Cloverfield - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Cloverfield or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Cloverfield

[kristen]

The man they encounter in the alley is speaking Ukrainian. He is asking for help find his daughter and his family as he can't live without them.

[ruby]

During the bridge crossing you can see another individual with a camera trying to record everything.

[sylvia]

Jessica Lucas would later star in another disaster movie Pompeii (2012).

[camila]

Whenever something scary or big is about to happen, groans of buildings and stomps can be heard, or even something as small as the hum of fluorescent lights. The sound effects are used in a subtle fashion, but listening closely, it's easy to see the filmmakers are manipulating them as a score.

[dustin]

The movie is viewed primarily from the point of view of Hudson "Hud" Platt, the character who uses the camera the most. H.U.D. is also short for "Heads-Up Display", a method for overlaying information onto a view of one's surroundings such as Timestamps on video footage.

[dustin]

At the beginning of the film there is a textual reference to DARPA - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.

[michele]

The decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty in the street is inspired by the poster for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981), which depicts the head of the Statue of Liberty lying in the middle of the street.

[kim]

One of the original ideas for a title for the movie was "Greyshot," both a reference to the hand-held style of filming and the name of the bridge in Central Park where Rob and Beth take refuge.

[norma]

The film has no music score and music for the end credits does not begin until 1 minute and 30 seconds after the credits start rolling.

[jessica]

Both Jessica Lucas and Odette Annable starred in DC television shows on Fox and the CW channel Jessica Lucas in Gotham (2014) as Tabitha Galavan, and Odette Annabel as Reign on the CW show Supergirl (2015) and T.J. Miller starred in the Marvel movie Deadpool (2016) and its sequel Deadpool 2 (2018) as Deadpools sidekick Weasel.

[sophie]

Although it wasn't stated by anyone that worked on Cloverfield, there are some who believe Jason might've lived, though the film suggests otherwise. In a DVD special feature for the film, Mike Vogel jokingly comments that Jason could've survived since you didn't see him perish.

[manuel]

About 104 recorded people left the theater due to dizziness and motion sickness.

[marc]

The only "score" composition for this film is an instrumental piece by Michael Giacchino played over the end credits, titled "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)". This composition was intended to evoke the score of classic monster movies of the '50s and '60s (e.g. Godzilla). Roar! was not included on the soundtrack CD (which was packaged as a mix CD of music from Rob's surprise party), and as of 2011 has not been officially released on CD, but it was included when the soundtrack collection was later released on iTunes.

[oscar]

The title was initially a codename for the movie. It's named after Cloverfield Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, where the Bad Robot's production offices were located while making the film.

[lonnie]

The voice in the mysterious radio broadcast that plays after the end credits is director Matt Reeves.

[willard]

Beth suffers from a substantial injury to the side of her chest from a rebar when being rescued from her building but is able to walk and run without suffering from any pain. This is probably due to the adrenaline in her body giving her extra endurance.

[kylie]

The DHARMA Initiative logo, a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost, can be seen briefly at the start of the film.

[cassandra]

The scene when Hud looks directly at the monster (before getting killed), was not planned. J.J Abrams came up with the idea during the filming of the helicopter crash.

[tom]

During the first weekend of the release, many theaters posted signs warning guests that the hand held camera movements may cause motion sickness.