Now, from what I can gather, the movie is shot completely with a handcam and yes its very blair witch. also, the movie is titled "para-site" which I got from various sites. finally, it's a monster invasion movie, which I think is dumb. if lady liberty is gonna go down I want some nutty muslims to blow her up. not a monster from another dimension. or something.

PS: Fuck you Michael Bay for making Transformers so much fun!

WOW. The return of Cthulu captured only on home video cameras?! The Great Old One would be so pissed.

I wonder if the released two different voice overs.

And kikuchiyoboy - what's up with sending me to the Snorks site? Freak.

Not "It's alive!"

"It's a lion!" clear as day.

But if was a huge robotic lion and I was running your way I would have time for adjectives like "alive" or "some kind of huge". I'd be yelling the quickest most informative thing I could as a sprinted by. "It's a lion!"

1) If it is a big ass non-robot lion terrorizing NYC ... that would just be stupid. It's not Godzilla, it's a lion!

2) Didn't people already say Voltron isn't being produced yet? What the fuck?

And speaking of the 12th imam, how come this site isn't reporting the news that Olive Stone offered Ahmadinejad the chance to star in his very own biopic directed by none other than Stone himself? And yet despite being part of the resistance movement in the US Stone is still from the Great Satan and was therefore turned down? And here I thought AICN was about cool news!

Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

and I can see how people would hear "it's a lion" in the trailer, but you CAN'T be serious...it's obviously "it's alive", and it just sounds a little like "lion". why would you go to the trouble of this whole viral marketing thing, only to have a character in the teaser trailer give away a HUGE spoiler about the nature of the monster?

that makes no sense. it's alive. please stop with the lions.

and Lovecraft was still a huge biggot.

In any case, the trailer was the ONLY good trailer in front of transformers, and it totally piqued my interest.

ALSO, the shakey cam definitely was dizzying at first (though it got better), I can't imagine they'd do the whole movie like that... Again. And stop with the blair witch comparisons, the only thing the two films have in common is shakey cam.

And last but not least, doing it camcorder style certainly means you can stretch the $30 million really far, simply because even when you DO want to showcase a monster or a big special effects moment, now you won't need them to be A-level, primo ILM effects shots. The "bad" camcorder look and shakey effect will continually allow you to get away with lower ended effects (that is, lesser rendered). Best example I can think of off the top of my head that sort of did the same thing: Emmerich/Devlin's GODZILLA where they purposefully chose to make it rain all the time as a so-called story point, when the truth is they simply wanted to use rain as a covering tool which allowed the SFX crew to do lesser rendering work.

Well, I will say this. I never read the script per se, but I read enough review of it. And I remember when Moriarity shitted all over it -- which frankly was a review I didn't completely agree with. In fact, I think Mori went overboard on that one. In hindsight, some of the concepts JJ wanted to introduce and much of his revamping would have actually been cool to see.

Hell, let's be honest: compared to the utter crapfest and snoozer that Singer shitted out (and managed to waste a STAGGERING $200 million on), now I REALLY wish they had gone with the proposed Abrams trilogy instead since it actually had some daring ideas behind it, while the Singer version -- particularly the whole "Lois has a kid now" angle -- were flat out suck-tacular.

“I’m very active on this one, as I plan to be on all Bad Robot projects. The only things I’ve been involved with which I haven’t really had any creative role were What About Brian and Six Degrees — both shows that existed before Bad Robot really opened for business (meaning, when I put my team together),” Abrams said while on vacation in Maine.

“Cloverfield is an idea that I had over a year ago, which I sold to Paramount. The point-of-view thing (Handicam) is the whole movie. Scenes from the trailer are in the film. I got a really talented guy (Drew Goddard) to write (we’ve worked together on Alias and, presently, Lost), and Matt Reeves to direct (we co-created Felicity and he’s pretty damn genius-level).”

“We’ll be announcing the real title shortly.”

I think this ends the debate once and for all. Heroes > Lost

and the trailer CLEARLY says, "Opening 1/18/08", why are there conspiracies about what the date means?

I'm guessing it's just a new, more "personal" take on the giant monster movie, sort of like Spielberg's War Of The Worlds was to alien invasion flicks, only obviously taken a bit further with the cinema verite style.

But if this is indeed a Cthulhu movie... I am so fucking there.

plus, that one guy practically gives the show away yelling "Here comes the lion!"

But what a brilliant "viral marketing" campaign it had...

in fact, I'd be hard pressed to find 2 movies that I can be positive I hated more than it...

and you found them...

This one looks interesting, although I am avoiding all the viral internets malarkey. This J J Abrams is a talented guy, but he likes the chain jerking a little too much, I think.

Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed endlessly and languorously under strange stars.

Once when the gentle rain fell I glided in a barge down a sunless stream under the earth till I reached another world of purple twilight, iridescent arbours, and undying roses.

And once I walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze.

Many times I walked through that valley, and longer and longer would I pause in the spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, sometimes disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples. And always the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with the little gate of bronze therein.

After awhile, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness and sameness, I would often drift in opiate peace through the valley and the shadowy groves, and wonder how I might seize them for my eternal dwelling-place, so that I need no more crawl back to a dull world stript of interest and new colours. And as I looked upon the little gate in the mighty wall, I felt that beyond it lay a dream-country from which, once it was entered, there would be no return.

So each night in sleep I strove to find the hidden latch of the gate in the ivied antique wall, though it was exceedingly well hidden. And I would tell myself that the realm beyond the wall was not more lasting merely, but more lovely and radiant as well.

Then one night in the dream-city of Zakarion I found a yellowed papyrus filled with the thoughts of dream-sages who dwelt of old in that city, and who were too wise ever to be born in the waking world. Therein were written many things concerning the world of dream, and among them was lore of a golden valley and a sacred grove with temples, and a high wall pierced by a little bronze gate. When I saw this lore, I knew that it touched on the scenes I had haunted, and I therefore read long in the yellowed papyrus.

Some of the dream-sages wrote gorgeously of the wonders beyond the irrepassable gate, but others told of horror and disappointment. I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. So when I learned of the drug which would unlock the gate and drive me through, I resolved to take it when next I awaked.

Last night I swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when I came this time to the antique wall, I saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. From beyond came a glow that weirdly lit the giant twisted trees and the tops of the buried temples, and I drifted on songfully, expectant of the glories of the land from whence I should never return.

But as the gate swung wider and the sorcery of the drug and the dream pushed me through, I knew that all sights and glories were at an end; for in that new realm was neither land nor sea, but only the white void of unpeopled and illimitable space. So, happier than I had ever dared hope to be, I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.

Must break JJs fingers.

rorschachsjournal.com

Also, the devil is clearly seen between them.

And, the cute plush Cthulhu someone mentioned is really really cute. I'll order one when they become available.

(That's for all you AICN Old Schoolers out there.)

DAMN.

http://tinyurl.com/yusgd2

Seeing her split in half with the devil between her ears would freak you out badly.

It may be a sign that supernatural things screw around with natural things in unexpected ways.

Stephen King seems to do this type of quirky thing, like the blind albino bumblebees in the Dark Tower.

just off enough to signify that things are really screwed up.

Although you do get to see the GO-BOTS in vehicle form, with a green screen behind them to make it look like they're driving through Times Square.

The studio reasoning was, "Well, Transformers was completely retarded and people still bought tickets to that; why not roll out a 100,000 dollar GO-BOTS cheapie? Obviously America will pay to watch anything." JJ Abrams isn't actually involved, he just signed his name on the project in exchange for guaranteed funding for a different movie.

It will go great with their "Hollow Man" and "Patrick Swayze as GHOST" models.

a bunch of people have published walk-throughs.

cool.

I e-mailed him back and said he could crash at my place if he needed.

His full name is Ethan Aardvaark Pro-Ana Alanon Haas, so he really had it coming.

I call bullshit...

I don't know what to think any more!

He just gave me a look of utter contempt and said "Your meager human orifices are incapable of expressing the glorious name in any way remotely approaching the grand cosmic harmony of the blessed syllables... do not even attempt it... you will do nothing but insult the Great one with your unworthy flatulence..."

I must say, I was a bit put out. I've always been quite fond of my orifices, if not actually proud of their prowess...

Nevertheless I believe Great Chthulhu himself answered this question when young Travis of Duluth asked him directly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =-DsgZ4JXXB8

mind you fill the gaps to link to the clip!

when Great Cthulhu does arise from his watery sleep do not scream and run away...

your only "hope" is to run directly TOWARDS Cthulhu, right into his welcoming mouth...

here is an informative tract that may help you:

http://www.geocities.com/tribh is/cthulhutract.html

Once again fill any gaps. Oh yes, damn you, Wonka. (Wonka can do magic!)

They took down both postings of the trailer and clips from the Ethan Haas websites...

So its pretty clear Paramount is behind the Ethan Haas thing... but is there any other direct link to verify that the puzzle-games are in reference to the "cloverfield" film?

Pike was a real historical figure... one who is brought up in a lot of "New World Order" conspiracy theories... he was a Mason, a Klansman and also alledgedly an Illuminatus and a Satanist.

Supposedly he predicted three world wars to bring about the New World Order... the first to bring down the Czar and establish Communism in Russia... the second to pit Communism against Fascism - with the result of a State of Israel being established... and the third to pit Zionism against Islam - with the result of the elimination of Religion and the establishment of the New Global Regime...

Some more whacko conspiracy types (like David Icke) believe that the Illuminati behind this conspiracy are an evil race of alien lizards!

Finally, those who delve into Freemasons/Knights Templar/Illuminati conspiracies often find the mysterious date of January 17 popping up again and again. Only one day off...

fill gaps as usual...

....more fun can be found at this fascinating site: www.bloopwatch.org

it could mean...

Thunder...

...Thunder...

THUNDERCATS HO!!!!!!!!!!!

...feel the magic, hear the roar...

brrrr... I just scared myself... I'm gonna have nightmares now...

I'll admit when I'm wrong.

I think he said "Loin".

The guy says "I saw it. It's alive. It's huge."