The Total Bastard Database

The greatest killers, madmen, monsters and maniacs in horror movie history

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THE CLOVERFIELD BEHEMOTH

AKA:

‘Something terrible’ is about as close as this beastie gets to a name.

Was a bastard in:

Cloverfield (2008)

So what the hell is it?

The simple answer is ‘who knows?’. It’s not incredibly important really, all that matters is that it’s massive and
it’s angry. It does bear a slight resemblance to a mix between
the monster from “The Host’, a Chimera from the PS3 game
‘Resistance: Fall of Man’, a frog, a locust and erm...Jackie Stallone. Scary.

That’s not a knife…

Who needs weapons when you’re thirty storeys tall and have skin capable of withstanding all the firepower the American military can throw at you? The big grumpy bastard also has weird little spider monster things that drop off of it and do awful things to people.

Why, for the love of God, Why??!!?

As with so much in Cloverfield (much to its credit) this question again is completely avoided by the filmmakers leaving us only a few scant clues to go on. Perhaps its deep sea mining that woke this creature up but then again perhaps it has something to do with that Japanese sattelite that fell to Earth. Perhaps it’s both, perhaps it’s neither…

So what’s the damage?

By the time the film ends, the damage is at least the entirety of manhattan. Apparently a lot of the residents were evacuated but seeing as the Military appeared to be using helicopters capable of only transporting three people at a time how they accomplished this is as big a mystery as what the creature actually is.

It’s a million to one chance but it might just work…

Seeing as the creature is almost certainly still alive at the film’s denouement it is hard to say what’ll actually bring it down. It doesn’t seem to be bullets, tank shells, missiles, rockets or bombs though. Maybe some well-placed sarcasm or stinging jibes about its frankly unattractive physical appearance would do the trick? It’s probably doubtful though in all honesty.

Words of wisdom:

Just big bellowy roars that shake the entire city here.

By Matt Compton

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