Since it came out in 2008, there’s been chatter about a
follow up to found footage creature feature Cloverfield.
Just a few months back, the notoriously mysterious Bad Robot dropped a surprise
trailer for something called 10 Cloverfield Lane (up to that
point it had been developing under the working title
Valencia), which appeared to be, at least tangentially,
related to the earlier film. To be honest, it’s really a sequel in name only.
While Cloverfield is big and bombastic—and, in my opinion,
wildly overrated—10 Cloverfield Lane is a small, taut,
claustrophobic psychological thriller with a serious Twilight
Zone vibe. If it wasn’t for the title, there’s very little to connect
it to its predecessor, but that doesn’t matter because it’s a damn good time.
