2 Girls Its 1 cut i half and Moved on the other side of eac ote..In a Post a while back a guy recut them and Put them the way they should be. 1GIRL not 2.
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    ok its not 2 girls...its 1 girl...i was just saying photo of 2 girls...thats what it shows...2 girls...maybe they are twins...never know....i dont think this has ANYTHING TO DO WITH LOST....i asked a friend who has a small part in the movie about it....no comment!!!!! guess they are keeping it under wraps for a while to let us guess...im not sure if i can handle watching a hand held camera made movie on a big screen...would make me sick...
  • http://www.cc.com davis
    are you guys serious? it seems like everyone that posted here has never seen a trailer before for a movie, its kinda like war of the worlds, something different but nothing to get overly excited for, you guys are nerds.
  • Nate22203
    What was the point of posting a comment here, then, Davis? This is OBVIOUSLY different than most trailers. And you sure as hell went looking for what it was, apparently.
  • DirectorJZ
    Here is another maybe/maybe not hidden easter egg from the trailer. It seems like something JJ Abrams would do. The song playing in the background during the party in the trailer is by Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief. And the cover for that album features a Lizard.
  • Flagg79
    Definately a biblical armageddon movie. Ther are too many armageddon/bible references on these hint sites and the ethan haas sites. I say to narrow the search down for more clues, keep trying to use any numbers in the pics with bible references. Also, does anyone have a photo program to blow up the picture of the guy in glasses from the post WAAAY up at the top:http://www.betweenthestars.com/1-18-08.html Can we see a reflection in his glasses, maybe?
  • Ox
    The http://www.1-18-08.com site that now has 2 pictures that you can move around using flash player HAS to have some clue or hidden meaning. I definitely see the figure in the middle of the first picture. Who's going to catch the hidden element to the second one?
  • chichi
    this is a remake of godzilla. when the kid screams its alive and it is huge he is refering to godzilla because nyc thought they had destoyed him. in the end of the american version of godzilla one egg hatched. what other monster can make that sound? another person says have fun in JAPAN...gojjira! only thing that has me stumped is how does godzilla rip the head of the statue of liberty?
  • Danny
    LIVE ACTION EVANGELION MOVIE- enough said.
  • Ox
    Will people PLEASE stop claiming this to be Godzilla. IT'S NOT. They use that damn sound effect in movies all the time. It was used in Jurassic Park..THEY EVEN USED IT FOR SANDMAN IN SPIDERMAN 3. It's used in LOST. There are many logical reasons that prove this isn't a Godzilla movie. There is one in the works and it's going to be in 3D.
  • Jessica
    It's gotta be Voltron. Though the large monster sounds like godzilla, all you hear them saying is Roaring sounds, looks like a lion. The name they have for the movie is Cloverfield. There is also mention that the monster is reffered to as The Parasite. From what I read and remember, Voltron fought parasitic creatures. We'll find out soon enough what it is.
  • EVANGELION_PWNS!
    Yeah I agree with Danny, its got to be a trailer for the Live Action Evangelion Film!
  • NERV
    Do I hear Evangelion? I mean the beast looking figure that has a long mandible? Thats got to be Evangelion Unit-01...
  • Rei_Ayanami
    OMG?!?!?!?! EVANGELION!!!!!!!!!! Can it be? Will it be?!?!?!?! I sure hope this turns out to be EVA, cause I've been waiting for that moivies for years!
  • a shoe
    "OMG?!?!?!?! EVANGELION!!!!!!!!!! Can it be? Will it be?!?!?!?! I sure hope this turns out to be EVA, cause I've been waiting for that moivies for years!" Evangelion? Rei_Ayanami, I highly doubt this is the trailer for the live action eva movie... although their might be a possibility that this is it, but I highly doubt it..... Anyways a live action eva movie does dound kinda cool :)
  • YoUr_LiTtLe_SlUtFaCe
    Its awfully quit here in this forum, is it because someone mentioned EVA? Did that make all you guys shut up or what?
  • ross
    If this is about lost that will fuckin blow ass chunks ..that show sucked ass ..no movie based on a tv show is worth this much debate over, if its based on lost, i will straight up throw food at jj abrams' face ..Evangelion would be nice, Godzilla would be even better ..but thats pretty much been ruled out, as far as we know, and we dont know much, Lost would SUCK, Host ..very interesting ;) , something related to bilblical happenings ...very cool. This shit better be monumental ...
  • chase11808
    am i the only one thats noticed that the picture with the girl is a MIRROR!!! cover up the on on the right and ull see shes leaning agaist a MIRROR!!!that demon thing by her hair that everyones talkin about is the same thing thats in her eyes its what shes staring at (reflection)!!!
  • Danny
    "something related to bilblical happenings …very cool." Yup, sounds like Evangelion to me :)
  • Sage~
    Well, as Mr. JD said, there be a bible verse in Matthew 12-3 about the day of judgment and judging by the other sites [like ethathaanwasright/wrong] it gotta do with something with the gods. Just a guess Dx All I know for sure is that: I GOTTA SEE THIS MOVIE!
  • Ross
    Biblical* ..oops lol ..yeah man, Evangelion would be crazy!!! But about the sites, those are wild as well ...needless to say the marketing that went into this project is pure genius ..look at us!! lol
  • Danny
    Yeah I know what you mean, just look at what it did to us! As for Evangelion, well we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed. lol Im actually a huge Eva fan myself, just check out my Eva art page: http://sikari.deviantart.com/ you'll see what I mean
  • Frozilla
    Did anyone go to that ethanhasswasright.com website? I did the first puzzle (did it like the game simon) and some freaky ass video comes and tells me ethan was always right and since I got the puzzle I must be one of them and that I must recruit people by August 1st? wut the hell lol and now it gave me a second puzzle, I'm not sure what to do to this one
  • Frozilla
    also, I searched that ethan hass thing and I found a guide on how to complete the puzzles and people posted on it 4 monthes ago so I don't really get how this has anything to do with thte movie?
  • Andrew
    Aparently the movie may have a connection to the Ethan Haas thing, like an ARG (Alternate-reality-game) Taking it one step further - According to a slashfilm.com article, the Hollywood Reporter revealed some of the cast members for our secret movie. Lizzy Kaplan played "Kat" in the TV SitCom "The Class" "The Class" also featured a character by the name of Ethan Haas. Maybe something to this?
  • YoUr_LiTtLe_SlUtFaCe
    " Aparently the movie may have a connection to the Ethan Haas thing, like an ARG (Alternate-reality-game) Taking it one step further - According to a slashfilm.com article, the Hollywood Reporter revealed some of the cast members for our secret movie. Lizzy Kaplan played “Kat" in the TV SitCom “The Class" “The Class" also featured a character by the name of Ethan Haas. Maybe something to this?" Maybe Eva?
  • Cody
    i would love forit io be godzilla, but seems looks and sounds more like it could be ghidrah. wow, tis adviertising campaign was genious. i couldn't enjoy transformers cause i couldn't get that trailer out of my mind
  • dothevampire
    i noticed in the trailer (when i saw it in theaters) that the singer from the band "yellowcard" is behing the bar, and you can also see his head when people are watching the tv screen. someone find this kid.. and ask him WTF this movie is!!!
  • dothevampire
    i noticed in the trailer (when i saw it in theaters) that the singer from the band "yellowcard" is behind the bar, and you can also see his head when people are watching the tv screen. someone find this kid.. and ask him WTF this movie is!!!
  • Rei_Ayanami
    " i noticed in the trailer (when i saw it in theaters) that the singer from the band “yellowcard" is behind the bar, and you can also see his head when people are watching the tv screen. someone find this kid.. and ask him WTF this movie is!!!" Its probably Shinji Ikari from Eva ROFLOL!
  • Chris
    Alright, this has to be about Gods, Evangelion, Biblical, etc. There is certainly a demon in between the women, which does appear to be the same woman. The second picture is the trickier one. But, look to far right side of the photo. The dude looks possessed and very much out of place for the "happy" scene he's depicted in. Anyone agree?
  • EVANGELION_pwns
    I agree, its got to be about eva...
  • advarin
    Here is the setup: The Drules have invaded Earth and kicked our ass in the ONE DAY WAR. Humanity has gone underground. New York has been decimated and our story opens on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Drule invasion. Think about it, Earth was conquered by an Alien race in 24 hours. Fifty-feet tall, a horrible hybrid of metal parts, complete with some kind of awful face and glowing red eyes, staring down at them. We’re not sure if this is alien or man-made, but it’s terrifying. Folks, this is a ROBEAST. The Robeasts in this script are like the sentinels in The Matrix – they patrol the earth in search of a signal which we will get to later. The Robeast emits a high-pitched industrial roar and swings its head low over the street. It swipes at the soldiers with its enormous talons as if they were in the way of what it’s really looking for… http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65 Its Voltron!! But I could be wrong… or am I? =)
  • EVANGELION_pwns
    " Here is the setup: The Drules have invaded Earth and kicked our ass in the ONE DAY WAR. Humanity has gone underground. New York has been decimated and our story opens on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Drule invasion. Think about it, Earth was conquered by an Alien race in 24 hours. Fifty-feet tall, a horrible hybrid of metal parts, complete with some kind of awful face and glowing red eyes, staring down at them. We’re not sure if this is alien or man-made, but it’s terrifying. Folks, this is a ROBEAST. The Robeasts in this script are like the sentinels in The Matrix – they patrol the earth in search of a signal which we will get to later. The Robeast emits a high-pitched industrial roar and swings its head low over the street. It swipes at the soldiers with its enormous talons as if they were in the way of what it’s really looking for… http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65 Its Voltron!! But I could be wrong… or am I? =)" All I read is Eva :)
  • advarin
    Transformers will be produced by Don Murphy, whom Voltron producer Mark Gordon worked with on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. http://movies.ign.com/articles/636/636750p1.html http://www.voltron.com/main.asp
  • chase11808
    holy cow i def. believe this is voltron, i went to the 1-18-08.com and set up the two pictures right next to each other(the girl one on the left) at about the middle of the screen going across, ull see them start to slowly rotate,i left it there for a while, when i came back i saw they had stopped moving and formed a "V" could this mean a voltron movie?
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    find out the REAL truth behind the cloverfield project cracked @ http://cloverfieldcracked.blogspot.com/
  • Fig
    Awesome preview, thanks for posting this it is sad that the company making this film decided, wait a minute, let's keep everyone in more suspense rather than just release the damn trailer more than five minutes. Paramount, as if you would listen to the general public, the movie looks awesome, the more y'all keep things under wraps, the tighter the public will hold onto their wallets and wait for the dvd to arrive, rather than watch the movie in theaters. Look at how well Transformers has done so far, learn from that, before Cloverfield or whatever the title of the movie is, becomes the field of unlucky clovers of the field of lost dreams. P.S. Awesome trailer:)

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  • CrackV
    This has to be the most amazing trailer ever. Leave it to the creator of Lost to think up something like this. Ok, lots of talk that it might be a lost trailer. Reasons: A: J.J. Abrams made it, so theres a big hint. B: The roar. Sounds like the lost monster roar. One problem with that, the lost roar has a mechanical and hollow sound to it at the same time, mixed into the roar. And souds of a machine of some sorts in its movements. This roar was like a deep Godzilla style, like lion Godzilla. Now, heres where u have to look at some points in the trailer. One thing, the guy was about to leave for Japan. A hint towards The Big Friendly Green Lizard? Maybe. Second, and nobody ever seems to notice this, after one lady yells "Is it coming this way?" a guy shouts out "I see it, its a lion, its Huge!" Lion? WTF, a Lion? Giant lion, although strange, is pretty cool. I mean, maybe its a giant flaming lion? Lion of death, or just a reallly big catlike monster. One thing to point out, if you look at Godzilla, there is one monster that walks on all fours that maybe could be mistaken for a lion. I dont know, thats unlikely, but in any case, why would a giant lion be called "The Parasite"? What im thinking, is that the guy was seeing the monster, but seeing it wrong. My thinking. Godzilla, or something like it. Godzilla is the king of all monsters, litteraly, its his title, and he fights very hard for it. Plus, he shoots lazers, which, ergo, means big fiery explosions (which is something that was oddly abundent in the last Godzilla remake, minus the lazers. Thats where the last remake lost the fans. No lazers) All facts are pointing to Godzilla. Parasite is one of those simple names that are abundant in the Godzilla searies. You got a robot Godzilla, its "Mecha Godzilla" Giant Moth? Add "ra" onto "Moth". Simple as that. But, one thing is for sure. Even when people go see this movie, they wont get a full view of the creature until very late in the movie, if at all. Maybe a few leg shots, or tails just whipping around a corner out of sight just as the camera gets a look. That way, keeps up the suspense, and keeps the real feel to the movie. I mean, look at all the "real" monsters, the camera work is allways fuzzy. Never a clear whole shot. I think it would still be cool to never give a whole shot of the monster (Unless its godzilla) to make it seem like its really happening in a real world. Plus, keeping the filming to hand cameras means no lame attempt to explain the monster with science. Godzilla is Godzilla, no science required. Anyway, all Im saying is it aint lost. Thats for sure. It could be godzilla, but equal chances that it isnt, and somehow theres a giant lion tied in. (Quick note, maybe Godzilla, coming out of the sea, grabbed the first thing close by when he saw the giant "lion" to throw, little miss liberty, hence the head. Maybe the "lion" swatted it away, hence the crash to city streets. Just a thought.)
  • advarin
    IMHO Its Voltron, has to be. Voltron toy was on an episode of Lost, ROBEAST is part beast and Robot hence the mechanical roar heard in trailer. I think it says somewhere that this movie cost about 30 million to make and is all recorded on handheld video equipment. Well just a guess here but hiring extras and some definite cool special effects for a handheld device (I know the editing and SE are added later), plus advertising costs to be put on a major motion picture preview = a whole lot of loot. It is likely that yes this movie is filmed all on handheld video devices and wether or not it is Voltron, I think the advertising is a mini-movie that will produce more of these small clips in the future. Of course I could be completly wrong! But check out the Sprite commercials on the Voltron website as well as the clip from the Lost episdode. (Sprite commercials show the lions battling the Robeast in NYC) http://www.voltron.com/main.asp Good stuff either way...Check out this script review on the Voltron movie http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65
  • Anteros
  • Ross
    This is wild!! i find myself reloading over and over this same damn page so i can see what all you guys are writing LOL ..very intriguing i must admit, and forget what i said about clues ..this stuff has me goin bigtime lol
  • Dada
    Man thats what I call a teaser, you get so excited, like dam what is this going to be about. Its going to be good film.
  • Some DUDE
    It would be real real funny if this teaser is for none of these things you guys are talking about.
  • Dude
    " This has to be the most amazing trailer ever. Leave it to the creator of Lost to think up something like this. Ok, lots of talk that it might be a lost trailer. Reasons: A: J.J. Abrams made it, so theres a big hint. B: The roar. Sounds like the lost monster roar. One problem with that, the lost roar has a mechanical and hollow sound to it at the same time, mixed into the roar. And souds of a machine of some sorts in its movements. This roar was like a deep Godzilla style, like lion Godzilla. Now, heres where u have to look at some points in the trailer. One thing, the guy was about to leave for Japan. A hint towards The Big Friendly Green Lizard? Maybe. Second, and nobody ever seems to notice this, after one lady yells “Is it coming this way?" a guy shouts out “I see it, its a lion, its Huge!" Lion? WTF, a Lion? Giant lion, although strange, is pretty cool. I mean, maybe its a giant flaming lion? Lion of death, or just a reallly big catlike monster. One thing to point out, if you look at Godzilla, there is one monster that walks on all fours that maybe could be mistaken for a lion. I dont know, thats unlikely, but in any case, why would a giant lion be called “The Parasite"? What im thinking, is that the guy was seeing the monster, but seeing it wrong. My thinking. Godzilla, or something like it. Godzilla is the king of all monsters, litteraly, its his title, and he fights very hard for it. Plus, he shoots lazers, which, ergo, means big fiery explosions (which is something that was oddly abundent in the last Godzilla remake, minus the lazers. Thats where the last remake lost the fans. No lazers) All facts are pointing to Godzilla. Parasite is one of those simple names that are abundant in the Godzilla searies. You got a robot Godzilla, its “Mecha Godzilla" Giant Moth? Add “ra" onto “Moth". Simple as that. But, one thing is for sure. Even when people go see this movie, they wont get a full view of the creature until very late in the movie, if at all. Maybe a few leg shots, or tails just whipping around a corner out of sight just as the camera gets a look. That way, keeps up the suspense, and keeps the real feel to the movie. I mean, look at all the “real" monsters, the camera work is allways fuzzy. Never a clear whole shot. I think it would still be cool to never give a whole shot of the monster (Unless its godzilla) to make it seem like its really happening in a real world. Plus, keeping the filming to hand cameras means no lame attempt to explain the monster with science. Godzilla is Godzilla, no science required. Anyway, all Im saying is it aint lost. Thats for sure. It could be godzilla, but equal chances that it isnt, and somehow theres a giant lion tied in. (Quick note, maybe Godzilla, coming out of the sea, grabbed the first thing close by when he saw the giant “lion" to throw, little miss liberty, hence the head. Maybe the “lion" swatted it away, hence the crash to city streets. Just a thought.)" YEAH! EVA RULES!
  • EVANGELION_pwns
  • http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=4177 Miller
    DT has had the trailer up the whole time. Like 4 differnet versions. http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=4177
  • lennit
    Hey everybody, This is one crazy adventure and here's my input that I've found and am thinking about now. So, the photo of the two/same girl (whatever) is 108 KB in size. Well, Ethan Haas says "On August 1st something will happen". Well, "08/1" is August first, right? So move the 1 to the end and you have August first. It's a little bit of a stretch, but hey, it might mean something. Also, the original photo on http://www.1-18-08.com is still available here http://www.1-18-08.com/1-18-08.jpg I'm digging around for the new one....I wonder what the name is. If we can get that photo maybe somebody can do some image processing on it to see if there are any clues. Also, there's a new site that seems a little bogus. http://www.parasitemovie.com/ I don't trust it because it links to two e-commerce sites http://www.tossinggames.com/ (on the main page) http://www.sledriding.com/ (pulls the main content from sledriding.com/cloverfield.html) The parasite page has a javascript countdown and it hits 0:00 on August 1st at 12:36 AM (the time is probably lifted from the first photo on the official site) As I said before, I don't trust this site, but maybe there are clues?...or maybe it's just somebody trying to cash in on the hype. I'm excited to read any responses and if I encounter anything new I'll post it here too!
  • Cloverfiel Gossip
    All these theories are getting a little out of hand. I think it's original content, not a remake. I wouldn't be surprised if it's very Lovecraft-ish, but I don't think it will be an adaptation.
  • Kali Yuga
    http://kaliyugatheory.blogspot.com/ Kali Yuga - the Hindu end of the world. Marked by the scourging of sin and wars between the Gods. Gods that bear strange, celestial weapons, one of which goes so far as to resemble a nuke. (it's just a theory) (it could still be Cthulhu)
  • http://myspace.com/coolguylover ur Shawty
    i think just like the title, the budget can't be right...its just another way to throw you off
  • Superman
    were is the video for come on
  • Sheila
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    whats with the countdown on http://www.parasitemovie.com ??? just wondering. is that when they will put the trailer up?
  • FRANKLIN
    ALRIGHT, I HAVE READ EACH COMMENT ON THIS PAGE UP TO 289 AND LOOKED UP ALL THE INFORMATION I COULD ON THIS MOVIE AND I'M NOT SAYING I'M SOME SORT OF EXPERT ON THIS CAUSE OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY FIRST OFF THAT THIS MOVIE LOOKS completly and entirely original original as in no remake of godzilla or voltron type thing and especially not gears of war [which would be cool and anyone who has played gears of war would have to admit] i can't see godzilla walking up to the statue of liberty and thinkning "nice head....i think i'll take it" and chucking it down the street. another thing..... all the people wanting it to be a judgement day thing, i'm with you i think it would be cool but you guys are just disappointed from lost, so get real and finally, i've watched this preview like 40 times on the internet and 4 in movies and i continue to hear "its a lion". mainly what a look for is if it has an N sound which it does seem to have.
  • BumBAY
    i think i saw somewere that the new godzilla game comming out u will have to fight a lion type monster like a sphinx, maybye its tied in someway if its a Godzilla movie.
  • Kali Yuga
    For a thirty mil budget? It is not Eva.
  • Mike
    All those for "its a Lion say "its a lion!"
  • Mike
    I must say that this page has the most thought provoking arguments on the web. I am impressed. I say he said its a lion. Not its alive. What a way to bring back the cold war monster movies of the 50's if this is the case. In any event I'am hooked to the top secret treatment, and the air of mystery. I will follow this one till the end. Even if it turns out to be a Lost movie.
  • advarin
    One thing that crossed my mind (Voltron or not) is that it may be a promotional film set to come out on 01-18-08. What I mean is it could be just a film setting up Hype/Storyline for a Bigger production movie. I know Transformers had the a comic/novel realeased before the movie to bring everyone up to speed on what happened before the movie. This may be a short pre-quel for a film. Just a thought
  • advarin
    Maybe we need to eliminate possible Remakes by property rights and get the facts going here. I am biased towards Voltron just for the script review similarities.
  • EVAfanGIRL
    Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion! Evangelion!
  • Frank
    Stating the obvious but the countdown on "The Parasite" website that Sheila mentioned above is counting down to 1st August, which is the date that ethanhaaswasright.com told us to wait for after you had completed all the puzzles.
  • Chris
    Wow, this is really starting to all come together now! http://www.parasitemovie.com's countdown, for those who have completed the puzzle's on ethanhaaswasright.com, is in direct relation to the day that we're all supposed to return to ethanhaaswasright.com with our code -- August 1! This is all too intriguing, and darn it, I'm getting impatient. :) I can also say that my vote is for all new content, and based on the demon in pic 1 and the possessed guy in pic 2 of 1-18-08.com shows that it's closer to something about the end times, demons, gods, or Eva. Here's the two pics from 1-18-08.com with the clues in focus: http://www.productsiege.com/1-18-08.jpg.
  • Chris
    Sorry, the link was wrong above, just remove the period from the end... http://www.productsiege.com/1-18-08.jpg
  • Mike
    Deamon Boy is to obviouse. The Devil in the hair is just that. Hair. The realigned picture IN comment 193 raised my eyebrow. Maybe the other photo needs the date rearrange to the leftside somehow?
  • Mke
    Matt Greenfield was on the panel for the Eva QA. Greenfield.......Cloverfield.......See comment 277 to see what Im Talking abot.
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    so what if the 2 images on http://www.productsiege.com/1-18-08.jpg the one of the guy is actually the girl in the 1st photo??? i don't think this is a remake of anything, something new....i dont think they say its a lion...in the trailer at the theatre you can clearly hear him say its alive. maybe the statue of liberty came to life and moved and the head came off!!! the noise was the sound of the metal from it....i dunno. i dont really think thats what it is....but maybe something casued it to come to life...we have a headless statue of liberty walking about NYC...haha
  • Mike
    The guy going to japan.....Is...a..Eva pilot..?Neh.Or going to the school.
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    DID ANYONE NOTICE BUT ON http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/ THERE ARE 2 STARS...IF YOU CLICK ON THE LEFT ONE IT GOES TO AN EMAIL...IF YOU CLICK ON THE 2ND ONE IT SAYS SOMETHING IN SOME FUNKY LANGUAGE...SYMBOLS. ANYONE ELSE CATCH THAT OR WAS IT JUST ME....WHATS THE LANGUAGE THINGS?????
  • Tony
    EVANGELION! WOOT WOOT!
  • mike
    So just Like how they made a American Godzilla. They will make an American Eva.
  • advarin
    I think the Evangelion movie will be based in Japan like in the series. If my memory serves me correctly from the series most of the cities we know today are underwater after the second impact wich would include New York city. As far as I can tell in the Trailer it just looks like modern day New York but who knows. I have not seen or found a script review for the Evangelion movie so I can't compare the trailer and reviews. Don't get me wrong either a totally new movie or Eva or Voltron would be awsome! just don't get the Eva vibe from this
  • advarin
    Hey on the o1-18-08 site in the party picture the banner saying WE'LL MISS YOU ROB has letters made up of pictures. Can anyone confirm? and it probably has nothing to do anything lol
  • Chris
    Tonya Perry...Yes, the funky characters help you solve a couple of the puzzles, 5 in total...which if all solved gets you numerous crazy videos and a code to use when you return to the site on Aug. 1.
  • questions
    The guys who's drinking in the middle of the 2nd picture...His eyes are strangely black. Maybe I've been staring at these pictures for too long? Another question: I read on a site that a few days ago only the photo of the girl was on the site. Think they'll keep adding pictures as we get closer to 1-18?
  • Chris
    questions...that's correct, when I first visited the site, there was only the pic of the woman/women.
  • questions
    Ah... When did they add the 2nd pic, do you know? (This is so curious, kind of fun to try and figure out. :)
  • Sean
    OK First off its not "its a loin its huge" its "its alive its huge" and i have prove in form of Spectroanalysis witch can be found on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRSaXSRyZMs 2nd its not the voltron movie the only reason that even started was b/c of the whole "its a lion its huge" thing. i mean come on any one thats read the script review posted on http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65 cant tell theres no way that that moive could be made in the home video way that "coverfield" promises 3rd http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/ has every thing to do with this movie its a viral-marketing campaign along with http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/ also found on the ethanhaaswaswrong site is a line referencing cthulu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu and later gos on to say "This movie is about C'thulhu appearing in New York City and wreaking havoc on the populace. Its not just your average monster movie, though. Here's the extra special gimmick that's never been done before: The whole film is shot by everyday citizens with their own home-video cameras. Doesn't that sound exciting as shit? Hell yeah it does. Let's save everybody a bunch of time and just send those Oscars to J.J. Abrams immediately." so so far it looks like Cthulhu is the most likely monster
  • Judy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Evangelion_Project The Eva movie is being made here in the U.S., not in Japan.
  • Chris
    I think the second picture was added within the last 2 days. Can't remember for sure.
  • rozzy
    in binghamton we have a class that is just focusing on cracking the clue if i find/hear ne thing ill post it -p-
  • Local
    Just so you know.... Everyone on set, from Camera Men, to lighting operators to Extras had to sign non disclosure statements. If they are caught giving ANY information, They will have to pay major damages!
  • rozzy
    and why are u telling us this hahaha.......and how do u kno this
  • Michael
    The end is near. 1-18-08
  • crazzay
    please let this be Eva, please.....
  • http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/29/jj-abrams-top-secret-trailer-for-cloverfield-in-front-of-transformers/ Alex
    I'm going to go ahead and assume that the movie might just be called "the parasite" i think that girl IS in fact in both pictures and she is seeing that black eyed drinking guy through a mirror! the only way this is provede wrong is because of the times he pics were taken im hoping its either a lion or cthulhu!!!!!!!!!
  • http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/29/jj-abrams-top-secret-trailer-for-cloverfield-in-front-of-transformers/ Alex
    and i think Local(316) is one of the extras!
  • MIKE
    HEY TONYA THOSE LETTERS ARE THE ALPHABET A-Z THERE WILL BE "ETHAN HASS WAS RIGHT ' WE MUST BELIEVE NOW!!!!
  • Soap
    "It's not Godzilla…this is something much bigger, much older, infinitely more powerful, and more terrifying…" Its EVA! :)
  • MIKE
    GO TO THE 1-18-08.com WEBSITE ,SEE THE PICTURE WITH THE GIELS EYES LOOKING UP? RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE YOU WILL SEE THE DEMONS FACE EMERGE FOCUSE ON IT.......
  • frozilla
    when i look in the middle I see waht looks like a tiny green monster with a white hat on
  • frozilla
    to the person above, i agree his eyes do like very dark/red/demon-like
  • MIKE
    ALSO, ON THE 2ND PICTURE LOOK @ THE FAR RIGHT THE PERSON WITH 1/2 FACE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO CONTACT WITH THE CAMERA
  • CrackV
    GO TO THIS PAGE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!! I found it hidden in the "sponsor" page, tossing games. I knew i would find something!!!! http://www.tossinggames.com/index.cgi?action=recent a guy comes on and says this "Hey guys. Don't know if this is the right place for this, but... I've been looking for an old friend named Ethan Haas I lost contact with years ago. Kinda wonder what he's been up to." DUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!! THis site has the hidden answers!!!!!!!!
  • CrackV
    TOssing games deffinately holds the answers. There are hints everywhere!!!!! You just have to look past the meaningless and you will see the hidden truths.
  • Haas
    Ethan, Van, Steve King, Rhialto.
  • Crack V
    How do you solve fifth puzzle? I just dont get it.
  • CrackV
    Ok, I got how the fifth puzzle works, but how do you rearange all those letters? bnsneitdendietgnhhige I keep getting "The begining is the end" or "The end is the begining" but then that leaves out an N...
  • CrackV
    Allright, Steve King is mentioned as the cousin of Ethan Haas on the Tossinb games site, during a conversation that is started by a man asking to see Ethan Haas or Van. This forum entry ends with a member named ethanhaas coming up and ending it with "im in ur mind, predicting all ur actionz". I'm following the links, and theyre taking me to more and more hints as to what the movie is about. I suggest anyone truly into this mystery do so as well. Those sponsor sites arent bogus, they are trails. We have to follow them.
  • advarin
    crack V send me an personal e-mail at the tossing game site i will help with puzzle
  • lennit
    for the 5th Puzzle put in The beginning is the end (yes, two "n"s in "beginning") and for all the people who are anti-voltron, well, yes, it seems that it's not voltron if the script that was leaked is true, but look at this Voltron is set to come out on 1-18-08....umm...yeah....interesting eh? It has been confirmed that Voltron will fight a robeast IN Manhattan, and also other places in the world And who said that the Statue of Liberty's head was thrown?? What if two (or more) things were duking it out on liberty island and they just happened to throw a punch, MISS, and knock Lady Liberty's block off? The thing is, this is downtown Manhattan, and the Statue is a pretty good ways away! So that has to be a LOT of force to send that thing over so if it was thrown, ok, or if it wasn't...WOW...I'm guessing it wasn't because that would be more terrifying, eh? Also, I think we should all keep open minds here. Everywhere I go I hear "but why would Voltron destroy NYC?" or "Why would Godzilla do this or that?"....well, I already stated the fighting part and the environment is just casualties of war, but what if the thing isn't intentionally attacking NYC? What if it was attacking a symbol of the United States? (say the White House would be it's next target?)...or who knows what else? This is J.J. Abrams we're talking about so do you really think it's going to be something as simple as "random scary monster rampaging downtown NYC for the fun of it"? I don't think so, there has to be more. Also, about the TossingGames.com site The person saying "yeah, I knew Ethan" is totally lying...they registered for the forums on 7-7-07 at 8:02pm So yeah, don't get your hopes up. I thought I read somewhere that Paramount owned the IP for 1-18-08.com and the last 3 digits were like .104...and then .105 was for http://www.parasitethemovie.com/ (which is a "page under construction" type message). Maybe somebody is just tossing this other site up there because the "creature" is rumored to be called "the parasite"...nothing too official yet.... And sadly, to debunk the Voltron stuff, Voltron is being released by Universal and the script was written by Justin Marks (not the write of "cloverfield" who happens to be Drew Godard...if you look at the last second of the trailer it shows all the major credits and his name is there) So, sadly, it's not Voltron, but Voltron IS being made and will come out 1-18-08 if all things go well :) But though, I still hear "it's a lion, it's huge" every time I watch and listen to the trailer. Seriously....'it's alive" would not make sense unless they guy was frantic and meaning something like 'the statue of liberty if alive"...but then...why would it be huge?...maybe it grew to a gigantic size, lost it's head because some parasitic creature assimilated it and didn't need it's head because it has it's own? Tons of speculation, what is right? If Ethan Haas is tied with it then it seems very Revelations/Apocolyptic in nature.....picture the Beast rising from the sea (Atlantic Ocean) and destroying the "empire" (USA) Now, THAT would be freaky. Now, after listening to the Spectroanalysis of the trailer I still hear "it's a lion". I don't understand why people are getting really mad and saying "It's ALIVE" not "LION"....with the all caps on "ALIVE". I'd have to say about 80% or a little more capitalize the letters....why is that? Why are people getting so mad over "lion" and "alive"?.....hmmm...how many people are not who they seem to be? What if somebody from Paramount is going around trying to plant false (or correct) information? Woah, too creepy...pretty much, nothing is confirmed but the trailer and the release date....and a few other things, but what can we trust outside of the trailer?
  • CrackV
    yeah, cool thanks. Anyway trail leads to nothing. I wrote up this whole big explanation that summarized everything i know, took me a while, but suffice it to say that with all evidence totaled up, It aint voltron. Whats voltron without the people piloting it, and how cheesy it would be for all this suspense and horror to lead to a giant colorful lion robot that conveniently allways comes to save the day. I heard Lion, the alive people can just shut up and hey, it can be a living lion. Happy? Plus, what idiot would say after being asked what he saw "its alive". DUH, what else is huge and roars? Dead stuff? Look, its called the parasite. Maybe lion is good guy, or bad guy, but i dont think a lion would be a parasite. Whatever. Also, it aint EVA, the eva movie was going to be segmented parts of the actual eva series, sectioned into the first six eppisodes, then the second, then the third in a trilogy of sorts. So i dont remember eva ever coming to Manhatten. Drinking guy is Rob everyone, he isnt a freaking demon. Why would Rob, the guy who everyone likes and is about to leave for japan, be a demon? Now, the creepy person behind him and the grey thing between the girls, yeah, thats more demon like. Anyway, i think this is going to be an origional movie. Try to remake, and disapoint die hard fans, or make new movie, and create fans? I think the second is the better way to go. Still, if anyone else wants to try to track down this Steve King, Rhialto, ARG, Ethan Haas, or Van, go right ahead. I have taken the trail pretty far, and Steve King does seem suspicious. Considering his main page talks about him being a waste treatment dude from St. Louis (which Rhialto mentiones, saying that a cousin of Ethan Haas works in St. Louis handling hazordous waste treatment and is an eco nut) and on the tossing games site forums the steve guy seems to know nothing about the hazzordous waste biz and anything about Ethan Haas. Kinda odd. Plus, the whole dude named "ethanhaas" showing up saying he is in our minds and can see our actions is kind of strange. Maybe just some idiots screwing up the mystery, maybe not. Still, worth checking out and monitering.
  • Crack V
    Hey, just found something, ARG, a guy who posted on the forums that talked about Ethan Haas, well, ARG stands for Alternate reality Game. These types of games all try to be as real as possible, and involve many real things. Im not saying this is a game, but what if all this mystery is the game? ARG's often involve lots of puzzles, real world events and places and facts. The Lost experience was almost an ARG, maybe all this is sort of one too.
  • http://OnTheFlats.com Christopher
    I have lots to report. I received the following message from Van Mantra. We now know Van's last name, but it also is the name of a Ski boot by the Vans company. ================== sorry my response has taken so long, I have to keep moving, I can't stay in one place for very long. There are forces here on earth and beyond that are trying to stop us from spreading the truth. You're taking a big risk contacting me but I understand why you are, I would rather face the future with my eyes open than closed. I have to make sure I can trust you, it's risky for me to contact anyone, they are always looking for me, I can't stay in one place for very long. You've gotten this far so I will tell you more. View the source to see past the puzzles, there are answers beneath. HAAS will open the second key for you if you need more help try contacting me again at this address, I'll keep using it as long as I think it's safe. good luck... to all of us........ ================== Most of us already know about the cryptic message in the source of the website, so nothing new here. Apparently the ethanhaaswasright.com site is registerd to Van at 2205 Holly Pine Cir to a Jessica Mock. I live in Orlando and was shocked to see that this address is off of Chuluota Rd (pronounced CHEW-lee-oh-tah) and looks very much like Cthulhu. At any rate, I replied to the message and received this: ================== It's worse than I thought, the Mezin have found my location and hacked into my phone. I need to go off the grid until I can find a safe location to transmit. If you need help finding the answers you seek, trust HAAS for the second key, it will unlock the mysteries. Beyond that, look for other believers. We are growing stronger everyday, there are many out there that have found the path. Search and you will find the keys to unlock the puzzles. -- Van ================== So a quick google of Mezin shows that Mezin is a city in France as well as an archaeological site in the Ukraine. Enjoy the clues and keep me posted if anyone finds anything else. Christopher luckyink*at*gmail(dot)com
  • dave
    Okay, just for those who didnt notice. I went to the http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com and clicked on the blue star and sent an email to it: van@ethanhaaswasright.com, I got this in return: If you're receiving this auto-response message it means that I've gone into hiding. You should be careful now, too. They're likely to start coming after all of us in an attempt to keep the balance of power in their favor. But remember, as our numbers increase as a group, the weaker they'll become. As you recruit new people to our cause, you might need to share this message as guidance for how to navigate the 5 locks to the key code... 1) The first lock will test your memory. Follow the trail of light and sound, but be careful -- one wrong move will send you back to the beginning. 2) For the second lock, you may need to look to the stars. They will help you find HAAS who will lead your way. 3) The third lock will require you to extinguish all lights but one. Only with one light remaining will you be able to proceed. 4) The fourth lock will let you move all 4 pieces through the control of one. However, unless the three key pieces are simultaneously placed into position, you will not be granted access. 5) The fifth lock will be the toughest. Seek help again from the stars to reveal your key and the message that you must decode. The two working together will open the way. Good luck. Van then a second e-mail followed with teh subject line: ------------- they found me (was: I'm one of you... help me!) and the message was as follows: It's worse than I thought, the Mezin have found my location and hacked into my phone. I need to go off the grid until I can find a safe location to transmit. If you need help finding the answers you seek, trust HAAS for the second key, it will unlock the mysteries. Beyond that, look for other believers. We are growing stronger everyday, there are many out there that have found the path. Search and you will find the keys to unlock the puzzles. -- Van This time the sender's name was Van Mantra, but what I noticed was that when you click on the star it opens Outlook with the default subject line of "I'm one of you... help me!" the subject line of this second e-mail is: ------------- they found me (was: I'm one of you... help me!) so this leads me to believe that "was" is a person or something else...not to be used in a sentence like ethan hass was right. maybe ethan, HAAS, was, and right are meaningful in a diff way?
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    ok i am at the 2nd clue where its the globe kind of thing and I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM DOING....i guess i was thinking i have to match something up.....anyone help???
  • Mike FREEFALLL666
    The statement ITS ALIVE is quite blooming simple, If it was a machine that was attacking or an Aircraft then a statement of Its a machine would be acceptable. Its alive indicates an OBVIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND RAGE. Maybee even indicating that maybee a statue or mountain other than the Statue Of Liberty shatters open at the start of the movie before the party. There would be an obvious shock at the attack and anyone pannicking wont be thinking logically. Think of Airshow crashes, some run from it others run toward it, it isnt logical to run towards a massive fire/
  • Sean G
    one more thing in the trailer theres a huge roar then black out then there watching a news report about the roar not the thing that made it meaning no one has seen it yet. also the head of the statue of liberty look like its been throw meaning something had to have been in the ocean. now i theory is that the roar came from a monster hiding in the sea and then rises up and starts the devastation. oh also "Cthulhu is the demon god of the sea" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu#Star-spawn_of_Cthulhu
  • Andrew
    ------------ Hey, just found something, ARG, a guy who posted on the forums that talked about Ethan Haas, well, ARG stands for Alternate reality Game. These types of games all try to be as real as possible, and involve many real things. Im not saying this is a game, but what if all this mystery is the game? ARG's often involve lots of puzzles, real world events and places and facts. The Lost experience was almost an ARG, maybe all this is sort of one too. ------------ That was me. I think this whole thing is an ARG. The entertainmet is trying to figure out what is going on - just like the people in the trailor were trying to figure out wtf was happening to them. I think the answers tie into the Ethan Haas thing - no doubt. I think the entertainment value of this movie is going to be dictated by the months of discovery leading up to its release - with the movie finally being the payoff. This has to be an ARG, and it has to be connected to this Ethan Haas stuff. No one ever commented on my Jennifer Kaplan / The Class = Ethan Haas discovery :(
  • curtis
    anyone kno how to finish the second puzzle? i don't get what i need to do
  • Ethan Haas
    Hell yeah! An Eva movie would be great :)
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne Tonya Perry
  • Jesse
    If you look at the pictures on the 1-18-08 website...look at the picture with the girls and look in her hair between them...you can see a face and everything.
  • msmith40
    It looks pretty cool! But the last movie I was psyched to see was 'War Of The Worlds'. God-knows I couldn't get enough of the trailers and previews. ...........and then it arrived........don't get me started.......(Jesus-H! Will you shoot Tim Robbins already!!!! Yeeesh!) I just hope (I PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!) this one avoids all of the usual cliches: Characters outrunning fireballs Computer geek/hackers with a backpack full of the latest computer hacking hardware The 'at odds' couple who reunite at movie's end.......after killing the monster/alien and/or saving the planet. Musical score that signals that the monster is approaching Musical score that....oh, heck,.....screw the musical score. Action, good dialogue and plot will do fine. Characters who survive brutal physical attacks with a mere shrug and "I'll be OK. Just hand me that torn sheet/shirt/whatever." Characters who talk loudly (or shout) while 'cautiously' walking thru an island full of dinosaurs. Ignoring basic physics in order to do some 'cool-looking stuff'. (Slo-mo 'Matrix' style maneuvers.) The character who treks miles back into the 'no-man's land' to rescue family/friend. Cutsey winks and nods to sci-fi/monster flicks of the past. Child characters who serve only as a ploy to attract younger theater-goers. ('Short Round' anyone?) The one 'everyman' character who gets all of the clues....realizes all of the weaknesses.....and saves the day. The character who's never spent a day in the gym, yet manages to outrun, outfight, etc. all of the bad guys. Did I leave out anything?
  • EVANGELION_pwns
    " It looks pretty cool! But the last movie I was psyched to see was 'War Of The Worlds’. God-knows I couldn't get enough of the trailers and previews. ………..and then it arrived……..don't get me started…….(Jesus-H! Will you shoot Tim Robbins already!!!! Yeeesh!) I just hope (I PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!) this one avoids all of the usual cliches: Characters outrunning fireballs Computer geek/hackers with a backpack full of the latest computer hacking hardware The 'at odds’ couple who reunite at movie's end…….after killing the monster/alien and/or saving the planet. Musical score that signals that the monster is approaching Musical score that….oh, heck,…..screw the musical score. Action, good dialogue and plot will do fine. Characters who survive brutal physical attacks with a mere shrug and “I'll be OK. Just hand me that torn sheet/shirt/whatever." Characters who talk loudly (or shout) while 'cautiously’ walking thru an island full of dinosaurs. Ignoring basic physics in order to do some 'cool-looking stuff’. (Slo-mo 'Matrix’ style maneuvers.) The character who treks miles back into the 'no-man's land’ to rescue family/friend. Cutsey winks and nods to sci-fi/monster flicks of the past. Child characters who serve only as a ploy to attract younger theater-goers. ('Short Round’ anyone?) The one 'everyman’ character who gets all of the clues….realizes all of the weaknesses…..and saves the day. The character who's never spent a day in the gym, yet manages to outrun, outfight, etc. all of the bad guys. Did I leave out anything?" Yeah, Eva :)
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    HELP!!!! I can't figure out puzzle # 4....how do I start it? I have tried now for a while and give up then go back to it....someone please help. Thanks
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    Curtis---- Did you ever figure out how to get past the 2nd puzzle? If not what you do is put your mouse over the right star, then the symbols are actually the alphabet a-z....you have to spell out HAAS then it unlocks. Did you get the email of the clues? That really helps!
  • Joel
    I hope its about Cthulhu, I think that would be bad ass. I dont watch Lost at all so I hope it has nothing to do with it.
  • MrJoe83
    I just read something that should probably be ignored but at this point, who knows what to believe...Somebody posted a comment on one of the analysis videos on youtube claiming to know somebody attached to the movie. Apparently, they're claiming that you never see the monster and the ending is "unsatisfying". I've been thinking about it, this is something that Abrams would do, look how long it takes to reveal something on LOST and even when something is answered, the answer brings with it more questions! As long as the entire movie is as amazing as the trailer, I honestly don't care if they never show the monster. But then again, I'm one of the few people that thought the end of The Sopranos was genius! Imagine if David Chase and JJ Abrams made a movie together...we would never find out anything! I still think this is something completely original and I'm not sold on all the Ethan Haas stuff yet, but that might change on August 1st.
  • briang
    was he not supposed to do a star trek movie for paramount.
  • MIKE FREEFALLL666
    Goddamn I hope they do show the bloody monster, that would be such a rip if they dont.
  • http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/29/jj-abrams-top-secret-trailer-for-cloverfield-in-front-of-transformers/ Alex
    too many clues make me think this is cthulhu... and is it me or did the liberty head look kinda small!!!
  • Ox
    In the end, I think the most ironic thing about all this is it's probably going to be something Abrams thought up all on his own. There probably isn't a precursor. Meaning: He didn't take the idea from Godzilla or Voltron or anything like that. He may have vaguely used an IDEA like Cthulhu, but I bet it's mainly his own thinking. And that means that all this searching will be for not...because if it's original then that means there's not going to be anything out there about it. What do you guys say we hunt down one of the actors in the trailor and hold them hostage til they answer. (Just a joke)
  • Anteros
    I agree with Alex... This is Cthulhu. Too many hints to ignore. We don't need to wait for August 1st Going out on a limb and calling it. All these other little boy fantasies just don't cut it with JJ Abrams involved. No Voltron. Already filming. (It's Alive!) It's a lion?!? Please... you're embarrassing the rest of the human race with that sorry interpretation. Stick your thumb back in your mouth and go back to sleep. No Godzilla. Already filming (Though it would be cool to have a remake of "Gojira") No Evangelion. Already in pre-production work. (Can't wait for that!) No Gamera or any other childish monster boys you can think of. This is either Cthulhu... or something completely original. Sign me up.
  • Ethan Haas
  • You suck.
    Dude, you suck. thats like the 7th time I got Rick Rolled today. why.
  • Joe
    In the picture on 1-18-08 the one with the two girls i see a hand holding the face in the center
  • Robot Lion
    I saw the picture and it looks like King Zarkons hand holding his staf so im going to say VOLTRON
  • stig
    anyone else notice on the tossing games website referred to in posts 287, 331, that the third forum on the list is titled "GIANT/MONSTER Size Lawn Games"?
  • crackV
    Hah, i posted a comment on that two days ago. I checked, there isnt anything in the forum, but i think it was just a hint to sort of tell you that you are on the right track with the searching. I've followed the clues for a few days now, and I'm at a dead end. It keeps taking me to waste treatment websites as dead ends. But i will keep looking.
  • Crack V
    http://www.ethanhaas.org/ Just found this, go now. Got lots of new clues.
  • steve g
  • CrackV
    Hey everyone, check this out. On IMDB, a guy named "My_Name_Is_Van" has posted a series (A very large series) of threads all pertaining to this Parasite movie. At first it may seem fake, but its right on the dot. No chance this guy is fake. Plus, the hidden clues throughout it are crazy! At one point, he leaves the final words in a thread "Dials Glitz Into", moved around, that spells "It isnt Godzilla" . Also, after everyone on the threads started saying he was fake, he left clues that eventually reorder themselves to say "Viral marketing". I dont know about you, but that sort of sells it for me. If you still think its fake, look at when he joined. It was before the trailer was released! So he knew about all this stuff before the trailer. Anyway, what i have gathered is this. The parasites, which feed off of electricity or energy or something, have culture. Ethan Haas predicted thier coming. Mezin Source is something that a group of special people follow, and Ethan Haas was a big kahuna in the group. The parasites all come from one big parasite, called the "Parent". The parasites have culture, and one confirmed human talks to them. The guy was named Freddy, or something. Anyway, theres chaos, the entire US is under attack by the time the threads get allong in the posts. Eventually he talks about how they are going to plan something big, and its all going to happen on August first, probably at 12:36, because that number is allways highlighted. Heres some anagrams that have yet to be solved. Hethdnstgen noT T2oww (that one just doesnt have a meaning yet. Take away the 2 and O and you get "Not Third World War) Scsoeosornadrgeadehpergeminesleopnihngs (that may just not be an anagram, but its pretty openly shown) Evil travels on shifting shadows God is the key to Freddy had another theory crual goodbye 'good luck' *END of anagrams* Somehow a lady named Loretta is involved, i think Van said it was his wife. She's dead. But still. Im starting to think this is an origional work. No chance its godzilla, or voltron, or eva. Possible Cthulu, but doubtful. In my opinion, its all new, but has to do with aliens somehow, or maybe things that have been here since before humans. Probobly not aliens, but still.
  • Franklin
    i'm not sure whats going on or if you people have not realized it yet but the movie is about cthulu. i thought people already knew that cause i started seeing posts about it yesterday but you people have seemed to go backwards
  • lennit
    There is nothing definitive saying the movie is about Cthulu. IF you have proof then please post links to that proof. Right now, nothing but the trailer and the 1-18-08 website is confirmed. Geesh, Ethan Haas is suspicious but still not 100% confirmed.
  • J-fight
    oh my god wait til you guys see what happens to the chrysler building!
  • Mr. Smith
    ??? how do you know what happens? has this guy seen it? plus whats with all of the videos being taken off the web? luckily i downloaded it on to my computer
  • Flagg79
    First off, this guys has waaaaay too much time on his hands. But he made a few good points. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im7wWMVzIyg The main thing to realize is that a lot of the stuff he points out in the trailer HAS been photoshopped in. I've been a graphic artist for 6 years and I can spot a photoshop job pretty easily. The guy didn't point it out, but I'm almost positive that the "ACE 2004" was photoshopped. What is that???
  • Franklin
    its probably nothing but i'm just wondering, when in the trailer during the first few interviews of the movie the camera holder is like "its for rob. its to say something to him before he leaves" and i think the chic responds " rob hoffman, i'm gonna miss him" i'm just wondering if the dudes name iis Rob Hoffman or if i am miss hearing.
  • FRANKLIN
    bye the way, type in ACE 2004 into google man it might give you some hints. might be a sponsor of some sort
  • chris
    does anyone know what the second level of ethan haas was right is?
  • steve g
    New "Cloverfield 1-18-08" Trailer Online http://coedmagazine.com/entertainment/Movies/Movies/1011#more-1011 See it full screen here
  • http://yahoo.com Stacy (aka i'm an exister)
    H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to see this movie more than I want to breathe my very last breath! It's going to rock SOOO HARD! Definitely looks like the best thriller I've seen in a looooooong time! At first I thought it might be about the rapture or the end of the world or something... man, this is gonna scare the living shit outta me! OOOOO I can't wait! I'm dying here!
  • RockGod8112
    The movie was great! Amazing everything! Totally better than Spider-Man 3!!! Anyway, for everyone who thinks the trailer at the beginning of Transformers w/ no title, but a date of 1/8/08 is going to be LOST related better not get their hopes up because IT ISN'T!!!! LOST only has two more seasons left before it ends.....if you don't believe me go to IGN.com and look for yourself. And besides, LOST is going to have Flash-Forwards from now on instead of Flash-Backs, for anyone who didn't know that. At first I thought it was going to be some comedy of a guy who's all that and has to go away to Japan or w/e just like everyone else probably thought as well, but nooooo, it actually scared me when the earthquake thing hit. NOBODY SAW IT COMING!!! It was great! Then after it ended I was like WTF!?!? NO NAME!? So I just thought it was going to be another Godzilla movie, but it couldn't be.....'cause they already made an awsome remake in '98 or '99 w/ Mathew Brodrick....it was awesome and whats the point to make another one just a few years later? But really, the working title is Cloverfeild, keywords WORKING TITLE. So it could change. By the way.....RockGod8112 is my gamertag for anyone who wants to play Gears of War and get OWNED!!! Even thought it's called Cloverfield (So Far) this could be the Gears of War movie and couldn't be for some reasons. First, the explotion came from underground, it looked like, just like how the Locust Horde from the planet Sera came up, so that's a reason it could be. Second, the teaser is in the present and on planet Earth, Gears of War is in the future and on planet Sera. But who knows. HOPEFULLY it isn't Gears of War becuase that would totally defeat the purpose of the game. The movie HAS to be exactly like the game, just like how Transformers was EXACTLY like the cartoon and the Lord of the Rings was EXACTLY like the book (except for some minor details left out). And not like how Doom, Ghost Rider, the X-Men, and the Spider-Man movies weren't like the comics or videogame. (Even though Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3 were amazing!)
  • FRANKLIN
    really cool i am sure plenty of people have seen this but he forgets after the part when someone says "this shit never ends" he then says "i'm gonna kill myself" freakin emo kid I SAW IT ITS ALIVE ITS HUGE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uHbwPF5yJk&mode=related&search=
  • chris
    can anyone tell why we all think that ethan haas has anything to do with cloverfield?
  • Ox
    RockGod, you are so behind everyone else it's not even funny.
  • chris
    if you are so smart than tell me smart guy, what does it have to do with cloverfield? you don't know you are just gonna tell me that i'm behind or something. where have the two been linked togather?
  • chris
    oh you were talking to rock god
  • FRANKLIN
    alright, what seems to have happened is that progress on discovering the secrets of cloverfield have slowed a great deal if not come to a screaching halt so i think it would be wise to review the information we all have brought together while we wait for another hint QUICK FACTS!: MOVIE HAS BEEN IN WORKS SINCE FEBUARY AND HAS A SET BUDGET OF 30 MIL WHICH WOULD LEAVE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IT IS GONNA BE KINDA CHEAP 1. Ideas for what the movie is about ~godzilla has been appearantly put away until 2013 i heard so it can't be godzilla but what i also heard was that a godzilla 3d movie is bein worked on so either way no godzilla ~voltron movie is already being made for sometime in 2008 {possibly in the summer would be my guess} ~the ever popular eva whatever is also being made into a seperate movie which is not cloverfield ~cthulu [pronounced ka-thoo-loo] is appearantly the most likely candidate as of right now not to say its the most popular because most people have not heard of it. for those who have not already taken the liberty of researching it Cthulhu is a fictional monster created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft, 2. Etahn Haas ~ this is a topic i know little about but what i have gathered is poeple have made connections with this game based on a resitance and the cloverfield teaser. If this does prove to be connected we will hopefully recieve new information on august 1 [ the game is very hard so i gave up quickly ] 3. "A Lion"-"Alive" ? ~ early on this was one of the most controversial topics mainly because to the untrained ear [like my own] it does sound like he says "its a lion" but i guess voice analysis' have disproved that if you have any thoughts or disagree with my own please respond
  • FRANKLIN
    Lennit, the fact is suspicious or not, ethan haas is clearly all about cthulu and if it is connected with cloverfield then we have our answer on whats destroying new york city
  • tn1
    Hey guys and girls! The teaser is online on the Apple website!!! Go grab it!!! (It's even in HD format.) http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
  • J-fight
    no its not it doesn't work
  • http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
    Guys, the trailer can be found right here on FS - http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/07/09/jj-abrams-cloverfield-1-18-08-trailer-officially-hits/ It's in flash too incase you can't watch Quicktime. And there is an Apple link there that works as well, but you can watch it on FS.net. Enjoy! And after watching and listening again, I really really think he says "it's a lion." I didn't believe it, but this trailer release but the cap on it for me...
  • tn1
    @J-fight: How do you mean? I just watched it! (Assuming that the "no its not it doesn't work" is about the trailer being online on Apple's Trailers site.)
  • lennit
    Franklin, Please post your proof showing that Ethan Haas was about Cthulu. I see nothing there linking it except end times speak. My larger piece of info against Cthulu is that Cthulu's city, R'lyeh, is supposedly located in the Pacific Ocean, yet NYC is by the Atlantic. Slight problem with location. The only thing I've seen that points towards Cthulu is that somebody sent an e-mail with the text "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" (which is the chant for "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.") to Mezin Source and got a response saying "we need more believers like you". Well, those e-mails are auto generated by code, but they're not all going to have the same message. I asked who Ethan Haas was and I'm sure if any e-mail that has "ethan haas" in it and is lacking a few other words like "don't believe" or other anti-Ethan stuff would get the response I got of "he was a prophet and don't listen to him, he's false" yet if you show some sort of allegiance to Mezin Source you get the pat on the head e-mail. However, if you send garbled text (like the cthulu chant) they just default to the "we need more believers like you". In this case, Mezin Source believes in Cthulu and Ethan Haas doesn't. But Ethan Haas predicted the destruction, yet wouldn't Cthulu followers be FOR destruction since he comes back to life? Nothing links to Cthulu, so if you have any proof I'm totally open to taking it in :) Oh, my information came from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu though you can't entirely believe that because anybody can edit the pages, but I got the chant from there and that's a pretty widely known thing. Thoughts? I know people like Cthulu, but you can't overlook the things that contradict Cthulu just because it's what you want. I want it to be Voltron or Eva, but I'm not gearing myself towards anything. Try looking at the facts we have available and go from there. Right now, none of us can say what it is, but I see people out there going "it's THIS" or "it's THAT!" and not backing themselves up. But, if they back themselves up and there's no doubt that they're right, then awesome! That's our goal right now, to figure out what this is :)
  • FRANKLIN
    figures this would happen. you need to pay to see it. they are selling us advertisement. see how low they have sunk?
  • J-fight
    yea the apple site you gotta buy some crap for
  • http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
    I agree with #394 - MrJoe83 in all sense of what he said. I think it's original and I think for sure he says "it's a lion" but either way, I am insanely excited for this. It could be huge and incredible and still only $30 million...
  • http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
  • FRANKLIN
    go to etahn haas was right .com and go to view on your computer and look at page source. at the bottom of the page source code there is a quote directly from the story of cthulu if you know anything about cthulu. i'll go get it now
  • FRANKLIN
    everyone who still thinks he says lion please look here and shut uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uHbwPF5yJk&mode=related&search=
  • FRANKLIN
    ...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape. written in the page source of http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com at the bottom
  • FRANKLIN
    actually this is the page with the proof that it says "its alive" i will tell you all right now it definitely does sound like lion but this guy proves it says alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uHbwPF5yJk&mode=related&search=
  • FRANKLIN
    mr joe please got to the site i have posted
  • J-fight
    this kid with crazy time on his hands really broke it down and slowed it down so that any one can tell he says "ALIVE!" GO TO THAT YOUTUBE LINK FRANKLIN POSTED!
  • FRANKLIN
    you idiot he slows it down so even a three year old would be able to hear him say "its alive!" come on man! i completely agree with you it sounds like he says a lion in normal speed but the key word is SOUNDS! he says "its alive"
  • lennit
    I listened to the broken down part as well and I hear "lion" too. I don't hear a "v" sound at the end of the word, but a faint "n". Why are people getting upset about this and calling the "Lion" people idiots? I haven't seen any hostility from the "lion" people but tons of all caps and name calling from the "alive" people. If there are people who listen to this video which people call "proof" and still don't believe it, then I don't consider it complete and exactly proof. If I'm wrong and he says "alive" I'll live up to it. I'm not definitively saying it's one or the other, but I haven't been shown one is more right than the other, even in that video. So I'm still hearing "lion", and what's so wrong if it is "lion"? Why must people be so upset? And Franklin, I've been looking at the page source of every sight we've found and I noticed that text too, but how is it Lovecraftian? Well, it could be inspired by him, but does not mean it IS from him. And I don't see any reference to stars or whatever in there. "Look to the stars for help" usually means something like "look to your God in the skies" but I don't see Cthulu. Any quotes from Lovecraft that can confirm your suspicions?
  • chris
    it seems that they have changed a few things on this new teaser. very interesting. the wierd and out of place girl voice while going down the stairs that someone slowed down and it sounded like "stop doing that" and someone els reversed and it said "say bad ass" is no longer in the trailer at all. another thing is in the new trailer it doesn't sound like he says lion either. it is clearly alive. in the old one it sounded like lion any way my two cents
  • Sean G
    ok just when frame by frame thur the HD 1080p trailer and there a few things i noticed 1st on the refrigerator theres the word mystery on the side and top right and theres also a cute little monster face on the top left 2nd on the wall right after the 1st roar near the window there a paddle with the letters AKM 3rd the new report time was 12:32 meaning the pic on the web site was taken only mins after that new cast 4th the time on the clock at the being is ABOUT 10:13 11:13 (HARD TO TELL) 5th the statue of liberty's head hits a building with a billboard with the numbers 401 6th the black car they duck behind has the tag ABZ 3293 7th as the camera man focuses on the head you can see a sign in the corner with red writing, the best i can make out is the letters DeaD DE*** i cant make out the last 3 leters so yeah none of this might not have anything to do with the movie but i just thought id put it out there and mabey you guys could add or come up with some ideas on the meaning

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  • FRANKLIN
    I can admit right now to you that i sounds like lion in the old one. you are right when i hear it i look for the n sound and i find it somehow but when he slows it down it goes away . i agree with chris in the new trailer it sounds like the n sound is completely gone.
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    Ok you guys if you have MYSPACE you sould add http://www.myspace.com/ethanhaaswasright to your friends. he is putting bulletins up and has a blog that will start on august 1st..... ALSO HELP i cant get thru the 4th round of the puzzle...i know i use the arrow keys...but man is that hard...am i supposed to spell something????
  • Sean G
    looked at it one more time and i think i might of saw something near the explosion during the explosion theres a roar as soon as you can hear the roar and a pop theres seem to be a 2nd explosion or SOMETHING moving on the right side behind a building
  • yossarian
    it is most likely fake
  • Joel
    Well I'm not going to try and say anyones wrong, but it would be a lame movie if a giant lion was attacking NYC. Then again why would he say its alive? So I am thinking... if he says "its alive" then it has to be something you wouldn't think would be alive you know? Like if there was a giant statue that came alive I would scream "its alive!" but if I saw a giant monster I would already know its alive obviously. Sounds stupid, but if you think about it, its weird.
  • Adrenaline
    has anyone, you know....considered the fact that the movie just might be called.."18-12-08".... and one of the people in the trailer screams "I saw it, its a giant lion" http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808 heres the trailer, watch it again and listen...personally as soon as i heard "giant lion" all i could think of is rampage, the game for SNES
  • MrJoe83
    After watching the trailer many times in perfect quality, I'm convinced it's something completely original and has nothing to do with Ethan Haas and the line is, "It's a lion". But again, whatever happens on August 1st might change some of that.
  • MrJoe83
    That's analysis of the crappy bootleg trailer, and I still hear lion in that. Until he takes apart the new HD trailer, I still vote lion.
  • MrJoe83
    What proves it? The text overlay? Oh, now I'm convinced. The line before it is wrong too, she doesn't say, "What is he?", she says, "What is IT?".
  • MrJoe83
    Sorry, my idiot ears still hear lion even when he slows it down, get over it.
  • M
    The marketing is out of William Gibson's pattern recognition.
  • Mark
    I hope it's a Rodan flick. Godzilla would be cool, too. Is there going to be a Voltron Movie? I loved Transformers!
  • http://www.myspace.com/tonyajayne tonya perry
    I GOT THIS FROM USER RAINBOWSATAN6-----------DEFINATELY THINK ITS CTHUHLU...WHICH I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF I went to the Ethan Haas myspace page http://www.myspace.com/ethanhaaswasright and in the “extended network” box in the upper right corner is 2 words in that cryptic language. The 2 words translated are cthuhlu pthagen wich means “cthuhlu waits/ dreams…… In the books he comunicates with ppl via dreams. Try this on. Maybe he was sending this Ethan Haas character dreams. Ethan starts ranting about the coming of cthuhlu, everyone thinks he’s crazy and then cthuhlu awakens. Thus, Ethan Haas was right. Anyone who has read H.P. Lovecraft knows that he focus’s more on the mental/ emotional status of his characters rather than giving a detailed description of the monster/ beast. So the POV from a camcorder makes absolute perfect sense. I know the myspace thing could have been created by anyone but damn if all signs don’t point towards cthuhlu. Children of the stars, ancient ones? Come on people
  • MrJoe83
    It's not a new teaser, it's the same exact thing. The "stop doing that" or whatever we heard on the steps before was probably from inside the theater, it was a bootleg after all.
  • Lexicon
    To me, it's glaringly obvious that it will be an original movie and not some remake or sequel... If it were, they would have put the title. They want to build up the suspense up until opening day. They want us walking in there so hyped up that we'll be on edge of our seat the whole film. I believe the film will be titled '1-18-08' What I would LIKE to see, based on all the evidence, is either A) An apocalypse film, where we witness the battle between heaven and hell on earth through the eyes of random camcorders... or B) a monster movie where we never truly 'know' what or why the monster is, but have it on screen. Even in LOST we never see the monster until the second season, and even then we have no idea what the hell it is and why it is. The idea that this is 'voltron' or 'gears of war' or just a remake, and we're going out and finding clues just to play a 'guess the remake movie' game, seems lame to me. It's original, and thus has limitless possibilities as of now and finding out its a remake ruins the magic. Plus its too early to tell. I can easily state a case that it will be 'The Super Mario Brothers' Movie. Its in new york, the plumbers are from Brooklyn. Bowser is coming to kill us, they reference japan alot...
  • Mike the Unbeliever
    I still here Its a Lion. Why would he say Its alive, its huge. Thats like saying Its breathing, It has breath.
  • Mike the Unbeliever
    I still hear Its a Lion. Why would he say Its alive, its huge. Thats like saying Its breathing, It has breath.
  • FRANKLIN
    Hell Yeah! an Evangelion movie!
  • Jeremy
    Everyone is saying that it would be terrible if this is a LOST movie. Now I am a HUGE Lost fan and I must say I would be kind of bummed if this was a lost film, but I would be intrigued as well. On the other hand, I would be pissed if this actually was Godzilla (and for everyone who is making hasty claims saying IT IS GODZILLA...shut up, you know nothing more than we know and stop acting like you do). Plus I don't remember anything from godzilla about people predicting his arrival or cryptic spheres with weird writing or any person named Ethan Haas talking about forming some group...So before you start making assumptions and practically forcing us to believe that this is a Godzilla movie, why don't you wait for more proof to come out. Sure it may sound like Godzilla, but it also sounds like the Lost monster. This could be ANYTHING...but I can't wait to find out what it really is.
  • Jeremy
    also...does anyone know any significance of ABZ 3293? Or did they just forget to edit out a license plate?
  • Adam
    Nothing to add to everything since everyone else seems to know more but I just wanted to point out what this movies ISN'T about. It's not a Lost movie, giant lost fan but Lost does not need a viral marketing flood to promote its movie, they would do much better by simply showing the black screen and having the Lost opening play. This is not a Voltron movie, while I was never a huge fan I'd question the storytelling ability if something like that was shown through the eyes of home video footage. Lastly and quite obviously (apparently not to some people), this is not a Godzilla movie. Nevermind the fact it's been played out, the rights aren't owned by Paramount. Have no idea what this movie is about but I know what it isn't.
  • Jeremy
    ok...3rd comment...I've been studying this trailer like a mad man and I downloaded it from http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/hd/ here for my iPod...now maybe this is nothing, but if you look at the info in iTunes after you download it...it says "Release Date: Dec. 31, 1969" another clue maybe?
  • http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/29/jj-abrams-top-secret-trailer-for-cloverfield-in-front-of-transformers/ Alex Matulaitis
    hell yea i knew i was right!!!
  • Joel
    Right about what?
  • Alex Matulaitis
    I knew that it was an Eva movie!
  • Pitbull0669
    Not Even Close!..Its Not Eva!..If anything Its CTHUHLU...Why would they make a Eva Movie for $30 Mill. that would be Stupid!Not to mention handheld cameras!
  • Robot Lion
    I read a comment from J.J Abrams that the sit EthanHaaswasright has nothing to do with 1-18-08
  • Robot Lion
    Why would it be some kind of apocalyptic movie dont we have plenty of them coming out
  • NERV
    Ever heard of the Eva book/movie called 2015? Apparently it was made with hanheld cameras (and it only cost 30 bucks) :)
  • Robot Lion
    I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. What I meant to say was apocalyptic movie in a friendly Eva manner. Go EVA!
  • Bruce
    Also, check out http://www.slusho.jp/ Very strange site, one of the characters in the teaser is wearing a shirt with that name and logo. The site was registered in May 2007 and just has a oddness about it. Check the history section. Very strange history for a slushy company.
  • 1-18-08
    ok i think i found a link between J.J Abrams and Ethan Hass... Go to Youtube and type in Ethan Hass...watch the first message for clues. also checkout the Ethanhass.org and i am 100% these two are related closely.
  • Leonard
    Done a bunch of research and have concluded that these websites are connecting in some "official" way with the Cloverfield trailer: ethanhaaswasright.com ethanhaaswaswrong.com parasitemovie.com sledriding.com tossinggames.com 1-18-08.com The main sites are 1-18-08 and parasitemovie. From what I gather, all the information out there claiming that the film is about a parasite is based entirely on the name of the website and it's connection with 1-18-08. parasite, however could also be para-site, i.e., alternate site. Just a thought. Anyway, my hypothesis is that both the Revelations faction and the Cthulhu faction are correct. It's easy enough to connect the awakening of Cthulhu with the end of the world. Cthulhu and the Old Ones rise from their slumber when the stars are right and then do battle with the Elder gods (e.g., Azazoth, Yog-Suggoth, etc.), though there are different ideas from post-lovecraft writers and Lovecraft never got into the details of what was supposed to happen. My guess is that some (students) read about Lovecraft and then discover that the Cthulhu Mythos is real and that the biblical prophecies of the end times meshes with that and the end of the world is about to begin. Cthulhu's back and boy is he (it?) pissed. As for the "lion" v. "alive" debate, even if someone said "it's a lion" it doesn't mean the person had any idea what he saw, especially half-drunk in the middle of the night through the smoke (plus, seeing Cthulhu at all is supposed to drive one insane). The characters on the ethanhaaswasright site seem to be a bastardized, cursive form of devanagari (Indian script) mixed with arabic script. but there are 26 characters and these are probably intended to match our alphabet.
  • Leonard
    I believe slusho.jp is most likely related and probably an "official" (i.e., paid for by Paramount) site. slusho is another code name for the cloverfield project and I believe it is a drink that was used on Lost or some other Abrams thing. Anyway, the history is obviously not true, but the connection with Ganu Yoshida bringing back a secret ingredient from the deepest depths of the ocean meshes with the parasite theory and the Cthulhu mythos (the Old Ones live in deep caverns under the oceans).
  • Leonard
    I believe slusho.jp is most likely related and probably an "official" (i.e., paid for by Paramount) site. It's definitely not a real drink, that's for sure. slusho is another code name for the cloverfield project and I believe it is a drink that was used on Lost or some other Abrams thing. Anyway, the history is obviously not true, but the connection with Ganu Yoshida bringing back a secret ingredient from the deepest depths of the ocean meshes with the parasite theory and the Cthulhu mythos (the Old Ones live in deep caverns under the oceans). Plus the reference that "everyone that drinks slusho! tastes Noriko's dream, and becomes a small whale like Noriko..." sounds pretty ominous.
  • stig
    just on a little side note, i also think the slusho site is a little fishy (no pun intended), so when I found a link on the site that opened up my email client i sent 'satoshi@slusho.jp' an email. the response i got back was "Slusho! loves your mails!! You Can't Drink Just Six!!!". this seemed just plain silly and a dead end. Kind of comical though....
  • stig
    Check this site out. Official, or not? http://ethanhaasknows.livejournal.com/
  • CptOats
    If you search for Cthulhu on the internet you'll find that there's a movie slated to come out this year starring Tori Spelling so I don't think it's a Cthulhu movie.
  • stig
    alright found something interesting. still unconfirmed whether or not the site in post 446 is 'official', but on the July 9th journal entry there are tags at the bottom. one says "and lo the seven-headed serpent". well i googled this and came to this page: "http://www.lastdays.com/mysteries/babylon/3sevenmountains/seven.html" and more importantly almost at the bottom of that page, this quote: The characterization of Satan as a red dragon in chapter twelve of Revelation is followed in chapter thirteen with a similarly disturbing depiction of the Antichrist and his demonic helper Apollyon; the beast let out of the bottomless pit that empowers the Antichrist and his kingdom in the last days. Here we have a beast "rising up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name." The beast "was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority." It would seem that this is merely a metaphorical prophecy, but the language is interesting nonetheless. Still have doubts this is a apocalypse movie though.
  • Tom Huck
    Okay, after reading throughout this entire page of gibberish; I have realized that Cthulhu isn't totally out of the picture. I don't know anything about what the movie truly is about, seeing as the trailer itself could be the end of the movie. I am going to do more research tonight, and fight out more, seeing which topic all these clues point to the most. On a good note, hopefully it isn't godzilla, or voltron, although (not being a voltron fan or foe : unaware to the cartoon) I think the idea may be pretty good. I hope it is Cthulhu, because I have always wanted to see Lovecraft's work of it come onto the big screen. Even if it is a apocalyptic film, I will be satisfied, seeing as I'm a sucker for those genre of films. I really don't feel like doing research, but it'll be cool if I actually found something out that no one knew. I'll be satisfied with anything as long as the monster isn't some dumb friggin' black cloud. J.J. better not pull a sloppy move, or else, off with his goatse.
  • Robot Lion
    I agree with CptOats no Cthulhu its comes out in the fall of 07so lets get off that and find the right monster in this movie maybe its King Ghidorah he likes to blow stuff up
  • CHADtheINFAMOUS
    if you remember when the transformers trailer first came out it very similar to this. it was only of the mars rover footage. it didn't even say it was for transformers just the date of release. but this trailer for cloverfield was crazy. i got home and started searching for it..... btw transformers was the SICKIST movie ever.. i've seen it twice already and wouldn't mind seeing it again.
  • Tom Huck
    Okay, who the hell was the one who thought the guy said it was a lion? I'm sorry but He clearly says its alive, and sure people ask, "Why would he say it's alive?" You need to realize that even though it is dumb for him to say, 1) almost every monster movie has sumone say it's alive, shit, if its alive, then the monster is a flying baby lol. and u need to remember that when people are scared to death and feel like life is ending as we know it, then ur bound to say w/e comes to mind, i know if i saw sumthing huge, id be like, " IT WAS IT THE CLOWN! HE WANTS MONEY! SOMEONE NEEDS TO FEED HIM THE SLOP! GET THIS MAN SOME SLOP DROP SAMICHES!"
  • Tom Huck
    On a final note. I have discovered on my own research that the true monster is Randy Couture Head. He is known to float around the universe, and after defeating unicron he realized he had to destroy the next biggest head to his, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY! so he destroys it in the first five minutes of the movies, which is also the last five minutes, he goes and fights the wolfman, and then flies off to secret candy island.
  • CHADtheINFAMOUS
    i've seen on acouple of sites that it could be "gamera: The Guardian of the Universe" it hasn't been big in the U.S. but i guess it's a hit in japan, which is were rob is supose to be leaving to before the attack happens... "Gamaera is a giant turtle dragon thing that shots fire balls" look it up on google.
  • Tom Huck
    Last TimeI Checked, its not gamera , its actually the tmnt, theyre back and this time, theyre fighting ghostbusters for the crown jewels, i heard mr bean is in this movie, he has a role where he chops off a mans nose.
  • CHADtheINFAMOUS
    i think it has to be the killer teletubbies from hell.... the purple ones a bitch.. who knows what those goofy mothefuks could do. 8)
  • CrackV
    This is so sad, when this forum or whatever was new, everyone read all the comments, now, people just read the last one posted. If everyone just listened, they would realize that a plant guy in IMDB forums has revealed that the monster "Its not godzilla" through an anagram at the end of a post, that what he is doing is viral marketing by rearanging the bolded letters in his posts, and HE HAS REVEALED WHAT THE MONSTER IS!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me repeat that, MONSTER HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!!!!!!!!! It isnt godzilla, or cthulu, or voltron (which crazy numbnuts thought that up?) or King Gedora or whatever! ITs the freaking parasite! THe giant monster is the "Parent" that spawns all these human size parasites that feed off electricity and have a tendency to kill everything they see. By van's logs you can gather that they kill lots of his buddies, there are the followers of the Mezin who have known about the coming of the parasites for a long time and have prepared, and the Mezin and Vans people dont really see eye to eye. The parasites have culture, and are becoming more advanced as the days prior to the initial attack pass, developing a hierarchy and whatnot. Freddy, one of Vans dudes, manages to comunicate with one, but i think he gets killed later. Trust me, the source for this is real. This wasnt just some stupid fan, the guy had joined IMDB a couple weeks before the trailer was ever aired, and he was allways named "My_Name_Is_Van". So this guy is legit. Honest to god, i hate all these people coming on this forum and acting like they know for sure that its godzilla or cthulu, when it isnt either! Its all new, nothing remade. Maybe inspired by some things, but nowadays, what isnt inspired by something else? Seriously, just look at the facts and stop being biased and you will get more searching done and more questions answered! I pretty much already have the plot of this movie figured out already, just from paying attention.
  • 48states
    This is an intriguing cached link for the slusho.jp whois info: http://tinyurl.com/yp446z "Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer" is the legal firm that represents JJ / Bad Robot! But if you go to the current version of that site: http://tinyurl.com/295g6k you'll see that the law firm name has been replaced with Satoshi Kagashima, the slusho representative...
  • Flagg79
    I'm not buying the parasite crap. Also, you can forget about Voltron or EVA for God's sake. I think it is obvious that it's either Cthulu or an Apocolypse movie. And, for the LION vs. ALIVE debate. If (IF IF IF) he is saying "lion" it WILL BE an armageddon flick. There's a description of the last days somewhere in the Bible that describes angels as having several different faces at once, one of those faces being that of a lion. Also, as much as I want this to be a Cthulu movie, I really don't think it is. Here's a few clues that point in the direction I would LOVE for the movie to go in and it's completely unrelated to ANYTHING discussed yet. -somewhere above, the name Steve King was mentioned along with the Ethan Haas sites. -This movie supposedly started filming in February. -Abrams aquired the option rights for Stephen King's Dark Tower movie in early February. -The 9 on the chick's shirt is photoshopped in and half of her is being blocked. Could the 9 actually be a 19? (19 is prominent in The Dark Tower series) -Movie is coming out on 1-18. 1 + 18 = 19 All speculation and probably completely wrong, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
  • CrackV
    Yeah, i got the steve king thing up there. it was the name of a moderator of all the tossing games sites and stuff. The guy seems like he knows nothing at first, but now that more poeple are coming to his site he has given away that he is in on it. He seems to know things, but isnt talking. I also heard about the stephen king stuff, but he is also doing a movie about a book written by stephens kid too, so i dont think that its related to this movie. JJ Abrams is just getting into the movie biz, thats all. Now hes gettin tons of new movie deals, so this one is just itself, not one of the others. We cant go nuts every time we hear he's doing a movie and think its this one. Yeah, i hear ya on the 19 thing, but I think he may have done it to confuse people, Voltron is on the same day. I think it may be to make ppl think its VOltron. Guess we figured its not that by now. Pretty much, just Look for CrackV in this forum. Im not repeating myself again. Suffice it to say, I have found out what the parasite is for sure, and i have said it tons of times. Go to IMDB and search for the guy "my name is van" with underscores between each word. That will give some answers. Anyway, Ethan Haas may just be an unrelated ARG, so maybe we should focus on other things, like the lion or something. ANd yes, i know, it may not be lion. May be "Alive" or "Alien" (although nobody seems to think its alien).
  • Anteros
    Another hint that it could be an apocalyptic movie is the last line of the trailer. After all the mayhem we see unleashed in the trailer, the guy at the very end says, "Tonight's gonna be the best night ever!" After having watched the initial attack, that could easily be a hint that, "Tonight's gonna be the last night ever!"
  • Henry
    Hey, just for anyone running off the "My name is van" clues on IMDB, yeah, that was fake. Just a guy messing around.
  • Anteros
    From Ain't It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com) The web site that broke the story is now claiming to have received a short note from JJ Abrams. It follows: Dear Sir, Thanks for your support of our little movie. I can't wait to talk to you more about it -- of course, knowing you, by the time we talk you'll know more than I will. Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we're doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn't kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat's about what's online? So as you can imagine, we're focusing mostly on THAT. For what it's worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us. Stay cool the rest of the summer -- and thanks per usual for AICN! JJ This note implies that we're all wasting our time on the ARG known as Ethan Haas AND that we have only found ONE of the Cloverfield web sites.
  • Anteros
    Also, in addition to the quote from Matthew 12:36 I posted earlier, there's also this: From Revelation 18:08 "Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her." NIV And if you don't want to read through the whole thread again, here's Matthew 12:36 (12:36 being the time on the first pictire from 1-18-08): Matthew 12:36 "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the DAY OF JUDGMENT for every careless word they have spoken." NIV "Tonight's gonna be the LAST night ever!"
  • Grimlok626
    I was researching Google combining some of the things I saw in the backgrounds and on the fridge in their kitchen... Search for "mystery street AKM" and click on the second link, its a PDF file speaking of the Aeons of Maat and other documents ranging from the Jewish, Egyptian and other religious writings. On Page 14 of 43 the document talks about a creature referencing a book on Cthulhu... Maybe this is the Lovecraft, JJ Abrams movie, "Cthulhu" after all. Wikipedia search gives info on Cthulhu as a representation of pure evil, destruction and chaos given many different names and forms, and is sometimes preceded with "dead" as in "Dead Cthulhu" and in the last shot showing the statue of Liberty's head you see DEAD written on the back of the street sign... Just some things I noticed...add that in with the bible references from Anteros comments and you get an end of the world picture with a monster...sweet!!
  • Underrated
    Cool, but already overhyped.
  • lennit
    After reviewing the high quality 1-18-08 trailer on Apple's website (with meticulous use of the arrow keys to go frame by frame in the trailer) I noticed something The striking resemblance of the two women in the initial 1-18-08.com picture is just a coincidence. Yes, the two faces pieced together look amazingly the same, but if you watch the trailer, right before the Statue of Liberty's head hits the ground you can see both of the characters standing with Rob on the street. You see the darker skinned girl more, but you can see the lighter skinned one. You actually get a good view of the darker skinned girl as she looks up in this "what the hell/Oh my God!" type face when she sees something flying through the air (the Statue's head). Just before that you see the lighter skinned girl behind her for a little while. So yeah, both characters exist and are real.. Also the "We'll miss you Rob" sign really looks like it's made out of pictures. Obviously, this is a gathering of friends sending another friend off so perhaps those were pictures of him and friends throughout his stay in NYC. And yeah, looks like Rob picked the wrong night to leave....if only a day earlier. Along with all that I went through the trailer trying to see if any of the characters looked anything like the shadowy Van in EthanHaasWasRight.com. The only person that looks anywhere similar would be the "This is going to be the best night ever!" guy at the end of the trailer. But that's a LONG shot And I don't think Van is a military type guy. His clothing looks more like a grunge rocker than anything. It looks like he has two shirts on. A t-shirt underneath, but like a flannel shirt on top. Does anybody else see this? Now, a note from JJ Abrams saying that EthanHaas has no connection? Possible, but are we sure that's from JJ? And why would he tell us we're off track anyway? We'll find out for certain on 8-1-07 and we'll go from there I guess And CrackV, sorry, but the "my_name_is_van" guy is most likely just somebody faking it. Why would the guy sign up with that name anyway? Why not register with the name "van_mantra"? Who would have that before the site went live? There's something way too fishy there and just because his name is "my_name_is_van" and such doesn't make him legit. Doesn't entirely make it not real as well, but there's nothing we can go on that says he's flat out real without a doubt, though the doubt is really REALLY high for this character.
  • lennit
    http://www.slusho.jp/ looks like it can be legit. Only a few pages work right now and "more to come soon". If a character really was wearing a "Slusho" T-shirt in the trailer this could be a new lead! Can anybody run a WhoIs on this domain to find out if it's a Paramount site? I'll do so after work if nobody else has :)
  • Flagg79
    My ipod is also showing the film's release date as December 31, 1969. I did some digging and found that this was/used to be a unix problem. So either I-tunes is having this problem or JJ and co. are setting the date up like that to get us to investigate and come across the unix code problem. This actually might be the case because the unix problem was related to numbers, mainly zeros. Instead of confusing you myself, here's a link that explains the unix problem better. http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/6650.html And if you guys can use this to get more clues, good for you. Then again, it COULD just be a coincidence. Also...we're supposed to "know more" on August 1st, right? Anyone else catcth this? August 1st = 08/ 01 Movie is to be released January 18th, 2008. = 01/18 Didn't someone say something about reversing numbers found in the trailer in a previous post?
  • millionmiles
    Does anyone think when Rob comes into the room and the guy beside him takes a picture on his camera that the flash seems super emposed, maybe this photograph will have some significance later. On the breaking news the time is 12.37 AM - 1 minute after the 2 photographs on /www.1-18-08.com/. Dont know if this guy is jumping over the car or not but when the "head" hits the ground and rolls into the black jeep, there is a guy who looks as though he's coming down to either protect or attack the couple, i think you can see him running before the head hits the ground but the camera shot does linger on him.
  • millionmiles
    Does anyone think when Rob comes into the room and the guy beside him takes a picture on his camera that the flash seems super emposed, maybe this photograph will have some significance later. On the breaking news the time is 12.37 AM - 1 minute after the 2 photographs on /www.1-18-08.com/. Dont know if this guy is jumping over the car or not but when the "head" hits the ground and rolls into the black jeep, there is a guy who looks as though he's coming down to either protect or attack the couple, i think you can see him running before the head hits the ground but the camera shot does linger on him.
  • lennit
    Actually, I think the time was 12:27 on the news broadcast (which then correlates with the 1st photo on the site being only 9 minutes later, when they were on the street looking in terror at whatever IT is) Also, the 67 degrees at 12:30AM in NYC on January 18th....seriously, that has to be a clue. It's not that warm in January, is it?!?!?! I was in Massachusetts during January and it was freezing, and this was Western Mass, and I was only about 2 hours from NYC. Does the water around Manhattan warm the city that much or is this weird? Maybe whatever IT is causes a lot of warmth to follow it? Or something? Geesh, how can we even be sure that this thing (or things) is even purposefully destroying NYC? Yeah, the first thing you think is Godzilla on a reckless rampage, but that's so cliche. Anyway, more things to think about! :)
  • jbone
    cmon people get on the HD trailers and find something, im f-ing terrible at connecting things and finding things. i count on your hard work to quell my anxiety.
  • diggity
    I looked up the name Kagashima, as shown in the WhoIS DNS registration, and found this website that mentions one of the characters being Farmer Kagashima in one of the Godzilla fan fiction writings. http://www.monsters4u.com/mza/fanfiction/fanfic06.html It's a stretch, granted :-)
  • millionmiles
    if you leave http://www.1-18-08.com on the party pic moves counterclockwise and the other pic shakes slightly.
  • MIKE
    YEAH BUT THE PICTURES MOVING CLOCKWISE & COUNTERCLOCKWISE HAVE YET TO CRACK ANY CLUES. I'M STARTING TO THINK THAT ALL THESE CLUES ARE JUST THREADS TO GO FROM SITE TO SITE.
  • MIKE
    IGN Movies has learned that the "Untitled J.J. Abrams Project" may also be using the working title "Slusho," which hardcore fans of Abrams' Alias may remember as the Slurpee-type beverage that Vaughn offers to Sydney in the second episode of the series. We received an email this morning with the details of a public notice of filming posted last week in downtown Los Angeles that illuminates a few details about the production. The notice states that a Paramount Pictures movie using the name "Slusho" was filming last week in several downtown locations during the late afternoon to early morning hours. Here's a description of the scene: "Exterior dialogue. Driving scenes. Occasional traffic & pedestrian control. Camera & equipment on sidewalk, street and property. 200 extras. Military vehicles. Destruction aftermath. Weapons brandished. Emergency vehicles with flashing lights. Exterior dialogue on fire escape on 8th floor." Sounds like "Cloverfield" to us! So, what else is known about the top secret movie? Frequent Abrams collaborator Drew Goddard, a writer on Lost, Alias, Buffy, and Angel, penned the script. Keep tracking with IGN Movies as the mystery of "Cloverfield" unravels
  • MIKE
    UPDATE 7/10: Aargh. Those of us hoping for a Lovecraft tie-in have lost some foetid wind from our Innsmouth home port sails. Mr. J.J. Abrams himself dropped a line to Harry at Ain't It Cool News to let him (and thus everyone) know that we're totally off-base regarding the Ethan Haas puzzle sites - he (Abrams) states categorically that they "have nothing to do with us." Which means any reference to the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred found in those solutions is irrelevant in regard to the Cloverfield film project. Which is not to say that Cthulhu will definitely not be rearing his tentacled head, but it does mean that there's absolutely no evidence indicating that he will. The good news comes when Abrams reveals that there are, indeed, web sites out there in cyburbia relating to the movie - but no one has (as far as he knows) found them yet or made the connection. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  • jbone
    the sign that the head hits is 401 4-01 april fools day. were being fooled with
  • jbone
    also looking at the trailer some more, when the fireball hits the corner of the building east of the roof theyre on as the light comes through from the third fireball we can see that the fireball that hit the corner, did very little relative damage considering the speed it mustve been travelling, as well as leaving little more than black ashy material in a star shaped imapct splat. does this imply that the fireballs are sulphur based balls of fire. also why do the projectiles coming from the main firemass seem to explode at the height of the arc and then come barelling down? anyone tuning in to these details? or am i way overlooking it? please everyone your thoughts.
  • jbone
    ok now zooming and regular functions on the flash at 1-18-08.com are disabled. guys were moving faster than they thought we would.

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  • Bruce
    Rob's reactions are telling I think, so is the high-jumping guy who seems to jump to push people out of the way. Also, Rob pushes the two girls back on the sidewalk before the statue's head is even visible coming towards them... no one else is moving to get clear when he starts. Also, some of the faces of the crowd are very calm, like the rich guy and his wife/date. Could be just bad acting by the extras, but it seems placed. Also, and believe me I know I'm being to picky here, when Rob starts to push the girls away, there is a man in a dark shirt across the street that appears to start heading towards Rob who has a "knowing" look on his face (for lack of a better term) before the camera pulls away. I'm probably reading wayyyy too much into this, but I can't help it. Plus I think the Slusho site and Rob's leaving to Japan are tied together. What does Rob do for a living, I wonder. Also, the photos on the 1-18-08 site rotate either way, depending on which way you push them. They move in 3 second intervals at what looks to be by 1 degree.
  • Bruce
    Hmm, okay, revise that on the photos. They seemed to be at 3 sec intervals, but using a stopwatch on the photo with Rob, the time interval between each tick seems to grow by, what may be, a second each tick. My timing isn't perfect so I may be off a bit, but there is certainly some time gain. Not sure about the other, testing in between work ;)
  • Brandon
    I saw the preview last Friday......7/6/07.......it sounded like Godzilla or something.......I'm going to see that.
  • Rafe
    I haven't seen anyone reference this so I thought I would through my 2 cents in. Minor detail, but in regards to the question of whether or not ethanhaaswasright.com site is related to 1-18-08... I just watched the trailer again and if you notice the very beginning when it show the Paramount and Bad Robot logos, they have the same camera effect (with the horizontal lines and sync distortion) as the videos from ethanhaaswasright.com. Then you see again at the end when the guy says "this is going to be the best night ever". Like I said, just my 2 cents, but could have done that to show relation between the two.
  • bob
    If you go to http://www.theparasite.com it links you to the http://www.1-18-08. site. And if you highligth the top it tell you something will be revealed on August 1.
  • Bruce
    Okay, after having left the 1-18-08 website up for about the last two hours or so, both pictures have stopped rotating and they are now just vibrating pretty roughly. Not sure what significance this is, but there you go.
  • Flagg79
    It might be a stretch, but I tried going to http://www.badrobot.com to see if there was anything over there and the site seems sort of cryptic. I can't even figure out how to get past the main page. Anyone wasnna give that a whirl?
  • Pitbull0669
    Did anyone notice that if you put the party pic on its side and set the Girl nest to it regular, the girl pic starts to rotate by itself.!Slowly like a Clock.1...???Weird!
  • MrJoe83
    Most of you know I believe this movie is totally original and I haven't been picking everything apart or making strong claims to what's going on although I have been following everything because I'm a huge LOST/Abrams fan and I love this kind of stuff. There is one thing that seems a little off to me. We're sitting here trying to figure out what's going on and what the monster is. Let's not forget, before all the crazy stuff happens, Rob is the central character. Maybe we're not paying enough attention to him. Knowing LOST as well as I do, I know not to overlook ANYTHING and something will be put in front of my eyes to distract me from what's really going on. Rob is leaving New York, and he's not going to Jersey or Florida or even LA, he's going to Japan. That's about as far away from New York as you can get. Also, to me, he seems a lot more scared and worried than anybody else at the party. He's the first to react when the lights come back on and he's not looking outside, maybe because he knows what's going on. When his friend tells him he should have left town earlier he reacts in a way that seems to say, "I thought I was getting out early." It looks like he's pushing people out of the way on the stairs, including the camera guy. On the street, he doesn't even look when we hear the roar, he just runs before anybody else starts running. Just something that seems odd to me, could be nothing but who knows, maybe we're not paying enough attention to Rob. And it is a surprise party meaning he probably didn't want any sort of party and wanted to get out of town quickly and quietly. millionmiles - I saw that guy too, don't know if he was jumping or was thrown. It's one hell of a jump though! jbone - I thought that as well about the debris exploding in mid-air. Is it really chance that it's coming after them...or maybe just coming after Rob? Lastly, the newscast is at 12:32am, 4 minutes before the picture.
  • Joel
    I also noticed that when you reload the page, the pictures move to a different spot on the page. Idk if that means anything but thats kinda of weird too.
  • Rafe
    That http://www.badrobot.com site is pretty locked down. Don't think anything is there. At first I thought that maybe it wasn't there official site but I couldn't find another website for them on google. I grabbed the entire site and it seems to only be the index.html with that Bad Robot image. Nothing too weird about it... the image is just 800x600, but there are 188 spaces in the whole page. Can't think of anything with that. I don't think it's anything, but I did think it was strange that a production company like his doesn't have an official site operational.
  • djcaezar
    WHY ALL U IDIOTS ARE FREAKING OUT? THIS FILM HAS GOZILLA ALL OVERIT
  • Rafe
    ^ OMG! djcaezar figured it out! HEY EVERYONE! We finally have our answer.... *ends his excitement* Read the thread, uh.. as you would say, IDIOT! Like many have said already if you have proof then bring it, otherwise what's the point in that post? Until we have hard proof of any theory, they all just remain that...theories. The point is to follow the clues and piece them together, not just go around blurting out the same thing 600 other people just said. It just gets old.
  • MIKE
    Hooray djcaezar figured it all out by his little old self. lets all quit while were ahead & let djcaezar explain to us how he came about nameing this movie "GOZILLA" as he likes to call it. & how he cracked this huge mystery of a title.
  • Shawn
    It's not Godzilla, a new Godzilla movie is being made as we speak. It's not Rampage, I'd like to think a 200 ft wolf-man is below JJ. It's not Voltron, another company owns the rights to it. It's not Transformers 2, too early for trailer let alone movie plus M Bay is making the 2nd not JJ. It's not Cthulhu, that movie has already been made, has a website, stars Tori Spelling. IMO what we have here is something new. The guys behind this are pretty original, and the only way we will find out more is to wait for someone who knows what the hell they are doing to figure out the clues. Also, I think 1-18-08 could be the date another trailer realeases. Just a thought. Also, the Eathan Haas sites are not associated with the movie.
  • sisu
    After the explosion, the fireballs that come out of it look like the beginning of Voltron cartoons with the 5 lions flying up to form Voltron. I don't think this is Voltron, but just a thought. I believe it's something new and original. How is it 63 degrees outside???
  • Flagg79
    If JJ isn't lying to us and the 1-18-08 site IS the only one found so far, I say everyone keep experimenting; the pictures move easily and, depending on where they are set, move in different ways. I just aligned both pictures up side by side, where the white border from both run into one another and both pictures starting moving away from one another, in opposite directions. I know this probably means nothing, but if everyone messes around with this thing like that, who know what will come up.
  • lennit
    Well, the movie DOES take place on 1-18-08. The timestamps on the photos show that.
  • Flagg79
    Some clues: As they are walking to the window to look out, there is a paddle-looking thing with ATM on it. Is this a fraternity or something? As they are rushing off of the roof, just before the big blast, you can see ACE 2004 written on the wall. The instant they make it to the street, there is a guy in front of the camera, his back turned. He's wearing a pinkish shirt. There is very obviously an "O" that was placed there in post-production, maybe photoshopped in for the sake of clues. Anyone else got anything like this?
  • Bruce
    The "O" on the man's back was a first clue, but there is also another one on his shirt on his right hip and it is moving in such a way with his shirt I would be hard pressed to believe it was done in post. Possible but I'm sort of doubting. Might still be a clue or just an ugly shirt :/. One thing that has me interested now is the girl at the beginning that says "Wise or Weiss (or something like that) is here, let's go." and we don't see her again in the trailer. Could be something there. Also, I beginning to believe that the set is not Rob's place, but someone else's.
  • Bruce
    Evangelon ROCKS!
  • Bruce
    Evangelion ROCKS!
  • BigDawg
    Okay Listen, It's not Godzilla his copyright lwas were retired by tha guy that owns him lol. It's Not Voltron Cause the nxt movie title is the Parasite so that rules out Godzilla also now as for mythos creatures like Chtulu and Nyle i dnt no a damn thing about that stuff so u decide i think it's a monster we've nvr seen b4 and it Does say It's huge it's alive so that cld b Frankinstein there lol jkjk some ppl think it's tha Mud or Smoke Monster from lost que me there if i'm wrong and i've even heard LoveCraft being invloved in this but i dnt think so once agin Abrams is an intellegent peson who crated LOST for god's sake so thres no tellin wat it is it cld be Godzilla/Bigfoot/Chtulu/Nyle and LoveCraft all in one kik ass monster hell we dnt no all i no is that this movie is gonna rule hardcore and like many others me and my friend were like wtf man wtf thats when my friend shouts Holy Shit It's Biiiiiiiiigfoooooooot! Evry one laughed and just got even mor interested in tha trailer i've been tryin to figure this movie out since tha 3rd but nutin all i've heard is NIN and Year Zero Movie or remakes u ppl need to open up and think of a new mnster maybe thats wat'll b a new mnster that evryone love to watch but is scared yet awd at the strngth and pwr of it or it cld b a Carebears from Hell that wld b cool but w/e we no that if this mnster hates Lady Liberty where in one hell of a trip
  • BigDawg
    Okay Listen, It's not Godzilla his copyright laws were retired by tha guy that owns him lol. It's Not Voltron Cause the nxt movie title is the Parasite so that rules out Godzilla also now as for mythos creatures like Chtulu and Nyle i dnt no a damn thing about that stuff so u decide i think it's a monster we've nvr seen b4 and it Does say It's huge it's alive so that cld b Frankinstein there lol jkjk some ppl think it's tha Mud or Smoke Monster from lost que me there if i'm wrong and i've even heard LoveCraft being invloved in this but i dnt think so once agin Abrams is an intellegent peson who crated LOST for god's sake so thres no tellin wat it is it cld be Godzilla/Bigfoot/Chtulu/Nyle and LoveCraft all in one kik ass monster hell we dnt no all i no is that this movie is gonna rule hardcore and like many others me and my friend were like wtf man wtf thats when my friend shouts Holy Shit It's Biiiiiiiiigfoooooooot! Evry one laughed and just got even mor interested in tha trailer i've been tryin to figure this movie out since tha 3rd but nutin all i've heard is NIN and Year Zero Movie or remakes u ppl need to open up and think of a new mnster maybe thats wat'll b a new mnster that evryone love to watch but is scared yet awd at the strngth and pwr of it or it cld b a Carebears from Hell that wld b cool but w/e we no that if this mnster hates Lady Liberty where in one hell of a trip
  • and0
    yeah, this definitely could be the year zero movie that trent reznor mentioned.
  • MrJoe83
    Just because it's supposed to come out on January 18th doesn't mean the movie takes place on January 18th so I wouldn't worry about HOW it's 63 degrees out but I do want to know WHY it's 63 degrees.
  • BigDawg
    I also forgot to mention that I'm a huge eva fan and an eva movie would be pretty tight
  • demon guy
    Ok, I only got up to about comment 400 and my eyes started killing me, so forgive me this was already mentioned. I was going over the HD version of the trailer frame by frame and at about 1:14 as they are running down the stairs there is a flash to their left. There appears to be a "demon" similar to the one in the girl(s) picture watching them run down the stairs. I asked a couple of people and they see it too. It looks like it has the same elongated face and some funny kind of ear things. The blue flame is on its head and the bald guy looks like he glances over at it. I'm going to push it a little further and say that I see the same "face" inverted as the "meteor" strikes the building behind them as the are exiting the roof at about 1:12 (about 4 frames after it impacts). As far as the alive/lion things goes, I hear lion. If this thing is an apocalyptic themed movie then a lion wouldn't be too far fetched. There is something in the book of Revelations about four living creatures sitting at the center of a throne. And before the throne was what looked like a sea of glass. (there's a lot of glass in Manhattan) It talks about flashes of lighting, rumbling and peals of thunder coming from the throne. Oh, and the first living creature was like a lion. It's somewhere around Rev. 4:4 to about 4:7 if anyone wants to post that up. Anyway, that's my two cents. Again, sorry if this was mentioned before. I'm just really tired and this trailer is driving me crazy.
  • MrJoe83
    Touche...damn, I just got burned...ok then, I live 2 hours from Manhattan and there was a day in early January this year when it was 70 degrees. The last couple of years it's been pretty warm through January in the northeast. Maybe Al Gore is on to something.
  • Rafe
    We already established that Slusho! is associated but I was looking at the trailer again and notice that no one replied to lennit (post 468) about if anyone was wearing a Slusho! shirt. The guy who says "maybe we can see something from the roof" is in fact wearing a Slusho! shirt. *find it a bit odd that lennit would say exactly wear to look for the Slusho! logo when there could be many different places to find it.... suspicious... maybe, maybe not* I'll post if I find more.
  • msmith40
    1) The newscaster mentions people calling in about "....a thunderous roaring sound..." So the only people who are calling in are those who've heard it? No eyewitnesses with cell-phones are calling in? 2) The line "It's alive! It's huge!" Well........what does that mean? I mean....if something is roaring....it must be alive, right? And to exclaim 'It's alive!" with such enthusiasm/panic implies that you've seen something that normally would not be alive. That's like saying: "OHMYGOD! THAT BARKING DOG IS ALIVE!!!" 3) (Kind of ties-in with point #1) Did this thing just pop-up suddenly? It just began roaring as soon as it appeared? I say this because the newscaster doesn't say "...a monster appeared suddenly...", or "...something big crawled out of the river..." Only that people are reporting a sound. "Good evening, everyone. Tonight's news.....people are calling in about that roaring sound........but so far we've only received calls from those who've heard it, but not seen what's causing it. In other news....it's going to be sunny tomorrow...." 4) What would cause such a huge explosion in downtown Manhattan? That fireball is hundreds of feet high. No refineries on Wall Street. 5) What the heck is 'Eva'....?
  • Chris
    There is tagging on the wall when they all run back inside, CR something, maybe A? Not sure if it means anything. Also, on the fridge, there is a sticker running sideways that says Exit Mystery St which seems very out of place. Near the end, when they are running on the street, there is a girl who crosses the scene and it looks as if her shirt says "Switzerland". Anyone else make that out? License plate of the black car near the end is ABZ 3293. Also, one very interesting thing is that on the backside of a street as Liberty's head is rolling by is tagged with what appears to be "Dead Dear" maybe? Anyone else see it? Oh, and the plaque on the wall has the letters AKM printed on them. Those are the things that I've found so far.
  • MrJoe83
    I believe she says, "You guys, he's here, let's go", and we do see her again, she's the girl that says, "Rob's awesome, I'm gonna miss him." Good call on it possibly not being Rob's place.
  • BigDawg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion. Check it out! It even has info on the live action movie thats comming up, which Im hoping that this is it :)
  • EVANGELION_pwns
    @ comment #514 "What the heck is 'Eva'….?" Oh its nothing, just the biggest and best anime/show that man has ever wittnessed
  • Chris
    Sorry, I meant to say on the backside of a street "sign" it says Dead Dear or something to that effect, frame 1:39. Might be nothing, but worth noting.
  • Rafe
    One thing I just thought of is that the second picture they added to 1-18-08.com was before the first picture. First one with the girls is at 12:36 A and the second one is at 12:01 A. We are moving backwards in our sequence of photos. Maybe there is a significance in this. We'll see if another photo appears and if so, if it was taken before 12:01 A. Maybe we are looking for something before the noises and explosions happened.
  • Rafe
    Maybe we are figuring out the storyline that precedes the movie.
  • http://www.none.com js
    Pretty good update here Cloverfield Update
  • Calvin
    The trailer is stupid since it reveals nothing at all. Also, the homecam shooting of the trailer is lame, and if the whole movie is going to be like that, then that's even worse.
  • Chris
    Please tell me this is not true...visit Slusho.com and click the 4th link from the left, takes you to the feedback email address Satoshi@slusho.jp. So, a quick search on this Satoshi person reveals this Wiki info Satoshi Tajiri (???, Tajiri Satoshi?, born on August 28, 1965) is a Japanese electronic game designer and the creator of Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon. The creator of POCKET MONSTERS! Tell me this is not happening. :)
  • Chris
    Please tell me this is not true...visit Slusho.com and click the 4th link from the left, takes you to the feedback email address Satoshi@slusho.jp. So, a quick search on this Satoshi person reveals this Wiki info Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese electronic game designer and the creator of Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon. The creator of Pokemon! Tell me this is not happening. :)
  • LiCH
    A Call To Arms!! err.. Computers! All jobless, single geeks listen up! J J Abrams is LAUGHING at you! He and his team have set up secret websites all over the net. The clues to the URLS and ultimately the plot and name of the movie are in the trailer! You have to look very carefully and piece together the clues! I'll post as many clues as I can find below, but please let it be known that there is not a single person in the world (other than those associated with the project( that really know what's going on here. We need to work as a team to decipher these encoded clues. If we don't it is entirely possible that without our support the movie will be given a smaller budget, and/or possibly delayed or scrapped entirely. We must support this movie! Clues: Fireball shooting things into the air, and after they reach their apex they start to brighten up and/or seem to explode. The pictures on the website also hold clues. There is a hidden number "2" in one of the letters that make up "Good-bye Rob". There also is what appears to be either a golden "9" or "6" to the far right of the party picture, right next to a seemingly possessed woman/man?. I also believe i see either a letter "T" in the large "M" or a catholic cross. Also, Rob's eyes appear to be a dark black when he's taking that shot of alcohol. There is also a definite Japanese theme in the apartment. Sushi, buddahs, wall scrolls among other things. Someone is wearing a Slusho! T-shirt. There is a slusho website that has the same tracking code as the 1-18-08 site. The girl pictures is also a mystery. The girls appear to be twins or cut and pasted. Ones skin is lighter than the other. But if you look between them you can see the outline and face of what looks like a demon.You can clear see his face, body and if you look closely it seems as if you can see his long tail at the bottom. Very eerie. I also assume the day 1-18-08 has some significance. The party picture on the website was taken exactly one minute after midnight, and the subsequent photo of terror was taken exactly 35 minutes later. After the monsters "RAWRRR~!" You can clearly see a skate board and a piece of wood with the letters "AKM". Some people say they see the demon next to the asian man during the "you're his main dude" line, but sadly I don't see it. New York 1 News -- I think everyone knows that there is no such thing as a CHANNEL 1, could this be a cryptic number reference? If so we now have "2 - 9/6 - 1" to work with. Ok, a few more. There appears to be 7 "missiles" shot out of the fire ball, not 5 like the Voltron fanboys would have you believe. Finally, there seems to be something in the last frame, "This is going to be the best night ever!" though ironic, i do not fully believe that that scene is there for irony. If you look the the man's left, (your right) there appears to be something black in the background, almost shapeless and strange. Can anyone confirm this? It is really hard to freeze frame youtube videos because of their diminished quality. Did someone say there was an apple HD version of this trailer? Anyway I think if everyone who has an interest in this movie spends at least 15 minutes a day watching the trailer, going to the website, and following the clues that we can figure it out! Remember, people on the whole are dumb, but a person can be smart! jenovaproject7 at a o l dot com p.s I WISH TO GOD THAT IT'S LAVOS! But I just can't see Crono or Magus coming to NYC to save the day ; )
  • Chris
    I'm not kidding now, is this Pokemon? Japenese, Satoshi - creator of pokemon (pocket MONSTERS!). This is crazy!
  • Chris
    I'm not kidding now, is this Pokemon? Japanese, Satoshi - creator of pokemon (pocket MONSTERS!). This is crazy!
  • Anteros
    Oh my god, same shit rehashed over and over again... You people are so fucking stupid... This is why I need to get away for awhile.
  • Chris
    I do see something to the left (Apple HD trailer) of the guy at the very end, but it doesn't look significant. Certainly not another "demon".
  • Chris
    Ok, you probably think I'm crazy now, but I'm reading more about the Pokemon creator, and guess what, he worked at Nintendo, on Pokemon, for 6 years. 6! Slusho! You can't drink just six. Thoughts anyone else?
  • http://www.slusho.jp LiCH
    Also is it possible that instead of "D-DAY" "Zero Hour" or the "Apocalypse", that the movie's name is actually 1-18-08? In the spirit of 9-11? Who know, but I can't hardly care about the name of the movie, i just can't wait to see it! Please POST any and all clues, no matter how small or insignificant you think they are. I definitely think there is a numbers game going on here, with all the embed numbers in the pictures and trailer, not to mention the 'name' of the movie. We really need to find a Numerologist!
  • Chris
    Either it's entirely too late, or I'm on to something. Yes, crazy me...more Pokemon clues. Read the history page on slusho.com. There's reference to "many towns and villages on Honshu". Well, you guessed it, Satoshi was born in Machida which is located on Honshu!
  • Rafe
    *Ignoring you as long as possible.... it can't be so*
  • Chris
    F*&%! apparently there's a Digimon character whose design is based on Cthulhu and named after Dagon. the character's English name is "Dragomon." Are you still ignoring me! This is compelling shit here, tell me it's not and I'll stop. :)
  • Chris
    Most Digimon of all levels reside in the Digital World (sometimes called "DigiWorld" for short), a parallel universe created from data inside the Earth's electronic communication networks. However, Digimon are sometimes capable of traveling to Earth - or as it is called in DigiWorld, the Real World. Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1)#Dragomon - this is the pokemon character designed after Cthulhu, his type is Sea Animal and his level is ultimate (perfect). I read on another blog that the monster was a sea monster, can anyone else confirm that report? Let me know when I've convinced you.
  • Leonard
    ethan haas--despite the alleged jja denial, there's something really strange going on with all the ethan haas related sites. I would not drop this in the can just yet; at least not before august 1. This blogger started in may (http://stayunderground.blogspot.com); ethanhaaswasright is very professional and didn't just come out to trick us about the film. Whatever it is took months to put together so it's either connected or it's about something unrelated yet equally interestng. At any rate, we will find out on august 1, 2007. parasitemovie.com has a countdown to the same date and time and it links to 1-18-08 which is more or less confirmed as an official cloverfield site. It was also up and running on july 7, which is a pretty fast move considering the trailer was only out for a couple days and 1-18-08, as far as anyone knows, only appeared on the 5th. Frankly, I strongly believe that the main ethan haas sites (parasitemovie, ethanhaaswasright, stayunderground, ethanhaaswaswrong, and tossinggames) are legit cloverfield and are at least intended to point in the cthulhu direction. slurpo--really weird stuff. the pokemon connection may be another red herring, like the fake new york address listed for the owner of 1-18-08. underwater goop that's made into mystery juice that happens to be advertised on a t-shirt worn by someone at the party (see post 513) is a clear connection. I have to consider this a legit site cloverfield along with 1-18-08 and somewhat more definite than the ethan haas angle. Also has vague, disturbing cthulhu-ish feel about it. tossinggames.com--most interesting to me among the ethan haas stuff. watch the videos, particularly the explosion on the top left. also the bottom right is a vh-1 classic; vh-1 is owned by paramount's parent company, viacom. possibly nothing, possibly something
  • Chris
    Oh, one more Pokemon coincidence the kids on slusho.com (boy & girl = the two Pokemon kids) are under water. The Pokemon monster Dragomon is a sea animal? It just keeps going. This is a Pokemon movie, face it. I've laid out a hell of case for it in my last 20 posts. :)
  • LiCH
    I swear to god, If this movie has anything to do with POKEMON they are smart to tease us. Because what over 10 year old would go see a live action pokemon movie? God please help us all if it does indeed turn out to be pokecrap. My best guess so far is that this movie will be a 'in the moment' movie. Most good sci-fi or fantasy movies take place after a horrific, world-shattering event, this movie will be semi unique if it tells the story while it's happening, kind of like independence day or WoTW. I think it would be insanely cool if the story didn't revolve around 3,4,5 people, but many people with many heroes/victims ala 'Feast'. I think it would also be cool if instead of aliens/mutants/seamonsters that it would be more biblical in a sense. The end of the world from god's eyes. Watching your friends and family turn into demons from hell and such. Running for your lives even though you KNOW for a fact that you are going to die and the world is moments away from ending life on this planet so it could start anew. Deep stuff. Although if angels came down and saved the day or if 'the hand of god' smited all the demons at the end of the movie in order to let the 'few pure souls remain and repopulate' would be a total cop-out! I don't want this movie to have a happy ending. =) Although... It would be insanely COOL if ROB was going to Japan to be an EVA pilot! Kind of like Asuka did in the anime I suppose. Bah, email me if anyone wants to talk about this interesting movie.
  • j-fight
    i have not been here for a while and i look at the most recent comment and its about digimon. wow. i'd like to say its not digimon right now ok?
  • Chris
    I know I've been pushing this Pokemon link, but it seems to have come full circle back to Cthulhu witth the Pokemon character being designed after Cthulhu. This MUST be a Cthulhu movie, and please not a Pokemon movie.
  • J-fight
    i swear to god i know it sounds sad and what not or what ever you want to make of this but i honestly could not handle it it this was pokemon. i would honestly begin to question reality after something like that.
  • Chris
    After all of the links I've found, I'm 100% convinced it's either Pokemon or Cthulhu (hybrid of both) related. Dragomon is a Sea Animal Digimon. His Japanese name is Dagomon as he was named after Dagon of Lovecraft literature known as the Cthulhu Mythos, and appearance is based on Cthulhu of the mythos. Dragomon is a "Wicked God" referred to as "The Sinful Priest of the Ocean Floor". He is thought to be born from a computer virus that infected the computers of ships and such, disrupting direction and course. When he takes a life, he holds the juzu (prayer beads) on his neck and seemingly mourns.
  • J-fight
    sounds like lich begins to describe dawn of the dead haha [awesome movie by the way]
  • Chris
    j-fight...read ALL my comments, and you'll see my point in regards to Pokemon. It's hard to deny the hard evidence I've discovered. Again, it may not BE Pokemon, but it's certainly pointing back to Cthulhu. This is the first "EVIDENCE" that's been provided. Not much speculation here.
  • stig
    how could this be an evangelion movie? that anime takes place in neo-tokyo, not new york, much less in the future and not present day. thats about as ridiculous as saying its going to be a gundam movie. as i have said before, it's either a cthulhu movie or something original.
  • demon guy
    Am I the only one seeing demons? I think I'm losing my mind. If this turns out to be Pokemon, that could be a could thing.
  • Tom Huck and King Buffet
    Once again, I am reading a whole lot of bullshit on this dumbass forum. Okay, my cousin has done some research. He has done a very good job. I originally went to the slusho site, and saw in history that there is a donkey underwater, wtf? The donkey (when clicked on) shows a blue oven mitt. My cousin decided to google blue oven mitt, leading him to the creators of the mitt, Orka Silicone. He then went to wiki and searced orcas, orcas are killer whales, and he went to cultural references, and saw that orcas were supposedly "sea monsters from hell" and originally called orcs. He proceeded to searching for orcs on wiki, which lead him to finding out that orcs are in the game Ragnarok (which is allegedly being made by the creator of the ethan haas site) he searched around and found that the god thor fights a beast during the end of the world, the beasts name is Jörmungandr , now search that name, and bingo, you have your middle world serpent, read on this link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr
  • Chris
    Hear me out...it's either Pokemon (yes, you read that correctly) or Cthulhu, possibly even a hybrid combo of both. Please read on for my summary of all findings... Visit Slusho.com and click the 4th link from the left, takes you to the feedback email address Satoshi@slusho.jp. So, a quick search on this Satoshi person reveals this Wiki info Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese electronic game designer and the creator of Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon. The creator of Pokemon! Tell me this is not happening. :) Ok, you probably think I'm crazy now, but I'm reading more about the Pokemon creator, and guess what, he worked at Nintendo, on Pokemon, for 6 years. 6! "Slusho! You can't drink just six." Thoughts anyone else? Now, read the history page on slusho.com. There's reference to “many towns and villages on Honshu". Well, you guessed it, Satoshi was born in Machida which is located on Honshu! Apparently there's a Digimon character whose design is based on Cthulhu and named after Dagon. The character's English name is “Dragomon." Most Digimon of all levels reside in the Digital World (sometimes called “DigiWorld" for short), a parallel universe created from data inside the Earth's electronic communication networks. However, Digimon are sometimes capable of traveling to Earth - or as it is called in DigiWorld, the Real World. Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1)#Dragomon - this is the pokemon character designed after Cthulhu, his type is Sea Animal and his level is ultimate (perfect). I read on another blog that the monster was a sea monster, can anyone else confirm that report? Oh, one more Pokemon coincidence, the kids on slusho.com (boy & girl = the two Pokemon kids) are under water. The Pokemon monster Dragomon is a sea animal! Dragomon is a Sea Animal Digimon. His Japanese name is Dagomon as he was named after Dagon of Lovecraft literature known as the Cthulhu Mythos, and appearance is based on Cthulhu of the mythos. Dragomon is a “Wicked God" referred to as “The Sinful Priest of the Ocean Floor". He is thought to be born from a computer virus that infected the computers of ships and such, disrupting direction and course. When he takes a life, he holds the juzu (prayer beads) on his neck and seemingly mourns. After all of the links I've found, I'm 100% convinced it's either Pokemon or Cthulhu (hybrid of both) related. Probably Cthulhu, and these Pokemon clues are just a way of confirming that it's Cthulhu. Then again, stranger things have happened.
  • FRANKLIN
    i am just guessing but i don't think this movie has anything to do with rob. i think it is a extremely interesting insight on a persons life and what they were doing when the end of the world began. very interesting if this was the case. i'm not saying the movies not about rob but it seems creative if it wasnt
  • LiCH
    Is this wishful thinking Chris? Are you a closet Poke-Fan? Ya i did enjoy DotD, but it didn't have the psychological horror value as the original did. What i meant was more of watching your best friend's body being possessed and morphing into a horned hell born demon. That would be sick IMHO. But I don't think anyone of us can say with certainty what is going on in this movie. All we really know is that an explosion erupts in the city, although it looks nothing like a ballistic missile attack nor an atomic/hydrogen bomb. The explosion looks relatively contained and almost like it has a certain purpose to it besides simple destruction. I really can't get enough of this site and all the conjecture. God help us all! Thousands of people are dying every day in this country of hunger and disease. American and Iraqi troops are getting blown to pieces everyday. We have a huge global warming problem. The american president is so corrupt and utterly retarded that america and the world may not recover for decades, if at all! And yet, we sit here and go on and on about a silly little movie... Hey i'm not complaining, just trying to put things in perspective if you find you can't get enough of this shit like myself.
  • J-fight
    first of all i can admit that i may be in denial about it being a pokemon movie cause i just plain don't want to believe it. the last week of my life spent looking at this stuff just to find out its a pokemon movie? tih such a cool trailer> by jj abrams? it would be like having great sex with a chic and loving it then realizing it was a dude! please no pokemon
  • Chris
    Which is exactly why I think it's more likely a strong clue pointing to Cthulhu, as opposed to being directly about Pokemon. I'm mean, that's too coincidental to come full circle from slusho.com, to the creator of Pokemon, to a Pokemon character modeled after Cthulhu. Can that be a coincidence? I guess time will tell. :)
  • LiCH
    LMFAO @ J-fight News Caster: "This just in! We are getting phone calls regarding a giant yellow which seems to be leaving a wake of terror in it's path! What's that? Breaking news! The creature seems to be speaking ... it's saying ... Pikachu! Oh god! We're all doomed!" Hey if you guys knew you were going to be trampled to death by a giant Pikachu what would you do in your last 2-3 minutes on earth? I think I'd rob BestBuy and steal all their PS3's. lol But seriously I would probably wanna call my girlfriend and my family, tell them I love them, then proceed to find the closest willing chick....
  • LiCH
    I'm thinking that if you were going to put small illusions to other works you would do it to the original work, such as J P lovecraft's books, not a knock-off like pokemon. It is interesting, but do you really think that people would go see a pokemon movie the day after the first showing? The secret would be out and no one would go see it.
  • LiCH
    I'm thinking that if you were going to put small allusions to other works you would do it to the original work, such as J P lovecraft's books, not a knock-off like pokemon. It is interesting, but do you really think that people would go see a pokemon movie the day after the first showing? The secret would be out and no one would go see it. Still hoping it's an original work. And not a full circle gimmick to promote his "LOST" series. I don't want to have to buy all those DVDs to fully appreciate the upcoming flick.
  • Dan
    Chris, your research sucks, you do know you are mixing Pokemon and DIGIMON, two TOTALLY different things bro. So stop your wishful thinking and get over it, there isn't going to be a live action pokemon movie, not now not EVER. But to the others, on the roof the graffiti says CRAZE. Also if you look at the side of the refrigerator after the guy walks buy saying "what will you do without me" you can see a piece of tape with the word "'something' mystery". Just putting my 2 cents in.
  • FRANKLIN
    anyone read huckleberry finn? in it when huck is with the duke and the dauphin and they are showing a ridiculus show and every gets pissed after but one of them say " hey we tricked you all but help us trick very one else and you wont be alone and it will be funny" so they tell other people it was cool and they also get tricked but on the third showing they all plan to get even. just something to think about if jj screws us over
  • FRANKLIN
    Oh, and you guys should also read the Eva manga series, they are pretty damn awsome!
  • Jared06
    Ok, well this trailer definitely spooked me in some sort of way....Really eerie....Anyways, here's my theory of what the movie will be about: First off, I THINK that it MIGHT be about the end of the world. Yeah, I know...cliche, and done before. BUT, it would fit in with some theories that tie into the show Lost. Now, I don't believe this movie is tied in ANY way to Lost, but the TV show, for those who've watched it, refers fairly often to "saving the world", or the "end of the world." There's a fairly popular theory out there on the show Lost about there being multiple dimensions, and doomsday and such. Now, this would fit in with Abram's style, is all I'm saying. This trailer would make the most sense, in my opinion, if you took a biblical approach to it. The end of the world is prophesied in the book of Revelations, and describes the apocalypse in detail. It refers to multiple angels raining down "plagues", if you will, on the earth during the last days. Also, the Bible says that Jesus will come to take those who are christians to be with him, and after He does that, seven years of chaos will ensue. The taking of the christians COULD be a subtle connection to the friend who mentions "You shoulda left town a bit sooner!" Now, I'm probably wrong, and to be honest it's a flimsy theory at best, but this is a possibility, in my opinion.
  • FRANKLIN
    who is this other franklin guy who keeps talking about eva? please use another name man
  • FRANKLIN
    ok as far as i know digimon and pokemon are not all that different, people noticed the awesome craze that occurs when there is a connection between cartoon shows and games so other companies ran with it such as digimon yugioh and magic cards
  • J-fight
    63 degrees in new york in january. maybe this party wasn't in new york but- get this - the party was in dc and then the monster grabbed the head and through it down to dc. haha just kidding obviously, i hope that wasn't a mess up on the movie makers part but that is confusing how its 63 degrees in winter in new york AT NIGHT! its been pretty warm up here in the new england area in winters but DAMN THATS WARM! go red sox
  • Leonard
    1. not voltron, evangelion, or godzilla. don't see the point in belaboring these theories any longer. 2. could be cthulhu, or at least a cthulhu/kraken-like tale, based upon the slurpo connection and the association with the ethan haas sites. I say association because the time stamp on the girls photo, 12:36 is the same time the parasitemovie claims cloverfield is to be revealed on august 1, which is the same time that van mantra and mezin source say their dealybob will be revealed (whatever it is). someone claiming to be jja may say there's no association, but someone else is trying damn hard to say there is. BTW, the tori spelling flick is a low-budget homoerotic indy film that has only an oblique relationship with the cthulhu mythos. Hardly an obstacle to filming something that's obviously entirely different. 3. very likely an endoftheworld association. the camcorder thing, to me, suggests that that's all that's left of humanity--a few vids of the destruction of the world. still plays into possible cthulhu or shall we say cthulhu-like demonic rising. the biblical verse associations are also compelling-all the dates and times on all the sites relate to biblical verses about the end times. only issue is whether jja would touch such an overtly religious theme. that's why it has to be a hybrid end-times/monster prophecy thing, whether or not cthulhu mythos is involved. I say we shall know on august 1, 2007. in the meantime, playing with the photos seems likely to yield something we haven't seen. also, there's likely to be more sites out there we haven't stumbled upon yet. serpo.org may be a good place to dig; doesn't seem like anyone's really excavated that to date, though it has an association with slurpo.
  • LiCH
    Does anyone have access to a FTP server that we can all upload screen shots to? I think that would be a great help. You could setup an anon account for us and give us upload privileges. I keep seeing new things every time i look at that trailer. For instance I just noticed some weird symbols in what appears to be a curtain to the left of that scruffy guy who is talking into the camera during the party. They do not look chinese/japanese, but what do I know? I can only recognize the katakana. Also, this Rob guy must be pretty rich to rent an apartment that size in Manhattan, unless he has roommates. Later after the power goes off everyone is staring out side the windows, and rob just puts his hand to his head in frustration/fear and looks the other way almost as if wondering what hes going to do with his 'advanced knowledge?' Someone mentioned that you can see "2004 ACE" when they are running toward the rooftop door, but there appears to be another word above it that you can make out. Also there is some graffiti along the rooftop wall, that looks like "Crank" or something similar, I was never good at reading graffiti. Can anyone help with that? Watching the trailer frame by frame is kinda of ruining the whole experience for me, half of the extras running down the street have either blase faces or smiles on their faces. Bah! You're getting paid to be in a movie, hence you are an actor, act like one! Interesting note: There is ONE WAY sign on the street, which are everywhere in NYC, but i found it funny that the masses are all running "The Wrong Way". Deeper meaning here anyone? BAH! If those street lights weren't there, I believe we maybe could see the creature. Watching Ms. Liberty's heading flying out of the darkness and into frame is totally creepy to me. That is definitely a metaphor. The head also appears to have a singular scratch along side the left cheek. The building the head hits has a "401" sign on it. The 'DEAD DEAR' sign looks like DEAD DEAD to me. Dead x 2? Double Trouble? Bah. A white rectangle appears in the 'produced by jj abrams' screen, could be a photoshop error/effect though. And again when 1-18-08 appears. This could be a stretch but the best clues may lie within the cast and credits. Maybe we can learn something about the movie by checking out the names at the end. The writer is Drew Goddard, and he apparently has a Vampire fetish, he has written buffy episodes and even vampire comic books. He may have a morbid imagination, and could possibly be into the whole demon/devil thing. Mutant Enemy productions: Of which Drew Goddard is apart has an interesting mascot... "The company's end-of-credits logo and mascot is an intentionally poorly animated demon cartoon figure crossing the screen from right to left and saying, "Grrr. Argghh."" --wikipedia That's all I got for now ... so tired...
  • MrJoe83
    I see what demon guy is talking about! (Post #512) The apple.com version doesn't have timecode but it's really easy to go frame by frame. I didn't see the face when the "meteor" hit, but in the stairwell, on the wall, it's clear as day! The face resembles the face in the girl(s) hair from the picture on the site. You can even see a body to go with it with four legs. It gets better...you can also see a tail and there's something surrounding the face...Big face, four legs, tail...you know what I'm trying to say. Also, in the same frame, there's something on the right of the same wall...to me, it looks like a side view of a lion sitting down. I'm not even gonna comment about the newest speculation going on here...I know anything is possible but that is ridiculous.
  • http://www.1-18-08.com J.J.AbramsIsAGenius
    Holy crap! That serpo.org website is even more intriguing than 1-18-08! We know the movie is ... well a movie, but noone really knows for sure if that Serpo stuff really happened or not. I used to be obsessed with aliens and ufos, but i was a skeptical believer. A part of me thought that aliens were here, or that humans were founded by ancient astronauts and the like. But then I thought that in this day and age, a secret like that could not be kept for long, and that if they really wanted to show themselves they would land on the white house's front lawn... but that never happened >
  • Tim
    apple (dot) com/trailers/paramount/11808/ "It's alive, it's huge!" Watch it at apple(dot) com / trailers I TOO was one of those who went "what was that movie called? did it give a title? did i miss it? what hey wait wtf?" :D D amazinggggggggggggggggg jawdropper
  • nick
    ok chris is not some pokemon or digimon movie that woudl be so fuckin retarded if it was no one wants to seea live pokemon movie it would be the dumbest thing ever and its NOT Cthulhu because the rumor came from ethan haas which IS NOT RELATED TO THE MOVIE AT ALLSO STOP BRINGING THE SITES UP
  • jbone
    congratulations, you fucking idiots, your wild thoeries about pokemon have ruined what was a serious look at what this campaign was leading us to, and a serious look at the clues and imagery in the trailer. a live action pokemon movie on handycams WOULD NOT APPEAL TO THE DEMO FOR THAT FUCKING SHOW!! i realize you 18 year old anime loving virgins had a wet dream when you read about dipshits theory, but get your head on straight. your all , and i mean ALL retarded if you believe that a few minor, stretched out theories support the chance that JJ would even touch that pitch "a live action NYC based shakycam pokemon movie". im finished with this board. have fun you goddam kids.
  • Steven G
    this might be dumb but did any1 see the close up shot of the sushi they had at the party at 0:30 i think its a clue that relates to the sea monster and slusho stuff plus the japan thing..
  • Flagg79
    Another thought/theory. first, keep in mind that this is JJ Abrams and that is Lost is any indication, this movie may not be anything like the trailer at all. Seeing the 63 degrees in January, along with news on Channel 1 and all of the seemingly obscure tagged references everywhere, I wonder... Maybe this New York isn't OUR New York. It could easily be another reality where it is common for programming to be on Channel 1, where it is 63 degrees in New York in January, where Slusho is a well known drink, where it's okay to make a techno mix of Wolfmother's song "woman" (at the party). I know this sounds dumb, but Abrams has admitted in interviews that he is a fan of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (duh, he's set to make the movie for it) and alternate versions of cities play a huge role in the series. I dunno...something to think about anyway.
  • CrackV
    Yeah, steven G is right. The japan thing, slusho thing, plus giant monster, plus the fact that the ingredient in slusho comes from bottom of the sea, that does hint allot towards big ol Gojira. But who knows, it would be kinda weird for a camcorder Godzilla movie, i mean, in the real movies all the shots are from the sky or tops of buildings or sumptin. Kinda hard to keep a plot when you cant have the main characters filming all the time. Sushi thing was just because the guy was leaving for japan, when u leave for a place like japan and u have a party, then u eat japanese food. Oh, and nick, if you ever re read this forum: Chill man, ppl come on and say stupid stuff. Earlier it was telletubies and the IT clown. On a last note, it aint Eva, or voltron, and probobly aint Godzilla. Cthulu movie already being made and it isnt this one. My thoughts are that its all new. Probably end of world. Leonard brought up good point. If its end of world, then all that humanity has left would be the camcorders, no news or whatnot. So the vids are the last explanation as to what ended it all. Slusho is just agrivating. There is nothing on the site, i even checked the site code for hidden stuff, nothing. REally, i think its a joke. They made it to see what we would do when we found it. Probably havin a good laugh about it. U notice, right after everyone found slusho, they codename the movie slusho? I really dont think slusho has any real secrets to shed, no useful ones at least.
  • Steven G
    can any1 tell me what that bottle behind the guy says at 1:45? curious to see if it could be a slusho ingredient
  • Name (required)
    All of these crack-pot theories are off, I sat down with J.J. Abrams myself. The monster is known as Explodisaurus. The monster is just initially a walking, moving, breathing explosion with the power to fire missles and Statue of Liberty peices out of its body. It first was created in the 1500's by the genius himself, Steven Hawking. During the time of his public release there were many disputes on how this potentially could help society. Unfortunately Steven was considered a witch and was burned, but luckily Explodisaurus managed to get away. He hid from the eye of man and God in seperate island with no settlements where New York was coincidentally built. On January 18, 2008 he breaks lose from his "slumber" where he yawns and rises. This yawn is misinterpreted as a roar and yell. Military forces brought in to defend New York and misunderstand Explodisaurus, but Rob understands. During his times in college he studied up on Explodinese where he knew that Explodisaurus was able to love and feel compassion. Rob quickly ran towards the "danger" to comfront the afraid creature. Thats all I can let you know from my conversation with J.J. Abrams, but just wait till AUgust when more information is released.
  • Steven G
    also theres an orange paper on the right by the computer at 0:08 looks like a 3d animation prototype can any1 make it out?
  • CrackV
    I went through the HD trailer over and over again, nothing that hasnt been mentioned was found except for "ace 2004" at 1:12, thats about it. All that other stuff, its just set dec. I mean, we cant dig into everything, can we? Not everything is meaningful. I mean, we cant go nuts and think that Budweiser is involved if we see a bud beer, can we? (One note tho, just noticed, Rob has a bad ass xbox 360 set up goin on) That, and right after liberty stops movin u can see "Dead Dead" or dead something written on back of street sign. The paper by comp was just a pic, its nothing. A statue or sumptin. At teh very end tho, right before "produced by JJ Abrams" blacks out and it gets fuzzy, you can see blurry writing that is supposedly just jj abrams fuzzy, but has OB in it, or maybe 08, I cant tell. Maybe somebody else can find out. Anyway, check ACE 2004.
  • J-fight
    crackv doesn't get it. the teletubbi and clown people were just messing around and being stupid while this pookemon idiot really believes it
  • FRANKLIN
    ace 2004 has also been mentioned repeatedly which you would know if you had been following this page from the beginning or even at least skimmed through it
  • Rafe
    I'm not agreeing that it is a pokemon movie (that really wouldn't be cool), but regardless of whatever it turns out to be you have to admit that the only hard evidence that has been found here so far has been from Chris on this lead he has.
  • J-fight
    what lead? that the maker of pokemon is involved with slusho? wow so its a pokemon now? god forbid the maker of pokemon decides to be involved in something else especially after poikemon has pretty much run its course and died out
  • groggo
    few things, NOT POKEMAN, dont be dumb ITS ORIGINAL, NOT A REMAKE next, about the trailer: the spraypaint on the sign didnt paint the post its on, meaning the paint on the sign is real deal NYC grafitti and the sign was placed either on a replacement post, or a different part of the city. thats insignificant. rob for sure knows something nobody else does (nod to the actor, selling it) the fireballs split into at least 3 smaller ones at the apex. because 3 came down in one ally beside the building, and didnt lose speed. also theyre not that destructive. very confusing. whats with the 401 sign? can anyone get down to that street and get some snaps? or was it a set? LETS FIND THE REST OF THE SITES!!! im no braniac im just keen to little details. Thoughts
  • FRANKLIN
    i'm sorry but i don't think rob is a big part in this movie at all. if he is then its just showing whats going through his point just to have a point of view not because he knows more than anyone else
  • FRANKLIN
    second of all i am gonna take it as you just weren't thinging when you said go to the street and take pics. OF COURSE IT WAS A SET! come on man you think they would have filmed that out in the streets of new york or where ever they would have? {the film can, in fact, take place but not be filmed in new york. they would just have to work around some difficulties}
  • groggo
    i know i thought id ask anyways, just thinking of the budget.