IFG 8: 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Cast: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. 

Release Date: 8th March 2016

Trailer:

 

IMDb Rating: 7.2

What the critics said:

“So does 10 Cloverfield Lane actually have an organic connection to the first Cloverfield (2008), which was basically a millennial Godzilla movie tricked up with Blair Witch-style handheld camerawork? Both films were produced by JJ Abrams (slumming it) and in the end there’s a vague creature-feature link between them – though in the case of 10 Cloverfield Lane, what’s attention-grabbing about the film’s last act is mostly that it seems like it was lifted out of another film entirely. In today’s conformist popcorn environment, that can play as audacity. But really, it’s just desperation, as if the filmmakers were eager to do anything under the sun to set the audience abuzz. By the end, 10 Cloverfield Lane feels like a marketing plan posing as a movie.” Owen Gleiberman, BBC.com, Culture, 11 March 2016.

“In an era of bloated blockbusters, 10 Cloverfield Lane is refreshingly pared down – a chamber piece rather than an epic. The shots of Michelle in the car and the wonderfully atmospheric, Bernard Herrmann-like music rekindle memories of Janet Leigh in Hitchcock’s Psycho. Director Dan Trachtenberg and his screenwriters Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle (from Oscar-winner Whiplash) deliberately withhold information. As viewers, we are as disoriented as Michelle herself the moment her car spins off the road. We know something is awry, but whether it’s a hurricane or an alien invasion or simply a squall in the heroine’s private life isn’t immediately specified. Whatever the case, the end result is the same. She is a captive in a bunker.

[…]

The end scenes bear little relation to what has gone before. Even so, this is very superior genre fare – a doomsday tale that manages to be slick, creepy and intimate, while even managing to throw in some final-reel pyrotechnics.” Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 17 March 2016.

 

The IFG Ratings:

  Franco

  Paul

  4Porcelli

  Donnie

  Michael

  Rob

  Arpatilaos

  Razvan

  Debbie

  Romcomloveaffair

IFG average rating: 8.25

 

REMINDERS:

By the 15th March 2020 please send your rating for:  IFG 9: La isla mínima/ Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez, 2014)

Have your say in the format of the IFG Awards here: IFG Awards Discussion Board

 

Coming Soon: IFG 8: 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

Please watch 10 Cloverfield Lane by February 29th 2020 and send me your rating out of 10.

IFG 7, IFG 8 & IFG 9 Film Selection

With this poll we will select the monthly films for January, February and March 2020.  As usual there is a good selection – films spanning from 1961 to 2018 and including films from six different countries!

Please vote for SIX of the twelve films.

 

REMINDERS:

By the end of December 2019: Don’t forget to send me your score for: Coming Soon: IFG 6: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, 2018)

TOMORROW (21-12-2019): Tune in to see the results of the IFG Annual Film Poll! The 2019 IFG Film Poll

 

IFG 9 Film Selection Part 2!

It has been confirmed that the next two films will be: Everbody Knows (January) and 10 Cloverfield Lane (February), but what will be the film for March?

As there is a tie, please vote for ONE of the following two films:

 

18/01/2020 RESULTS:

With four votes to three Marshland will be the March 2020 film.