10 Cloverfield Lane

20161 hour 44 minsPG-13English

HorroRated verdict

Highly Recommended

2010sPsychologicalSci-Fi HorrorParanoiaSurvival Horror

Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
Written by: Matthew Stuecken, Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle
Produced by: J.J. Abrams, Lindsey Weber, Michael W. Silver, Matt Reeves, Jon Cohen, Ben Rosenblatt

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Why it’s HorroRated

10 Cloverfield Lane is a three-person chamber film that works as sustained tension for two thirds of its running time and then does something unexpected with the third act. John Goodman gives one of the decade's best genre performances, maintaining real ambiguity about Howard's nature throughout. A confident and surprising piece of work.

Synopsis

The film works best as a three-person chamber piece and John Goodman's Howard is a master class in a specific kind of domestic menace. The final act's decision to literalize what was previously ambiguous is the film's most debated choice. A confident and surprising piece of work.