10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

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	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Dan Trachtenberg (one episode of Black Mirror)
	Actors:  John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing), John Gallagher Jr.
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 25.07.2018, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Michelle (Winstead) has a car accident while she leaves her couple behind. She wakes up in an underground shelter where her host (Goodman) tells her the world outside is not safe.
Review: I watched the movies in the "Cloververse" in the wrong order but it doesn't matter. After a found-footage surprising Cloverfield discovered 10 years ago and the recent space-horror visually rich The Cloverfield Paradox, this 10, Cloverfield Lane that was released in 2016 belongs to a yet totally different genre: intimistic horror-drama. And that's in fact why it took me so long to finally watch it: the trailer showed that it was indeed a kind of kidnapping / torture / sequestration movie, a genre that I am not found of (except for The Disappearance of Alice Creed with Gemma Arterton). But that was without counting on the "charming" personality of John Goodman who immediately gives credibility and depth to his character. Moreover, one of the characteristic of this series of movies is that they end up not going the direction you thought they were, and this one is no different: just when I was starting to get bored by a story that was going nowhere (OK she's stuck there, she is trying to escape...), new elements start to make you doubt of everything. Other elements attach this movie to this atypical series, like the tension in a couple occurring just before the events. I found the ending not as negative as I would have expected from a movie in the series, but a nice opening nonetheless. I rank it third in the series, but it is still easily watchable.
Rating: 5 /10