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Cloverfield 15 SCREENINGS 8pm Friday 11 April 2008 Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. BBFC advice: Contains strong sustained threat and moderate horror "It’s extremely rare in modern cinema to see a film that strikes you as genuinely new. Not just excellent – we’ve been spoiled in that department in the last six months – but properly like nothing that you’ve laid eyes on before. In the last fifteen years, Pulp Fiction, Scream, The Matrix and arguably Bourne and Jurassic Park have all done it, shaking out genres as old as celluloid and making them seem sparkly new, becoming future templates in the process. Cloverfield could come to be equally revered and imitated, such is its level of whip-smart invention and brilliant simplicity. It’s a film that treads the well-worn steps of many monster movies past, but flits through them as if on virgin territory. ... There will undoubtedly be those who don’t enjoy it, and some will have probably decided on that before seeing a frame. Anti-populist party poopers could very well pick apart the fact that the characters are archetypes and that there’s no hidden depth beneath the fright (although you could pub rant for hours about political subtext). But unmissable cinema does not have to be about mellifluous dialogue, intricate framing or enriching the mind or soul. It can just as legitimately come from a sensory experience like no other, that you can feel nowhere else but in that dark room in front of that silver screen. And you have never experienced anything like Cloverfield. Verdict - A dazzling experiment that paid off immensely, this is cinematic pleasure at its purest. One caveat: If they ever make a sequel, we’re taking two stars back." Please note: The film includes strobe lighting effects along with other scenes of sparks and flashing lights which, while not technically strobing effects, may cause an adverse reaction amongst some customers. Also, due to the filming method used for Cloverfield, customers viewing this film may experience side effects associated with motion sickness, similar to riding a rollercoaster. UK RELEASE 1 February 2008 DIRECTOR Matt Reeves CAST Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Lizzy Caplan RUNNING TIME 85 minutes COUNTRY USA
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