Cloverfield: Breaking the January Curse?
If you’ve caught Transformers recently, you’re familiar with Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams’ upcoming film Cloverfield. And you’re possibly a bit puzzled by it all, or maybe you’re excited. It definitely came as a shock to me the first time I caught the trailer, and even back when it was just “Clover”, “Cheese”, “Slusho”, “1-18-08” or even just “Untitled J.J. Abrams Project”, it definitely had my interest.
There are some, probably inevitable, comparisons to The Blair Witch Project. And these aren’t unfounded comparisons—both are filmed in a largely first-person perspective via hand-held camera and purported as documentary of some sort.
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I bring that up because it’s spectacularly rare. A Catalan horror film, especially one that makes it to the United States film market, comes along very, very seldom. In fact, searches for “Catalan horror film” on both Wikipedia and Google turned up precisely nothing.
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But then, every so often, Wes Craven likes to screw with the tattered remnants of my sanity by coming out with a halfway decent movie or doing something otherwise unlike him. Indeed, Wes Craven sought to buck the system and prove the Broken Clock Theory correct with his film 
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