Does anyone really know what CLOVERFIELD really is about? We’ve got some ideas here and there, but honestly, it’s been in the dark since the trailer snuck it’s way into theaters when TRANSFORMERS opened.
Well today B-D got the scoop on the official synopsis of CLOVERFIELD and the American remake of [REC], QUARANTINED. CLOVERFIELD goes a little something like:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
Wow, so that really said a lot. And by a lot I mean it again beat us over the head with information that we can all gather from the trailers. Way to go Paramount, making your audience feel dumb.
At least QUARANTINED looks promising, and goes like this:
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers Wilensky (Columbus Short) and McCreedy (Andrew Fiscella) already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. Unbeknownst to them, a woman has contracted a rare strain of rabies. When they try to leave the building with those injured from a wild attack by the infected woman, they find that they’ve been locked in. Indeed, there are police, SWAT and CDC crews securing the building. But phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those quarantined inside.
Now that’s a synopsis if I’ve ever seen one. Well as everyone knows, J.J. Abrams’ CLOVERFIELD opens January 18th, 2008, so if you’re really inclined to see it, be my guest. QUARANTINE, directed by POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES helmer John Erick Dowdle opens sometime in 2008.