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Plot summary
The film is presented as a series of scenes taken by a digital hand-held camera obtained by the United States Department of Defense pertaining to Case Designate "Cloverfield" found in US-447, an area "formerly known as Central Park". The footage that comprises the rest of the film is shot under the context of a personal hand-held camera used by various characters throughout the film's events.
On April 27 at 6:42am, Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) awakens after spending the night with longtime friend Beth (Odette Yustman) in her father's Columbus Circle apartment. They plan to visit Coney Island for the day.
On May 22, Rob's brother Jason (Mike Vogel) and his girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas) prepare a Manhattan apartment for Rob's farewell party, as he has accepted a job in his company's office in Japan. Jason's best friend "Hud" (T. J. Miller) is given a camera and the responsibility of recording final goodbyes from family and friends at the party, but uses this responsibility to try to unsuccessfully flirt with his crush, Marlena (Lizzy Caplan).
Beth arrives with a date, Travis (Ben Feldman), which upsets Rob. To his dismay, he realizes Hud is taping over a video of him and Beth, including their trip to Coney Island, which shows up intermittently throughout the film as a result.
Lily reveals Rob and Beth slept together several weeks previously, and Beth is mad at him for not talking to her since. Rob provokes Beth and her date into abruptly leaving the party.
Later during the party, the building suffers a brief blackout and begins to rock with earthquake-like intensity, and as deafening roars can be heard emanating from outside, Hud catches many responses to the noises on the camera. When the power returns, everyone turns on the local news, where the anchor explains that an oil tanker has capsized in the bay off Lower Manhattan. Panicked and curious party goers go up to the roof to spot the disaster, where they witness an explosion in lower Manhattan and flee to the streets, when suddenly the head of the Statue of Liberty, damaged and charred, crashes beside them. Hud is able to catch a glimpse of what seems to be a giant monster on the camera as it passes between two skyscrapers further down the street. The Woolworth Building then collapses in its wake, causing Rob, Jason, Hud and Lily to take refuge in a nearby convenience store. After the confusion and panic, the streets fall silent, and the group finds Marlena outside, obviously shaken by the events, who mentions that she saw the monster and it was eating people caught in its path.
Rob, Jason, Hud, Marlena, and Lily join a crowd leaving the city on foot via the Brooklyn Bridge. While walking across, Rob gets a call from a distressed Beth, who is stuck in her father's apartment unable to move. Rob's cell phone battery dies shortly before the bridge is partially destroyed by the monster's tail, killing Jason and countless other pedestrians. The remaining four retreat to Manhattan while grieving over Jason. Rob enters a nearby electronics store and acquires a new battery for his cell phone. Hud notices military forces arriving outside the store, and sees a news report of the monster rubbing against a building, which then switches to a televised battle in which soldiers are being attacked by dog-sized, parasitic arthropods which have fallen off the monster's body. After some protest between each other, the group decides to go with Rob to rescue Beth.
After being caught between the monster and an ineffectual military response, the friends move into the Spring Street subway station. As they walk through the subway tunnel towards Beth's apartment, they notice hordes of rats fleeing in the same direction they are going. After engaging the camera's night vision to see what's behind them, they are attacked by several parasites, one of which bites Marlena. The group escapes into the abandoned Bloomingdale's, and are engaged by Sergeant Pryce and a squad of infantry who had taken cover inside the shop and set up an army field hospital, to treat hundreds of wounded people. A dead soldier with a ruptured torso is wheeled by, at which point, Marlena is feeling faint and has begun bleeding out of all orifices. With Rob, Hud, and Lily protesting, she is rushed behind a paramedic's screen where she viscerally explodes. Clearly upset, Rob and the others argue with the military guards to allow them to continue in their search for Beth. After a little bit of talking, the sympathetic sergeant leads them to the streets, but warns them to report to a military evacuation site before 6:00 AM, which is when the last chopper evacuates Manhattan and the military will enact its hammerdown protocol, which will allow for the sacrifice of Manhattan if necessary.
The group continues to Beth's apartment, finding her tower partially collapsed into another; they climb the standing tower and cross onto the leaning tower's roof and work their way down to Beth's apartment. The three find her shoulder impaled by a piece of steel concrete rebar. After the painful rescue, they see the monster up close. Another parasite shows up, but Rob injures it with a fire axe. As they make their way to an aerial evacuation site, they encounter the monster once again, while the military continues to ineffectively attack it with artillery units. At the landing zone, Lily is raced into a departing UH-1 without her friends. Rob, Beth and Hud are taken in a second helicopter, from which they can see a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber carpet bomb the monster below them. The monster initially appears to be struck down, but reemerges from the smoke and strikes the helicopter. The aircraft violently crashes into a grassy clearing of Central Park. The three survive the crash mostly uninjured and hear a voice on the helicopter's radio receiver warning of the hammerdown protocol being effected in fifteen minutes. They climb out of the wreckage, only to come face to face with the monster itself. It curiously examines Hud for a few moments and then grabs hold of him in its mouth, killing him. The monster drops Hud, and Rob retrieves the camera before fleeing with Beth.
The pair take shelter under a bridge in Central Park as air raid sirens begin to blare in the distance, indicating that the hammerdown protocol is about to occur. Rob and Beth quickly take turns leaving their last testimonies on camera, just as numerous explosions occur. The bridge collapses and, as debris covers the camera, Rob and Beth can be heard professing their love to one another before another explosion occurs, and the recording is cut.
The tape then cuts to footage recorded during Rob and Beth's Coney Island date several weeks before the incident, during which an object can be seen falling into the ocean. At the end of the closing credits, a short radio transmission is played, in which a voice which sounds like Rob's whispers "HELP ME," and when the clip is played backwards, the voice says "It's still alive." [6].
[edit] Cast
Further information: List of characters in the Cloverfield universe
* Michael Stahl-David as Rob Hawkins
* T. J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
* Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
* Odette Yustman as Beth McIntyre
* Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
* Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
To prevent the leaking of plot information, instead of auditioning the actors with scenes from the film, scripts from Abrams' previous productions were used, such as television series Alias and Lost. Some scenes were also written specifically for the audition process, not intended for use in the film. Despite not being told the premise of the film, Lizzy Caplan stated that she accepted a role in Cloverfield solely because she was a fan of the Abrams-produced television series Lost, and her experience of discovering its true nature initially caused her to state that she would not sign on for a film in the future "without knowing full well what it is." She indicated that her character was a sarcastic outsider, and that her role was "physically demanding."[7]
Plot summary
The film is presented as a series of scenes taken by a digital hand-held camera obtained by the United States Department of Defense pertaining to Case Designate "Cloverfield" found in US-447, an area "formerly known as Central Park". The footage that comprises the rest of the film is shot under the context of a personal hand-held camera used by various characters throughout the film's events.
On April 27 at 6:42am, Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) awakens after spending the night with longtime friend Beth (Odette Yustman) in her father's Columbus Circle apartment. They plan to visit Coney Island for the day.
On May 22, Rob's brother Jason (Mike Vogel) and his girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas) prepare a Manhattan apartment for Rob's farewell party, as he has accepted a job in his company's office in Japan. Jason's best friend "Hud" (T. J. Miller) is given a camera and the responsibility of recording final goodbyes from family and friends at the party, but uses this responsibility to try to unsuccessfully flirt with his crush, Marlena (Lizzy Caplan).
Beth arrives with a date, Travis (Ben Feldman), which upsets Rob. To his dismay, he realizes Hud is taping over a video of him and Beth, including their trip to Coney Island, which shows up intermittently throughout the film as a result.
Lily reveals Rob and Beth slept together several weeks previously, and Beth is mad at him for not talking to her since. Rob provokes Beth and her date into abruptly leaving the party.
Later during the party, the building suffers a brief blackout and begins to rock with earthquake-like intensity, and as deafening roars can be heard emanating from outside, Hud catches many responses to the noises on the camera. When the power returns, everyone turns on the local news, where the anchor explains that an oil tanker has capsized in the bay off Lower Manhattan. Panicked and curious party goers go up to the roof to spot the disaster, where they witness an explosion in lower Manhattan and flee to the streets, when suddenly the head of the Statue of Liberty, damaged and charred, crashes beside them. Hud is able to catch a glimpse of what seems to be a giant monster on the camera as it passes between two skyscrapers further down the street. The Woolworth Building then collapses in its wake, causing Rob, Jason, Hud and Lily to take refuge in a nearby convenience store. After the confusion and panic, the streets fall silent, and the group finds Marlena outside, obviously shaken by the events, who mentions that she saw the monster and it was eating people caught in its path.
Rob, Jason, Hud, Marlena, and Lily join a crowd leaving the city on foot via the Brooklyn Bridge. While walking across, Rob gets a call from a distressed Beth, who is stuck in her father's apartment unable to move. Rob's cell phone battery dies shortly before the bridge is partially destroyed by the monster's tail, killing Jason and countless other pedestrians. The remaining four retreat to Manhattan while grieving over Jason. Rob enters a nearby electronics store and acquires a new battery for his cell phone. Hud notices military forces arriving outside the store, and sees a news report of the monster rubbing against a building, which then switches to a televised battle in which soldiers are being attacked by dog-sized, parasitic arthropods which have fallen off the monster's body. After some protest between each other, the group decides to go with Rob to rescue Beth.
After being caught between the monster and an ineffectual military response, the friends move into the Spring Street subway station. As they walk through the subway tunnel towards Beth's apartment, they notice hordes of rats fleeing in the same direction they are going. After engaging the camera's night vision to see what's behind them, they are attacked by several parasites, one of which bites Marlena. The group escapes into the abandoned Bloomingdale's, and are engaged by Sergeant Pryce and a squad of infantry who had taken cover inside the shop and set up an army field hospital, to treat hundreds of wounded people. A dead soldier with a ruptured torso is wheeled by, at which point, Marlena is feeling faint and has begun bleeding out of all orifices. With Rob, Hud, and Lily protesting, she is rushed behind a paramedic's screen where she viscerally explodes. Clearly upset, Rob and the others argue with the military guards to allow them to continue in their search for Beth. After a little bit of talking, the sympathetic sergeant leads them to the streets, but warns them to report to a military evacuation site before 6:00 AM, which is when the last chopper evacuates Manhattan and the military will enact its hammerdown protocol, which will allow for the sacrifice of Manhattan if necessary.
The group continues to Beth's apartment, finding her tower partially collapsed into another; they climb the standing tower and cross onto the leaning tower's roof and work their way down to Beth's apartment. The three find her shoulder impaled by a piece of steel concrete rebar. After the painful rescue, they see the monster up close. Another parasite shows up, but Rob injures it with a fire axe. As they make their way to an aerial evacuation site, they encounter the monster once again, while the military continues to ineffectively attack it with artillery units. At the landing zone, Lily is raced into a departing UH-1 without her friends. Rob, Beth and Hud are taken in a second helicopter, from which they can see a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber carpet bomb the monster below them. The monster initially appears to be struck down, but reemerges from the smoke and strikes the helicopter. The aircraft violently crashes into a grassy clearing of Central Park. The three survive the crash mostly uninjured and hear a voice on the helicopter's radio receiver warning of the hammerdown protocol being effected in fifteen minutes. They climb out of the wreckage, only to come face to face with the monster itself. It curiously examines Hud for a few moments and then grabs hold of him in its mouth, killing him. The monster drops Hud, and Rob retrieves the camera before fleeing with Beth.
The pair take shelter under a bridge in Central Park as air raid sirens begin to blare in the distance, indicating that the hammerdown protocol is about to occur. Rob and Beth quickly take turns leaving their last testimonies on camera, just as numerous explosions occur. The bridge collapses and, as debris covers the camera, Rob and Beth can be heard professing their love to one another before another explosion occurs, and the recording is cut.
The tape then cuts to footage recorded during Rob and Beth's Coney Island date several weeks before the incident, during which an object can be seen falling into the ocean. At the end of the closing credits, a short radio transmission is played, in which a voice which sounds like Rob's whispers "HELP ME," and when the clip is played backwards, the voice says "It's still alive." [6].
[edit] Cast
Further information: List of characters in the Cloverfield universe
* Michael Stahl-David as Rob Hawkins
* T. J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
* Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
* Odette Yustman as Beth McIntyre
* Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
* Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
To prevent the leaking of plot information, instead of auditioning the actors with scenes from the film, scripts from Abrams' previous productions were used, such as television series Alias and Lost. Some scenes were also written specifically for the audition process, not intended for use in the film. Despite not being told the premise of the film, Lizzy Caplan stated that she accepted a role in Cloverfield solely because she was a fan of the Abrams-produced television series Lost, and her experience of discovering its true nature initially caused her to state that she would not sign on for a film in the future "without knowing full well what it is." She indicated that her character was a sarcastic outsider, and that her role was "physically demanding."[7]