A few days ago Dread Central had a scoop posted talking about the monster(s) in Cloverfield/1-18-08 and how “much of the movie will revolve around the characters fleeing for their lives, not from the big one stomping the city, but from the ‘raptor-like’ smaller versions hunting them down.” Some people around the Net misconstrued this little detail without using proper reading comprehension to mean that actual dinosaurs were running around hunting people down. “Raptor-like” does not mean simply “raptor” folks.
Anyway, new details have surfaced out of DarkHorizons that hopefully clear things up a bit in this regard, and beware, there are spoilers below, the biggest one is blacked out and can be highlighted for the reveal:
– All the monsters are carnivores and eat people throughout.
– The smaller monsters grow from scales shed by the big monster.
– There is no back story as such like for “Godzilla” or “The Host”, the big one simply emerges and the present script draft has it ultimately vanishing back into the sea.
– Also don’t expect much in the way of survivors at the end, literally anyone can be killed at any time, including the leads.
See there folks, “smaller monsters”, which leads me to believe that the “raptor-like” comment, as I previously suggested most likely suggests their hunting patterns and probably their movements. So please don’t hate on Dread Central like I have seen others do, that isn’t cool.
