Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays the trapped Michelle with just the right combination of incredibly suspicious, scared, and dangerous. (credit: 10 Cloverfield Lane)
Full of great acting, chills, and dark humor, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a fun confection of an action thriller—but it has nothing to do with the giant monster rampage movie Cloverfield. If you think that's a spoiler, then you've been suckered by a shamefully misleading marketing campaign.
10 Cloverfield Lane producer JJ Abrams has teased this flick by calling it a "blood relative" of Cloverfield. Ad campaigns have suggested it's a sequel or maybe set in the same universe. And if you really squint or bend your mind into pretzels, 10 Cloverfield Lane could be connected to Cloverfield. I mean, it's set on the same planet. It's a scary movie with speculative elements. But by that logic, Fringe is a Cloverfield TV series and Godzilla is a Cloverfield sequel.
The fact is, if this movie had been called 10 Cowabunga Lane, nobody would have wondered, "Wait, is this related to Cloverfield?" And while some will undoubtedly find a way to argue that 10 Cloverfield Lane could in fact be a sequel... c'mon. Occam's Razor, people. This is a movie that got shaped by an ad campaign. Even Abrams has admitted that the Cloverfield tie-in idea struck them about halfway through pre-production on a movie that was supposed to be called The Cellar.
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