Win 1-18-08 Posters & Slusho T-Shirts

The folks over at JJAbrams.net are giving away some free Cloverfield swag in a contest to predict the plot of the movie. If you win, you get 1 of 15 posters and T-shirts.

Since we don't know much about the film other than the sound of monster and the teaser trailer, it's time to imagine what it could be.

To enter your chance to win, you will write up 1 page version of how you think the story will flow from beginning to end along with a sketch of the monster. Now I know we are not all good in sketching like myself but do have an imagination to come up with ideas and stories.

The story, sketches or drawings or whatever that format it may be, will be posted on this thread.

You are allowed to tell your story in video format as well using YouTube or similar site. How? Be Creative

How Winners Will be Picked:

1) Top 7 Best Stories and Best Sketches will win t-shirt and posters. So that means each winner will walk away with poster and t-shirt.

2) The runner ups will be selected for poster or t-shirt.

Remember, this is a serious contest and open to anyone and everyone. No spamming.

Anyone who comes to the board to post nothing but jibberish or steals other people's work (believe me there are ways of finding out) will not only be kicked off the contest but also the board.

Deadline is September 20th, 2007.

Enjoy and Good Luck.

You can enter the contest at JJAbrams.net. Happy writing and sketching.

1-18-08 Trailer Audio Analysis

Dennis at Cloverfield Clues has posted an analysis of the audio from the 1-18-08/Cloverfield trailer. He also has separated the 5.1 surround sound audio, and posted MP3s.

After listening to the MP3s this morning, there's nothing really out of the ordinary to note. There are a few small snippets of dialogue that were highlighted that you couldn't hear in the final mix of the trailer.

Dennis has created a BitTorrent file with all the seperate audio tracks. You can get that here.

1-18-08 Roaring Back to Life

The official 1-18-08 Web site is back up, and now with more ROAR! If you wait six minutes (that's right, folks...SIX minutes), you'll be able to hear the roar.

Unfiction has posted an MP3 of the sound if you can't wait that long. Here's the thread where they are currently trying to analyze the sound file. Good luck guys, this is well beyond my technical expertise.

It might have just been my computer acting strange, but the first time I heard the roar on 1-18-08, it sounded muffled. Afterwards, there were sounds like air bubbles under water and swimming. Now, listening to the site a couple more times and listening to the MP3, there are no more air bubbles.

Five News Reports 1-18-08

Ruth Liptrot from Five News looks into a phenomenon that is the mysterious untitled film codenamed "Cloverfield". What is it and what is it all about?



On a personal note, I particularly like the (several) jabs Five News takes at the fans of this movie. We, the fans, are probably the only ones watching this video.

Special thanks to just about every blogger out there that broke this news before me. :)

1-18-08 Web Site Removed

The 1-18-08 Web site has been removed. It now redirects to the Paramount home page at http://www.paramount.com/.

The full functionality of the original 1-18-08 site can still be found at http://www.1-18-08.com/photos_8.swf.

Hopefully this is a temporary change while Paramount works on putting up a more revealing official Web site for the movie.

UPDATE: It's back! I'm sure someone will analyze the site and find one or two things different, but so far the functionality is exactly the same as before. At first glance, everything seems normal. Except, there hasn't been an updated picture in nearly a month.

Still Confusion on 1-18-08 Monster Details

There's still a lot of confusion about the details of the monster(s) in Cloverfield/1-18-08. First there were some smaller monsters, then there weren't.

Now Dark Horizons has some details about the movie that were apparently confirmed by "two agency sources." Can it even be called a spoiler? I'm going to take all this information with a grain of salt. And until there is absolute proof, I'm probably not going to report on this topic again. There's just too much speculation, and even after we have a dozen "agency sources," the details are still not fully understood.

Rusuden Slusho "Happy Talk" Remix

Rusuden has remixed the Slusho "Happy Talk" music. Rusuden is the solo electronic music project from Lexington, KY resident Justin Morgan.

Check out the MP3 here:

Happy Talk (Rusuden Remix)

You can learn more about Rusuden at myspace.com/rusuden or virb.com/rusuden

Thanks to Dennis for the scoop!

Slusho Happy Talk Updated

The Slusho Happy Talk page has been updated.

It appears all the phrases have been updated with new ones. According to Dennis, one interesting note in the code is that the Jellyfish has been renamed to Squid. I'm not sure of the significance there.

I tend to agree with other bloggers that these phrases are user-submitted, so I wouldn't put too much stock in their meaning. However, I find it interesting the repeated mention of being a whale and Bloop.

Cloverfield Monster Information | 1-18-08

Johnny_Butane at Dread Central has posted some exclusive information concerning the monster(s) in the upcoming 1-18-08/Cloverfield movie. He apparently has a reliable source that's "in the know." I guess we'll have to wait and see just how knowledgeable this guy is.

Perhaps you've heard some of the rampant speculation regarding a certain JJ Abrams-produced film currently known only as Cloverfield or 1-18-08 that's taken the World Wide Web by storm ever since its trailer premiered before The Transformers? I've seen everything online from it being a new Godzilla movie to being about a giant jellyfish created from soft drink sludge to a live action Voltron flick to it being a big screen version of the video game Rampage and so on...

Someone I know to be "in the know" was willing to throw me a bone with some small but interesting tidbits about the mysterious monster movie under the condition of absolute anonymity. With that in mind, let's just call this particular person "Mr. Slusho". Let me preface this by saying I have no way of confirming any of this info, though I've no reason to believe "Mr. Slusho" would feed me false information on purpose.

Anyway, here's what I've been told.

It's not Godzilla or Voltron (duh) or even Cthulu; anyone expecting there to be some sort of elaborately detailed backstory may be in for a disappointment. Expect an old-fashioned monster movie retold in a very modern Blair Witch sort of way - but with a twist. You see...

For the entire article and some possible spoilers, click this link. There are no pictures, just a vague description which still leaves room for the imagination to run wild.

UPDATE: Thank goodness it's not true! For those that didn't want to be spoiled, worry not. You can now read the article by Dread Central. According to Slashfilm (thanks for the heads-up, Dennis), "Mr. Slusho" was wrong and there will be no small raptor-like creatures ravaging New York City. Although I figured JJ Abrams and company could pull it off, it felt too much like the latest Godzilla flop.

Who is Jessica Lucas?

The Hollywood Reporter mentions actress Jessica Lucas as starring in JJ Abrams' upcoming 1-18-08/Cloverfield movie. But who is she, and what character does she play? My guess would be Lily, girlfriend of Jason Hawkins. Jessica has been in "The Covenant," "She's the Man" and the ABC series "Life as We Know It." She also will play Veronica Lake, aka Ronnie, on the CBS hit, "CSI."